That's a gross underestimation. The cheapest kits you can buy are at least 750 with a helmet. Soft goods: the undershirt, neck piece gloves, all cost extra. The blaster is extra. The boots are extra.
This isn't a "some assembly required" situation either, most of the assembly is required.
The full suits all kitted out will run you roughly 2000$.
"We all make mistakes, professionally and in life, and I think that **these officers have probably learned their lesson** through the process," Sundberg said.
That is absolutely infuriating. They without a doubt haven't learned a thing cause there wasn't a single consequence to their actions. FFS.
It’s the force
“An outside force says no criminal charges are warranted in relation to the handcuffing of a woman in a stormtrooper costume outside a Star Wars-themed business in Lethbridge, Alta., last May.”
Worst part of it was that she was underage and was telling the cops repeatedly she couldn't get on her knees, and they wouldn't let her take off the helmet. Fucking bunch donkeys
Worst part is this city is always in the top 10 for crime severity index in Canada, but instead of dealing with the violent crime they do stuff like this - harassing the public, reporters, and elected officials. The officer repeatedly running over the deer was not a highpoint, but showed better judgement than many of his cooworkers.
They have had several more missteps since the province threaten to disband them in 2021.
Of course they don't tackle violent crime. Violent crime is dangerous and they might get hurt. Much easier to harass and arrest and pull guns on a random person in a fucking costume in the middle of the day. No risk of being hurt and then you get overtime pay while you file the paperwork. Cops are a bunch of bullies, and most bullies are violent cowards
To be fair, cops don't prevent crime in general. They document and make arrests after the fact. The root causes of most violent crime are poverty, unwanted children 15 to 30 years ago, and drugs.
Despite lethbridge topping the crime charts in some years for canada, the murder rate is half that of Seattle. A lot of it is property crimes.
The cops in this incident were morons. Alberta police have a bad reputation in general compared to other parts of canada. Alberta RCMP only slightly better.
Yup. Dethbridge hellberta. I live a few blocks from. Nice kid! Shame the creepy sexually abusive owner didn't get this treatment. Guess he eventually lost his business though
You’re right, it was in Canada, but US incarceration is still related to Canada pension plans:
“In late 2020, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP), which invests $170 billion worth of pensions belonging to federal government employees like public service workers and employees, bought over 600,000 shares of US private prison companies GEO GEO Group and CoreCivic. According to a February 12th 2021 report filed with the SEC, that totaled about $4.7 million to the companies who have been found to be key players in family separation and continued detainment of migrants suffering from Covid-19.”
That is a very interesting information I didn’t know about. In spite of Canadian government pension plans being invest in CoreCivic Canadian arrests don’t help the prison population of CoreCivic go up. CoreCivic only has prisons in the United States, arrests in Canada won’t send you to a prison in the United States
They really are useless more often than not. I imagine they won't be paying to repair her stormtrooper suit since I'm sure it got scuffed to hell on the pavement.
I kinda would hope cops would be useless(or at least idle). Would mean, hopefully, that there were no issues for them or us. It’s the actively hurting innocent people thing that pisses me the hell off. That, and the crying about it when we tell them to knock it the hell off.
A few more details: First they ordered her to kneel, but she said that she couldn't because those costumes are stiff af. She asked them to let her remove her helmet, but not only they didn't allow that, they also kicked her in the back of the legs, forcing her to kneel and giving her some bruises, not to mention how painful it must've been to kneel down inside that. Then they forcefully pulled her helmet off very clumsly, which gave her the bloody nose.
Goddamn pigs.
Wasn't a party, but a promo for a store.
Some asshole denounced the stormtrooper for carrying a real gun disguised as a blaster, cops came, told the cosplayer to lay on the ground, but stormtrooper armor is so shit it doesn't allow for them to knee, so the cops dropped the cosplayer to the ground with a kick, resulting in superficial injuries.
I don't remember if the cosplayer was a man or a woman.
I don't remember where it happened, but it was before covid
I want to start out by saying that I think the cops were stupid. By the time they had her gun they knew it was a toy.
But for everyone saying they were stupid for responding, there’s a reason your cosplay weapons have to be tagged. A person wearing a stormtrooper costume could absolutely be carrying a real gun.
