CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

Post by ythn » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 3:50 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #56

pizzetta wrote: post #35

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Not excusing the incident but the fuller story is a little more complicated than the police shot someone just because: "The incident happened Thursday when Sanchez's next-door neighbor, Ben Ledford, was allegedly "firing up to 100 machine gun rounds at a home across the street, killing a dog inside the house," CBS Sacramento reported. Ledford surrendered to police, but officers fired at Sanchez after they saw him sta…

Excusable in a war zone, not in a policing action. Then again a man firing 100 machine gun rounds would be almost unheard of in any other developed country, so maybe the US does qualify as a war zone.

Post by PeterisP » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 3:51 PM UTC

spacemanmatt wrote: post #57

throwaway999b wrote: post #30

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> I don't want to defend the police Why not? Is it now politically incorrect to give the benefit of the doubt to people who literally put their lives on the line to serve the community and keep people safe?

Because they've been wrong (and liars) before. We'd be stupid to keep trusting them.

Post by golergka » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 3:51 PM UTC

icebraining wrote: post #56

pizzetta wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not excusing the incident but the fuller story is a little more complicated than the police shot someone just because: "The incident happened Thursday when Sanchez's next-door neighbor, Ben Ledford, was allegedly "firing up to 100 machine gun rounds at a home across the street, killing a dog inside the house," CBS Sacramento reported. Ledford surrendered to police, but officers fired at Sanchez after they saw him sta…

Excusable in a war zone, not in a policing action. Then again a man firing 100 machine gun rounds would be almost unheard of in any other developed country, so maybe the US does qualify as a war zone.

Post by golergka » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 3:53 PM UTC

ajross wrote: post #71

praneshp wrote: post #58

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Absolutely yes, in this case. I'd prefer the officers went home to their families. If you want to go around pointing your phone at everything, you need to stop and think about the consequences.

Genuinely confused about this morality. Why is it more correct that the officers "went home to their families" than that this innocent guy died in front of his? I mean, I can understand arguing that sometimes protective violence is necessary and accepting that tragedies happen. But you're literally taking a side here and saying that police lives are more important than ours. Why?

Post by michaelmrose » Mon, Apr 24, 2017, 3:53 PM UTC

musgrove wrote: post #63

Filming police isn't against the law in the US, so that wasn't the charge as the clickbait title states. If the guy wanted to be forthright he could have listed the complaint(s) that are on his summons instead of making up a different scenario. This guy's obviously looking for trouble; filiming police for no good reason; getting himself arrested for no good reason; then going online and being deceptive about it to ge…