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Aug 4, 2015
11:32:26am
Do you think this cop was justified in drawing his weapon?
I have no idea what this guys history with the police is (and apparently the cop didn't either from the video) or if his description about why he was filming the cop right then is accurate, but this disturbs me. The cop never says why he is there and never accuses the man of any wrongdoing, yet escalates a situation with the prospect of deadly force within seconds of getting out of his car. We can't see exactly what this guy was doing behind the camera, but he is holding his phone with one hand to take a video and you see he other hand in the video, so the cop's requests for him to take his hands out of his pockets seem hollow. The cop takes his sweet time to get out of the car, so it doesn't even look like the cop thought the man was armed. And what was with the questions asking him if he is a crazy constitutionalist?

Granted, the guy was rude to the cop, but when we give a public servant a gun along with broad authority to use that gun to protect the public interest, I expect him to be a little more restrained with that gun than to draw it on a man standing in his front yard holding a camera.

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Originally posted on Aug 4, 2015 at 11:32:26am
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