Fake gun creates real panic at TV shoot
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) - David Lubin was only trying to shoot a segment for a television show. But police were concerned that another type of shooting altogether might occur when they took Lubin down at a San Francisco filming location Wednesday.Apparently the film company did get the proper permits, which is most likely the only reason that Mr. Lubin is still on this side of the dirt. If the cops are pointing their REAL guns at you and telling you to drop your weapon, it's generally a good idea to comply if you would like to prevent unauthorized leakage... Especially when you're wearing a ski mask in a convenience store and someone calls in an armed robbery in progress...
Lubin was overpowered by police officers after refusing to drop a fake gun while filming a robbery scene for a TV series, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
What's really interesting in this story is that we have a guy waiving around what looks to be a firearm - there were no pictures so it's hard to discern if this was a realistic replica weapon made for Hollywood or an obvious fake. He fails to comply with the police officers' demands to drop the weapon. Unless there's more to the story, it sure seems like the officers would have been justified in shooting Lubin. Yet for some reason, they didn't - they overtook him and disarmed him. No tasers, no pepper spray, no shooting him 41 times.
It's interesting to see the difference in response here...
That is all.
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There were probably a few people with expensive cameras, a couple lighting technicians, and an uptight director-looking person all yelling at the cops and instilling enough doubt to stay their trigger fingers.
Now, if there were no cameras, yes, we know what the outcome would have been.
"Yet for some reason, they didn't - they overtook him and disarmed him... no pepper spray..."
Pepper spray does not result in broken bones the way being at the bottom of a pigpile does.
And I'd rather be tasered than shot any day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Everybody seems to forget that before the introduction of OC and the taser, the Use Of Force Continuum had only two dots on the line: One labeled "Hickory Shampoo" and the other labeled "Smith & Wesson Model 10".
The person from the production company said they've filmed there every month for the past year. Makes you wonder if someone knew what was going on and called 911 as a prank.
This is a weird story, seems like there is a LOT that is not being told... Tam's point is well taken also.
Also, I wonder if "cops busting in" was what the script called for, and that's why he "didn't comply" - he didn't realize they were real cops until they did dogpile him.
The story is (un)surprisingly lacking in detail.
John hit the nail on the head - no way would the cops do their usual routine with a bunch of cameras aimed at them.
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