“You have the right to carry the gun on you. But you also need to let law enforcement know, for their protection, everything else, so that that you have the firearm on you,” Capt. Keith Williamson of the Omaha Police Department gang unit asserted. He added that additional charges can be “tacked on with other serious charges” to offenses like gang crimes and that the bill forcing the city “to repeal some ordinances around firearms … made it more difficult trying to track guns in the wrong hands.”
“For their protection.” Why do they get to decide the rules? I’m not interested in their protection. I’m only interested in my own protection and that of my family and friends.
Cops don’t rate for protection in my book.
And moreover, I’m never in more danger than when the police are around. There is no situation so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
Bad day for him, an unjustified beating, for no good reason at all. The officer should have tried to help him find a better place to rest, caring (as he should have) about his safety on the road.
Instead, he got beaten up because, in the words of the officer, “You weren’t listening.”
So once again we must observe and remind you of the obvious. You are not under legal obligation to assist any officer in their investigation. The officer must be able to articulate a crime that has been committed in order to effect an arrest, and at least articulate a reasonable suspicion in order to detain you. None of that obtained in this instance. The officer was wrong about where the gentleman was contrasted to where he was allowed to be.
Why is that police departments continue to hire the dumbest and most sociopathic misanthropes they can find? Perhaps they are the only ones who aren’t bothered by beating up innocent and peaceable people. Would that they took their duty so seriously when it comes to real criminals.
To top it all off, the officer conveniently turned off his camera when he discussed the incident with his fellow officers, of course, hiding evidence of his violence.
Who needs criminals around when you have the police, all of whom have qualified immunity? At least Antifa didn’t have qualified immunity except among prosecutors who loved them.
The enemy is all around you. Be careful.
For what it’s worth, the officer is currently on paid vacation.
First, what they are doing is illegal. The police have no right to your identification if you haven’t been charged with a crime. That they are “conducting an investigation” doesn’t mean a crime has been committed, and refusing to cooperate with the police in their investigation isn’t a crime either.
Second, you are under no obligation to assist police in their investigations.
Third, the goobers he was with (after other officers had been called) are just as culpable as he is, as they stood by while he did it.
Fourth, police academies across the nation are teaching police recruits that the fact that they are conducting an investigation means they have a right to anything they want, including identification, even after the SCOTUS ruled on the so-called “Terry Stop.”
The upper management of Sheriff and PDs know that what their recruits are being trained to do is illegal. They also know that their recruits continue to believe the lies they were taught at the academy, and they don’t care.
The county attorney also knows that the police believe lies concerning detention and arrest. They don’t care either.
Finally, based on the fact that PDs everywhere across America routinely recruit low IQ individuals, the recruits and officers are usually too stupid to understand that what they are doing is a crime. But they are still culpable for the crime since they are supposed to know and understand since they have arrest powers and are agents of the state.
The Sussex County Sheriff’s Department can be reached here: sheriff@sussexcountyva.gov.
This gets tiresome. First of all, I simply cannot fathom the stupidity of telling someone they are under “suspicion” of a crime because of an anonymous call. Cops shouldn’t be dispatched in the case of anonymity.
Second, no one is obligated to assist the police in an investigation. “We need to identify you because [such and such, open investigation, caller said so and so, you fill in the blank] isn’t reason to force identification. That’s a violation of the fourth amendment, regardless of how some particular state law is interpreted by police procedures.
This is a loathsome exchange. The FBI isn’t ashamed of what they’re doing. We’ve come to expect that sort of thing from them. They have no shame. But the worst thing about it is that the local Sheriff’s Department participated in the charade.
On Saturday, trying to do the right thing led to Republican Rep. Ronny Jackson of Texas being put in handcuffs and briefly detained.
The incident happened at the White Deer Rodeo in the town of White Deer about 40 miles from Amarillo, according to the Texas Tribune.
A statement from Jackson’s office said he was attending the rodeo when he was “summoned by someone in the crowd to assist a 15-year-old girl who was having a medical emergency nearby.”
The statement that Jackson, who was a White House doctor for former President Barack Obama, was informed by a relative that the girl needed help in addition to the assistance being provided because “no uniformed EMS providers on the scene at the time.”
“While assessing the patient in a very loud and chaotic environment, confusion developed with law enforcement on the scene and Dr. Jackson was briefly detained and was actually prevented from further assisting the patient,” the statement continued.
“He was immediately released as soon as law enforcement realized that he, as a medical professional, was tending to the young girl’s medical emergency.”
The statement noted said Jackson was “in the stands during the entire rodeo, in full view of the assembled crowd, and was not drinking.”
