Current Events > Star Wars Day stormtrooper taken down by cops because of plastic gun.

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Superlinkbro
05/05/20 1:14:34 PM
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https://www.tmz.com/2020/05/05/stormtrooper-star-wars-may-the-4th-cuffed-arrested-plastic-blaster/

May the 4th be with you quickly turned into may the Lethbridge, Alberta police force have mercy on you ... when cops took down a Stormtrooper for including a toy blaster in her cosplay.

The crazy scene went down Monday in the Canadian province where a bar employee -- at the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina, no less -- was roughed up by cops. Someone reported seeing her with a firearm, and things quickly went south when officers surrounded her.

The video starts out calmly enough, with a man recording the bar employee -- who was out in costume for a company parking lot shindig in honor of 'Star Wars' day -- and joking around with her and asking her to do some Stormtrooper moves. She's half into it ... whatevs.

The crazy part happened moments later, when Lethbridge PD swarmed the scene with guns drawn ... shouting at the Stormtrooper and demanding she drop her weapon. She did, almost immediately.

What happened next is up for debate. Cops say the woman didn't follow their orders by getting down to the ground right away, but she and her boss argue she couldn't because of the damn suit (hard to bend in that thing) -- which she apparently tried relaying to the police on the spot. Eventually, she was able to get down.

The woman claims cops roughed her up as they put cuffs on her, allegedly shoving her face into the ground and making her nose bleed. Once all the commotion settled down, the cops eventually realized there was no threat -- and cut the gal loose without charging her.

She and her co-workers are pissed -- but cops say they were just responding to reports of someone with a firearm and were only doing their jobs.

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ApherosyLove
05/05/20 1:15:11 PM
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Superlinkbro posted...
May the 4th be with you quickly turned into may the Lethbridge, Alberta police force have mercy on you
I think that gave me a terminal disease.

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Shablagoo
05/05/20 1:20:09 PM
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Clicking on TMZ led me to spam so heres a YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/MeYfHSarBiQ

Dude filming was annoying, both in his camera work and his voice/words.

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Superlinkbro
05/05/20 1:21:11 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Clicking on TMZ led me to spam so heres a YouTube link:
Fair enough I just chose the first article I saw on this.

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DevsBro
05/05/20 1:23:32 PM
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Maybe Canada is just different but this sounds pretty not newsworthy.

People call the police because someone has a gun, which I guess they do in Canada.

The person with the gun obeys officers' orders and gets cuffed, as is common for suspects to have happen. Gets a nosebleed in the commotion.

Gun turns out to be fake, police let the suspect go with no charges.

The nose thing does really suck though. Perhaps she can file a complaint and have an investigation carried out. The suspect thinks it was intentional but wasn't her face to the ground? How would she even know?

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Shablagoo
05/05/20 1:27:01 PM
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Superlinkbro posted...
Fair enough I just chose the first article I saw on this.

Oh yeah not blaming you

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cjsdowg
05/05/20 1:28:26 PM
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Shablagoo posted...


Dude filming was annoying, both in his camera work and his voice/words.

Wow that is such a understatement. I know people are not professionals but it is like he went out of his way to be horrible.

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eston
05/05/20 1:28:35 PM
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I think what makes this notable is how hilariously inept those cops were at reading the situation

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IShall_Run_Amok
05/05/20 1:46:25 PM
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What a load of bullshit. Cops are heroes, and they would never behave in this way towards their own citizens. TMZ has no respect for the law enforcement canon.

I'm doing a bit that was sarcasm.

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Zikten
05/05/20 2:34:30 PM
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imagine being so out of touch with pop culture that you don't understand what a stormtrooper is, or realize what day it is. the person who called the cops, and the cops, are dumbasses
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casio_guy
05/05/20 2:39:03 PM
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Do people in Canada not know what Star Wars is yet? I know they're behind but jeez.

The cops sound like they've never had any action in their entire career and jumped at the first opportunity to feel some of that adrenaline. Fucking Mounties.

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SiO4
05/05/20 2:40:47 PM
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Shablagoo posted...
Clicking on TMZ led me to spam so heres a YouTube link:

https://youtu.be/MeYfHSarBiQ

Dude filming was annoying, both in his camera work and his voice/words.


LOL I like the stips on the pants...and then it reminded me, Han Solo had strips on his pants!!
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Ricemills
05/05/20 2:44:01 PM
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i think Canada still in high tension after the Nova Scotia shooting so the cops are paranoid on anything that looks like guns.

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St0rmFury
05/06/20 1:03:10 AM
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For shame, Canada.

For shame.

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