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Deputies with their guns drawn shout at an armed man at a liquor store to get on the ground.
The man, Ira McQueen, is an agent with the Florida Division of Alcoholic Beverages and Tobacco, but the deputies don’t know that.
They have been called to what a witness believed was an armed robbery at the business.
When McQueen, who is in civilian clothes, doesn’t comply with the deputies’ demands, a Taser stun gun is used on him. A Sheriff’s Office dog is also released on the man.
Read the whole article. Nothing is as simple as it sounds. Before or after reading the tale.
I’m still not really certain what happened here and neither are the coppers. I think the script was written by Monty Python.
Eideard exclaimed, “Deputies stun undercover cop – WTF?”
It was covered in the article but I’ll explain to you anyway.
Mistake #1: Failure to report operation to all desk Sgt’s of local law enforcement agencies.
Mistake #2: “When McQueen, who is in civilian clothes, doesn’t comply with the deputies’ demands,…”
NEVER ignore an armed cops orders. Unless, you want “Shock & Dog”, as its known in law enforcement circles…
Should we expect our nutball police expert to notice that there wasn’t any crime/robbery being committed in the first place?
Nah. That would require rational thought.
Maybe the undercover cop was somewhat stunned and surprised to see deputy dawg dashing in the door with guns drawn – when he knew there was nothing happening more serious than an underage booze sale.
The guy deserved it. His partnet hit the ground and offered the badge and he was playing like an idiot.
He should have done the same.
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I like this mystifying “learned a gun was in the business”. That’s not even a rational phrase in English.
Are liquor stores not allowed to have guns on the premises? Was it the clerk’s? Was it just lying on the floor and McQueen picked it up? Prompting the unnamed witness peering in a window to call the Sheriff?
How many silly premises invoke an armed response in Florida?
So police procedure is to shoot first and question later?
I guess the serious question would be why the dog AFTER the tazer?
Another good question would be was the undercover agent’s gun holstered or drawn?
So many questions, but maybe the deputies knew that Cow-Paddy, Ignorant Shit Talking Sociopath, has already shot two people and could sympathize.
#5 Confusion said, “So police procedure is to shoot first and question later?”
No, it is too order an armed suspect to surrender, and if no compliance, to neutralize the person. The guy is VERY lucky the the cop had a taser.
This story makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. Not even cops are safe from the cops. Haw!
This will be the next great pranksterism. When you see undercover cops, call the cops on them, and enjoy!
He asked for the stun gun. After all… he could have laid down and then sorted out the issue with the police officers.
Yep, the state agent was an idiot.
When an armed, uniformed officer is yelling at you to drop the gun, and lay down on the ground, uhm, duh, you may want to comply. The store clerk was not going anywhere. Even if he was flashing some kind of badge, the uniformed officers MUST secure the scene before they can sort things out. There are fake badges out there.
Like it was stated above, he is just lucky they had a taser. I hope he gets disciplined for being stupid.
Don
Florida!
Back in the mid-80’s when I was in high school the Tampa PD busted the Hillsborough County SO in a reverse sting operation. Each side thought they were dealing with real drug dealers and it turns out they had spent months dealing with each other.
Never saw anything like THAT on Miami Vice.
John