Bad Behavior Hurts Everyone

Personally, I'd be rather appreciative if Officer Friendly were more polite and Minded His Own Fracking Business and didn't bother me in the first place. Politeness begins at home, right?

Ask me what I'm carrying and I'll chew your ear off on the pro's and con's of my choice.

Ask me if I have a license and if you can see it and you're implying that I'm engaging in illegal behavior. And I'll react accordingly.

I have spent enough years on this rock, that I have earned the right to be a dick when when necessary. I have been called much worse than that, I can live with it.

And then there was the open carrier (Michael Porchien, Youngtown, OH) who decided to be polite and cooperative when he was stopped, and has it on video (link below)...that is, until the dick cop decides to take his camera (phone).

The cop then has to call his Lt. to help generate some kind of charge for the stop (we have the audio).

They decide that the guy's shirt was covering the openly carried folding knife clipped to his belt.

Charged with Carrying a Concealed Weapon - Knife, while openly carrying a loaded firearm.

(charges dismissed, case dismissed, civil suit being prepared)

I'll be nice to the cops until they make a request that is not supported by the laws of the state.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSocHUR2IE

I think it is fair to be polite with a LEO until the LEO no longer respects your polite requests to disengage.