Man Pulls Gun On Off-Duty Police Officer Over Parking Spot
NASHUA, N.H. (CBS) – A stranger, upset over where an off-duty police officer parked his car, ended up pulling a gun on him.Read the whole article. The incident - and the reporting thereof - is just so blindingly stupid that there's fail enough to go around.
The officer, Sgt. Scott Childs, used his years of training to calm the man down.
1. So cops - even former ones who are now working security - get a pass on parking wherever they want? This is particular galling to me, because many lifetimes ago I worked in a supermarket and watched one night as a cop from literally three towns over parked HIS CITY POLICE CAR in THE FIRE LANE while his wife did their weekly shopping.
2. Why was a U. Mass Lowell campus cop going for his *badge* in a NH parking lot?
3. No, it is not acceptable to try to physically prevent someone from leaving, even when they're parked illegally. You're not a cop, either. Get the plate, make a complaint, that's the extent of your involvement.
4. Pulling a gun over a parking spot? Hardly. It sounds like he pulled his gun because the other guy - who we've already established thinks that the rules don't apply to him - reached for something in his clothing. Cops have shot people reaching for wallets in the past...
5. Was the guy charged? What did the local police have to say about an out-of-state cop trying to use his campus security badge to intimidate a resident over his illegal parking spot?
No one is right in this case - but only one person will face penalties...
That is all.
7 comments:
Problem here is being a state school he may be listed as a state cop. . . he still screwed up bad but you know they won't touch him and the man on the strees will get screwed
Who was it who said, "The police are the people and the people are the police"?
We delegate, not abrogate our police powers to the professionals.
If the police are not the people and the people are not the police and the powers are exclusively no longer allowed to the people who delegated them; what kind of state is that?
I actually commented there.
"One question nobody seems to be asking is: Did the guy pull his gun because the cop pulled his badge, or because the cop *reached for his belt/inside his coat*? Lots of cops wear their badges on their belt next to their guns. If he saw the gun but not the badge he may have thought he was in danger.
Or, he may just be an idiot (along with the out-of-state cop who tried to use authority he didn’t actually have). You can’t really tell from this article."
I have actually personally come close to drawing on a cop. I stopped at an accident I was passing by (that my squad had just been dispatched to). Since I was off duty, I wasn't in uniform. This guy comes striding towards me yelling "Who are you?" in an aggressive tone and with a generally aggressive manner, while sweeping the right side of his coat back and reaching for his waist on that side. The only reason I didn't make the same motions (for the same reason, probably) was that I recognized him as one of our police detectives.
It still scared the $#!t out of me, though.
The cop lost credibility with me as soon as I saw the posed picture with the story. Add that to going for his out of jurisdiction (don't mean shiite)badge and "Do you know who I am" attitude. Rachets up my cynicism to think it's a he said /he said incident or a bad cop vs. wannabe cop.
McThag, I think that was Robert Peel.
The man was a retired Nashua PD crisis negotiator. Watch the full news story they tell more than is given in the short blurbs. They showed the badge he pulled on the 6 oclock news. It was his Nashua PD badge.
The key word is "retired". He's still not actually a cop in that jurisdiction, and it doesn't matter what badge he pulled out.
Massive fail on both sides.
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