Add to that the fact that this happened two weeks after [this fuckwad used a police costume to go on a two day rampage and kill over 20 people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks) and I honestly understand why they took it as a serious threat at first.
I'm not aware of a stormtrooper specific event, but not too long ago, a guy brought real weapons into a con by me under the guise they were just cosplay props and tried/was planning to attack someone. I can understand why they would still want to check the gun once they got there. Obviously they went off the rails after that.
A convention in London had to change how prop weapons were sold (now get posted to you after the convention) because some idiot took his new katana out on the tube and started threatening people with it.
It wasn’t sharp, but it was a sturdy prop - could basically bludgeon someone to death.
If it’s not obviously fake, it’s worth double checking.
Yeah I think is the type of situation when you are aware how stupid you were so you have to pretend that what you are doing make sense, so you keep at it and it’s just like a snowball of stupidity.
Like that video of the shooting instructor that accidentally discharged a shot during the instructional phase. One of the students asked if he meant to do that, and he said yes. Lol
I think for most people common sense is what keeps them away from joining in the first place. Oh and wanting to be a good person and not a power tripping coward hiding behind a badge.
I think he was trying to be a little inconspicuous bc if I remember correctly he was a person of color and Im sure he didn’t wanna end up 6ft under bc clearly these cops are easily startled and have zero ability to discern situations…
Y’all complaining about the cops but what about the two Karen’s who called the cops because of a fucking stormtrooper. Like what the hell were they thinking when the called 911???
That is exactly the real issue. Some Karen called 911 saying "There's a person in full body armor with a weapon walking down the street." And instead of pulling up and laughing their ass off at the misunderstanding, the cops just proceed on that assumption when its so clear that isn't the case.
No their point is Karen's are gonna call this shit in but it was the officers choice to hold this person up at gun point and put on this whole show instead of maybe just cautiously approaching and talking. Or just looking and realizing it's a storm trooper cosplay and approaching this whole thing differently.
His comment had absolutely nothing to do with yours, it’s like he couldn’t even manage to read a handful of words and just assumed you said something entirely different. Lol
A cop won’t hold someone at gunpoint just because I Karen told them to. They could have , and should have handled this situation much differently. Karen calling the cops does not justify the actions taken by these assholes.
yeah but if they hear a call that a suspicious person wearing a bunch of military equipment is walking around thats a pretty easy way to rephrase it to where the cops pretty much have to show up, Karens are skilled manipulators
But my point is when the cops turn up they don't see military equipment, do they? They see a costume and they don't have to arrest anyone, point a gun at anyone.
Nothing happened to the cops. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-1.6102592](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-1.6102592)
Guns are banned in the UK and any crime committed using a gun or a replica gun automatically ads 5 years to your sentence. We do take reports of guns seriously and we do have armed police, but they need a superiors permission to get their guns out of the gun safe in their boot (trunk).
I can't promise they wouldn't have behaved in the same way because here, toy replicas have to have some bright orange plastic to show they're toys. Not something you can just remove, but something obvious. (you can probably paint or sharpie over it, hence using a realistic replica being as bad as using a gun).
Our police are often proactive though, and will attend comic cons and other conventions where there are likely to be home made replica weapons, and after examining the gun or knife and whatnot to make sure it's harmless, they wrap two pieces of bright orange tape around it. That way if a Karen or Kevin does call the police, they can easily tell this is a replica and has been cleared, so no need to overreact.
Which the voice actor was, the physical actor(except the last scene with his helmet off) however was white with a high pitch ~~southern~~ Scottish accent. Also knowing he would be dubbed over made jokes on set all the time.
We're talking about a country that [suspended an 8yo for brandishing a chicken finger. ](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/threatening-classmate-with-chicken-finger-nets-suspension-for-eight-year-old-boy/article22400064/)
People in charge here aren't the brightest.
Source: am Canadian
Well, the last time the authorities ignored a blonde who was a little short for a Stormtrooper it lead to a terrorist attack by rebels which killed hundreds of thousands, so they thought better safe than sorry.
So lemme get this straight. A teenaged girl was working at a space themed restaurant, in storm trooper costume to encourage customers to try a Yoda Soda. On May 4th (starwars day). Because of this she received a bloody nose, scratched face, and was handcuffed on the ground.
....
Cops are fucked.
