Cop in America doing a bad job, again

I have a question that had me wondering last night: Has it become normal to be breathalyzed for sitting on the beach in the US? (Without doing anything, literally just sitting there). Also how the feck is this pouring away booze standard practice on public beaches? :lol:
 
http://library.college.police.uk/docs/APPref/use-of-force-principles.pdf

“4. When force is used it shall be exercised with restraint. It shall be the minimum honestly and reasonably judged to be nessecary to attain the law full objective.”

You can read the same thing in all international legislation. This is not the minimum force required to arrest this tiny woman. This was arguably the minimum force required to arrest Tyson Fury.

The 8 year old blog you quoted might disagree (though you left out part of it where it questioned a specific video), but the law is quite clear.
 
Normally I'm the first to side with the police, the majority of whom do a very difficult and stressful job in a professional and decent manor, but this assbucket is completely out of order and should be facing criminal charges!
 
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Varun said:
Bots are smart or at the very least, not dumb.
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Bots are predictable surely?
Me, Eboue and Rado have been able to predict what he would do in this thread and others, and despite this he continues to do it :lol:
 
Abizzz said:
I have a question that had me wondering last night: Has it become normal to be breathalyzed for sitting on the beach in the US? (Without doing anything, literally just sitting there). Also how the feck is this pouring away booze standard practice on public beaches? :lol:
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My wife and I were having a picnic up Mount Diablo once. No-one around us, just enjoying the view and sharing food and a great bottle of white wine. A ranger comes up and made me pour it out. They just love being cnuts. Yes I know that it is the law , but a little discretion would be welcome sometimes.
 
Grinner said:
My wife and I were having a picnic up Mount Diablo once. No-one around us, just enjoying the view and sharing food and a great bottle of white wine. A ranger comes up and made me pour it out. They just love being cnuts. Yes I know that it is the law , but a little discretion would be welcome sometimes.
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I never realised this went on and have to admit I would find it extremely difficult to live somewhere where this could be done to you. I almost never drink outside of the house or a pub but even so it's just so authoritarian.

If the police here decided em masse to make everyone openly drinking pour out their alcohol we'd need a fecking ark.
 
Barca84 said:
I never realised this went on and have to admit I would find it extremely difficult to live somewhere where this could be done to you. I almost never drink outside of the house or a pub but even so it's just so authoritarian.

If the police here decided em masse to make everyone openly drinking pour out their alcohol we'd need a fecking ark.
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same here. Especially with drunk cycling. It’s the only way to get to a pub so even while it’s technically not allowed cops arent fussy about unless you’re disturbing the peace.
 
You'd think in the hierarchy of potential crimes, drunk cycling and drinking at a beach or in the park would be right near the bottom....

Not in America tho, shit is serious business.
'You're about to be dropped!'
 
Italy really has been eye-opening for my wife. The freedom here, the friendliness, just people loving life. It's a world away from 'the greatest country on earth.
 
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http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article212184329.html
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That was hard to watch. Absolutely disgusting doing that to him when he’s just standing there not being a threat to anyone. Yeah he was standing in the middle of the road and needed to be moved but they didn’t even try and do that in a normal manner. The poor guy has massive bite scars from the dog on his torso and ended up with a broken nose and eye socket from being beaten with flashlights.

It actually depresses me knowing that this shit happens all over America on a daily basis.
 
Slightly different to the usual abuse of power in this thread. An offduty FBI agent does a backflip while drunk, loses his gun then fires it into someone's leg as he picks it up.



There goes the training argument gun fanciers bring up all the time.

Apparently these guns have a 'safety' that is built in to the handle, so it presses in when you hold it and allows you to pull the trigger. Has to be the worst safety mechanism I've ever heard of.
 
VeevaVee said:
Slightly different to the usual abuse of power in this thread. An offduty FBI agent does a backflip while drunk, loses his gun then fires it into someone's leg as he picks it up.



There goes the training argument gun fanciers bring up all the time.

Apparently these guns have a 'safety' that is built in to the handle, so it presses in when you hold it and allows you to pull the trigger. Has to be the worst safety mechanism I've ever heard of.
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Gun probably didn’t have a safety, looks somewhat like a Glock.
 
VeevaVee said:
Apparently these guns have a 'safety' that is built in to the handle, so it presses in when you hold it and allows you to pull the trigger. Has to be the worst safety mechanism I've ever heard of.
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Wait, what model is the gun?
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Gun probably didn’t have a safety, looks somewhat like a Glock.
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That’s the standard issue FBI weapon.

FWIW, It does have a safety, it’s just built into the trigger.
 
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In what way? I'm just going off what someone said on the Reddit thread.
Still seems like a pretty crappy safety.
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It's a little like a double trigger, a smaller trigger at the tip of the full trigger that needs a certain amount of pressure, there'll also be an audible click, then you have another small amount of pressure before you'll actually fire.

Obviously it's not a safety 'switch' like most think of, and in that sense, for a drunk back flipping man, is a pretty shit safety.
 
VeevaVee said:
In what way? I'm just going off what someone said on the Reddit thread.
Still seems like a pretty crappy safety.
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The Glock has 3 safety mechanisms. A safety built into the trigger than must be depressed for the trigger to be pulled (it cannot he pulled from the side of the trigger), a drop safety to prevent accidental discharge if the gun hits the ground, and a firepin safety which is also to prevent it going off if the gun is hit.

A grip safety (what you described) is used in conjunction with other safeties on all models that they’re used on (1911 and Springfield xD are the most common). The grip + flip safety of the 1911 is an excellently designed safety.
 
Carolina Red said:
Wait, what model is the gun?

That’s the standard issue FBI weapon.

FWIW, It does have a safety, it’s just built into the trigger.
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Yep, you are right. Mine doesn’t (at least I don’t think it does, don’t remember, gave it to my father a couple of years back), that’s what I was thinking of.
 
Carolina Red said:
The Glock has 3 safety mechanisms. A safety built into the trigger than must be depressed for the trigger to be pulled (it cannot he pulled from the side of the trigger), a drop safety to prevent accidental discharge if the gun hits the ground, and a firepin safety which is also to prevent it going off if the gun is hit.

A grip safety (what you described) is used in conjunction with other safeties on all models that they’re used on (1911 and Springfield xD are the most common). The grip + flip safety of the 1911 is an excellently designed safety.
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Sounds better now. Unfortunately not idiot proof though.
 
If only the guy shot in the leg had a gun too, he could've anticipated this and shot the FBI agent in the face. Sad!
 
Like how he just casually walks away, showing no concern for the person he just shot. In his mind it's probably equivalent to bumping into someone and spilling out their beer.
 
Why is an off-duty agent going to a bar with gun anyway? The Bureau is supposed to be all about professionalism so he should be busted out of it.
 
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