Yes but in their minds it could be them next. If you try and make them come from the way you think there is no hope to work this out. It sounds good.to threaten them but they just do not see it that way.
....I compare it to saying Okay to somebody in a country where that is a curse word. We did not mean it like that but that is what they heard.....thus feelings are hurt but both sides are really good people.
I was driving through SW Arkansas a few years ago coming back from the Cotton Bowl I think. I was driving a late model 4 door Jag I borrowed from me and my son's pet used car wholesale operation with my wife, our daughter and my 2yo grandson on board. It was Americana on steroids. Somewhere north of Waldron I had made it to the middle of nowhere and was enjoying the cool, clear fall day and lack of traffic when I met a state trooper heading south.
I checked my speed and it showed 59 in a 55 zone so I breathed a sigh of relief and carried on. A few minutes later I noticed a car way behind me and closing fast. As it got closer I could tell it was a police car. He came screaming up behind me and hit his brakes and his blue lights at the same time. I really had no idea what the deal was.
I could see two people in the car and they sat behind me for several minutes before this young kid exits the driver's side and heads my way. He tells me I was speeding and asks for my license. I asked how fast I was going and he said 60 in a 55. I politely asked why 5 mph over in no traffic in the middle of nowhere on a clear day was worthy of turning around and performing a high speed pursuit? He pointed at the car and said that was his trainer's decision. He then went to run my license.
He is gone for what seems like forever and when he finally heads back he looks really nervous and has his right hand on his gun. He asks me to exit the car and tells me to keep my hands where he can see them. As I slowly got out of the car I glance back and notice his trainer has gotten out of the car and has assumed the position behind his open door with his gun drawn. He wasn't pointing it at me but he surely wanted me to see it.
I asked the kid what was going on and he replied that they found I had a concealed carry permit. He then asked if I had a weapon. I told him I did but it was in the car. I asked him if that was the reason he made me get out and he said it was. I asked if his trainer told him I was a threat and he said he told him that you always approach an armed person with caution and ready for anything.
I was a 50 something man in a nice car with a very middle class looking family. We were all wearing Hog stuff and the car was decked out in Hog stuff too. It was obvious we were coming back from Dallas. I had dealer tags(issued by the state police) in my name and I was clearly sober. In order to get a concealed permit I had to pass an FBI background check and take a gun safety course. I explained to the kid that all of that pretty much meant that I was a really weak candidate for subjecting my family to a police shootout over getting stopped for doing 5 mph over. The little shit handed me a speeding ticket and my license back and told me to have a safe trip.
I'm as white middle American as it gets and these guys acted very freaked out over what should have told them I was no threat. AND ONE WAS A TRAINER.
Had I been anything but matter of fact and cooperative, that situation could have gotten out of hand pretty easily.
The lesson to be had here is simple. Don't make cops nervous and if they act nervous anyway, adjust to the side of caution. It aint about color as cops have been shot on routine stops by people of all races. It's good to keep that in mind when dealing with them on the streets.
RAZORBACK OFF OF THEIR Chest....Our Great State does not stand for that....at least not 99 percent of it!...such a disgrace to our State, our USA and the Men and Women that have served and given their lives for OUR FLAG!....I'm disgusted!...If Jimmy Dykes doesn't "do what he can" for respect regarding that then I don't respect him either....although, I really like him!....Didn't a football or hockey coach say a month or two ago that if you kneel for The Anthem then you will be on the bench?.....Why can't Jimmy do that?...