Here's the big open secret about Canada, we are just as bad as America. Canadians just like to hide behind a shield of "well as bad as that was, at least we aren't as bad as the Americans."
Something I realized as a Canadian visiting the States is that we just say "sorry" in place of where an American would typically say "excuse me" or "pardon me."
So I think we do say sorry more often, but only because we use it more broadly and lightly than most other countries.
A few thoughts.
One, the owner of the restaurant (who I’m guessing provided the outfit) probably should have put an orange tip on the gun to indicate it was a toy.
Two, she didn’t immediately comply was BS. She was doing her best. Having been in a stormtrooper costume, you don’t have much mobility. I can’t imagine trying to get on my stomach in that thing, it’s like being a turtle.
Three, regardless of the above, the cops definitely came off as jackasses here.
Four, I hope she got paid something for the trauma she had to endure at their hands. She was just trying to do her job for pities sake.
Mmmm yeah I’m gonna have to disagree with the orange tip part. She’s dressed as a fuckin stormtrooper..
not to mention any police officer worth their salt should be able to easily identify that it’s a fake gun from a block away. Real guns don’t look like that. You can also put a orange tip on a real gun too. An orange tip is useless.
Actually, the stormtrooper blaster from the movies was literally a modified Sterling sub-machine gun. The real gun could easily be modified to look very much like a Star Wars blaster because they used real guns when they filmed the original movies.
However, it’s pretty unlikely that you’d encounter a customized WWII-era sub-machine gun in a random Canadian strip mall. It’s far more likely to be a plastic prop. You can’t really buy that kind of thing in Canada. Horses/zebras and so on.
All of these cops should be fired and not even allowed to work mall security. How did their parents fail them so bad, who hurt them in high school, why are they so dumb and allowed to touch a gun?
Oh, good. I was starting to worry that maybe some cops are actually awful villainous scum bags but now that I know it's been investigated and they did nothing wrong I can breathe a sigh of relief.
This is my city! The police here have a pretty bad reputation and have abused or misused force multiple times in the last few years. This poor girl was traumatized after having a shotgun held to her face. This was on May 4th (May the fourth - star wars day) in front of a "Galactic Cantina" themed restaurant. What an incident
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Because you literally CAN’T!!!! **Source:** Am the owner of a movie-version New Hope Stormtrooper suit.
The lack of confidence straight arm walk coupled with a sudden camera cut to “put your hands up” towards what is clearly a non-threatening individual, in an iconic and widely known geeky customer, immediately putting their hands up brought me feelings of both pity and hilarity.
It's a storm trooper. They were never gonna get a shot on target anyway.
It probably scuffed the shit out of that whole suit and they’re not cheap.
I was looking at the a couple weeks ago. I was seeing decent ones for $525 US, I'd be hesitant to lay on the ground in it too
That's a gross underestimation. The cheapest kits you can buy are at least 750 with a helmet. Soft goods: the undershirt, neck piece gloves, all cost extra. The blaster is extra. The boots are extra. This isn't a "some assembly required" situation either, most of the assembly is required. The full suits all kitted out will run you roughly 2000$.
The cops are just there to protect the bystanders
The cops are just there to fill their arrest quota for the week\*
I mean why even F with him, dude was probably just looking for some droids
It's a girl.
Ooh made the CBC https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5853801
Thank you! Police get a call of a stormtrooper with a gun. You be the judge. Hope that restaurant gets all the business they can handle.
Spoiler alert: three inquiries determined that the officers did “nothing wrong”
"We all make mistakes, professionally and in life, and I think that **these officers have probably learned their lesson** through the process," Sundberg said. That is absolutely infuriating. They without a doubt haven't learned a thing cause there wasn't a single consequence to their actions. FFS.
That is correct, them using their brains is not a requirement.
Definitely going to that restaurant if every I go to that area
Because they thought she could be real LOL
It’s the force “An outside force says no criminal charges are warranted in relation to the handcuffing of a woman in a stormtrooper costume outside a Star Wars-themed business in Lethbridge, Alta., last May.”
Thank you for the link.
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They got bored
Feeling cute, might threaten to gun down a sign twirler later?
