[Peace-discuss] Seminar

[Karen Medina]

I am more and more convinced that everything Brian did was what I would have done if I was being followed by thugs. 

-karen medina

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>Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 20:59:50 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Jenifer Cartwright <jencart13 at yahoo.com>  
>Subject: [Peace-discuss] Seminar  
>To: Peace-discuss List <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
>
>   Friends,
>      I attended a seminar on Thursday in which an
>   Urbana police officer gave a description of his
>   typical day at work.
>      One example included a incident in which he
>   observed a driver tap another bumper while parking
>   (no damage) and when the officer went to
>   "investigate," the driver (already out of the car)
>   took off running on foot. The officer chased,
>   tackled, maced,  subdued, and cuffed the "suspect"
>   (sound familiar???) who, it then turned out, was in
>   CU in violation of parole. The officer was really
>   proud of his police work that day. Apparently
>   running away from a police officer is illegal in
>   Urbana, too.
>      Another example involved setting up a speed
>   trap at an intesection known to have frequent
>   accidents involving speeding (or so he said) at (I
>   think) Fairlawn Drive. The idea was to catch those
>   over the speed limit w/ expired licenses and no
>   insurance, plus -- if drivers are seen to bend down
>   (as if to stash or retrieve something under the
>   front seat), the officer was w/in his rights to
>   frisk the driver and then search the car. So if y're
>   stopped for speeding and drop a pen or earring,
>   don't pick it up until later... 
>      I asked about assault weapons, gun laws, that I'd
>   heard that police were in favor of that. No, he
>   said. He didn't favor that, because that just left
>   guns in the hands of the criminal element insead of
>   in the hands of law-abiding citizens.
>      Moral: if y're a law abiding citizen, carry a gun
>   (and don't bend over).
>    --Jenifer
>
>
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