Originally posted by PraiseA||ah
That cop doesn't sound like he was following the law. It sounds like he was making the law.
The clip I saw on TV wasn't a parked-in-the-wrong-place type situation,it was a repossession for not paying the car payment type of thing.
Sometimes, for better or worse, cops do this kind of thing. Had he followed the law (for better or worse) he would have had to arrest about 5 people for assault, including the tow truck driver and his partner, the guy and his younger brother, and some other guy who's showed up and got involved (at one point they were all kind of wrestling around). The kid fired a round from the .22 rifle, I think he fired it straight up--that kid would be cited for firing within city limits, maybe much, much more. Then the tow truck driver gets charged with something for smashing the kid's rifle in the street. Remember, the people give their statements, the cop just makes the arrest, the courts sort it all out months later. It would have meant about half a dozen criminal trials, probably followed by a few more civil cases. The only people who would win in this situation is....the lawyers!
I might have done things differently, but then again that cop probably saved everyone involved a ton of money and headaches.