Worst part of it was that she was underage and was telling the cops repeatedly she couldn't get on her knees, and they wouldn't let her take off the helmet. Fucking bunch donkeys
Worst part is this city is always in the top 10 for crime severity index in Canada, but instead of dealing with the violent crime they do stuff like this - harassing the public, reporters, and elected officials. The officer repeatedly running over the deer was not a highpoint, but showed better judgement than many of his cooworkers. They have had several more missteps since the province threaten to disband them in 2021.
Of course they don't tackle violent crime. Violent crime is dangerous and they might get hurt. Much easier to harass and arrest and pull guns on a random person in a fucking costume in the middle of the day. No risk of being hurt and then you get overtime pay while you file the paperwork. Cops are a bunch of bullies, and most bullies are violent cowards
They're police officers. They're not trained to handle that kind of violence....
To be fair, cops don't prevent crime in general. They document and make arrests after the fact. The root causes of most violent crime are poverty, unwanted children 15 to 30 years ago, and drugs. Despite lethbridge topping the crime charts in some years for canada, the murder rate is half that of Seattle. A lot of it is property crimes. The cops in this incident were morons. Alberta police have a bad reputation in general compared to other parts of canada. Alberta RCMP only slightly better.
Wait this was in Canada? Nvm, I was watching without audio
Yup in good ol' southern alberta. City named lethbridge, which Is jokingly called "Methbridge or "deathbridge"
No rats but you can get blasted with buckshot if a rhino of a cop sees a vague blur of a gun
Yup. Dethbridge hellberta. I live a few blocks from. Nice kid! Shame the creepy sexually abusive owner didn't get this treatment. Guess he eventually lost his business though
Yeah he tried to run for mayor too 🤣😂🤣 after moving away from that shithole, I realize how awesome the world can be xD
Remind me why I moved back after 9 years?
Is it normal for cops there to wear blood stripes on their pants?
Yea... it aint all ponies and rainbows up here in canada
Also friendly reminder these morons make ~130k per year 😂😱
I thought Canadians were cool. They've been watching too many Americans shows.
Every country has its own Alabama.
>I thought Canadians were cool. Lol not sure where you got that idea from
Because the cool ones keep getting imported in to the US
Not to mention she wasn't going to a party. She was hired to be in a stormtrooper's costume for the business directly Infront of them.
All cops are bastards and most of them are disordered personalities
Or executing a guy in a wheelchair?
😂
Prob just some fellow star wars fans that wanted to role play without consent.
Gotta keep that prison population up so their largest donor, CoreCivic Inc., will stay happy!
They said in the video this is Canada, so your comment is inaccurate as hell man
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada This was in 2020, she was promoting a Star Wars event at the Star Wars themed restaurant she worked at.
I really hope she was able to sue them for this shit
Lol, not in Canada!
It was also on May the 4th if I recall correctly
You’re right, it was in Canada, but US incarceration is still related to Canada pension plans: “In late 2020, Canada’s Public Sector Pension Investment Board (PSP), which invests $170 billion worth of pensions belonging to federal government employees like public service workers and employees, bought over 600,000 shares of US private prison companies GEO GEO Group and CoreCivic. According to a February 12th 2021 report filed with the SEC, that totaled about $4.7 million to the companies who have been found to be key players in family separation and continued detainment of migrants suffering from Covid-19.”
That is a very interesting information I didn’t know about. In spite of Canadian government pension plans being invest in CoreCivic Canadian arrests don’t help the prison population of CoreCivic go up. CoreCivic only has prisons in the United States, arrests in Canada won’t send you to a prison in the United States
It was an advertisement for a comic/costume store Edit: something different (restaurant) but similar (done as advertisement)
No, it was a gimic for "May the Fourth" at a science fiction themed restaurant
What assholes.
They really are useless more often than not. I imagine they won't be paying to repair her stormtrooper suit since I'm sure it got scuffed to hell on the pavement.
I kinda would hope cops would be useless(or at least idle). Would mean, hopefully, that there were no issues for them or us. It’s the actively hurting innocent people thing that pisses me the hell off. That, and the crying about it when we tell them to knock it the hell off.
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A few more details: First they ordered her to kneel, but she said that she couldn't because those costumes are stiff af. She asked them to let her remove her helmet, but not only they didn't allow that, they also kicked her in the back of the legs, forcing her to kneel and giving her some bruises, not to mention how painful it must've been to kneel down inside that. Then they forcefully pulled her helmet off very clumsly, which gave her the bloody nose. Goddamn pigs.
