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Realizing that we all have our own opinions on what should be a crime and how much penalty it should carry, often when I see the term “ridiculous laws” I feel like that in most occasion the person really does not know what he/she is talking about. It is typically something that they “heard”....

OK but on the previous page you mentioned if someone wants to use a drone and would they need a warrant. Warrants are only issued to law-enforcement. I’ve never seen people use the term someone for law-enforcement but if that’s what you meant OK. if the police are conducting surveillance of your property with a drone then they do need a warrant just as they would with any other camera unless it is visible to the public.THEY do you need a warrant. I am not sure what reform you need when the current law already requires a warrant to do what you are claiming.

That isn’t true..... but it is often repeated on various crimes. Like, the prisons are full of people smoking marijuana when in fact no one is in prison for that So let’s go with pedophile which really isn’t a crime but a person sexually attracted to underage prepubescent children. In Texas the age of consent to have sex is 17. We are criminally considered adults at 17. Even though it is legal to have sex with a 17-year-old, if you possess a nude picture of that same adult, it is up to 10 years in prison. That is for a single photograph of an adult. Let’s say you are attracted to a 16-year-old girl who actually looks like an adult and is extremely well built. That is not exactly pedophilia because even though the person is legally under age, she does not look like a child. So a 20 year old, even with consent, rubs on the girl through the clothes with no actual skin to skin contact.. it.carries up to 20 years. Just exposer to a child (even a 16 year old) with no contact is up to 10 years Sex with consent of a child under 17 (and not more than 3 years older) is up to 20. So boyfriend/girlfriend... it doesn’t matter If under 14 it is up to 99 years and it doesn’t matter any age difference So for a true pedophile., merely touching through the clothes is up to 20 years in prison and any kind of sex including just penetration with a finger for example, carries up to 99 years in prison which is equal to murder in Texas. But it will still often be repeated... but you can get more time for......

Private citizens can’t get warrants. Shooting drones is a federal felony and probably several state crimes. You can commit any crime that you wish. If it is worth the consequences or you get away with it, great. I am not criticizing your opinion. I usually try to unemotionally talk about the law as I believe it to be.

All drones over 8.8oz, it has to be registered whether for a hobby or commercially. If it is bigger than the palm of your hand, it is likely regulated by the FAA I have no clue what kind of warrant or the purpose of a warrant you are asking about.

On an interesting note (I think), someone better not get caught shooting down a drone. Drones are federally regulated aircraft including the airspace they fly in. Shooting one down carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine.

I have flown several law enforcement missions. We have used them for search and rescue, locating a stolen vehicle in a marsh after a tip, close up photographing of radio towers for repair and inspection of police and fire department radios, major crime scenes, real and training missions by SWAT and K9 units, making 3d images of building, and so on. We keep logs of every flight including training flights.

Texas has the most restrictive drone laws in the country. That includes specifics restrictions on law enforcement. There are also federal FAA regulations. You have to be a FAA licensed commercial drone pilot (called sUAV for small unmanned aerial vehicle) to fly for anything other than a hobby, it restricts how high you can fly, no night flights without an FAA waiver, no flying over people, all commercial drones have to be individually registered with its own numbers displayed just like a manned aircraft, etc. Then there are court rulings on unlawful searches.

See above. 😀

At least two police departments in Jefferson County have drone units with multiple drones each I command one of them....

What if I identify as a Cherokee?

They will probably do nothing unless their own fans want a change.

The Cherokee Nation has nothing to withdraw except an opinion. About 41 years ago a Cherokee chief said that he supported what PNG was doing and now another comes along as says that he doesn’t. PNG did not request nor need the CN’s consent to name their team the Indians in the 1920s. They are the PNG Indians, not the PNG Cherokees Whether they remain the Indians is up to them. The CN has the right to voice their opinion and have done so.

Is Indian offensive? Their national advocacy group in American government is the Bureau off Indian Affairs. www.bia.gov Their main rights organization is the National Congress of American Indians. www.ncai.org

An opinion can’t be horrible?

But if you are in Texas, you have to add and you have the right to terminate the interview at any time.

I think the birthing babies scene was Prissy, Butterfly McQueen, not McDaniel.

Tell it Sister!

I don’t think a Taser is deadly force but did the mayor use that as a reason for terminating officers and then in a different situation a couple of weeks later, use the opposite reasoning? Either you think it is or it isn’t but it shouldn’t be deadly force at 2pm but not at 7pm.

If Tyson said that, I agree with him. I believe aTaser is justification to use deadly force IF the person is in position to use it. Unless you are strung out on certain drugs, about 99.% of the time it was completely shut a person down. In a unanimous US Supreme Court decision in Graham v. Connor, they said that the use of force by officers must be viewed by what a reasonable officer in that situation would feel and not what someone may debate in a judge’s chambers several months later. They used the term “split second” decision and rejected the normal totality of circumstances standard. In that case the officers roughed to a completely innocent person who was having a medical crisis but it appeared as though he may have just robbed a store and was resisting. Even though the officers later found out the truth, that rare unanimous SC found in favor of the officers.

The folly of her statement, like in many such situations, is the claim that some minor crime shouldn’t end in a person’s death. That is the classic straw man. The police didn’t shoot him because he was sleeping in a drive-thru. That is silly. Sure, we can all agree that sleeping isn’t justification to be killed but that isn’t why he was shot. He was shot for attacking an officer and taking a weapon. Whether we agree on the use of force, he wasn’t shot for sleeping. That is an outright lie for political gain. We have seen the same kind of statements like for a person who the police were trying to arrest for misdemeanor marijuana. I was reading a case like that a few years ago. The guy reached for a gun and was shot. The article was titled, man shot for marijuana. No, he was shot reaching for a gun. It doesn’t matter why the police started talking to you, it is your actions that determine the use of force, not the reason for the interaction.

Yep. Bet they have their own private police force and aren’t living near CHAZ......

This is a tiny example of what is coming. The Seattle police chief made a statement that cover the takeover of one of their precincts by ANTIFA, their calls for violent crimes have tripled and they cannot respond. Here is part of that article... “Our calls for service have more than tripled,” she told reporters. “These are responses to emergency calls — rapes, robberies, and all sorts of violent acts that have been occurring in the area that we’re not able to get to.” [Hidden Content]

If anyone other than criminals want to do away with the police, they have a severe misunderstanding of what the police do. The people that would be devastated would likely be the people that are calling for their removal.

I agree, defunding makes no sense. Houston and San Diego just increased their police budgets, hopeful for improvements and training.