I can't recall if I posted this 2-3 weeks back, because I'm old and believe in the hereafter. I walk in a room and ask myself what the hell I'm here after.
But, I was driving a couple of blocks from the office and I saw a cop car up ahead of me, stopped. The Officer jumped out and ran into a vacant lot. As I drove past, I saw this young guy confronting the cop and coming at him. I could hear the cop yelling at him to get down on the ground, but the kid kept flailing his arms and took his back pack off and threw it at him. Then for some reason, he took off his shoe and threw it at the cop. It wasn't until the cop pulled out his taser that the guy finally sat down on the ground.
All the while, there was a group of young people in the driveway of a house next to the lot, egging it on and screaming at the cop. I never found out what was going on but a few hours earlier, something had happened in the area because there had been a bunch cops patrolling the area around where our office is. I assume it had something to do with that. But, I honestly don't get this mentality. If a cop with a taser, a big stick, a gun and other various weapons of mass destruction on his person, along with a radio that he can use to call 100 other cops with the same equipment, tells you to stop....the proper response is to stop. Period!!! There is no other response. If the cop oversteps his bounds and does something he's not supposed to, that's what supervisors or ultimately, the Courts are for. Any other response might get you tazed bro, or kilt.
Cops are human too and fear for their own lives just like anyone else. Or, you may in fact, be dealing with the rogue or racist cop just looking for an excuse. Who knows? But why find out? Just comply and sort it out later.
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