The police officer told Pluhar Jr. he needed to wait his turn, but the Frankfort man purportedly refused.Huh. I hate line cutters. Sounds like a good call to take an arrogant bully down.
The elder Pluhar then allegedly approached the off-duty officer, told him to mind his own business and asked whether Kirby wanted to take the dispute outside.
When Kirby asked Pluhar Sr. what his intentions were, the Frankfort man purportedly said he would kick Kirby's posterior and also suggested he might shoot him. [More]
But wait:
He said his son had waited in line for 25 minutes once and been sent by a clerk to exchange an item. When he returned, Pluhar Sr. said the clerk waved his son to the front of the line, and Kirby objected.So who do we believe?
He said his son tried to explain the situation, but Kirby insulted him, at which point Pluhar Sr. asked Kirby to step outside but Kirby laughed at him. Pluhar Sr. also denied Kirby's claim that the older man threatened to shoot him. He said he and his son tried to walk away from the confrontation, but Kirby followed them outside.
Pluhar Sr. said Kirby never identified himself as a police officer and he only found out he was an officer from other police at the scene.
See, that's the problem you run into when there are so many "Only Ones" and so few peace officers...
[Via Avg Joe]
4 comments:
I wonder if the store video will have recorded this event. You know something if someone follows a person into a parking lot after getting into their face in a store. And this person has the give away of a gun under their jacket or shirt. I could see someone in a panic defending themselves. This cop is very lucky that he didn't pull this on some twitchy person.
Gee, there was a line - there were witnesses. Put them in separate rooms and get a statment. What's so hard about that?
The hard part is exonerating the man who followed them to their vehicle then unlawfully tried to detain them.
A good lawyer will tear that cop a new one and make Muncie much poorer. I hope these guys have enough sense to get a good out of town lawyer.
and another thing. the cop lied. he would not have followed them and tried to stop them from backing out of a parking space if he had been threatened with being shot.
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