And, if any citizen wearing those clothes (or used that weapon) were involved in a shoot, just how would that information be received by the prosecuting attorney? (Because, whether the shoot was good or bad, the DA would be prosecuting because of that fact alone.)
If a citizen were wearing or bearing such a logo I'm sure the prosecutor would want to include it. Whether they would prosecute on that fact alone depends on the prosecutor, but I'm guessing that is not a universal truth. The defense would certainly do what they could to argue that it was not relevant to the shoot.
While, on the other side of the law, the attorneys SUPPRESSED information that a police officer, involved in a VERY bad shoot, had "You're *expletive deleted*ed" on his personal AR that he shot the completely innocent murder victim with.
Yep. And if you were in a similar situation without a badge your attorney would try to do the same thing as his did. Or do you contend that the prosecutor in that case didn't want to bring it up? If so, that's the first I've heard of it.
So, according to the prosecutors and judges, what a person is wearing, or how he decorates his gun is a very useful indicator of the person's intent... unless that person is a police officer, in which case, telling the jury that information is "totally prejudicial" and inadmissible. Funny that standard.
So you are claiming that the reason the dust cover decoration was not included is because the shooter was a cop? And that similar evidence is never suppressed in the case of a non-cop?
Any organization with legal authority to act against or use deadly force against others may want to rethink the public image they portray via logos, clothing choices, and actions. Like it or not, these things matter.
I don't disagree at all. As I said, it was poor taste. And apparently quickly removed when the history of the comic character was brought to the attention of the chief.
If a private citizen wants to adopt symbolism that indicates possible violent tendencies and a disregard for the law, that is their business. The rest of us are under no duty to obey their commands.
If we're going to apply guilt by association to police because there are bad cops or cops with bad attitudes or cops with logos that make us sad, I'm not sure why we think the same cannot be done to us.
Vigilante emblems on cop cars is a little more troubling then vigilante emblems on bike clothes.
Depends on intent, but by and large I agree. But something in poor taste put on a couple cars in a tiny KY town out of ignorance does not a culture of murderers make.
There's also the very widespread 1* movement among LEO.
K9 handlers have 2*. But again, like the "go home at the end of my shift", I'm not sure how the mindset is so different than the mindset of people like you and I who take an active role in our own self-defense and have even prepared to some extent to take another person's life so that we might do so.