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From: "Bob Sullivan"
Subject: OT: Police and UK video
I have lots of respect and tolerance when dealing wth US police officers.
Most of their jobs are terribly boring and routine social service type
calls.
Some calls can be deadly, like burglary in progress or any traffic
stop with a gun.
With the range of potential threats present in any police activity,
I like to let them know I'm not a dick right off the bat, and a
friendly person too.
Reduce the officer's tension levels right off the bat.
I didn't see much of this in the video.
I didn't see him being unfriendly. He was polite, he wasn't swearing at the
cop, he was merely persistent in trying to find out why he was being
accosted.
I'm not seeing why this is a problem.
If the police stop you, don't you think you have a right to know why?
The cop on the other hand was all over the map, coming up with one lame
excuse after another, because nothing she was saying was sticking, since
everything she was saying was, quite frankly, dumb as a chuhuahua's fart.
If this sort of incident was a one off, perhaps the guy was a little pushy,
but it is a pretty well known fact that this sort of provocative behaviour
on the part of the police with regards to steet photographers has become
fairly normal behaviour.
At some point, considering that every time the cop stops a citizen with a
camera it is for a bogus reason, the police have to realize that they are
going to get some flak.
The police officer was in the wrong, the citizen made it very plain that the
cop was in the wrong, and rather than admit her error she chose to escalate
a situation that didn't need to be escalated.
He did it in a polite, but not simperingly friendly way.
Some people are like that, if the cop can't handle that aspect of her job
she should be teaching grade 1 kids how to spell "bad cop, no donut".
William Robb
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