Today..saw cops w/ guns drawn

[TonyB]

So I'm w/ the wife and inlaws out for fish frys(Iknow big spender)when a cop car goes flying by w/ sirens on.next we hear shouting....then 4 more police cars from differnt neighboring towns.....so against my better judgement I walk over to the end of the lot to peek around the corner..I see at least 6 cops w/ guns drawn and at least one BG on the ground...not wanting to get shot..I go back to the family and say OK,we're outta here.....then a cop comes by and says to sit tight....more cars show up,both marked and un marked.Turns out maybe 3 perps arrested..no shots fired.I'm gonna see what's on the news about it later.
No tazing either.....crap.

 

[VARifleman]

Scary...glad you and the family are ok, and it sounds like no one got seriously injured.

 

[GigaBuist]

Were they all pistols that they had our or were there any carbines and shotguns?

If they didn't have any carbines or shotguns, did you offer them one?

 

[csmkersh]

Two years ago, we had SWAT HQ set up in our front yard while they dealt with a guy who was off his meds 3 doors down. Kept them supplied with ice water. Man, body armor with both plates is hot here - worse in the Sandbox.
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[Sun195]

I was stopped at a light once, and a cop car came rolling up on to the sidewalk. Officers jumped out with guns drawn and headed toward a building. Needless to say, I got the heck out of there....

 

[borntwice]

A couple of years ago, I was with a friend who ministers to street people. We had stopped to talk with a street person and suddenly, a police car swerved around the corner at full speed, and stopped suddenly in front of us. Two officers got out, with guns pointed in our general direction. Both myself, and my friend immediately put our hands in the air, while the guy my friend was ministering to was apparently too "out of it" to respond in any way. Apparently someone had called 911 saying that the guy had a gun. Needless to say, my friend and I promptly vacated the area, while the cops searched the street person. Pretty much of an adrenaline rush. Yikes!

 

[TonyB]

Just handguns...auto's,looked like smith and wessons,and mayba a glock,I considered yelling to the to see if they needed back-up,but I think my airweight would've looked dorky plus I'm sure they LOVE when civilians want to "help"....I wanted to also yelll..."TAZE HIM BRO"
STILL NOTHING ON THE NEWS.Of course it was a sketchy area and probably par for the course.

 

[qajaq59]

My brother and I were coming home from a scuba diving trip near Boston one night. Suddenly we have a cruiser behind us with his lights and siren on so I pulled over, not knowing what the heck is going on as we weren't speeding at all. The next thing we know the leo has his gun out and is ordering us out of the car. We, of course, complied with our hands in the air. Turns out that someone had robbed and shot an employee at a gas station and escaped in a blue chevy with the left tail light out. Guess what I was driving? Yup, a blue chevy, right down to the burned out bulb on the left side. He checked us out and explained afterward, but it was weird to say the least. Luckily the only guns we had were spears guns.

 

[dtown240]

About a decade and a half ago, there was a high-speed police chase through the northern half of Metro Detroit. (Dash cams from the chase have shown up on several of the "World Most...Police stuff") My dad was driving an identical pickup to the one that they were chasing, and a cruiser pulled him over knowing that the chase was coming his way, and didn't want there to be any confusion about which truck was which. I suppose a stopped truck is harder to get confused with one that's doing 100mph.

 

[Charles Foxtrot]

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Couple of years ago I'm on the freeway, crawling home after a long day. Suddenly, there are CHP cars everywhere and 5 lanes of traffic slam to a halt. Then Chippies on foot with guns drawn! I'm looking around, trying to decide whether to **** or go blind, when a Chippie pops up at the passenger window of the beater to my right - leveling his 357 at the driver!

I'm REAL unhappy: as gun, scumbag, and my own precious cranium are all in a direct line. And I know the slug isn't going to be slowed down in the slightest by whatever few brains the dirtbag next me possesses. I find myself praying for the first time for a very peaceful arrest! However, there's a lot of shouting from the newly formed chorus line of shotguns, M-16s, and pistols, and Twitchy next to me is jerking around behind the wheel like a spastic ferret. Stalemate!

