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]]> By: Zen Lill http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123808 Zen Lill Sat, 04 Oct 2014 19:41:45 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123808 The cop clearly pulled a weapon too soon…
A few things though …
When someone jumps out of the car or just gets out of the car it is standard protocol to say stay in the car and hands on steering wheel.
Not with a gun in officers hand yet…
Yet …
If you do get out of the car or you are rummaging in your glove box, cops are trained to take a ‘ready’ position bc it’s possible for someone outside the vehicle to get aggressive just as rummaging for your paperwork could be reaching for a weapon.
I’m not making excuses for poor or harsh or shooting idiots, just telling you what I know about old school ‘protect and serve’ training.
Are cops over the edge now? Yes.
And they are using military style tactics in many many cases where force is just way over the top.
I was tempted to call out the entire LAPD over the Darner case, many people were but guess what fighting with police is like telling the IRS to go to hell … It only puts you on a watch list at the least (I’m already on a few of those) and at its worst, you’re on the hit list.

They’re officially sanctioned thugs with few scrupulous amongst them anymore and they are clannish as KKK and fighting it any way but vigilanty style will end up with you arrested or dead.
For those up to the task, Alycedale and people like her will create the change … It could get ugly …

Now I’ll tell you about 2 pull over experiences …
I was behaving like a diva while pulling over ie I stayed on the phone and dif through the glove box when I was pulled over. A white female cop came over sidestepping gun pulled and elbows up ready to bring it to face in a seconds notice I caught it last second in my mirror and put my hands in the steering wheel. She put the gun down in front then and ran me the riot act about what could’ve happened bc of my actions I’m quite sure if I were a black dude (or anyone OTW) it could’ve played out differently.
The other time I jumped out of the car bc I was pissed and wanted to see the sign he claimed I ran… He got until ready position when he asked me it get back in the car with hand in gun I said no I want Tom see the sign and he said I’m going to call for back up if you dint get back in the car. In a weird comedy of errors he got a call that was apparently more important and handed me my papers and sped off … Cool bc I was not going to back down and who wants to go there with their kid in the car? To me it was important to point out the bullshittiness of his pull over.
That being said ….

You don’t want to fuel the fire of someone with raging adrenalin (under any circumstances really bc it doesn’t end well like that) and with crazy cops especially they’re already jacked up in caffeine and sugar also …

….and you can like or not like any or all of what I just said it’s the way it is (until we go rogue)

I’m just wondering who I’m going to call next time I have a rubbery attempt? Ghost busters? Hmmm I might need a private security guard…

Luv, Zen Lill

]]> By: Clara http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123800 Clara Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:14:10 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123800 I’ll never understand why the police are so easily spooked. they’re supposed to be protected with skills, armor, and training, but they freak out at everything.

“He moved too fast! OPEN FIRE!”

Why is the public (suspiciously often the black public) always on the hook to make the Police feel at ease? It’s like negotiating with an armed mugger every time you get pulled over.

]]> By: Jesus http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123799 Jesus Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:13:18 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123799 This isn’t really a voting story. It is a police brutality story.

]]> By: Benjamin http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123798 Benjamin Sat, 04 Oct 2014 16:11:45 +0000 http://blog.michellemoquin.net/?p=22110#comment-123798 At least he’s fired. If there weren’t a video, the officer would have just lied and gotten away with it.

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