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| Topic | Cop tackles A word that is banned boy to the ground thinking he was on drugs |
| darkknight109 09/22/17 3:41:50 PM #40: | Dikitain posted... He was acting erratically Something that can just as easily be attributed to a medical condition (or potentially a medical emergency). And, surprise surprise, that's exactly what it wound up being. Odd how the cop never bothered to check for that and just jumped to the assumption of drugs. Dikitain posted... Like I said, ignore everything else in this situation, if that kid was doing everything else he was doing but had a gun hidden on his person and was intending to shoot up the playground, would people still have this kind of outrage? Probably not, but that's not what happened so this hypothetical isn't really relevant. Imagine you're walking past a school and a cop, out of nowhere, tackles you to the ground and handcuffs you. When you protest that you weren't doing anything wrong, the cop says "Well, if you'd actually been threatening to shoot up the school, people would be calling me a hero." His statement isn't wrong, but that doesn't even come close to justifying his actions because there was no indication you were armed (even if that possibility couldn't be discounted) and you did nothing to suggest you had any ill intent. The child was not being threatening, he was not doing anything that a reasonable person would suggest had malicious intent. The cop was way over the line, ESPECIALLY when the situation was subsequently explained to him. --- Kill 1 man: You are a murderer. Kill 10 men: You are a monster. Kill 100 men: You are a hero. Kill 10,000 men, you are a conqueror! ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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