reply to post by anubis9311
30 kids and only one of him (granted not an excuse to pull a gun, but I am sure many of us avoid getting out of our cars to confront these holigans
because we are affraid..
I hardly think that "hooligans" would stop and help police officers that were stuck in the snow get their car unstuck............
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Maybe they could have picked a better location for their snowball fight, but I'd hardly classify them as hooligans for having a snowball fight, it's
not like they were out there throwing up gang signs, fighting, stealing, etc.
.....It may have splattered on the window and caused the driver to spin out of control in a reaction to fear.
This is true, but if that were to happen it may also suggest that the driver was driving too fast for weather conditions in the first place.
Even his friends from the cop station realise that had he been arrested it might have ended his career.
Then he should have thought about that before he pulled his gun on a bunch of people having a snowball fight. I'm pretty sure that it's against
policy for an officer to pull his weapon when dealing with unarmed civilians. If it had been a civilian that had done that they would have been
arrested, police officers should not be allowed to get away with anything that civilians are not.
Its a situation that is really bad but I dont think we need to start laying blame on all the cops that were there. They chose a good path, and
hopefully fulfilled thier duty in reporting the issue to the captain when they got back to the station.
Choosing a good path would have been to hold their fellow police officer accountable for his actions instead of placing him above the law. Three of
the people were given warnings for throwing snowballs for cripes sake, but a man pulls a gun and gets nothing ? They should not have allowed him to
manhandle people, ie push people up onto the sidewalk, pull people around by their jackets, etc he was not an officer responding to a call and he was
obviously not in control of his emotions so they should have at least stopped him from dealing with the crowd.
What I'm wondering about is at the very end of the video that Way2slo linked you can hear over an officer's walkie talkie someone says " detective
Baylor should be a black male...." It sounds like they also say he should be about in his 40's, and then you hear the officer say " a black male,
nah"" and then the video cuts off. Why did that officer say nah, was he trying to help the detective by saying it wasn't a black male that pulled
his gun ? If that's the case then they obviously didn't choose a good path.
Keep the snowballs out of the gunfights kids.
No actually it should be keep the guns out of the snowball fights, detective
