Comments on: Police roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/07/police-roundup-8/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:10:03 +0000 hourly 1 By: Miller smith https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/07/police-roundup-8/comment-page-1/#comment-346417 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 20:10:03 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65584#comment-346417 Trump just plagiarized for Pure fun a Jerry Seinfeld skit about putting criminals in cop cars.

]]> By: Barry Nordin https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/07/police-roundup-8/comment-page-1/#comment-346416 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 19:25:51 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65584#comment-346416 A driver was ticketed recently near the State House in Providence for parking one minute too early. Legal parking began at 10AM and he parked, according to the ticket, at 9:59 and unknown seconds..

]]> By: SPO https://www.overlawyered.com/2017/07/police-roundup-8/comment-page-1/#comment-346413 Mon, 31 Jul 2017 13:30:24 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=65584#comment-346413 The problem, of course, is that even minimal police brutality triggers self-defense rights and probably the use of deadly force to defend oneself against it. That won’t go well for the suspect.

There should be a concept that a cop/prison guard or what have you abandons their authority when they intentionally use excessive force.

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