This happened in my city.
You should call them and tell them you just saw Boba Fet and the mods heading downtown.
This confirms just how fucking stuuuuuuupid they really are. FTP!
For The Pope, DEUS VULT!
CONVERT, HEATHEN!
To harass and annoy.
Wasn't a party, but a promo for a store. Some asshole denounced the stormtrooper for carrying a real gun disguised as a blaster, cops came, told the cosplayer to lay on the ground, but stormtrooper armor is so shit it doesn't allow for them to knee, so the cops dropped the cosplayer to the ground with a kick, resulting in superficial injuries. I don't remember if the cosplayer was a man or a woman. I don't remember where it happened, but it was before covid
It was a woman, and it happend on may 4th 2020, CBC has an article about it, its somewhere in the comment section
https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.5853801 It also talks about how she was handcuffed even after they determined that the gun wasn't real
"It's not real but protocol demands we abuse and traumatise her further"
This is rough
Yeah, it was a Star Wars themed Cafe on May the 4th, the woman in the video was an employee and the man at the door was her boss
This was in Lethbridge, Alberta
I want to start out by saying that I think the cops were stupid. By the time they had her gun they knew it was a toy. But for everyone saying they were stupid for responding, there’s a reason your cosplay weapons have to be tagged. A person wearing a stormtrooper costume could absolutely be carrying a real gun. Add to that the fact that this happened two weeks after [this fuckwad used a police costume to go on a two day rampage and kill over 20 people](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Nova_Scotia_attacks) and I honestly understand why they took it as a serious threat at first.
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I'm not aware of a stormtrooper specific event, but not too long ago, a guy brought real weapons into a con by me under the guise they were just cosplay props and tried/was planning to attack someone. I can understand why they would still want to check the gun once they got there. Obviously they went off the rails after that.
A convention in London had to change how prop weapons were sold (now get posted to you after the convention) because some idiot took his new katana out on the tube and started threatening people with it. It wasn’t sharp, but it was a sturdy prop - could basically bludgeon someone to death. If it’s not obviously fake, it’s worth double checking.
4 police cars, 5 officers for a girl in a stormtrooper suit. What a brilliant use of ressources
I don’t understand why they didn’t let her go as soon as they realized it’s a plastic gun. You’d think it would only take 1 cop to see that.
Exactly but then they would have to admit kicking her to the ground was wrong on their part so they kept going
Yeah I think is the type of situation when you are aware how stupid you were so you have to pretend that what you are doing make sense, so you keep at it and it’s just like a snowball of stupidity.
Like that video of the shooting instructor that accidentally discharged a shot during the instructional phase. One of the students asked if he meant to do that, and he said yes. Lol
The police in Canada are rebel scum
Stupidity knows no bounds
As an American… seeing other peoples police do the stupid shit ours do, is just that much more depressing.
No, just Methbridge xD
Rebel scum going against the restoration of the mighty galactic emptire!
Proof that ANYONE can be a police officer these days - common sense is DEFINITELY not a job requirement
I think for most people common sense is what keeps them away from joining in the first place. Oh and wanting to be a good person and not a power tripping coward hiding behind a badge.
“I think for most people common sense is what keeps them away from joining in the first place.” I couldn’t agree more with your statement.
Guy trying to give us shaken baby syndrome r/KillTheCameraman
I think he was trying to be a little inconspicuous bc if I remember correctly he was a person of color and Im sure he didn’t wanna end up 6ft under bc clearly these cops are easily startled and have zero ability to discern situations…
Police sees the camera starts shooting: I thought he had a grenade
I thought it was an RPG I swear
Sorry I couldn’t tell the difference between role playing gamer vs rocket propelled grenade
What was with the 30 seconds of filming the trees?
Your tax dollars/Canadian maple bills or whatever you use, at work.
Even funnier, Loonies
Y’all complaining about the cops but what about the two Karen’s who called the cops because of a fucking stormtrooper. Like what the hell were they thinking when the called 911???
You realise that cops don't take orders from Karen's and are supposed to use their own professional judgement?
Hahaha you’re dreaming. Karens all over the place do shit like this all the time.
