This is from a few months ago, and acting as your own attorney is usually a bad idea 99 times out of 100. But this video of Florida Open Carry advocate Don Andre calming and patiently dismantling the police officer who violated his rights by arresting him without proper cause in the course of taking his deposition is a thing of beauty.
Again, it is generally best to leave such activities to the legal professionals. But if you are going to represent yourself, make sure that you’re as calm, and know the relevant law as thoroughly, as Mr. Andre
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Although I was involved in a small way in getting FL’s ‘shall issue’ passed, I have never been a proponent of ‘open carry’ within major city limits.
This is one of the reasons.
Open carry enthusiasts always struck me as a bit nuts, and the practice is basically asking for bad things to happen. But… The people involved are doing a service to the rest of us by normalizing guns again.
I can remember when walking around with a rifle was commonplace; you were either hunting or out shooting for pleasure. These days? Good grief, friend of mine was merely loading his truck up for a hunt, neighbors called the cops on him as though he were some sort of lunatic. They said he was “waving it around”, and the cops were going to arrest him for brandishing until he remembered he had a camera that would show what he did, which was carry the rifle out of the garage and put it into his truck’s cab through the back passenger door. Cops got shown the video, and they walked right over to the complainant’s front door and got told that if they harassed anyone again over something similarly stupid, then they would be the ones going to jail.
And, yes… Californians.
The guy’s main problem appears to me to be that he doesn’t want to “waste people’s time”.
He should have forced the officer to read each Statue, in full. Not just summarize them himself.
When the officer said “but you didn’t show me a photo ID”, he should have demanded the officer to tell him exactly what law he was violating by not doing that, pulled up the law the officer claims, and make the officer read that law, then discuss why that law didn’t apply and force the officer to agree that he had no legal right to demand the guy show his license.
If the officer couldn’t provide a law he “violated”, he could then ask “do you normally arrest people for actions that you know aren’t illegal, just because you’re upset they didn’t do whatever you told them to do?”
So it was good, but it could have been better
The Gaffer says:
Although I was involved in a small way in getting FL’s ‘shall issue’ passed, I have never been a proponent of ‘open carry’ within major city limits.
This is one of the reasons.
Did you watch the video? The cop testified that it was routine in his town for officers to demand that anyone pulled over for a traffic stop who had a carry permit to
1: Show their permit
2: Give the officer their weapon
3: The officer then runs the serial number of the weapon
None of which is legal under the law you “had some small part” in.
Are you happy that routine illegal harassment of lawful concealed carriers has been exposed?
Or are you so wrapped up in your purity that you’re unhappy, since the uncovering was done by someone who’s “not our type, dear”?