"He [officer Friendly] also cut into several tents to look inside, despite another officer telling him to treat the tents the same as he would a house."

are you Kidding?

rumor has it the guy
Chainsaws his way
into his domicile
on the Daily

and uses the Jaws
of Life to enter/
exit his Prowler

doors and zippers
being Commie
Plots. perhaps
a lg. dose of

common sense
critical thinking
& Civics might
be in Order.*

*not to Mention:
the fucking Law.

@1 -- ever tried
to Knock on
a tent?

@1/2 are you having conversations with yourself now?

@4: A tinfoil dome of that thickness pretty much blocks out all external signals. ;-)

There's always this perverse delight in reversing the roles of victim and victimizer in these police/criminal stories. While investigating someone slashing another's car tires, a bizzarely aggressive thing to do that creates a massive expense to someone and directly impacts their means to their livelihood, an officer had the temerity to shine a flashlight – right on the suspect! Adding insult to injury, he even questioned him until he confessed he "maybe" did the thing he was obviously guilty of! When an insane criminal is subject to such abuse, how can any of us be safe...

@4 -- what?

@4, 5 -- wait'll Chainsaw
Cop shows up at Your
doors with a Warrant*
a Bad Appletude and
his Chainsaw. y'all'll
be Thee Biggest
Whiners since
El trumpfster

hey -- send us some
pix of the door-size
Holes right next to
your front door &
the Bill$ to Repair
them. thanks!

I Fart in your
general di-
rections.

'warrant'?

we don't Need
no Stinkin' 'Warrant.'
we don't Have To show
you no Stinkin Warrant!

I can almost
hear the
Saw

@6 someone broke a law, and then another person broke a law. You seem to only care about the first--why?

@8 No, someone broke the law, and then someone else told a group of people to come out of a tent and talk, in what is debatably a misapplication of policy, not breaking the law. He shouldn't have cut into the tent in the other incident, but that appears to be a completely different occasion. I suppose to answer your question I "care" about the first because it was the incident I was talking about.

@9 he also questioned a suspect in custody without giving Miranda warnings. You're trying really hard to excuse conduct that even the relevant oversight agency found to be wrongful. Do you have some personal connection to this officer or are you just opposed to police accountability in general?

@7
“I Fart in your
general di-
rections.”

Your mother was a hamster and your father smells of elderberries!

@10 Again, not a crime. Instead of trying to read my mind, try and assess what really happened – I don't really care what some bureaucractic org has to say with regard to nitpicks about their policy – I am more opposed to the form of "accountability" that equates flashlights and questions from the police to the acts of a psychotic tire slasher.

@12 "psychotic tire slasher" oh I see you're not a serious person, my mistake

I didn’t realize police still responded to reports of car prowls.

@13 I realize it doesn't rise to the level of the brutality of a cop shining his Assault Flashlight, but yes, tire slashing is a little antisocial.

@7 "someone else told a group of people to come out of a tent and talk, in what is debatably a misapplication of policy, not breaking the law"

No, it is actually breaking a law. The cop is violating their civil liberties under color of authority. Cops do not have the right to make people come out of their home on the allegation of a crime the cop did not witness. They can ask, but if the people in the tent tell them to pounds sand absent any other idicia of crime the cop cannot intrude.

@16 Then it's a good thing the cop didn't intrude, and that there isn't any indication they refused (which would have been their right). Am I the only person who read this article?

"They can ask, but if the people in the tent tell them to pounds sand absent any other idicia of crime the cop cannot intrude."
--@16

you mean
Unless it's
Chainsaw/
//Boxcutter
rogue Copper:

then All
Bets're
Off.