Clearly it wasn’t. I found it mildly amusing that the cop described what he was holding as “some kind of blunt object” into his radio. When things are slow at my job they have us do the exact same thing that guy was doing at rest areas. Bucket and a grabber.
They “fled” but were not charged for that? Hmm.
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It’s not disrespecting the flag. It’s mourning the fact that the freedoms that flag represents aren’t being upheld. It’s protesting the abuse of power by law enforcement officers and the people that enable them (e.g. people making excuse after excuse in this thread).
When do “a few bad apples” become a bushel?
Reasonable suspicion.
When in a country of 330 million people it is so rare that every time it happens, it makes the news. And that only happens a few times in a year. We are incredibly fair. The fairest on Earth. How’s that?
That’s not how real news works. Breaking news stories have just facts. You admit that’s the reason the cops were called. That’s what would have been the initial information. CNN did nothing wrong.
It’s really easy to second guess and armchair quarterback now that we know the occupants of the car weren’t armed or didn’t have malicious intentions at the time of the stop.
I’m still sticking with the opinion that the cops overreacted. I think they let their imaginations get the best of them. I don’t fault them for assuming the worst, given some of the (scant) details we know, but I think they went straight to DEFCON 1 in their response to appearances of the situation. And occupants in the car didn’t help matters.
BTW, at the risk of absorbing the same barbs some people endured at the early stages of the Smollet incident, I’m not going to be surprised to find out that the parents actually shoplifted the doll, not the 4-year-old girl.
Not surprised to see you defending the media again on this.
And it’s not a fact that cops pulled guns because a 4-year-old shoplifted a doll. (Which was the basis of my point.)
Yes…the black guy picking up trash was required to provide ID…when he did, it wasn’t good enough. The white guy who showed up to say the black guy was a student was NEVER asked for his ID to confirm he was who he said he was…he was taken at his word automatically.
How is it disrespecting the flag?
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Not true. All freedoms are being upheld. If they were not, this incident would have been covered up like it is in most of the world. But some people break the law. Newsflash. If you protest the flag, you are disrespecting the flag.
And you shouldn’t be. But you had it right in your previous post.
It’s really easy to second guess and armchair quarterback now that we know the occupants of the car weren’t armed or didn’t have malicious intentions at the time of the stop.
I’m still sticking with the opinion that the cops overreacted. I think they let their imaginations get the best of them. I don’t fault them for assuming the worst, given some of the (scant) details we know, but I think they went straight to DEFCON 1 in their response to appearances of the situation. And occupants in the car didn’t help matters.
I’m not sure why you’re feeling the need to criticize me still after what you said above. I’m not sure what you want the press to do besides report facts. That’s what they’re supposed to do, not interpret or guess. Initial stories are usually short on details. When more info is known, they get filled out later. That’s the natural order.
But as you said that’s why the cops were called.
When the anthem is being played and/or the flag being raised, the proper thing to do is to face the flag at attention. It’s basic stuff. Liberals do not respect the flag because it represents freedom not socialism. They have contempt for everything it stands for. This isn’t about some random bad cop.
I took issue with the spin. Cops pulled guns because a 4-year-old shoplifted a doll.
You have taken issue with my observation. Now I consider you to be defending that spin.
But you’re a media creature yourself. I expect that from you.
I think you are being deliberately obtuse. And that’s also what I’ve come to expect from you.
You haven’t been to a baseball game lately, have you?
Maybe. Why do you ask?
