Not sure about this. There is police misconduct, but there IS such a thing as a cell-phone gun and the details aren't really there. I'm sure it's infuriating to try to deal with some idiot who won't put the cell phone down.

You have to pay attention to cops. Do that, and you minimize your chances of negative outcomes, especially the injurious kind. You must reach court first to protest undue treatment. This isn't "nice", but it's true.

There was just the instance of the young man laying in bed and the cops came in to execute a warrant. They shot the sleeping man over 20 times and not to mention it was the wrong guy! So what should you do to defend yourself from that? Never sleep?!?! We let police enforce laws they have very limited or zero knowledge of. So we get answers such as "Don't break the law and you have nothing to worry about" Ya right! I was thrown in jail and in court proceedings for over 2 years just to prove I should have never been charged in the first place!

links people.

While the cell phone case is before the SCOTUS ruling that you are allowed to film police, the fact that the officer asked her to put the phone back in her pocket, rather than setting it down, leads me to believe that he just didn't want her filming, and came up with the "cell phone gun" excuse after the fact. Also, the charge was obstructing official business, not threatening a police officer.

Not sure about this. There is police misconduct, but there IS such a thing as a cell-phone gun and the details aren't really there. I'm sure it's infuriating to try to deal with some idiot who won't put the cell phone down. -- Radwaste at July 15, 2013 2:17 AM

From the link:

Here in present time, the cell-phone gun hasn't yet been invented. Our primitive technology has barely reached the cell-phone camera, which is what Greenfield insists she was pointing at Sergeant Burke. As [Sergeant Burke] questioned her boyfriend, who was not arrested, for some reason.

Basically she was standing off to the side filming the copy and her BF. How does that constitute to try to deal with some idiot who won't put the cell phone down?

The sleeping man was only shot 16 times.

http://www.policebrutality.info/2013/01/washington-cops-shoot-man-16-times-in-his-bed.html

here's a better link.

http://www.king5.com/news/investigators/20-million-claim-against-DOC-by-man-shot-16-times-214962061.html

There are devices which use combustion of a small explosive charge to create rapidly expanding gas which propels a projectile out a cylinder at speeds sufficient to damage flesh and incapacitate the target. Cranial strikes are often lethal, vital organs perhaps slightly less so and extremeties not so much.

As these devices allow for selective incapacitation, he should give them to his employees.

Snopes.

First reported, 2001, updated 2011. Please look around.

But the liklihood of this being an excuse is real. People with actual guns behave differently from those who don't.

"The sleeping man was only shot 16 times."

Ah, well then. See? No brutality here. If you haven't done anything wrong, you have nothing to fear.