Today these women are yelling and screaming, but, soon, I think they will be armed. The police need to start fearing the people, look at the surrounding buildings, imagine what happens when snipers find the roof tops.
Today these women are yelling and screaming, but, soon, I think they will be armed.
No, they won't. They never do. And the first time there's some crime, they'll turn around and blame the cops for that too.
The cops seem at first glance to have little or no cause to detain these girls. Laying hands on them without arrest is a bad idea.
I don't like the mouthy guy making the vid, yelling "Respect the community, motherfuckers". Yeah, that sounds like a respectful dialog.
The cops should have made an arrest and made it stick or just backed off. This was poor policing, IMO.
As cellphones with cameras become near-universal, we'll see more and more of these kinds of vids. And cops will increasingly react to being filmed, now that the Court has ruled strongly for citizen video rights. And there will be increasing numbers of lapel cams worn by cops as standard policy so we'll get both sides of an encounter.
These cops may have had adequate cause to stop these teens, possibly enough for an arrest. Unfortunately, this vid doesn't help us determine whether the police were acting within the scope of PD policy.
