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Originally Posted by Zef
Confront...and if things go to far, I pull out my badge...and peoples always feel VERY relax afterword.
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Guy did that in Minnesota last summer. Guy he got into it with didn't know he was a cop. Civilian wearing swim suit, surrounded by his friends, thinks he's being attacked by some self-appointed keeper of the peace and puts the cop in a wrestling move, gets him down on the ground and waits for the cop to stop struggling. Once he does the swim suit guy figures the confrontation is over and lets the guy up. Cop guy comes up shooting and kills an unarmed civilian, wearing only a swim suit, in front of several of his friends, all of whom say cop guy butted in on swim suit guy because he thought swim suit guy had done something impolite. I can't remember what it was that swim suit guy had done.
If an off duty cop got into it with me and later pulled his badge as a trump card, he might find an ex-prosecutor speaking to him who would put an end to such petty corruption by the cop with a few well-placed phone calls. You want people to respect cops, then cops have to act like they deserve respect. And that means not using the badge, gun or uniform to settle personal scores or engage in personal missions of justice.
And to answer the original uestion, no, I would never confront someone like the parking lot guy. What good can come of it? t best you create a hassle for everyone; at worst it creates a bad scene for everyone. Life's too short. In five minutes everyone is own the road and the incident is over. My time is too valuable to be taken up hassling with someone who insists in making himself a jerk in public.