Assault and battery, false imprisonment, kidnapping, negligent discharge of a firearm, perjury, conspiracy to pervert the course of justice…what else should the cop be charged with? Along with every other badged criminal who assisted in the failed coverup?
Yeah, that sounds about right. If you’re out in the country, you can do most anything with guns.
My dad lives in the Ozarks, way outside of anywhere, but he does have neighbors. We were target practicing with .22’s, and I asked him if it was going to bother the neighbors. He looked at me funny and said “Why would it?” Granted, we were shooting away from their house, but since I live in the big city I thought it odd.
Indeed. Like, WTF is the deal with pasty white men and their front lawns? It’s as if touching their front lawn is just like kicking someone in the nuts and shooting a gun at them. It’s just f**king grass, man!
WTF? A cop can pull a gun on someone for stepping on their lawn? And NOT get charged when the gun fires. If he’d killed the kid, he woulda walked too. This country suffers from deep-seated corruption.
Dude, he started a fight with a bunch of kids half his size and dragged one away toward his house. I don’t care if he’s King and Savior of the Heliophobic Lawn Warriors. There was no justification for his behavior. None. Zero. Zip. Nada.
If someone was kidnapping my child, I’d hope that his friends would try to intervene and try to stop the kidnapping. They’d be lousy friends if they didn’t.
Note: a cop doesn’t have the right to just grab people and haul them off. There has to be a chargeable offense. Grabbing someone if there’s no chargeable offense is a huge no-no, leading to lawsuits and the PD budget getting busted. Note that under California law, crossing somebody’s front lawn to get to someone else’s lawn isn’t criminal trespassing, it’s a civil offense, it’s rude, but it’s not a chargeable offense. Back in my day, the neighbor annoyed at me crossing their front lawn would have talked to my parents, they would have told me “that person’s a dick, don’t cross their front lawn”, and that would have been the end of it. Apparently in today’s world the response is instead to roid rage at kids and try to drag one of them away for the “crime” of being mouthy.
except the abusive use of violence (never to approve), just correct the description of article, because there were no CHILDREN, but eventually kids, or teenagers…