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Unfortunatly the police were there
people not too happy about Phelps
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Down where I live the Klan is still active, and I've known several officers assigned to work the protest when the Klan exercises their 1st Amendment rights to speak on the courthouse steps who've "had miscommunications" or "lost radio contact" during the protests and didn't seem to realize a violent incident was occuring. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]
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Yeah, public employees neglecting their duty to protect the rights and safety of citizens is cool. [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img]
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LOL. It is not the duty of Law Enforcement officials to "protect the safety" of anyone.
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Why do they have to "lose radio contact" then?
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Because you do have a duty to stop it
IF YOU SEE IT.
Obviously, they couldn't see it if they were across the street at the coffee shop, leaving one officer on watch who lost radio contact, and was unable to find a tactical solution to the altercation, so he had to "run" across the street to get the other officers to back him up, at which point the fight had dispersed.