Actually, cops do this for big guys (like me…265 lbs., 6′) because we usually have wider shoulders and it makes it less uncomfortable for us. They use two sets linked. They’re still restrictive, but won’t pull any muscles.

But, everything else in the article I agree with.

As much as I dislike what this deputy did, I do not wish him to get shot over and over again.

Do you have the cops home address so we can start sending him mail about this? Maybe some 20 pound postage due packages of cowmanure or buffalo chips?

What a moron. Maybe syphilitic dementia is kicking in early as there isn’t any rational explanation since “Photography” is not against the law in Tennessee.

Thanks,
E.

So more than half of all cops are corrupt John? > 51% ?!?! Really?

You could make the argument that more cops are corrupt in Miami than elsewhere and I would agree with you, but MOST cops EVERYWHERE?!?

People who make those kind of sweeping generalizations reveal themselves to have problems with authority. ALL authority - usually as a result of unresolved daddy issues (or lack of a daddy). John, have you had problems with your boss at work? How about you church pastor? Teachers in school? I bet you have.

Cops are people who are willing to go into places they don’t know, to defend people they don’t know, from unknown danger. There are easier jobs out there. How about this - why don’t we agree that SOME cops are bad and that when those bad cops do wrong it is the responsibility of the good ones to help.

Wrong. Most cops know who the bad cops are and keep their mouths shut about it. and worse, they back up the bad cops when they are pressed between exoneration of the innocent and telling the truth about their fellow cops. That leaves the bad cops free to do a lot of bad things and, in my book, that makes the cops who keep their mouths shut just as bad.

I’m not suggesting anything except maybe before I go poking my local policeman in the eye, I might want to consider

1) if there isn’t a better way to be vigilant.
2) what is it really going to accomplish.

It’s neither correct or productive to presume that the police are a bunch of power mad thugs out to harass the citizens. I agree there are bad cops. Most are not.

Good point, Time Traveler, but if you read the whole story you see that Our Hero has a history of issues with the local police. He witnessed a beating, and was asked by the police whey he was getting involved. (don’t they want citizens involved?) They harassed his business and he sued, successfully. It’s obvious he’s know to these officers, so it’s probable that the cop knew who he was jailing. Conover kind of egged them on it with his statement, but the police still need to understand what the laws are. It’s obvious this one doesn’t.

18 USC 242 calls this “deputy” a felon, and since a kidnapping was committed, eligible for a sentence of death.

18 USC 241 says the same of any of his cop buddies who knowingly helped the first felon in the commission of his crime.

Yeah yeah yeah…I know…”just wait until YOU need a cop blah blah blah.” Odds are, I’ll NEVER call one…I like my dogs too much and my 30lb dog, MIMI, just might prove too much of a threat for them and end up getting shot because they “fear for their lives” as she uses her only self-defense system which is cowering and peeing copiously….Big brave cops : ) Oh yeah…I forgot…pet dog shooting…another fringe benefit of being a cop.