An officer is not allowed to use excessive force. Remember the whole Rodney King thing?
-----Original Message----- From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 04:54 PM To: cf-community Subject: Re: IHOP Cop Punches Lady in the face Maureen <[email protected]> wrote: > > Disagree all you want. I can site the law. > >> the matter is, this cop committed battery against this woman by >> slapping her and her reaction would not give her a conviction though >> it may give the cop one. > If the officer doesn't want you too, you can't tap, touch, shout, or even talk to a cop. You can't even stand in his/her way. You're not allowed to be involved in any way. They can arrest you (and do) even for making jokes: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxjNVSCs_Lg That's the law, man. If you don't like the law, you're free to try to change it. If you don't like how a cop is executing enforcement you're allowed to bring a complaint with whatever witnesses and evidence you can gather. But if, during an officer's execution you do ANYTHING to inhibit them you're subject to arrest and officer can use force to restrain you or take you out if he/she feels threatened. Sometimes that doesn't work out great, but there's no other way. Sure, cops are trained, but there's no training in the World that can take the human out of you and/or make you act optimally in all situations. Law enforcement is messy and there's no way fix that as long as humans are involved ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:337303 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