Then -- the car in front of me slowly moves 20 feet forward, parting the cops like Moses and the Red Sea. Then he moves a little more. Then I look down at my speedo and I'm doing 90-something. Which I continued to increase until I hit my offramp.

Never did find out what the hell?

 

[coloradokevin]

STILL NOTHING ON THE NEWS.Of course it was a sketchy area and probably par for the course.

It is amazing how often that is the norm. I didn't quite realize how much significant stuff the news misses until I went into LE myself.

Everything from robberies to homicides can be overlooked by the media... Yet, they might turn around and do a story about a burglarly pattern if it is a slow night.

 

[Ragnar Danneskjold]

When I was younger a few friends and I were up to no good, switching business signs to say vulgar things and the like. We got stopped by the police, and in the middle of getting talked at by one officer, the other jogs up to our window, and then gestures to the officer who was talking to us. He all of a sudden threw our IDs at us, told us never to come back, and they both ran back to their car and burned out of the parking lot, lights blazing. Saved by another criminal I guess. Nothing ever came of the trouble we were about to get in.

 

[Regen]

Many years ago, I'm getting into bed when I heard screeching tires followed by shots fired, and I jump up and look out the window and see a man with a gun draw get run over by a car.

So I call 911. They showed up at my apartment and it became the on site command center until 4am.

Eventually, they learned that the man with the gun was an undercover DEA agent and I had witnessed a drug buy go bad. Dealer (in the car) showed up at the hospital a few hours later with a bullet in his sholder.

DEA agent had only minor injuries.

 

[redneckdan]

Everything from robberies to homicides can be overlooked by the media...

I was involved in a SAR event one evening several years back that never made the news even though it was a small town. I showed up late to work the next morning, covered in swamp mud and leeches. I explained to the boss what happend, who later came into the lunch room and called me out claiming 'bull****' cause he heard nothing in the news about a search and rescue. Needless to say I told him where to shove his job. It never ceases to amaze me how many people don't believe something happend unless they see it on the news.

 

[ilbob]

In my little village one of the local free papers prints the police blotter. They seem to leave a lot of stuff out when they print it. They seem to mostly print DUIs and the more humorous stuff. The mundane things like burglaries don't show up.

 

[rhubarb]

There was this one time...

I lived for a while in a border town in Mexico some ten years ago. At about 3:00 one morning I was wakened by gunfire. I went to look out my second floor window and saw the house across the road surrounded by cop cars. I heard probably 20-30 shots fired. Some cops came out dragging a guy and threw his limp body in the back of a pickup. They all left. No investigators left behind, no evidence collected, nothing. They just left. Why not? They had their bad guy.

Earlier this year there was a big shootout between gangs and cops in that town complete with auto rifles and grenades. That sure made the news. Like the native Mexicans, it didn't take long for me to figure out that I preferred the United States.

 

[teknoid]

A lot of years ago, I made the mistake of speeding. I forgot that
there was a police station on that road, and was late for work. I thought it was a little bit much to have one squad pull in front of me, and one in back. I wasn't real comfortable with the drawn weapons either. I thought they were going to shoot me for doing ten over the limit.

Turns out somebody had just robbed a bank, and left in a gold '72 Chevelle SS. They figured out I was the wrong color fairly fast, and sent me on my way. Luckily, I didn't have to go back home and change my skivvies. It was a close thing, though.

 

[mekender]

years back, me and my friends were out doing some knuckleheaded stuff, and got caught... the rookie that pulled us over was very adamant about us getting our hands up... i didnt bother looking back at him to see if he had his gun drawn or not, safer to just assume that he did...

 

[cassandrasdaddy]

"safer to just assume that he did..."

amongst the wisest things i've seen here

 

[Thernlund]

I was in Vegas, on my wedding day, and saw something like this go down on my way to change for the ceremony.

