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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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So when the officer shows up at your house to take your stolen yard elf report

I'd say there's a big difference between you calling the police for a legitimate reason and just having one meander on up for no legitimate reason at all.

Yeah one is reactive and the other proactive policing.

The cop called in that the suspect was holding "some type of blunt object". If I was in that department, I'd want to beat the shit out of that guy for that. That's clear bullshit that could escalate a situation and put everybody at risk.

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Originally posted by jdub1242:

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Originally posted by a1abdj:

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So when the officer shows up at your house to take your stolen yard elf report

I'd say there's a big difference between you calling the police for a legitimate reason and just having one meander on up for no legitimate reason at all.

Yeah one is reactive and the other proactive policing.

See. Now we are getting into specifics which is good. Not like the OP’s blanket statement or mine.

When I talk about detention, I'm talking about detention and not the "hey guy, could you come over here foe a sec?" encounter. When you are detained you are not free to leave. I didn't watch the entire video, but I saw enough.

This officer, if he lost his job over this incident, should have cut his losses WAY earlier before it got anywhere close to getting out of hand like if did. The norm for most cops in this situation would have been that this call would just be a stat on a daily report and not a career ender.