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
This makes all cops look bad,, and makes me ashamed that I used to be one of them. Thes cops should not have a job for another day,, not even as dog catchers. The man plainly tried to tell this idiot that he had a conceal carry and was armed, but the shit faced officer shut up. This kind of officer makes it a lot harder on the good ones that treat people with respect. The rule is you respect me and I respect you, cops across the nation are loosing respect because too many are like this one. Fire… Read more »
First, 06AL, I think you are confused, It wasn't this guy in the video with the CCW sign on his vehicle. That was the guy who wrote the short article posted here with the video, asking for money to support his organization, who had the sign. He was very unclear in explaining it, and I don't know why he couldn't separate the two matters a bit more clearly. The stop in the video ws made because the officer(s) recognized a female who was a known prostitute, up next to a vehicle, talking to someone inside, and who tried to hide… Read more »
Gonna donate to https://OhioCCW.org/CantonPD to make the PO unemployed. He doesn't deserve any more taxpayer salary.
This Officer violated the Constitution and his oath….he should be hanged.
He's a traitor! Remember George Washington words after overthrowiing the King!
"Guard with jealous the public liberty suspect anyone whom approaches that jewel" Patrick Henry 1776
These two Cops are real jerks…
It's one thing to be cautious when stopping a vehicle as officers never know what to expect, but when the driver is respectful and tries to communicate to understand the purpose of the stop the officer should act the same way. It's obvious this person was stopped only because of his sign on the back of his vehicle, which tells me that this officer is 100% prejudiced, has no respect for CCW holders nor the CCW law, is anti-Second Amendment, has no class and is a discredit to his profession. He should be fired! If he doesn't like Ohio carry… Read more »