Mr.Shaggnificent wrote...
People seem to be missing the point. it's not about what the kids did, it's about what the cop did. if he had came to yell about his daughter in street clothes, it would have been fine. when he showed up in uniform, and hand cuffed that kid, he crossed the line. that is against the law. even though it is only a misdemenor, i doubt anything will happen to the cop beyond a slap on the wrist.
for any who doubted my abreviated discription of the law, here is a direct link to the state of california website:
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/cgi-bin/displaycode?section=pen&group=00001-01000&file=142-181 section 146.
Here is the index for the CA penal code.
I agree. There is more than one issue here. There is the legal question of what the cop did and what the kids did, and there is the moral question of both as well.
The cop broke the law doing what he did. They only real question is, was it the right thing to do as father. I would say it isn't. It's well within a father's rights to be concerned about his young daughter and even to act on it, but not was a misuse of his position, it also, in my mind, crossed a line in the parenting of the boy. If he was 18, I wouldn't see it as a problem for the kid to be directly confronted. But the kid was 15, he's still his parent's responsibility. The responsible thing to do, to me, seems like to go to the kids parents and talk about it, and let his own parents handle the situation. That is, if he doesn't decide to take official legal action.
The law is clear enough about the kids as well, but I believe the law to be a delusion in itself. Kids are fucking around younger these days. Even when I was in highschool everyone was fucking by 14, and I only graduated 3 years ago.
I'm also a bit surprised so many people here seem to be taking the moral high ground on the teen-fucking issue. I'm sure most of us here were already on the internet looking at porn by the time we were 14. And the internet has shown us some nasty shit. I don't see how you can consider that better than being in a relationship and having sex at 14, or even just fucking around. I couldn't tell you if it was right or wrong for every single person, but the youth of today is overexposed to sexual content as it is; they gonna fuck around.
Mr.Shaggnificent wrote...
Fun Fact: the ACLU is much less likely to help white males. aperantly, not many think that group can be discriminated against, so it's not worth their effort.
The world is too used to white males owning and running everything.