Ethics

DC Cop Pulls Gun Over Snowball Fight

By Ed Brayton

As you probably know, Washington DC got hit by a massive snowstorm on Saturday. That prompted a whole lot of people to have a big snowball fight at the corner of 14th and U. The idea spread on Twitter and Facebook accounts and lots of people showed up and had a peaceful time throwing snowballs at each other.

Until a cop drove by in his hummer and got it hit by snowballs. He decided to jump out and start waving a gun around -- without bothering to identify himself. And naturally, the police are lying about it and claiming he didn't do so despite pictures of him waving his gun around and video of his admission to having done so because he got hit by a snowball. The Washington City Paper reports:

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on December 21, 2009 (boomark / email).