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pnwmom

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4. If a driver is parked right next to you and doing something in his lap,

Mon Sep 26, 2016, 02:12 AM

Sep 2016

then the driver's door is going to obscure what he's doing in his lap. You might be able to see the empty passenger seat, but your angle wouldn't be good for seeing in the driver's lap over the car door.

Go sit in a car and try it if you don't believe me.

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It doesn�t jive�: Ex-LAPD sergeant slams Charlotte police�s story about killing Keith Scott [View all] womanofthehills Sep 2016 OP

That is exactly the kind of stupid interview that made me look so closely at the videos Egnever Sep 2016 #1

I take surveillance to mean their post *was* sitting in a car unblock Sep 2016 #2

I was wrong Egnever Sep 2016 #3

If a driver is parked right next to you and doing something in his lap, pnwmom Sep 2016 #4

Been there done that Egnever Sep 2016 #5

You might be able to see IF your vehicle was higher than the one next to you, and you pnwmom Sep 2016 #6

Again, how did they know it was a joint vs tobacco !?!! Because they thought isn't a reasonable uponit7771 Sep 2016 #11

Have you ever been around pot? Egnever Sep 2016 #14

Yeap, plenty of it with no aroma and some tabocoo that smells like pot... this LEO would get torn uponit7771 Sep 2016 #16

This Leo going to walk easily Egnever Sep 2016 #20

1.) He wasn't smoking the pot so it's a strawman to intimate that he was via your own example, 2.) uponit7771 Sep 2016 #21

The blunt is half smoked Egnever Sep 2016 #41

The Chief said he was rolling a blunt not smoking one so there goes the LEOs reasoning for engaging uponit7771 Sep 2016 #46

He was rolling when they first spotted him Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #49

There's no account of Scott Smoking anything (quote inside) and he could have had multiple uponit7771 Sep 2016 #52

Oh lord Egnever Sep 2016 #50

Did they awoke_in_2003 Sep 2016 #12

Not in my opinion Egnever Sep 2016 #15

There's no photo evidence of a gun that has been shown, people aren't giving the CPD unearned BOTD uponit7771 Sep 2016 #17

You have to do mental gymnastics to believe that Egnever Sep 2016 #19

This is false, there's been no photo evidence that Scott had a gun in his hand at the time of the... uponit7771 Sep 2016 #22

Those "citizens" you speak of are his family. Their actions were very peculiar. tonyt53 Sep 2016 #27

No, the people who were protesting ... Tulsa didn't blow up, DFw didn't blow up and other uponit7771 Sep 2016 #29

Not talking about those cities and those circumstances. Talking about Scott and Charlotte. tonyt53 Sep 2016 #37

Again that requires mental gymnastics to believe at this point Egnever Sep 2016 #39

Ad homs are an indicator of a weak position. THERE'S NO PHOTO EVIDENCE OF A GUN IN HIS HAND uponit7771 Sep 2016 #40

you are claiming pot smells like tobacco and my position is weak? Egnever Sep 2016 #42

They were in SUV's, he was in a car Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #8

Actually both were in SUVs Egnever Sep 2016 #18

Not to make light of this senseless killing, but the WORD IS 'JIBE', NOT 'JIVE', for the Love of Dog brett_jv Sep 2016 #7

So many problems Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #9

+1, Not only that but how did hey know it was a joint vs plain tobacco !?!??! and having a gun in uponit7771 Sep 2016 #10

Number of joints rolled in cars vs tobacco cigs are around 147,908 - 1 snooper2 Sep 2016 #13

I actually know quite a few people who roll their own cigarettes. Atman Sep 2016 #24

specualationt, I know people who roll cigs and the smell of unlit tobacco is similar to unlit MJ uponit7771 Sep 2016 #30

I don't know when the last time you got some kind was snooper2 Sep 2016 #31

Same, I'll have some unlit tobacoo and unlit MJ and have you smell it from a car with its windows uponit7771 Sep 2016 #33

A visible gun and what appeared to be visible drugs Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #35

Tobacco is not a drug uponit7771 Sep 2016 #47

It was not unsmoked pot there is a pic of the half smoked blunt. Egnever Sep 2016 #43

Strawman, the Chief of police said he was rolling a blunt not smoking it. (link inside) uponit7771 Sep 2016 #48

now photos are straw men Egnever Sep 2016 #51

Nope, I'm going off my lying eyes ... the claim is the strawman uponit7771 Sep 2016 #54

So, you openly admit that he had pot and the cops ignored it until Scott showed the gun. tonyt53 Sep 2016 #53

Of course he had pot, they showed it... I'm not claiming he didn't my position is the LEO didn't kno uponit7771 Sep 2016 #55

My thoughts exactly. He was in a truck. How did they see his lap, or what was on his seat? Atman Sep 2016 #23

Rolling a doobie and holding a gun supposedly. jmg257 Sep 2016 #28

Neither have been criminalized in NC, under a half ounce in NC MJ isn't a high crime and NC is open uponit7771 Sep 2016 #32

Ah interesting - thanks for that info! Certainly affects reasonable cause then. jmg257 Sep 2016 #34

Not really Lee-Lee Sep 2016 #36

Ok - thanks for THAT info. nt jmg257 Sep 2016 #38

Rolling joints does not happen entirely in your lap.. EX500rider Sep 2016 #25

And you do the same when rolling Solomon Sep 2016 #26

is that really your argument? Egnever Sep 2016 #44

excellent point Egnever Sep 2016 #45