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Three officers rolled up to the McDonnell event today. I was hanging around near the parking lot waiting for any more OCDO members to show up (Nice to finally meet you richarcm).
Anyhow after about 5 minutes and after they met our next Gov., I notice them coming up behind me and overhear "Which one is he?" "The big guy in front of you".
I'm thinking "here we go" as I turn around to face them. The one introduces himself and asks if I'm from opencarry.org. I confirm. He then says he was one of the officers who responded to the Helicopter and Riot Shield Party (not his words ) during our OCDO picnic two years ago. He said he met BobCav and after some chit chat he asks me if I've ever had any problems from FCPD. I state I've been OCing for about a year and a half and have never had any negative OC experiences with FCPD. He says "Great...that's how it should be". They both had to bail but we shook hands and they departed.
This was my first ACTUAL interaction with any police while OCing (not just walking past and adknowledging each other) and I hope if I have any future interactions they'll be as great as this one.
Three officers rolled up to the McDonnell event today. I was hanging around near the parking lot waiting for any more OCDO members to show up (Nice to finally meet you richarcm).
Anyhow after about 5 minutes and after they met our next Gov., I notice them coming up behind me and overhear "Which one is he?" "The big guy in front of you".
I'm thinking "here we go" as I turn around to face them. The one introduces himself and asks if I'm from opencarry.org. I confirm. He then says he was one of the officers who responded to the Helicopter and Riot Shield Party (not his words ) during our OCDO picnic two years ago. He said he met BobCav and after some chit chat he asks me if I've ever had any problems from FCPD. I state I've been OCing for about a year and a half and have never had any negative OC experiences with FCPD. He says "Great...that's how it should be". They both had to bail but we shook hands and they departed.
This was my first ACTUAL interaction with any police while OCing (not just walking past and adknowledging each other) and I hope if I have any future interactions they'll be as great as this one.