Self Defense
You’re walking down the street and you notice a couple of people following you. This goes on for a while. Finally, you decide to confront them by holding a knife at your side and asking them why they’re following you. Except their police doing training. So, you go to jail and are found guilty of threatening them with a deadly weapons.
November 18th, 2009 at 10:28 am
That sucks and makes me wonder what justice is. However, at least in my CC class they made the law very clear. I can’t threaten someone with my weapon (gun in this case, but a knife would be the same), that is against the law. In the very memorable words of my CC instructor: “If you draw your gun, someone has to die.”
November 18th, 2009 at 10:39 am
In Chicago, the cops would have shot him.
November 18th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Ugh. Holding a weapon at ready isn’t a threat, its a response to a threat.
November 18th, 2009 at 1:02 pm
With all the concern over “brandishing” on the Errornet one would think that you do not go pulling weapons out when you do not need to.
Lesson learned: don’t threaten people.
November 18th, 2009 at 3:40 pm
Being followed is being threatened.
Being out numbered by those following you is an even worse threat.
Who wants to be that private citizens would get arrested for following a cop around?
November 18th, 2009 at 4:00 pm
Am I the only one reminded from the scene from V for Vendetta when the title character first appears?
November 18th, 2009 at 4:01 pm
Reminded OF, even.
November 18th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
In that case every cop you ever talked to is guilty of threatening. Watch how many of them drop their hand to their gun butt when they speak to or approach a citizen. Can’t we put these bastards in jail?
November 18th, 2009 at 8:12 pm
Heh. Two cops, at midnight, without visible insignia or other identifiers, BOTH carrying handguns AND Tasers, following 20 feet behind a man with a 2″ folding knife, and that pussy-assed cop feels that HIS life was threatened??? And people have ever-lower opinions of law-enforcement officers…go figure.
The judge should be reprimanded, and the “training officer” should be fired. Jerks.