Quote:Whoosh goes the point


A guy flipped off a SWAT van. Where it's coming from is irrelevant. Instead of being the more mature party and ignoring it, the SWAT team pulled him over and walked up to him wearing assault gear. Why? To protect the community? No, it's because they were mad and they had big guns, and they chose to use their perceived power and those big guns to communicate their displeasure. Pigs.

 

If you give the finger to a cop driving down the street, I think most reasonable people would believe getting pulled over would be a good possibility.  Whether the SWAT team should have pulled him over with their gear still on or not isn't even relevant.  The relevant point is that they weren't actively policing a neighborhood.  Again, a random SWAT van pulling over a wise guy is your flimsy argument about the militarization of police?  How many SWAT vans do you see driving around a day?  A week?  A month?  A year?

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