(09-26-2017, 07:50 PM)Bullseye Wrote:

(09-26-2017, 04:37 PM)flsprtsgod Wrote: "There is no "millionaire's exception" to the first amendment. Their status as millionaires doesn't make them immune from the things they are protesting about (see:  Bennett, Michael)."

Of all the stuff you said you're really gonna make a case for that liar?

Let's look at the facts:

1.  Michael Bennett was not arrested or charged with the underlying crime that caused the police investigation in the first place.

2.  Michael Bennett was not arrested or charged with obstructing justice or interfering with an investigation, or aiding and abetting  the perpetrator of the original incident cited in 1.

3.  Michael Bennett was not arrested for or charged with assault (threatening, creating the reasonable apprehension of immediate death or severe bodily injury), or battery (the actual physical attack) on a LEO.

4.  It was alleged there was a shooting at the casino?

Is it wholly unreasonable for a person in the area of what is thought by the crowd to be a shooting to hide behind something for cover?

With this in mind, tell me again why a police officer found it necessary to threaten to blow the head off of an innocent man?

1. Not being guilty of the crime for which the police were there to investigate is irrelevant.

2. Not being charged with obstruction doesn't mean he didn't obstruct the investigation. Often, people are released simply because the hassle isn't worth the charge. For example, in Georgia, if you're in a place (behind the slot machine) not usual for law-abiding citizens AND you take flight upon seeing the police, you've committed a crime. On this note, the police have to afford you an opportunity to explain why you were there, and if they believe it's sufficient then they can release you. Hell, you can be the owner of the business you were behind, if you ran when you saw them then you still committed the crime.

This doesn't mean Michael Bennett didn't commit a crime. 

3. & 4. If Michael Bennett is hiding behind slot machine and waits until the police show up to start running, then he's begging for their attention. No one else on their video did what he did. This isn't like the shooting happened and he started running. The shooting happened, and he hid behind slot machine. He waited for a while, and when the police see him, he takes off running. Not only does he take off running, he jumps a barrier and runs into traffic.

Surely you don't believe this is normal behavior.

Also, if I was that officer, and I thought I was chasing someone with a gun--and his actions supported involvement (which it does)--then I would absolutely threaten to shoot him if I thought it would keep him from actually pulling a gun.

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