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onehandle

(51,122 posts)
1. Any small action can be called 'obstruction.' Why? Because a cop doesn't know if you are armed.
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:16 AM
May 2013

Better to handcuff someone, than get a bullet in the back of your head.

Police must assume that everyone is armed. Even more so these days. Thank you, gun culture.

She should have been calling her lawyer instead of getting in his face.

 

snooper2

(30,151 posts)
3. Here's the YouTube so you don't have to click through that shitty ass website
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:26 AM
May 2013

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Just skip past the talking tool




Poll_Blind

(23,864 posts)
4. Meh, didn't seem so bad. Embarassing, yes. But in the grand scheme of things...
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:32 AM
May 2013

...surprisingly pedestrian for a drunken arrest.

Thanks for the link!

PB

 

Aerows

(39,961 posts)
5. Good grief
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:33 AM
May 2013

I actually feel bad for them because this was so damn stupid on the part of the cops. Just idiotic.

 

stevenleser

(32,886 posts)
7. If you are one teeny bit in the public eye, stop drinking and taking any substances.
Fri May 3, 2013, 10:50 AM
May 2013

Otherwise, be prepared for your intoxicated ramblings to hit YouTube at some point.

Sad, but there it is.

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