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Man pays for mints,puts in pocket & waits for change,cop pulls gun and says take mints out of pocket
| Jose Arreola, 49, put the $1.19 roll of Mentos he’d just purchased at a Southern California gas station in his pocket.
That’s when the printer from Bellflower, Calif., found himself at gunpoint March 16 after a fellow customer, an off-duty police officer, accused him of stealing the candy, reported The Orange County Register.
A store surveillance video captured the incident, which Buena Park, Calif., police are investigating.
| “It’s been a month and I still can’t shake it,” Arreola told the publication. “I thought my wife could be a widow.”
http://www.sacbee.com/news/state/california/article210591964.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W316slPMVQE
| "get your money and leave" wtf? i'm losing more respect for cops by the day
| Dumbass probably got mad he had to wait in line lol. Why the fuck did he even pull a gun in the first place? Maybe I'm just an idiot but I see no reason to pull a gun in that situation
| >the american dream was a police state
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| >>274747
Jose Arreola sounds Mexican. Dude probably looked like a petty thief, so the cop wanted to scare him. It was a huge misunderstanding on cop's side.
Whoever is higher in line than that cop should question his right to carry a weapon. This was very unprofessional and damaging for the police.
| And people wonder why we're afraid of cops.
| California is a joke.
Per usual.
| >>274982 he is hispanic, but there's no way that cop didn't see him handing over the money and waiting for his change
if him being mexican made him look like a petty thief to the cop, then there's bigger problems here than the cop carrying a weapon
| >>275827
Actually, that's probably the problem right there- the gun is irrelevant, it's the fact that he made an assumption based on the dude's race.
Even if he didn't have a gun he would have likely tried to arrest him with whatever other tools he had available.
| >>275374 SoCal dude here, my state is a joke, it's now legal to knowingly infect someone with aids but hate speech laws are starting to get implemented, one of our dams broke losing millions of gallons of water when we are supposedly in a drought and no heads have rolled, uncontroled immigration is lowering wages and raising housing costs, crime is going up but gun restrictions only get tighter, the high taxes are driving companies and people all to texas, Cali is a dead meme
| >>277527 i mean he had a gun pointed at him out of fucking nowhere, i'd be thinking of my loved ones too
| >>277527 The fuck are you on about? How is thinking about the most important people to you as cucked?
| >>277601 if you knowingly infect a partner it's no longer a felony but a misdemeanor. such a shitty state, i'm glad i don't live there
| >>277527
obvious bait is incredibly obvious
>>277681
lmao why did it get dropped to a misdemeanor? That's retarded.
Unless it's like difficult to prove or something.
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... ok in retrospect I bet most court cases would be a matter of "he said, she said."
| ACAB. Never trust cops ;V
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| A store surveillance video obtained by The Orange County Register shows an off-duty Buena Park, Calif., police officer drawing his gun on Jose Arreola, 49, after mistakenly accusing him of stealing a $1.19 roll of Mentos that he'd just purchased. The Orange County Register.
He bought a $1.19 roll of Mentos. Then an off-duty cop drew a gun on him, video shows.