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Your comment has meWildBill wrote:I don't think so.mojo84 wrote:Did the lady impound their car?WildBill wrote:A car can be unlawfully impounded.polly wrote:Likewise, one can only unlawfully restrain a person not a car.EEllis wrote:First can only arrest a person not a car.
.WildBill wrote:A car can be unlawfully impounded.polly wrote:Likewise, one can only unlawfully restrain a person not a car.EEllis wrote:First can only arrest a person not a car.
Cedar Park Dad wrote:baseballguy2001 wrote:I hope it isn't the case, but I think this is the last time we will hear publically anyway about this incident. Nothing will happen. As another poster points out, she was told how to get her weapon returned to her and she has it. As for a "crime" being committed -- if it is a crime to block another car in a parking space, stalling for time until Police arrive, if that's a crime, yes, she should have been arrested and her weapon confiscated.
That's not me talking, that's the law.If Officer Hill didn't want to follow the law, then he needs to find another line of work. Based on the parking space crime theory, he didn't follow the law anyway. He either didn't arrest her for committing a crime, justifying the confiscation, OR, there was no crime committed, and he confiscated her weapon and broke the law anyway. Either way it seems, he exercised an extreme error in judgment. Extreme you say? Yes. One could make a case he violated her second, fourth, and probably sixth amendments to the Constitution. As I said, the APD internal unit has it, there will be no more public disclosures of the investigation, Officer Hill will receive no punishment, this incident is done. On another note -- it's Election runoff day, go exercise your right to vote.
One could argue that being intentionally blocked in constitutes a form of false imprisonment.
I'm withholding judgment until I see the report including all facts of the case. I would recommend others do the same.jmra wrote:The woman committed a crime? I didn't realize you were the judge and jury in this case.EEllis wrote:The woman committed a crime by blocking in the people's car. She did not have the right to do so. That she got lucky and 2 people were arrested for issues totally unrelated to why she blocked them in doesn't really matter. She did not use her gun in doing so but she easily could of been arrested and she wouldn't be having a CHL right now anyways. This was a cheap lesson that I don't think the woman learned. I think the situation may have been that to keep the gun he should of arrested the woman, which he obviously didn't want to, but he felt something needed to be done. If that is the case who here would of made the cop arrest the woman?
