UTTERLY INSANE Militarized Traffic Stop in Harrisburg PA

Dishonorable cowards, all of them.

Video Narrator: “… unconstitutional overreach …”

Video Narrator: “… [the officers] disregard for their oath to the Constitution.”

This is yet another case of someone using emotive language in their "language-persuasive technique" as rhetoric to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations associated with them in order to invoke an emotional response and exploit stereotypes.

And some people continually fall into the entrapment by its use.

Sad …

I'm not sure what the priests have to do with the police who conducted this traffic stop.

So this situation now leaves us both unsure of something …

I call upon your many years serving our country as a law enforcement officer to use your judgment and answer when I ask if this video shows police officers reacting to a “shot fired from a moving vehicle” was an overreaction – all the while considering the propensity of copycat shootings and remembering the Texas incident of shooting from a vehicle that let 7 dead and 21 injured.

Of is this video is just another of the many complied to cast bad light by cop haters on law enforcement?

It is to be noted that the narrator showed in no way were departmental guidelines disobeyed or laws broken.

I'm focusing just on the "we're on camera" (run!) part of the video.

Just saying “we’re on camera” after the car had been visually searched and walking to the rear of the vehicle where the individual was then being detained for questioning made all of the officers performing their duty as outlined by departmental policy and complying with all laws be a lot of “dangerous cowards?”

You are entitled to your subjective opinion, of course.

While I am entitled to fail to understand how you subjectively made such a demeaning classification.

There is really nothing more I can discuss on this subject with you.

I therefore, I sincerely thank you for your time and for your responses.

I call upon your many years serving our country as a law enforcement officer to use your judgment and answer when I ask if this video shows police officers reacting to a “shot fired from a moving vehicle” was an overreaction – all the while considering the propensity of copycat shootings and remembering the Texas incident of shooting from a vehicle that let 7 dead and 21 injured.

Or is this video is just another of the many complied to cast bad light by cop haters on law enforcement?

Remembering that the narrator showed in no way were departmental guidelines disobeyed or laws broken.

It's apparent …

This was no “routine traffic stop” when the officer casually strolls up to the driver’s window and says “may I see your driver’s license and vehicle registration, please.”

This was a "felony high-risk traffic stop” which …

… occurs when police stop a vehicle which they have strong reason to believe contains a driver or passenger suspected of having committed a serious crime, especially of a nature that would lead the police to believe the suspects may be armed (such as an armed robbery, assault with a weapon, or an outstanding felony warrant for the registered owner). In a high risk stop, officers attempt to provide their own safety by issuing instructions to maintain absolute control over every step of the proceedings.

They will have additional officers on scene for back-up, often waiting for additional officers to join up before initiating the stop. They will typically have their weapons drawn, and stay back from the suspect vehicle, using their patrol cars for cover. If there is no choice but to make the stop on a busy street, then they will often stop traffic. They will address the driver and any passengers over the PA speaker of the patrol car, typically instructing the driver to turn the engine off, remove the keys from the ignition, and sometimes toss them out the window. They will instruct the occupants, one at a time, to exit the vehicle with empty hands showing, place their hands on top of or behind their heads, walk backwards some distance, and then lie flat on the ground, where they will remain until all occupants have done likewise, at which point officers will move up, apply handcuffs, do a body search and then secure the suspects in the patrol cars. The vehicle is then typically searched for weapons and other evidence in accordance with the arresting department's standard operating procedures ("S.O.P.'s").

…it's apparent that Harrisburg has entirely too many cops! Many of those responding should be fired. and the remaining force need to be lectured about not flexing their firepower –

Thank you …

Thank you for your detailed and informative response.

This video is a textbook example of how someone can intentionally control the minds of others by taking a factually correct procedure and channel the thought process of others by presenting it in a ridiculous light to make it appear that it is an overly zealous uncontrolled act.

It plays on the psychological emotions these “believers” can’t tolerate and the result is forming a condemning opinion on something that they wouldn't have done without the effect of these emotions.

It shows that certain emotions can be induced in someone and when he finds that he can’t tolerate these emotions he does that thing that he wouldn’t have done otherwise – he reacts to the mind control in the manner he has just been programmed to do.

It is ever so easy to protect yourself for all of these methods of control by watching out for the controlled method emotions people try to induce in you and stop the involuntary programmed response to them.

Some folks need to start thinking and stop reacting …

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