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originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
Don't see how this was clearly set up... He would have to know for a fact that the cops were going to have 2 traffic stops going to set this up.
Just recording cops when you see them is not evidence of a set up
originally posted by: Sremmos80
a reply to: LadyGreenEyes
So I guess we need to ignore the part where he is just walking away, but that doesn't add to the set up portion so of course you ignore that. Hard to poke the bear when you are walking away from it.
And yes he may have recorded or photographed other stops, but that does not mean that this was all a set up.
He is 100% within his right to do everything he did.
originally posted by: Sremmos80
He tried to walk away before the officer escalated things, it wasn't until the officer grabbed at his arm that he really got all that defensive.
Hardly points to a set up. A set up would of had another camera man to ensure EVERYTHING got video taped.
And that facility doesn't mean squat. Do you even know how far away/how close it is compared to the town he was in? Or are you just taking the word of the other poster that it should mean something?
originally posted by: Sremmos80
And he didn't need to tell us about his whole day in the begging of the video... That wasn't the point of the video...
You smell a rat because you want to, doesn't mean there actually is one.
originally posted by: RedEyes619
a reply to: Sremmos80
Someone filming the jails, courthouse and multiple traffic stops in one night, is definitively not normal behaviour. Regardless of where you are that is suspicious, and normal people do not spend their night's walking around filming cops.
It's quite conceivable that he could've been gathering information to plan some sort of an attack, by gathering information on response times, location of the precincts, number of police officers available at a certain time of the night etc. And this issue isn't helped by the fact that he refused to give his details. (Before getting enraged and attacking me over this, skip to my last paragraph for my explanation of how the cops should have alleviated their concerns along this nature, not acted lawlessly, and correctly resolved the situation).
originally posted by: RedEyes619
At this point the cops should have realized he is just an annoying douche and not a terrorist or psychokiller (any absurd lunatic synonym here). Any remaining suspicions should have been alleviated, as he is clearly just being an annoying douche, and they should left him alone to his annoying douche work.
originally posted by: RedEyes619
Moral of it all: The police acted wrongly, however, his strange actions incited the incident, and different behaviour on his part could have avoided any incident altogether.