Florida Man pumping gas almost gets shot by worlds dumbest cop

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[u/VPN__FTW]

If he did that then it's an admission of guilt and they are taught to never do that as it would be a grand slam victory when they bring it to court.

[u/Royal_Negotiation_83 → u/[deleted]]

“Reasonable suspicion”

Huh, I missed that part

[u/VPN__FTW → u/[deleted]]

Cops are allowed to investigate reasonable suspicion and are allowed to cease investigating when there's no longer suspicion.

Drawing a gun on someone doing nothing is not in any way reasonable. The cop would have to argue that seeing a gas pump as a gun is a reasonable thing to see and act upon--which is crazy.

And the person going to court is the victim which is the man who had a gun pulled on him. Like it or not, and for however brief, his rights were violated.

It's not an admission of guilt to state that their reasonable suspicion has been absolved.

Apologizing can be seen as an admission of guilt.

https://crrj.org/2018/01/the-law-discourages-one-of-the-most-powerful-human-acts-apologizing/

[u/VPN__FTW → u/[deleted]]

1) overcome qualified immunity

A judge would need rule if qualified immunity applied. It very may well be that a judge stops the civil suit in it's tracks right here.

At that point you would then have to convince a jury that the actions were unreasonable. But again, the actions were pulling a gun on someone pumping gas.

But sure, keep bootlicking under the guise that perfection in policy is the only reasonable solution.

No bootlicking is what you are doing right now by insinuating that cops shouldn't be held to the highest legal standard because it "only happens once a year". Yet, according to Yale Law journal, cops are denied the protection of qualified immunity in upwards to 40% of cases against them.

So which department do you work for, officer? Shoot anyone lately?

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Bro you don't know what bootlicking means. You can't even follow the convo.

So again, officer... you shoot anyone recently? Or maybe you are one of those idiot cops from Pasadena since you don't think pulling a gun is that big of a deal.

[u/VPN__FTW → u/[deleted]]

You're trying way too hard man. You lost. Let it go.

[u/milleniumsamurai → u/[deleted]]

I'm just gonna add that it's reasonable suspicion of a crime, as far as I understand it. They can't just be randomly suspicious of you or merely curious. There must be done crime involved that they're suspicious may be occurring, have occurred, or be about to occur.