Sonray wrote:Skowl wrote:Here is the article on their websiteThis is ridiculous.
"As a disabled vet and a parent, I can't be in jail for something done to please my child," Vigil said.Well, if pleasing your child somehow requires you to do something against the law, then, yeah, I guess you can go to jail. And how does being a disabled vet and a parent somehow put you above the law and let you do something that many of the police officers in my family have actually arrested people for doing?
He even met with Chief Deputy District Attorney Joe Ulibarrí who said he doesn't think it's illegal because Vigil said he has no intention of impersonating a police officer.Has no intention of impersonating a police officer?! Geez, who would have thought that sticking a giant decal on the side of your car, you know, the one that says "POLICE" in giant letters may lead people into thinking you're somehow impersonating a police officer...
I'm all for the right to expression and free speech, but remember, you can't yell "fire" in a crowded elevator, just like you can't put decals on your car to make it look like you're an officer of the law. If my house is being robbed and I flag down a driving police car only to find out it's some bozo who wants to make his kid happy - woopity-doo, I'm going to be pissed and I'm going to sue the city for letting this jackass drive around in illegally marked police car.
Thing is he
isnt trying to impersonate police or the law. He is trying to impersonate
a character from a mega blockbuster movie.
Yes, he is impersonating a character from a movie, who just happens to be... well, police!
Ok, I'm going to put on a police uniform and start patroling the streets, and I'll just claim to be impersonating that bad guy from Terminator 2, not an actual police officer, and just for safety's sake I'll write "Terminator" on my hat - so people won't be confused. And if you're too stupid to see I'm impersonating the guy from Terminator 2, then you deserve to have nobody help you when you come crying to me that someone just stole your purse.
It isn't a question of people being too stupid to discern real police from fake police. What if it's someone from out of town who doesn't know what the city's units look like? It's always easier to say "well, people just shouldn't be stupid", but it's a moot point because
impersonating a police officer is against the law.
you can try to defend this guy all you want, but what he is doing is against the law. Simple as that.