...the loaded AP-14 firearm, a rifle magazine containing 47 rounds, an AR-15 rifle, an AK-47 style rifle, a loaded Glock 19 handgun with four additional magazines containing 66 rounds, body armor and ballistic vests, a mask, a gun belt and several pieces of camera equipment.
Must be fun to be white. Y'all can literally stroll up into the police's house armed to the teeth and you still get treated like human beings. Do any of you guys just take advantage of the system and press your luck; like, see how much you can scare the shit out of a cop before you finally get a ticket?
When the hell did they think was going to happen when they walk into a police station armed to the teeth?
God, this country....I swear....
I'm pretty sure I know what they thought wasn't going to happen. Them getting shot.
These two idiots need a felony charge of some kind. Remove their ability to carry a gun.
I'm not even a police officer and if I had had my kids with me and saw two people dressed like this walk into a public place...even I might would drop them where they stood.
That's some restraint for the Police to not shoot them.
Stupid people like this shouldn't have guns.
Fake edit* In my state you can't legally carry a gun into a State or Federally run/owned building.
I want to be pissed at what these idiots did, and I want them to get charged with something out of anger...but reading what you have here makes sense. I'm still upset and think they're idiots, especially for scaring the hell out of people int the lobby (If that is true), but truly no crimes were committed.NO.
Listen, as a black dude this video is the perfect representation of white privilege since these two dudes are alive. However, I think people are getting upset at the wrong thing here. What those two individuals did is PERFECTLY LEGAL in the state of Michigan. You are allowed to open carry in Michigan. There is no law against wearing body armor or wearing a face mask. And, there is NO law against openly carrying a weapon insice of a police station.
Now, at first I thought this is just too ridiculous surely their must be laws against weapons inside government buildings in Michigan. But, then I decided to look it up and NOPE:
https://www.michigan.gov/documents/msp/MSP_Legal_Update_No._86_2_336854_7.pdf
The only places you are prohibited from openly carrying your weapon in the state, provided you have a licenses, is inside hospitals, churches, banks, theaters, and sports arenas. Government buildings and/or police stations are not listed which means they were well within their rights to carry a gun into the police station to file a complaint. Is it a monumentally STUPID thing to do? Yes. But, they are well within their legal rights to do it. It's not against the law to flip off a police officer or to tell them to "fuck off," that is your First Amendment right, it may not be practical to do so but it is still your right.
I find it more infuriating that these people were actually brought up on some nonsense trumped up charges because those cops don't like it when anyone else but themselves carry around guns. If you think the law is stupid, which it is. And, if you think guns laws are too lax, which they are. Then maybe you should change those fucking laws and enact better and stricter gun laws. But, in the meantime you don't get to arrest and bring up nonsense charges on individuals because you don't like their freedom in this specific situation.
Either smarten your gun laws or don't get scared when a white dude rolls up to your police station kitted out in body armor and an M-16 to simply say, "hello."
Yet if it was two black or brown people who did this...they deadNot everything is about race, and not all cops are the same.
Not to discredit or marginalize any minority death, I understand where you're coming from and why you'd think that. Numbers do show that more whites are killed by police every year than blacks, but that statistically blacks are more likey to be shot by police likely because they are stopped more. Both of these are a problem. These two dudes walking into the police station were complete idiots, and regardless of color or creed were inviting suicide by cop. My point is simply that, since you asked.. no every situation, every cop is the same.