Kevin Thomason has posted details of a shocking exchange that an East Palo Alto police officer, Detective Roderick Tuason, posted on his Facebook page concerning how to handle citizens legally and openly carrying firearms. In the exchange Tuason suggested that police should provoke gunowners who legally Open Carry, so they can “pop them” and get two weeks paid administrative leave.
In speaking with advocates of Open Carry in the Bay Area, the exchange has caused an outcry from the community. Whispers indicate that, ahead of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests for internal policies and procedures, Police Officers on a number of local forces may be attempting to shield ANY discussions or written internal memos concerning policies and attitudes on how to police citizens exercising their legal right to openly carry unloaded firearms.
Additionally, knowledgeable sources indicate that some law enforcement agencies are actually putting citizens on internal WATCH LISTS just for contacting police departments to check-in to advise Open Carry, or simply to inquire about rules and regulations that they want to comply with!
See some of the exchange that took place on Facebook, then removed by the pinhead cop, Tuason.
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Rod the cop needs to lose his job for his comments!
This practice scares me. I understand thirdhand that it is acceptable in Texas and that doctors’ offices and even churches have signs asking people to park their weapons.
But here’s what bothers me. Irresponsible people drink and drive despite laws banning it. Some people, myself included at times alas, lose their temper and sound off. What’s to keep them from reaching for their gun and reinforcing their argument with a bullet?
I appreciate the aprehension that guns make you safer. But I believe, and I’m willing to admit I could be wrong, recent reports show a decline in violent crimes in California. If so, where’s the need? Yes, we always will have thugs. But can you reach your gun fast enough, aim it and fire it successfully in defense? I doubt it, not without firearms training.
A late colleague of mine was a real weapons advocate, so much that he carried a Bowie knife strapped to his thigh into the state library and I had to intercede between him and two CHPs who were telling him to get rid of it. But, for all his weapons passion, Don was a fanatic also about gun safety and training.
Get trained in gun safety then wear it!
I wonder how Tuason would feel if it was suggested that cops should provoke armed citizens so the cops can get permanently – and completely – disabled.
A cop who made comments like this about shooting blacks for simply exercising their legal rights would be immediately suspended without pay, and rightly so. His bigotry is no better than that.
wow…. thats all I can say. I am behind these people, yet I can still understand the backlash against them. But this guy is psycho. It literally scares me that he has a gun and a badge. I am more scared of this guy then any of these “open carriers”
Very disturbing! Regardless of your position on open carry or firearms ownership, you should be outraged with this blatant disregard for the lives of law abiding citizens. I’d expect these types of comments to come from gangbangers not a sworn officer! If local police are operating in some sort of gang mentality, no one is safe.