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
I gave up being a cop because most of the ones I worked with should have been in a cage. They get a gun a badge and big stick and think they are king kong. Really sad. I obey the law and try to be a good american, I have a gun permit and carry a weapon. I pray nothing like that ever happens to me. I can yell just about as loud as any officer I ever met. Good luck to you and I hope you can get this A!! hole of the streets.
The cop is a nut case, shouldn't even be on the street.And not to smart letting all that get recorded,but the remark about executing the guy was the icing on the cake.
My take is that this officer (and in his case that title imparts no respect) is besides a very stupid and dangerous human being probably a coward. If he is so shaken that someone may have a weapon on his person he is indeed in the wrong profession.
But there is a larger, much more overarching problem this shithead cop's attitude demonstrates, a lack of general education and an increased (uneducated) belief that government is an answer to society's problems. We have to start re-educating ourselves or we will find our future leads only to enslavement or fighting. There is no black and white here, Government is always an evil, and will always lead to the enslavement of the governed if they do not act positively and intentionally against this natural trend. This would well be understood if our schools and colleges really worked. As it stands now,… Read more »
Administrative leave, with pay. I love this. I f any of us would violate a rule at work we would lose our pay, and if exonerated, maybe we would get compensated. If this officer, would have paged in on his up to date computer, it might have shown that the driver was carrying a CCW. In either case the bull crap coming from his big mouth should not have been said.
most people don't want to believe it but this is not the exception but more the norm.they train these guys to act this way and expect them to so that they stay safe.unfortunately they also don't teach them common sense,as to when to use the take control at all cost method and they treat all the people they encounter this way .most cops now are just bullies with a gun and the power to put you in jail for whatever lie they want to make up.