While I don’t mind the occasional celebration at a game for a well-earned victory this is ridiculous. On both sides. You don’t block an exit and ignore police. It’s just the courteous thing to do. The respectful thing to do. But these punks are blatant in their disrespect and failure to comply with a simple request to “make a hole” so that people are able to leave the field. I almost get the impression that this was all contrived in the first place. A set up for a law suit… which they might deserve to win.

Then there’s the police. These guys are trained to over react as far as I’m concerned. I ought to know. I was trained that way too and it has taken a lot to take a good hard look at myself and make sure I’m not over reacting myself. Pepper spray may have been a little heavy-handed. Some soft hand technique or even using the baton, in both hands as a bar, to “assist” them out-of-the-way would have been far more favorable to letting loose a can of OC which will affect more people than were involved.

Notice that I’m not so much against the police as I am the training that says that their actions are acceptable. This is the grey area where the battles are fought and won. You can’t tell a good person to do something bad and be successful, but you can teach them something bad and justify it and it will be perfectly acceptable. This comes from the desire to control, because control creates order, and order creates peace. The problem? You loose free will and the Constitution goes down the toilet. I’m not saying the cops need to be Constitutional Lawyers, we have one of those as POTUS and that’s not working out for any of us either. But that is exactly my point. We have a President and police who are constantly looking for, creating, and taking advantage of loopholes in the Constitution. They are spending so much time looking for the trick that they don’t spend any time learning the intent. They can’t see what is written because they’re too busy trying to read between the lines. They can’t see the forest for the trees.

I’ll give you a personal training experience to prove my point. I am still a certified Taser instructor and I love the concept of the Taser we all know and love. I believe it to be safe when used in the proper way. However, Taser has released a new toy in the past couple of years called the Taser X3. This much larger Taser has three shots instead of one. You can engage three separate people all at once if you need to. Sounds cool right? Or not? Let’s say you use this on three people at once. They all have attacked and you stopped them with 5 seconds of “riding the lightning”. All of them are still connected to this thing and if they try to attack again, you just pull the trigger and they get 5 more seconds of love. Sounds great right? Or not? Now what if only two of them try to attack after being tased once already? You pull the trigger and all three get another ass puckering. UH OH!!!!! You just tased a compliant third person who didn’t deserve it and THAT my friends is excessive force. You just tased someone who was in no way a remaining threat. So? I brought this up in my last training class from Taser. I asked the instructor, “So isn’t that risking a law suit and more importantly isn’t it the commission of excessive force against a citizen who is now compliant?” The instructor’s reply was disheartening to say the least. He simply said, “Well I guess the third guy should pick better friends shouldn’t he”. WTF!!!!!! So now you can be punished and by definition, tortured, just because someone else is acting like a turd in a circumstance that doesn’t even require lethal force??!!!!!!??  Not only is this excessive force but a violation of one’s Constitutional Rights under the 8th Amendment.

This is how your police officers are being trained. One can only hope that a police officer has more common sence and compassion than the instructor of that class. Then Again, I was the only cop that wasn’t laughing after the instructor’s comment.