[Basil Ransom]

Land of the Free!



Looks like he may have mouthed off to the cops briefly. Just goes to show how cops don't need much to come after your ass. Normal people don't go chasing after some dude for briefly mouthing off. Hell, some of the hardest guys will not even fight *after* being hit once. The police, it just takes a little well-timed mad dogging.

Is it that all the smart cops eventually become detectives? Or are there few smart cops to begin with?

This is in a suburb of Los Angeles, but the police were Hawthorne PD. The man will sue the city, the city will pay out millions of dollars, and the cop will get shifted to some other department or get paid leave.

I'd say this is a better argument for the second amendment and fewer police than that other thread. Not that more guns in the hands of citizens would have prevented this per se. But if more self-defense means fewer police like these roving around and getting in your business...