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Seems awfully like a pretty easy catch-all the government could use for a wide variety of things if that's all that's needed.
He didn't have a uniform on, nor did he produce a badge, or as far as we know even identify himself as a police officer. It seems like one or more of those should be needed in order to be legitimately charged with intending to "impersonate a police officer".
Shit, for that matter, I used to impersonate police officers all the time; I just didn't know it was a crime to be fat and eat donuts like I used to do. I should've been arrested!
Or do you have to impersonate a specific police officer? Like, would I have to find an officer in my city who walks with a weird limp, and then put on a costume and walk with the same limp? Would that count as impersonating a police officer?
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Its like saying that if one plane crashes this week, there is less of a chance of one crashing next week. The events are completely independent and you are completely wrong. But keeping trying to make your point, its entertaining.
That was just unlucky? You come off as an apologist. How would you have felt if he pulled over a family member of yours? How about if it was someone else that pulled over your family member and then stuck a gun in their window or worse yet pulled the trigger?
To say that is he was winning this would be less of a deal I don't get. That is a point regarding whether someone has been fired or not. Your point about Travis is that he has continued to garner $$$ projects and fame. Emig lost his job due to not winning at the time. But has Bubba lost any job or sponsors yet? This is just internet fodder right now.
The fans don't care if he is winning here or not with this issue. Those that continually apologize for his stunts continue to do so. Those that are objective or already were irritated by Stewart are tending to see it for what it is.
A felony crime.
Yes, by Florida law he was impersonating a cop. You don't need a badge or a uniform to do so, you don't even need red and blue lights. In some places if you identify yourself as police, you have committed a crime. In some places if you call someone and SAY you are the police you have committed a crime. Sorry if that doesn't work out so well for James or you, but people on Vital don't make or enforce the laws.
You think that 50 years ago was no different from today? How do you type this and not immediately realize how dumb it sounds?
How many carjackings do you think existed 50 years ago? How many home invasions do you think occurred?
Both of those are modern culture, not something from 50 years ago.....and they appear to be more prevalent with each passing year.
In my town, a kid carjacked a woman in the McDonald's parking lot a few years ago....he worked there and didn't have a ride home.
How many cops were killed in America in 2010 compared to 1960?
Policemen killed on duty 2010- 160
2009 -117
1980- 209
1975 - 242
1970- 221
1965- 139
1960- 131
I know you`re typing with your dick in your hand and probably been jerking off ever since Stewart arrest, but do some research before you go all excited.
Wow, he's really still a kid. When I was his age I was looking out for my parents, making sure they were OK. Seeing "Big" James swaggering around looking angry - followed by a sheepish looking kid in a hoodie and baseball cap I was wondering if he was 25 or 13.
Time to grow up Bubba. Seriously man, you're 25 years old.
Howard called him an effin maniac.
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just because his intent wasn't malicious, doesn't change the fact that it is a criminal offense. whether he meant to do harm or not, obviously it's clear he meant none, he did do it and that is all that matters.
Today, there are just short of 850,000 police officers (including sheriff's deputies, troopers, etc.).
In 1960? I can't find the number, but considering our overall population has gone from 180 million to well over 300 million, you have to figure that it's likely that police numbers changed in line with population. So, if so, we had about 500,000 cops in 1960. And of those 500,000, 131 were killed in the line of duty. Out of 850,000, 117 were killed in the line of duty in 2009.
And, not for nothing, but roughly 300 police officers per year kill THEMSELVES. That's almost triple the number who are killed on duty. And on top of that, of the 117 killed on duty in 2009, 48 of them were felonious deaths. The other 69 were traffic collisions of some sort, medical issues, or gunfire accidents.
Nostalgia makes people believe that things are worse than they used to be, no matter what. But that's simply not the case. Things are way, way better.
What's the difference between Murder 1 and involuntary manslaughter? In both cases, someone dies, right? So, what's the difference?
As for the cops question, I answered that.
IF he had committed a felony while impersonating an officer, it would have been bumped to a 2nd degree felony, since he did not have the intent to commit an additional crime, it is a third degree felony.
No additional criminal intent is needed to charge someone with Falsely Personating (yes that is how the statute is worded, sounds weird to me too) an Officer.
He was driving a black Toyota Tundra monster truck, didn't have "waggle" lights on the front, or strobes, or a siren, or a badge, or anything.
Anyone who would pull over for that is an idiot. Or a cop hoping to nail somebody for a stupid law...
Every sand rail and jeep in Glamis has a police light like the one James Stewart had. They should all be arrested!
"Impersonating a police officer" just by having a light of a certain color that you bought at a swap meet?
What's next?
It's becoming clear that the laws of this country are being pushed way too far into the realm of protecting government workers at the expense of the civil liberty of the citizens, and this isn't the only example.
The law has nothing to do with "right or wrong", and I think people get the two confused all the time. Our country is largely authoritarian nowadays, and it's not a good thing.
There have been a lot of laws throughout our country's history that are no longer laws, and many of them we would look at and, as reasonable people, conclude they never should've been laws in the first place. But the only reason they WERE laws is because of the authoritarian mindset that if it's the law, it must be right. But that's simply not how I think. If that's how our founders thought, we'd still be flying a British flag, know what I mean?
Prohibition, slavery, civil rights, women not being able to vote, etc. At one point, the law in our country was wrong on all of those things, and in a case like James Stewart's, if we don't take into account the SPIRIT of the law rather than just the letter, we aren't doing justice to anybody.
come on steve, even you're not that blind to why the laws are what they are.
i'm just saying that just because "YOU" know who james stewart is and "YOU" know that he had no malicious intent, the state of Florida and the Highway Patrol does NOT know what his intent was. this is the reason the offense is a felony, because they have no fucking clue what the guy with FALSE police lights real intent is; no matter what his social status as a professional athlete may be.
you're simply putting james on a pedestal for the simple fact of WHO he is.
bringing up the pastrana incident is just another indication of you placing james on that pedestal. for the record, i usually like your "opinion pieces" but i found this one to be excuse after excuse for one of the sports most known figures.
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