It sounds like a boilerplate statement from a chief cop concerning a screwup, yes? Wait. It gets much worse.
In a Facebook post in which she referred to Jackson as “ER DR” (which he is professionally), Linda Dianne Shouse gave her summation of the incident.
“I have never been more disappointed in our Rescue Team!!! I got called to render aide to my 15 year old cousin that was unresponsive at the White Deer Rodeo tonight!! She is not from here and was seen at the ER last night as she was told for dehydration and anemia!! I assessed her and she was NOT dehydrated! She was responsive to my voice but not aware of her surroundings. Respirations in the 40s. As I assessed her I noticed she looked as tho it was hypoglycemic episode,” she wrote.
“My cousin who is a BSN in a trauma hospital, myself and an ER DR were working on her. Had her responsive to her whereabouts! ER Dr agreed with me that she was seizing due to possible hypoglycemia. Sheriff’s department put a blood pressure monitor on her below her waist. I rose it to heart level and as she is awake and respirations are slowing down I placed a small piece of gum in a ball UNDER her tongue to give her some sugar. (Better than nothing).”
“Deputys screamed at me and not listening to any thing US medical Professionals had to say, they punched me in my chest and forced me back with a palm to my face as well causing me to fall backwards!! ER Dr was thrown to the grown and ARRESTED!!! I am beside myself!! Prayers for Bailey!!!!!” she concluded.
They’re all blessed to be alive. It’s a wonder the cops didn’t discharge firearms at everyone around them.
You’re never in more danger than when the cops are around, and no situation is so bad that it cannot be made worse by the presence of the police.
Watch the entire video. Here are my initial thoughts.
“It was an honest mistake.” No, it was honestly a dumbass mistake. A different state – literally, the officer entered the wrong state into his database.
You’d think that brandishing a firearm at someone and the reckless endangerment that entails would necessitate some personnel error reduction training. For example, they should be using STAR (Stop, Think, Act, Review), self-checking, independent verification, repeat backs, phenetic alphabet, and a whole host of very simple tools to prevent these sorts of stupid errors. From wrong tag numbers to wrong-home SWAT raids, the error rate among cops has to be higher than even in the medical or pharmaceutical professions. As I’ve pointed out before, they could take a page from the books of commercial nuclear power generators and the airline industry. Imagine if we held cops to the same zero error-rate as FFLs?
Second, that cop who was shouting orders is much too dramatic for me. He needs to take his finger out of the trigger well and calm down. It’s not okay to muzzle flag people at the range, but for some reason cops think it’s okay for them to do it to innocent people.
Third, the policy is stupid. It would had been much more effective if they had simply gone up to the window and knocked on it and asked some questions, perhaps revisited their initial work to come up with the wrong state tag.
Finally, having the people walk backwards on a freeway is about the dumbest thing they could demand. The individuals they’ve stopped have absolutely no way of knowing that they’re correct that the freeway has been shut down. After all, they’ve been stopped for no reason at all by an idiot who entered the wrong state into his database. That doesn’t exactly inspire confidence. My bet, however, is that a DA would have refused to charge them if someone had been run over because of “qualified immunity,” which as we’ve seen before is an unconstitutional abomination borne out of DAs and the judicial bench protecting their own.
This is just stupidity in action. Watch as these cops make enemies of people, abandoning any hope of having people talk about “supporting the blue.” It’s happening all over America as police departments hire the lowest IQ people they can find, and cops abandon the constitution and continue to listen to their dumb police academy trainers.
Note that the First Circuit has held that taking photos and video in public is a right that is sufficiently “clearly established” that those who violated it can’t claim qualified immunity.
If they don’t want you to film them, they have something to hide.
For cops to claim they shouldn’t be filmed would be like me, a professional engineer, saying that I have a right to perform calculations and designs and no one has a right to review them, nor should I be held accountable for them.
That sort of immature thinking is reserved for little children who get caught with their hand in the cookie jar.
The issues of the case don’t interest me that much, although I agree that violence can only be used when there is a threat of serious injury. For example, see Tennesse v. Garner, where the SCOTUS concluded that a LEO cannot discharge his weapon at someone fleeing.
Anyway, the more interesting thing to me is the issue of qualified immunity. As I’ve said so many times before, qualified immunity is an obscene witch’s brew concocted by the courts with no basis in constitutional law for the sole purpose of protecting the agents and enforcers of the state.
I’m glad John is teaching a young man to defend civil rights. I’m sure he’ll turn into a good lawyer. Liberty University is producing some very good graduates in all areas of specialty.
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