Cop pulls gun on person 'holding up' McDonald's line

[DaveTN]

I sure don't understand how this is in any way punishment???
 
If he were working anywhere else he would have been locked up and forced to make bail and probably lost his job long before there was a trial.

I could be wrong, but I think all that happened. Apparently he was on paid leave while the investigation was going on; then he was arrested, jailed, and charged with felony aggravated assault.

So far I have seen nothing to indicate this case was handled any differently that if the guy called the cops and said you pointed a gun at him.

[Guest confidence]

Say this kid had retaliated in self defense with his own gun, would it have been attempted murder/murder on a police officer?

 

 

39-11-611

 

 

(e) The threat or use of force against another is not justified:

   (1) If the person using force consented to the exact force used or attempted by the other individual;

   (2) If the person using force provoked the other individual's use or attempted use of unlawful force, unless:

      (A) The person using force abandons the encounter or clearly communicates to the other the intent to do so; and

      ( B ) The other person nevertheless continues or attempts to use unlawful force against the person; or

   (3) To resist a halt at a roadblock, arrest, search, or stop and frisk that the person using force knows is being made by a law enforcement officer, unless:

      (A) The law enforcement officer uses or attempts to use greater force than necessary to make the arrest, search, stop and frisk, or halt; and

      ( B ) The person using force reasonably believes that the force is immediately necessary to protect against the law enforcement officer's use or attempted use of greater force than necessary.

Edited May 3, 2013 by confidence