Yeah, well you don't need 4 retards with phones in their faces recording every traffic stop either.
I've witnessed an incident, where the police were totally doing the right thing, by removing some drunk restaurant patrons who were asked to leave because they were threatening the manager, and a crowd of young drunk people surrounded the police with phones and made the situation way worse.
If this happens, step back a few feet to give them room to operate. 8' is not that far.
I have always said this to myself seeing these people get arrested or worse. Auditors used to work in teams for this reason... Now every toolbag who wants click$ thinks they should be auditing.
The intent behind the law makes sense, but the law itself has a lot of problems. Where do you start measuring the distance between you and the police? From you to the nearest officer? To the squad car? To the person getting arrested (or whatever)? Who does the measuring? The police do the measuring, and if they say your within 8 feet, your witching 8 feet.
Yeah, well you don't need 4 retards with phones in their faces recording every traffic stop either.
I've witnessed an incident, where the police were totally doing the right thing, by removing some drunk restaurant patrons who were asked to leave because they were threatening the manager, and a crowd of young drunk people surrounded the police with phones and made the situation way worse.
If this happens, step back a few feet to give them room to operate. 8' is not that far.
Until they walk towards you and arrest you for being within 8 ft. Me, cinical? Nah.
I have always said this to myself seeing these people get arrested or worse. Auditors used to work in teams for this reason... Now every toolbag who wants click$ thinks they should be auditing.
I agree. There are agitators that do it just to be cute. They are the clowns. It discredits the freedom we do have the way they go about it.
100% agree. I am a big "Auditor" 1A and 2A proponent, but as with everything, there's some auditors that suck.
This law is good. It gives the Auditors something to point at...
"Look, I was more than 8ft away, and the cop tackled me"
instead of the currently ambiguous, "The supreme court says I can be within 15ft"
as the auditor is clearly less than 10ft away.
The intent behind the law makes sense, but the law itself has a lot of problems. Where do you start measuring the distance between you and the police? From you to the nearest officer? To the squad car? To the person getting arrested (or whatever)? Who does the measuring? The police do the measuring, and if they say your within 8 feet, your witching 8 feet.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ye_gd4If-c
And somehow you think this better than NO LAW, and NO DISTANCE?