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My favorite line from the Incident Report: "When asked by 911 if the male was making any gestures towards the weapon, they said no, he appears to just be shopping"
Actaully I'm going to se this as a silver lining ( however small ) that the 911 operaters are at least
ASKING about the 'manner' of carry and passing it along to the responding uniforms. At least it gives you ammunition to counter their claims of 'alarming people'.
They told me that while I wasn't breaking the law was it worth spending the weekend in jail and paying $5,000 to a lawyer to get out of the charges. I asked the officer why he would charge me with a crime that he knew I wouldn't be convicted of. He said _he_ wouldn't do it but some officers might.
This is another thing that got me to thinking. I'd be half tempted to say :
"<guffaw> Why would I want to PAY a lawyer (the courts) to 'get out of' the charges?
The way I see it, the county (since these were deputies) would be paying
ME not to sue them, and the the federal felony charges for viloating Title 18
Section 241, Section 242,
,and Section 1201 , (not to mention all the state code sections they'd be violaitng
) should ensure that the arresting officer would never work in law enforcment, or even own a gun ever again!
So the question is, do
YOU think it's worth it to risk a career, and possible imprisonment, to advance a personal ajenda?"
*If the jackboots can 'stack' charges, why can't we?
