This video of a San Bernardino police officer circling and confronting a woman hiking in the desert has raised the anger of many about the increasing intrusion of police surveillance and operations. The officer lands his helicopter and confronts the woman without any evidence of reasonable suspicion, let alone probable cause.
The video shows the officer circling over the woman and shining its light at her. He then confronts her and demands to know what she is doing. She is polite and friendly, explaining “just exploring and picking up rocks.” The officer then demands her ID, which she does not have, and takes down her name and date of birth. He then makes her wait while he runs her name through the police computer. The only explanation the officer gives the woman for being detained is that “We’re investigating something right now.” It is not clear why that investigation would involve checking to see if there was anything he could arrest her on.
Even after she is cleared, the officer demands to know if she has any weapons and tells her “don’t put your hands in your pockets.” He then searches her without a scintilla of reasonable suspicion.
The assumption is that the officer was part of the search for Christopher Dorner on January 24th. Given the recent shooting of two women by the LAPD looking for Dorner, she might have to consider herself lucky to have only been delayed.
By the way, landing a helicopter near a road in the middle of an field brings a host of risks of its own. Yet, this officer thought that a woman hiking was sufficient justification for the confrontation.
How on earth did a video of a questionable encounter between a San Bernardino Sheriff and a hiker devolve into back and forth diatribes on the Holocaust?
Bron j’ accused…
Darren
How do you know that aliens are green? Is there something you would like to tell us?
~+~
It ain’t easy being green. And the probing proves it !
Hemp-growing Marxist fornicators are preparing to invade your property as part of their plan to do exactly what Hitler wrote about in the Communist Manifesto. They’re all connected – liberals, Nazis, Kevin Bacon, everybody.
Radicalized vegans are plotting with terrorists to revive eugenics and create a Master Race of Prius-driving hippie super soldiers.
How do you know that they are aliens? They might be Swedes bleached by Winter. The facial expressions are all identical. That is alien to y’all.
The aliens I know about are actually grey. Haven’t seen any green ones.
Darren,
You made me snort coffee, but I must say I did love the “Space: 1999” reference. A regular blast from the past. 😀
Quote:
“Bron1, February 12, 2013 at 8:16 am
Darren:
“Actually it must be true because margaritas are green, just like aliens.”
How do you know that aliens are green? Is there something you would like to tell us?” Unquote.
Best laugh this week, but of course it is Tuesday and lots of time left.
David Blauw1, February 11, 2013 at 7:08 pm
“What are you doing?”
“Oh just exploring and picking up rocks” Absolutely a wonderful and (I believe honest) response.
How many of us could answer that Sartewellian question with such sincere aplomb. )
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I’m a suspicious old coot, and she knows the power he possesses.
She goes into her little girl mode for the cop, from the vixen we hear before and after they land. He asked for weapons, she volunteered “just this knife……”.
Out of the nnn, nnn,nnn Jones, how was she picked out? Maybe the address she gave was enough. What do you do if you are homeless? Submit a buddy’s address, and check for the welfare check there?
Were she and Bobbie there for a drug pickup? Hardly! Remember Easy Rider?
So I return to my previous assertion. They needed to do something to justify the air time. “Harass somebody”!
If she and her buddy like to breathe cop-free air, then more power to them.
Cop did not do a narcotics search. Significant?
Dredd,
Thanks for the Butterfield. I had been already away from the States for two years, and besides was neither hip nor on the same life track as these young people were. So I missed all this. Would I have understood it. Nah, I arrived in ’68 to Sweden, still a political virgin. Deserter? What is that? I was a deserter, but not from the military (did 2 years plus of that), from a hostile environment maybe, if I want to fool myself. Now I find these words rousing.
Where were you when you heard these notes?
Darren:
“Actually it must be true because margaritas are green, just like aliens.”
How do you know that aliens are green? Is there something you would like to tell us?
Bron. Actually it must be true because margaritas are green, just like aliens.
Otteray: Shhh… it’s a secret
OS/Darren:
I dont believe the margarita machine and USAF though.
Darren,
Please don’t give him any more ideas. We all know the US is run by a secret cabal that meets once a week in Bibi Netanyahu’a basement where they plot to take all the guns away from cowboys and Appalachian moonshiners.
Bill
This argument of yours that some singular scientist has proven the gas chambers could not have worked therefore the entirety of the overwhelming evidence to the contrary is false certainly is no longer interesting. Since what you say is mostly humbug, I might suggest making it a bit more exciting. We like variety here, so if you are going to make outlandish suggestions, shake it up a bit and give us some thing to laugh or talk about. Nothing like a little humor to make the day go by faster.
How about some new and exciting poppycock, something we have never seen before?
Some suggestions:
No WMD was found in Iraq because raccoons made off with the recipe.
The USAF has margarita machine that was designed at Area 51 by aliens
The pope personally ordained Father Guido Sarducci to remind people who stay up late Saturday Night that church is in 6 hours.
Acid rain is a hallucinogen created by the CIA to control us
Socrates once declared “Seattle does not exist”
The moon disappeared in 1999 after the explosion at Moonbase Alpha. The gov’t made a laser light image in its place.
Or, perhaps generate your own at the internet famous…
Random Conspiracy Theory Generator
Just a suggestion. Hope this helps
Well, at least he didn’t arrest her for videotaping him and then delete the video, I guess that’s something.
David
it does sound better than “just lookin for some peyote”. “i must have some cause i just got pulled over by a helicopter while walkin in the desert”
“What are you doing?”
“Oh just exploring and picking up rocks” Absolutely a wonderful and (I believe honest) response.
How many of us could answer that Sartewellian question with such sincere aplomb. :o)
Wilhelm:
You make me laugh little willy. Go home and listen to Heir Goebbles on youtube.