are you bashing cops?

In some areas of D.C. its required.

Seems more like pelting then bashing.



 

Isolated ....... awwww fuckit , nevermind........

There's a couple off hand that I can think of that I'd like to bash with a snowball!

Meh, throwing anything at a cop is kind of a Darwinian move in the first place.

Go with hilariously disturbing. Must be a Barry hire...

Having friends with local NoVA pd's I can tell you that DC cops are, to a large extent, considered to be the bottom of the barrel.

What network? Post a a video.

I would go with "mocking".

Is it ok to throw snowballs at our congressmen?

Only if they're yellow!

Yes as long as you have a rock in the center and properly soaked.....

slush balls hurt like hell...if I was a cop and got in the face with one...can't promise I wouldn't draw either ;)

Wouldn't that be considered assaulting a police officer? I mean...not a normal snowball...but a slush ball...

Were they charged with felonious assault on an officer?

Pretty much goes without saying

No dogs were shot?

In before the video of the college kid getting arrested for throwing skittles or M&Ms or whatever they were at the cops.

Aren't snowballs frangible?  Have they outlawed frangible ammuntion yet?  Can they ban it when it falls from the sky?  (Wait, its congress, of course they can...)

A rock can be a lethal weapon.  It doesn't take much brains to conceal a rock inside a snowball.  I've had them thrown at me growing up.  

I don't blame the cops for drawing their weapons.  It is absolutely stupid on a Darwinian level to throw things at an armed man.  



ETA: assaulting a LEO is assaulting a LEO.  Doesn't matter if it is done with fists, saliva, a snowball, or even candy.  

This thread needs moar video.

Interesting to see a few more facts about what exactly happened...



"Bashing cops?"  You're kiddding, right?  Is this that Marxist/Feminist knee-jerk reaction where anything other than groveling at the feet of our Overlords is considered "bashing"?  

I respectfully disagree that critiquing the actions of Public Defenders of the Peace is outright "bashing."  "Bashing" is saying "all cops are pigs" or "baby killers" or whatever with no attention to the details of a case, which is clearly NOT true, and not the case here.

I can see several angles.  

If the folks throwing them were disturbing the peace or threatening limb, like throwing them with dangerous additives (rocks, etc), then the officer was 100% in their right.  Especially when the People relinquished their defense by failure to obey a lawful request by a peace officer, especially when it does not appear to have threatened any Freedoms (like carrying a gun, or peacable assembly, etc).  I mean what about having a little respect for authority?

On another side, the plummeting levels of testosterone required to be a cop nowadays is just enough to make one shiver while crying and make you wonder about some of the things we see.

I mean a felony for throwing a snowball? (assuming it was not laden with additives).  Some of the charges that can be filed against people are somewhat troubling.

I remember a popular video of a Trooper from a southern state where some weenie in a red SUV was shrieking like a bitch about a speeding ticket.  This Trooper was like the Incredible Hulk, with arms thicker than my  legs, and that Trooper was clearly unthreatened by that little doofus.  Now that was testosterone-laden manhood.  Clearly vigilant, but at the same time not threatened.

I was a cop in Texas and saw firsthand how dropping the standards so the dearies could pass really had an effect on the males passing.  You get these scaredy-cats who draw and fire their weapons at the drop of a pin, and had to go around abusing their power to reassure themselves what real hero manly men they were.  Failing to realize that moral courage is a much rarer quality than rote physical courage.

So it appears there are like 40 different angles on this episode, none of them really reassuring.  A humorous but sad commentary on things all around, from all angles.  

So the cops are scared of a snowball? Sad.

snow balls vs moving vehicle= throwing missles at moving vehicle= Felony in VA. then again crack=felony in VA and its dman near leagal in DC. Mayor Barry said so.

LOL, nice.

well, we know the congress men are yellow, so you must be talking about the snow balls.

Be funnier if cop was throwing snowballs back!!!!!  

http://www.wjla.com/news/stories/1209/689050.html

I just made this one:

It's a good thing that snowballs aren't black or they would be calling them assault snowballs, then they would try to impose a ban on snow balls.

Actually, snowballs are racist because they are all white.  I'm surprised the NAACP hasn't filed suit against God yet.

Maybe one of them made a furtive movement.

Got to respect their authoriteh!

Seriously, there was a very similar incident a while back where some punks were throwing snowballs, and the Brave First Responders popped a cap in their punk asses.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Massacre

That's how these things get started.  Some dumb-ass with a penis deficiency overreacts, and next thing, there's a revolution.

Just watching the news. The DC PD is promising a thorough investigation into the cop snowball throwdown. Now they're saying the reason was someone called in a man-with-gun that later turned out to be a plainclothes cop. See the link above...

Most of our congressmen are yellow

Usually throwing crap at moving cars is a crime. Some people have no respect for the safety of those who might be in the way of a 3,000lb impact weapon.

ETA: Watched the video. A car out of control on that intersection, on a snow-covered road, with over 200 people crowding around could have been a disaster. Someone should have thought through the "let's have a massive snowball fight on a traveled interestion" idea a bit more.

Plainclothes cop never should have drawn a gun to start with.

I saw the story. Looks like there was an off duty rolling in his hummer and he drove through an area where twitter organized snow ball fight was taking place in NW DC. His H2 got hit and he jumped out trying to be a bad ass and waved his gat yo. Drama ensued.

I've seen local cops join in snowball fights.

The public street is not a place to have a FUN SNOWBALL FIGHT (and, it was advertised on the Internet).  

Jeez.........get a permit to use the streets for a "Street Party."

So........I could imagine that the cop probably got out of his vehicle and made an announcement for the crowd to disburse.  Then, someone probably thought it was fun to snowball the cop and his vehicle.   Humm...........a cop arrives to break up your fun and you "assault" the cop with a snowball (but some of you can't see the justification for a gun being drawn).   Isn't assault on a cop usually a FELONY?   OK.......maybe "assault" is kind of a strong word to use in this context (after the fact).   But whatever actually happened............hey, I can't always believe the media to get these things right.  Besides, the news media will spin it in whatever way they want to.

So, in the end the cop(s) will have to justify his/their actions.  

But, what will the crowd learn?

Probably that it's OK to pelt the cops with snowballs...........after all, it was only in "FUN."  (Shaking head from side to side).  Jeez........THAT, would be STUPID.

But, Washington DC is full of that.

Aloha, Mark

PS..............I remember a time when I responded to a disorderly party call late at night.  My fellow officers and I tried to have the party disburse peacefully. I was rewarded with a rock slamming into my car (I was standing in front of it) and many more were directed at me, the other police cars and officers.

BTW...........most Police Officers in Hawaii use their own pvt vehicle as police cars (they get a supplement to their pay for doing so).

Anyway, no guns were drawn (that I know of).  But, that was a personal choice by each officer at the scene.

Must...resist....urge to make joke about Danish police.

Boston Masacre MPD style, you'd think a detective could detect that snowballs don't hurt automobiles!  Really didn't see why any guns needed to be drawn.  Cops can be fucking clownshoes sometimes.

Ah, DC's finest.  Shit with badges.

_MaH

if you don't think we are hurdling toward a police state, then just ponder the idea of police officers with their weapons drawn confronting citizens armed with balls of frozen water.