Re: Wisconsin Judge Arrested for Obstruction for Helping Illegal Alien Escape ICE

On Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:50:38 -0700, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 28, 2025 at 9:32:11 AM PDT, "Rhino"<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:
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On 2025-04-27 5:35 PM, BTR1701 wrote:

On Apr 27, 2025 at 2:27:05 PM PDT, "Rhino"<no_offline_contact@example.com>
wrote:

A friend of a friend was traveling in the USA and got stopped by the
highway patrol for doing 56 in a 55 mph zone. He got a ticket for it.
Ironically, Steve was a police officer at the time although obviously
off-duty and out of uniform. I asked him about "professional courtesy",
where LEOs give each other breaks for small indiscretions but he didn't
answer directly. I got the impression it would never have occurred to
him to ask.

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I always identified myself and if the cop asked why that would matter, I'd
say, "Because I have a loaded handgun on my hip and for your safety and
mine,
I wanted to make you aware of it and the reason why I'm authorized to have
it."

Good on you for giving them that heads-up. Mind you, you've also given
me a flashback to a video I saw a few years back where a black guy got
stopped and he warned the officer at the window that he had a gun in the
glovebox (or maybe under the seat). The officer immediately panicked,
screamed "Gun gun gun!" and shot the black guy dead (as I remember it).

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I always made sure to show the badge and crews *before* mentioning the gun.
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I believe the black man was Philando Castile. This video spooked the
crap out of me - and still does. Castile was NOT threatening the
officer, had a carry permit, and was warning the cop just to avoid any
misunderstanding and he STILL wound up dead.
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Not much they could say to counter that. Cops use "officer safety" on the
public at every turn. They can't very well claim officer safety suddenly
doesn't matter when it's inconvenient for them.
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It's a valid way of putting it out there that you're a cop without directly
suggesting you want special treatment. If you get off with a warning or a
"have a nice day", great. If not, oh well.

Did you ever get a break in those incidents? Just curious.

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Every time except one. And even with that one, I didn't get a ticket. Just a
screaming lecture from an airport cop that was so frustrated that his career
plans had stalled and he was never going to get into the FBI, that he had a
hate-on for federal agents and spent his days trying to fuck with them.

I think I saw that movie. "Oh yeah, well I'm a big federal law guy and
you're just a rinky dink one-horse airport tin badge from the cereal
box jealous of ma' awesome authorita'", MC Hammer dance, flashing the
badge "you can't touch this, you can't touch this".