Iceweasel
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- Dec 20, 2013
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Cops, and anyone with any sense, absolutely do take preventative measures to avoid injury. Sometimes people are cuffed without being arrested until they have a better idea of what's going on. The moral of the story is to not act like a 4 year old brat if you get pulled over because it can go downhill from there.What he knows could happen is no justification for taking such prohibitive action. If she did flick the cigarette in his face, or blow clouds of smoke in his face, then, and only then, is he authorized to take action.[...]He either didn't want to breathe her smoke or knows that a flipped butt in the face can cause problems. The odd thing is he had to ask in the first place.
Because cops know a man they are questioning for something can kick them in the balls, does that mean they are authorized to tell him to remove his shoes? Too many cops are taking this "officer safety" routine too far. Pretty soon they will be handcuffing everyone they stop for anything and laying them face down on the street -- because they could flick a cigarette at them, spit at them, kick them in the balls, and on and on.
The response to that nonsense is action only after action, not on presumptive notion.