Canton Ohio Police Shocking Overreaction to Ohio Concealed Carry Holder
Duty To Inform “Promptly” only works if the “Only Ones” Shut up and listen – AmmoLand.com
Ohio –-(Ammoland.com)- We’ve all wondered what our first armed traffic stop is going to turn into. For me I was driving a 1996 Ford explorer with 4″ tall white letters that read: OHIOCCW.ORG across the back of my hatch.
The officer stepped out of his vehicle and approached my car in a rather large arc so that when he could see into my doorway he was easily twenty feet away from my car.
We were each other’s first armed traffic stop and as I realized what was taking place I chuckled and said “So, Obviously you know, Right?”
That didn’t happen to a man in Canton, Ohio who had his license for just 30 days on June 8th of this summer. What happened is a problem we’ve heard all too often.
Police are trained to own control over a situation, to refuse to get into a discussion with you that would distract their awareness, and to command you into compliance. Often, this leads into unintended consequences where a concealed handgun licensee trying to “promptly inform” the officer that they’re armed is shouted down, ordered to shut up, or told to look away from the officer’s direction.
The seventeen minutes of dash camera footage we are now able to show you will likely horrify you.
In this case the driver remains in his vehicle while the officer, in what appears to be an illegal search at first glance, enters the rear of the vehicle. The licensee tries to turn his head and notify and is promptly told to turn away and shut up.
Later, when the second officer approaches his door he can be heard on camera saying “I have a conceal..” at which point the officer barks at him that he “Better tell the truth”, which thwarts the driver’s attempts to notify and confuses him into saying why he is truthfully where he is at that hour.
As he exits the vehicle and the officers realize he is armed their reaction is absolutely horrific.
The treatment of the driver while he is detained, handcuffed, and placed in the back of the cruiser is truly hard to watch. After you watch this video, please go to https://OhioCCW.org/CantonPD and consider a donation to the legal defense fund.
We need your help to fix this injustice, and we need your help to use these events to repeal the law in Ohio that puts you into a shouting match with an officer who doesn’t want to hear you speak.
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Ohioans for Concealed Carry, founded in 1999, is a grassroots political activist organization. When founded, the primary goal of OFCC was getting concealed carry passed into law in Ohio. With that accomplished, our mission became to refine the concealed carry law and to expand and preserve the rights of all gun owners in Ohio. Visit: Ohioccw.org
The Officer was out of line. As a retired officer my experience tells me that the officer involved needs further training at the least with an extended probationary period. I found fault with his stop beginning with his approach to the occupied vehicle. His gun hand was filled with a flash light. That move alone could have cost him his life. Now getting to the heart of it, his title is police officer not, the “Avenger” of public wrong doing. His officer safety was extremely lacking, as was his demeanor. He used the term idiot when referring to the suspect,… Read more »
As a former law enforcement officer, I am thoroughly disgusted with the procedure and attitude this officer displayed. This is the reason so many in the general public don't trust us or support us.
Shit like this, would have made me a rich man!!
I have unfortunately worked with officers just like this dickhead. It is real hard to deal with. It creates a very dangerous situation for everyone involved. This officer needs to be put at a desk job for six months with retraining and a years probation . Also he needs to man up and, give that CCW citizen a sincere apology. That cop deserves a chance to turn things around now that he has been caught. In fact i would have him teach and use that video as a training tool for new recruits . Now on another note, OMG I… Read more »
I never heard the officer read this man his Miranda rights. When this officer started acting like this, the guy in handcuffs should of said I'm done talking to you and I want my lawyer. I have been stopped once and i had my ccw and was armed. I know somebody called on my because they saw the out line of my weapon under my shirt. I saw the officer sitting in his car with it parking lights on somewhat close to my truck when i exited McDonalds with my 5 yr old son at the time. I knew he… Read more »
The first thing these cops should have done was to verify if any of the subjects they were dealing with had weapons of any kind. The one cops lacadaizical, sloppy perfomance of his duties when he initiated the contact can't be undone by his hotheaded over-reaction after he realizes the mistake he made.
It scared the sh*t out of him, and his emotions overtook his response. The cop lost his head, which in his profession, might cost him his life someday. He should look for another line of less dangerous work.