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Originally Posted by Hard8s
I see differing aspects to this, yes the cop went to far...but so did the person going in. The cop should have given them a complaint form, but the person should not be afraid to tell this Sargent the complaint. If as in this story there was no real complaint, there is nothing for the guy to tell the Sargent. With this person being evasive, it would have thrown up all sorts of red flags. Remember that cops are paid to get to the bottom of things, and are suppossed to check into suspicious activity. When the guy just got even more evasive, and left, I think it was his duty to make sure nothing else was wrong with him. Where he stepped over the line again was in provoking the man at the end of the tape.
Don't act suspicious and the cops don't get involved. How many episodes of "Cops" show them just driving down the street and someone takes off running? When they chase that guy down, they find wants and warrants, or drugs, etc. Now if these guys didn't take off running, they most likely would never have been chased.
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I don't think the person who went in after the form really crossed any lines, those lines do have names by the way, its called lawful and unlawful, while what he did might have been very odd, it's not illegal.
If the cop had any and I do mean
any reason to haul that guy in he would have. I think that is pretty obvious. And how did he take off running, did'nt they ask him to leave? (I may be wrong, I'll watch again later) Hell, even if he DID literally take off running, wheres the crime?
Even if the tester set out just to ruin this cops life, that doesn't really concern me. The bottom line is he put this officer to a test and the officer failed, miserably. Theres just no excuse for threatening to shoot a law abiding citizen no matter how odd they may be.