The now-wife and I were coming from the city building where we got our license. So we're in the cab and a cop car flashes past us and screeches to a stop about 100 yards ahead. The cop jumps out, pistol drawn, and drags a guy in a car out of the drivers seat, practically throwing him into the next lane. Another car rips up, cop jumps out, pistol drawn, and sprints over to the scene.

Well, apparently cab drivers in Vegas have ice water in their veins, because all this cab driver did was to shout for them to get the hell out of the way. He rolled on past and down the road.

I got married an hour later. Never did find out what it was all about.


-T.

 

[cxg231]

So I'm w/ the wife and inlaws out for fish frys...

Seeing as you are in upstate NY - it wasn't this place by any chance was it?



I lived in Clifton Park for 9 years.

I was in Vegas, on my wedding day, and saw something like this go down on my way to change for the ceremony.

The now-wife and I were coming from the city building where we got our license. So we're in the cab and a cop car flashes past us and screeches to a stop about 100 yards ahead. The cop jumps out, pistol drawn, and drags a guy in a car out of the drivers seat, practically throwing him into the next lane. Another car rips up, cop jumps out, pistol drawn, and sprints over to the scene.

Well, apparently cab drivers in Vegas have ice water in their veins, because all this cab driver did was to shout for them to get the hell out of the way. He rolled on past and down the road.

Vegas is full of bad characters. I see people cuffed or getting cuffed or what have you quite frequently out here. It's not the nicest place in the world.

 

[Indianrider]

Reminds me of an incident that happend to me about 18 years ago. I'm walking out of a bank in the Los Angeles area and see two police officers standing across the parking lot with their pistols pointing in my general direction. One cop looks at me and motions with his head for me to move away from the door. I did gladly. Apparently, they had their eyes on someone else. I think I started breathing again once I got to my car.....

 

[.cheese.]

About 2 weeks ago, I'm at Walmart. As I leave, I see a crowd of teenagers at the far side of the parking lot. It looked like they were protesting or something.

A police car pulls up, then a second. I'm still walking to my car, but looking over in that direction curious.

All of a sudden a kid in a red polo with a backpack (maybe 17/18) runs by me. I see 2 officers on foot running after him.

It couldn't have been more than 15 seconds before somewhere between 10-20 police cars come speeding into the parking lot, all after this kid. K-9 units are released after him. I had seen where he hid, so I told an officer running by exactly where he was.

Next thing I know, multiple officers have their guns drawn. Unfortunately, now I can't leave as police cars are blocking my car, so I move away and try to be more aware than I was when the kid ran past me (who knows what he did?!)

They got him. The incident had me spooked though. This kid when he ran by me was within maybe 2 feet of me. What did he do that would cause so many officers to go after him... such a rapid response, K-9 units, and weapons drawn?! I was glad that I was armed, but angry at myself that I hadn't noticed him until the last second. Of course, I was also thankful that I hadn't been harmed or gotten involved.

I still don't know the details beyond what I've relayed.

 

[paintballdude902]

in feb of this year i was up in va looking at longwood u with my older brother who is on the board there adn it was late i had just crossed back into nc around 930 (had driven the 4.5 hours there and was now on my way home in the same day) and i wasnt paying a whole lot of attention and was talking on the cell phone to a girl who i was trying to get to go to a movie with me, apparently i swerved a bit and crossed the line.........well some guy behind me called me in as a drunk driver........just so happened that a drunk guy in a silver dodge dakota had robbed a liquor store in va can you figure out what i drive?

yep a silver dodge dakota so i got pulled by an nc highway patrol, local sherrif deputy, and a va state police

deputy walked up with a tazer out and the other two had guns drawn ........i just about crapped myself. as soon as they saw i was a 17 year old kid they put the guns away but that deputy never did take his hand off that tazer

they let me off with a warning and dirrections back to town