Dont bring a gun to a snowball fight

[patric]

Police initially denied that a plainclothes officer, angry that his Hummer was hit by a snowball, drew his gun on a group of people in a Twitter-organized snowball fight, until video surfaced:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjHCI4W5D30

The officer summoned additional officers, who also showed up with guns drawn to face off the snowball-armed crowd. "Are you four the ones who have the problem with the officer?" a uniformed cop asks, as sirens of additional police converge on the scene.
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2009/12/dc-policeman-accused-of-pulling-gun-to-quell-snowball-fight/1

"It was pretty friendly, mostly OK. At one point, a cop got stuck in the snow. People stopped and helped him out.
"A couple moments later, this big maroon Hummer turned up. A small faction of people decided to target it with snowballs.
"It turned out the driver was a detective. He got out waving a walkie-talkie. Then he starts waving a gun."
He added: "There was a point where it got really tense. The experience for many people was snowball fight, kind of fun...and then there's a guy with a gun."
Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2780576/Cop-pulls-gun-in-snowball-fight.html#ixzz0aMC4EUMW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BSSAs4b0I4

[oktommy]

And cops wonder why people have such disdain for them sometimes.  Lets kill a cow with a nuke!  That story is just plain silly and he deserved the punishment he got.

[sgrizzle]

Trying to keep score:
Drawing a gun on snowball throwers: Not ok
Choking a paramedic in route with a patient: Ok

[patric]

Trying to keep score:
Drawing a gun on snowball throwers: Not ok
Choking a paramedic in route with a patient: Ok

The police union later stated that the officer felt he had the right to take control of the situation.
...A snowball fight...

Hint:  If you want to win a snowball fight, make more snowballs.

Cleaner video (caution: language)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAgQKJuriIo
and
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vKH1URHtZwo

[patric]

...and one last bit of irony:

The road-rage Hummer cop not only collared the wrong person he suspected of throwing a snowball (you can see the correct one on video), but the detainee happened to be a somewhat articulate lawyer.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122202667.html?hpid=opinionsbox1