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Baltimore police recently protected the city from two dangerous criminals who brutally asked for directions. The antisocial duo were lost after watching a baseball game and ended up verbally assaulting a police officer with requests for directions to the highway. Thank god the police in Baltimore were so ruthlessly effective or civilians may have had to suffer the pain of being asked for directions. The ruthless criminals were taken to jail and their automobile impounded.

So, police officers like this should be fired, no?

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9229472/detail.html

And people wonder why I moved out of Maryland, and never go to Baltimore anymore.

I read about that yesterday on Drudge. Assuming it is true, yeah, those two cops should get their asses fired. That was just plain stupid.

So, police officers like this should be fired, no?


Yes, with actual fire.

Baltimore police recently protected the city from two dangerous criminals who brutally asked for directions. The antisocial duo were lost after watching a baseball game and ended up verbally assaulting a police officer with requests for directions to the highway. Thank god the police in Baltimore were so ruthlessly effective or civilians may have had to suffer the pain of being asked for directions. The ruthless criminals were taken to jail and their automobile impounded.

So, police officers like this should be fired, no?

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9229472/detail.html


I KNEW baseball was disorienting! I KNEW IT I KNEW IT!!!!!!!!!!!

Damn. Is the police THAT desperate for arrests?

Damn. Is the police THAT desperate for arrests?
One would think that with all the drugs and gang violence in Baltimore they'd have plenty to keep them busy, but apparently they decided tourists asking for directions are the greater threat.

:rolleyes:

Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street

WTF? How can you trespass on a public street? This story definitely wins stupidest/funniest of the day.

One would think that with all the drugs and gang violence in Baltimore they'd have plenty to keep them busy, but apparently they decided tourists asking for directions are the greater threat.

hey, that stuff might require actual work and even a bit of danger. nobody signs up to be a cop for that.

hey, that stuff might require actual work and even a bit of danger. nobody signs up to be a cop for that.
It's already a common perception that urban cops are worthless.

In the US, they don't even have a legal obligation to respond to a 911 call. See Warren vs. District of Columbia.

Remind me again where the motto, To Protect and Serve. comes in? I hadn't heard the 911 item, but I had heard mentioned that a cop does not have to respond to a criminal act. From what I can tell here in Washington, cops don't have to respond to vehicular accidents either, but a nurse or doctor who fails to check on victims is liable to prosocution. (Heard the part about doctors and nurses from a nurse who stopped to check on us when we rammed a Toyota van.)

Baltimore police recently protected the city from two dangerous criminals who brutally asked for directions. The antisocial duo were lost after watching a baseball game and ended up verbally assaulting a police officer with requests for directions to the highway. Thank god the police in Baltimore were so ruthlessly effective or civilians may have had to suffer the pain of being asked for directions. The ruthless criminals were taken to jail and their automobile impounded.

So, police officers like this should be fired, no?

http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/9229472/detail.html
No, they should be transferred to the Atlanta airport. They sound like an improvement over what we have become used to...

Atlanta police officer Terrance Alexander ordered Diana Dietrich-Barnes to move her car as she was waiting for her mom at the airport. She had to back up because there was a car in front of her. When she backed up her side-view mirror struck the cop in the arm ... or so he says. He then decided that Dietrich-Barnes was trying to run over him and ordered her out of the car. The incident ended up with Alexander body-slamming Dietrich-Barnes into the pavement and placing her under arrest. When his police department superiors refused to press charges against Diana Dietrich-Barnes after she was arrested by Terrance Alexander, Alexander decided to press his own charges ... three felony charges ... against her. Yesterday a Clayton County magistrate said that he will not issue any warrants against Dietrich-Barnes.

Terrance Alexander, who, by the way, has faced no less than 11 disciplinary actions in the past few years, most of them for his treatment of civilians, showed up in court yesterday with his arm in a sling. Here's an idea. Obviously Alexander had his arm in a sling in order to convince the court that he was injured. In that respect that sling was actually evidence that Alexander was trying to "introduce," if you will, in the case. Maybe the court could order an MRI for Alexander to see if there are, in fact, any soft issue injuries as his lawyer claims. If the MRI shows no such injuries Alexander could be charged with a conspiracy to obstruct justice.

There have been over 160 arrests lately ... some for offenses as idiotic as "snatching a ticket from an officer's hand." I wonder if those officers have to put their arm in a sling too?

Maybe it's time to take a page out of the Black Panther's playbook.

The BPP sought to oppose police brutality through neighborhood patrols (an approach since adopted by groups such as Copwatch). Police officers were frequently followed by armed Black Panthers who sought at times to aid African American victims of police brutality and perceived racial prejudice.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Panther_Party

I liked the "You found your own way in here, you can find your own way out" line, that's outstanding police work.

Man, Baltimore sucks. It makes me miss New Jersey.

Reminds me of the Not The Nine O'Clock News sketch where a policeman is reprimanded for repeatedly arresting a man for crimes such as "Stepping on the cracks in the pavement" and "Being in possession of an offensive wife".

Collins reported a city officer arrested them for trespassing on a public street
How?

http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=111

It fits so perfectly.