FYI: The officer has been placed on desk duty and is under investigation for the incident.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGeRYGchfB5FLjkIGT4XbCWqHWhgD9CNRFA80
FYI: The officer has been placed on desk duty and is under investigation for the incident.
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hGeRYGchfB5FLjkIGT4XbCWqHWhgD9CNRFA80
I've had this happen to me in a back parking lot of a movie theater, because I wanted to listen to music and sort through sewing fabric to kill time before a movie started.
the cops justification was I didn't look like someone who does sewing (and I don't, but I do).
he asked me what movie I was going to, I cringed because it was Julie and Julia.
fortunately before I could answer an elderly couple pulled in to the same back lot and just sat in the car, so the cop left.
when a cop decides to abuse their authority, there is nothing anyone can do but ride it out and hope for the best.
You're telling me! I've got Trial for a honking ticket I got. Seriously. I was driving home from my job at the time, 7pm Friday, and some 98 year old man decides to completely stop in the middle of the road, almost causing the truck in front of me to rear-end him, and in turn me nearly rear-end the truck. So I let out one continuous horn blast lasting about a second and a half. Ticket. I shit you not, the cop walked around my car and just checked off random shit. I ended up getting Improper Use of Horn, Cracked/Discolored windshield, and Failure to Provide Proof of Insurance (which I proved the next day, by the way). So yeah. TRIAL. That means the hearing officer wouldn't drop it, the prosecutor at the arraignment wouldn't drop it, and now I have a court trial for honking the stock Acura horn that came installed in my car.:dunno::dunno:
It's funny that he waves the gun around, but he doesn't actually start talking to the crowd (in any real sense) or acting the "big man" until back up arrives.
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You're telling me! I've got Trial for a honking ticket I got. Seriously. I was driving home from my job at the time, 7pm Friday, and some 98 year old man decides to completely stop in the middle of the road, almost causing the truck in front of me to rear-end him, and in turn me nearly rear-end the truck. So I let out one continuous horn blast lasting about a second and a half. Ticket. I shit you not, the cop walked around my car and just checked off random shit. I ended up getting Improper Use of Horn, Cracked/Discolored windshield, and Failure to Provide Proof of Insurance (which I proved the next day, by the way). So yeah. TRIAL. That means the hearing officer wouldn't drop it, the prosecutor at the arraignment wouldn't drop it, and now I have a court trial for honking the stock Acura horn that came installed in my car.:dunno::dunno: