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October 1st, 2010, 06:35 PM #1Member
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Spanaway, WA Open Carry Incident With Law Enforcement At Starbucks
http://www.kirotv.com/news/25233137/detail.html
Posted: 5:43 pm PDT September 30, 2010Updated: 7:19 pm PDT September 30, 2010
SPANAWAY, Wash. -- A Spanaway man said his rights were violated by Pierce County sheriff's deputies after he walked into a Starbucks wearing a handgun and was asked for identification.
Tom Brewster said he carries a pistol with him just about everywhere he goes, so when he stopped by a Starbucks in Spanaway a couple of days ago, as he does every day, he was armed, as he is every day.
“Soon as I got in line, the sheriff’s officer approached me from behind and asked, ‘Is that a gun? I’m going to need to see your ID,’” Brewster said.
Brewster refused to comply.
He said that being asked by a sheriff’s deputy simply because he was carrying a firearm was a violation of his Fourth Amendment rights.
The Fourth Amendment generally protects U.S. citizens against unreasonable search and seizure.
“If you’re not committing any crimes they have no business asking you to identify yourself,” Brewster said.
Brewster likened the incident to something that would happen in Nazi Germany.
Pierce County Sheriff’s Department Spokesman Ed Troyed said in a situation like Brewster’s, deputies have the right to identify anyone who poses a potential threat.
“The problem here isn’t that he was carrying the gun, it was that he was uncooperative and made a big deal about it,” Troyer said. “His rights weren’t violated. We have the right, as police, to ask questions and to make sure the public’s safe and to make sure baristas are safe. I mean, Maurice Clemmons walked into a coffee shop carrying guns.”
Coincidentally, Starbucks coffee shops have become sites of contention in the issue of openly carrying arms. Open-carry advocates have gathered at Starbucks locations to exercise their right to carry guns. Starbucks has said it’s OK with that, despite the fact that others have protested.
Brewster said he plans to be back at Starbucks this weekend.
“I was there today, I’ll be there tomorrow and probably next week,” he said.
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And the entire incident was recorded: http://forum.nwcdl.org/index.php?act...downfile;id=70
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October 1st, 2010, 07:05 PM #2
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So did they get his id?
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October 1st, 2010, 09:02 PM #3
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The Nazi Germany comparison was perfect! Now, if only someone would write an article like that and actually criticize the officer for violating his rights instead of making his "we have the right to question people" argument seem somehow valid by staying silent about it... then we'd be getting somewhere! Instead, the writer was too concerned with offending someone and probably too lazy to look up the actual law that states that what the officers said is dead wrong... it's not legal at all.
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October 1st, 2010, 09:09 PM #4
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I'm so fast, I can bump fire a bolt action.
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October 1st, 2010, 09:15 PM #5
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The LEO has it 1/2 right. He has the right to ask. What he forgot is we have the right not to answer the SS, I mean sheriffs questions.
Fraggle09027 is not a lawyer. Any advice is just advice (my own 2 cents) and is not expressed or implied as legal advice.
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October 1st, 2010, 09:24 PM #6Grand Member
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Re: Spanaway, WA Open Carry Incident With Law Enforcement At Starbucks
Why do people give in to these a$$holes? I simply don't get it.
He gave ID, he gave in, he basically told those cops that the BULLSH!T they spewed out of their mouths was OK
I literally couldn't FORCE myself to listen to the entire audio clip, it disgusted me that muchLast edited by BimmerJon; October 1st, 2010 at 10:15 PM.
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October 1st, 2010, 11:25 PM #7
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October 1st, 2010, 11:37 PM #8
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Stress, particularly adrenalin fueled stress can be very petrifying, for lack of a better term, and cause you to succumb to circumstances you would not ordinarily think you would. And react in ways other than calculated prior.
Until, and unless, you yourself are in that particular position you may not understand the difficulty involved due to the stresses and intimidation. Ask me how I know._________________________________________
danbus wrote: ...Like I said before, I open carry because you don't, I fight for all my rights because
you won't, I will not sit with my thumb up my bum and complain, because you will.
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October 2nd, 2010, 01:19 AM #9
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Maybe it is time to start carry another form of ID:
"Perhaps this silver bullet will identify me...:""...a REPUBLIC, if you can keep it."
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October 2nd, 2010, 02:54 AM #10
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^ Yeah all of this.
I read up, I knew what to do. I ran through it in my head
Boy did I fuck up...
Good learning experience. Ive dealt with pricks since and think it will go much better if it happens again, and I so hope it doesnt. Being put on the spot is hard to deal with. They tend to be hardassed about it too because they think they have the authority and know the law.Millions for defense, Not one cent for tribute!
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