When does filming one’s neighbor require a police officer to draw his sidearm? Don McComas, a Rohnert Park resident, was outside his home, hooking his boat up to his SUV, when he noticed a police officer observing is house. McComas began filming when it appeared that his license plate was being called in. What happened next makes utterly no sense.
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Sad but true. This is about 75% of the police mentality.
If he wanted a law suit, he just got an excuse. This s$#%&!@*bag cop just accosted a man on his own property for no reason. He drew a firearm while admitting no crime was committed, everything this cop did was unlawful.
Get back to me when you base your opinion on real life experiences and facts.
Sorry to you who has forgotten the law and the Cons$#%&!@*ution. This corrupt cop had no right to exit his vehicle and order anything, especially after admitting no crime had been committed, especially with this man on his own property. This was a case of intimidation and threats, nothing else. This cop just gave him a lawsuit.
There is nothing to warrant an officer coming to his property and pulling a gun on him while admitting there was no crime.
I don’t think the property owner had a tazer, but it’s a nice thought.
That man should never be allowed to wear a badge again
Or in Texas.
Ok, just wanted to point out something here in regards to some of the comments.
FYI – I am not a “cop hater” –
I am “an officer better have some kind of reason to detain me” type of guy though.
Especially when that officer is threatening to use deadly force on me.
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The guy recording did in fact take his hand out of his pocket.
You can see him put a phone and keys on the hood of his truck – he’s holding a camera with his other hand so unless he’s a 3 or 4 handed mutant he didn’t have any hands in any pockets.
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The officer never stated why he was contacting the guy in the 1st place.
Every cop has had contacts with people who might have looked su$#%&!@*ious at 1st but after a little bit of checking there’s nothing actually wrong going on.
Its just professional and good community service to explain why they were there – otherwise you leave the impression that you are just being a jerk trying to find a problem where there wasn’t one.
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The hardest part of this to figure out is why he drew his gun.
People are going to say that he was afraid that the guy had a weapon in his pocket and he was taking steps to defend himself.
The officer never takes a position of cover, walks towards the guy, puts himself in several positions that are unsafe and even turns his back to the guy – all while walking around with his weapon drawn.
I would expect that this officer has had training that would impress upon him how to make himself safer when “confronted by an uncooperative suspect” and I can reasonably say that he didn’t follow any training protocol and possibly violated departmental policy by doing those things.
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Then after all this hoopla over what appears to be nothing he leaves as if nothing happened.
That is teach talk.