Evil Monkey
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I wonder how many hundreds of cops like harless there are out there that we don't know about.
That would be nice, but it's unlikely, based on their behavior in the case to date.The offenders employer shouldn't fire him because someone might decide to take criminal action against him, they should fire him because it would be the morally normal thing to do.
It's almost a lead pipe cinch that the CHL holder is going to sue for false arrest after he's acquitted. That's why they're going to trial, to try to extort a plea deal from him in which he gives up the right to sue them.Is the an legal recourse for the people he wronged at this point? Also, is the any way to go over his previous interactions with the public and screen them?
The problem is that the cop NEEDS to be fired, or someone not as morally enhanced as us might find another way to remove him, and that would be bad for everyone.
If someone tried to murder this police officer, he should spend the rest of his life in prison or else be executed.
So has this guy done anything besides yell at people?
I live there, and hope they got firedthe OFCC http://ohioccwforums.org/index.php is going to use this incident to help get the law changed regarding notification here in Ohio.
the reason that this case has made such an impact on me, is that I have driven through Canton LOTS of times with numerous if not lots of different types of firearms being transported legally in the back of my truck (that was the legal caveat I actually have a truck cap on and what is called a bedrug in it. But I digress.) on the way to the gun range I belong to.
dave cook
....you can hear Harless say, "I’ll shoot you in the face and I’ll go to sleep tonight" and "do not (expletive) move a muscle or I’ll put you in the grave".... Harless said, "I should have took two steps back, pulled my Glock .40 and just put 10 bullets in your (expletive) and just let you drop and I wouldn't have lost any sleep!"
http://www.newsnet5.com/dpp/news/lo...g-death-threats-and-cursing-for-a-second-time
Sarah Buduson, "Canton police officer caught on tape making death threats and cursing for a second time", Newsnet5, 29 Jul 2011.
If I were armed and cursed people in public, and told them I should or I will shoot them and not lose any sleep over it, I doubt if a court would say that I was just hurting peoples feelings.
...Azmjs, go walk up to a cop, having memorized exactly what the cop said to the first big case that made this public, and repeat it, with the same tone and vigor to him. See if you get arrested for 'hurting his feelings'.
What he did was insane, and if he ONLY loses his job he should be considered lucky, but he did far more than hurt feelings.
Obviously for impersonating a police officer, but I surely hope you're not saying that being trusted with the power of a badge grants police the authority to threaten to shoot someone that has committed no significant crime (unless speeding or running a light/stop sign now carries the death sentence?), and is posing no threat to the officer?
What if I were open carrying in a grocery store and threatened to shoot the cashier because she wouldn't honor a coupon?
What you seem to be missing here, most likely intentionally given the other posts of yours I've seen, is that this officer, while armed, made a death threat against what is turning out to be SEVERAL citizens.
He didn't say that they were too stupid to own guns, he threatened their lives just because they LEGALLY possessed firearms. A threat is a threat is a threat. They posed no immediate harm to the officer, and thus he was far out of line for his comments, and, if he did not have the backing of the police force, we'd instead have a story of a crazy gun owner threatening people in similar circumstances, that had been arrested, had his firearms seized, and was facing trial.