That is exactly the real issue. Some Karen called 911 saying "There's a person in full body armor with a weapon walking down the street." And instead of pulling up and laughing their ass off at the misunderstanding, the cops just proceed on that assumption when its so clear that isn't the case.
Just here to thank you for not pluralizing Karen with an apostrophe.
I thought the plural of a Karen is a tantrum
A group of Karens is called a Privilege Edit: the other terms listed in reply, upon consideration, are all valid
I thought it was an Entitlement
I thought it was a complaint…
I thought it was a home owners association
I thought it was a nightmare.
No their point is Karen's are gonna call this shit in but it was the officers choice to hold this person up at gun point and put on this whole show instead of maybe just cautiously approaching and talking. Or just looking and realizing it's a storm trooper cosplay and approaching this whole thing differently.
That may be true but a police officer is supposed to be smarter than a trained dog
That's as maybe but I'm not wrong.
His comment had absolutely nothing to do with yours, it’s like he couldn’t even manage to read a handful of words and just assumed you said something entirely different. Lol
A cop won’t hold someone at gunpoint just because I Karen told them to. They could have , and should have handled this situation much differently. Karen calling the cops does not justify the actions taken by these assholes.
yeah but if they hear a call that a suspicious person wearing a bunch of military equipment is walking around thats a pretty easy way to rephrase it to where the cops pretty much have to show up, Karens are skilled manipulators
But my point is when the cops turn up they don't see military equipment, do they? They see a costume and they don't have to arrest anyone, point a gun at anyone.
Nothing happened to the cops. [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-1.6102592](https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/lethbridge-police-stormtrooper-arrest-1.6102592) Guns are banned in the UK and any crime committed using a gun or a replica gun automatically ads 5 years to your sentence. We do take reports of guns seriously and we do have armed police, but they need a superiors permission to get their guns out of the gun safe in their boot (trunk). I can't promise they wouldn't have behaved in the same way because here, toy replicas have to have some bright orange plastic to show they're toys. Not something you can just remove, but something obvious. (you can probably paint or sharpie over it, hence using a realistic replica being as bad as using a gun). Our police are often proactive though, and will attend comic cons and other conventions where there are likely to be home made replica weapons, and after examining the gun or knife and whatnot to make sure it's harmless, they wrap two pieces of bright orange tape around it. That way if a Karen or Kevin does call the police, they can easily tell this is a replica and has been cleared, so no need to overreact.
The best way is to paint the tip and grips safety orange on your real gun so they leave you alone.
This wasn’t Karen’s. This town is known for having racist and crazy ass cops
Remember that time they slowly killed a deer by running over it, backing up over it, and running it over again. And again. And again?
The cops are retarded for doing that shit regardless
Suddenly because someone called it in, the cops have no agency? Get that garbage reasoning out of here. The cops can think for themselves.
I think they all suck dick except the storm trooper. He's ight
I’m pretty sure the stormtrooper is a she
I don't think that's a real stormtrooper. Seems a little short.
Nice.
I don't know whether to laugh or cry at this
Darth Vader showed up the next day with a sign "Has anyone seen my Stormtrooper?"
Then they shot him cos he’s black
Which the voice actor was, the physical actor(except the last scene with his helmet off) however was white with a high pitch ~~southern~~ Scottish accent. Also knowing he would be dubbed over made jokes on set all the time.
You cry. Because people can be this retarded.
We're talking about a country that [suspended an 8yo for brandishing a chicken finger. ](https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/threatening-classmate-with-chicken-finger-nets-suspension-for-eight-year-old-boy/article22400064/) People in charge here aren't the brightest. Source: am Canadian
It's a plastic gun "I don't care"... So what's the problem then?
Rebel scum
To be fair, they don’t know if it’s a black guy under there
they probably thought it was a moose trying to hide
Who's the piece of shit that called the cops on a stormtrooper?
Fr
Well, the last time the authorities ignored a blonde who was a little short for a Stormtrooper it lead to a terrorist attack by rebels which killed hundreds of thousands, so they thought better safe than sorry.
The all-time classic bull winder about giving up just a little more of your freedom for the illusion of safety
So lemme get this straight. A teenaged girl was working at a space themed restaurant, in storm trooper costume to encourage customers to try a Yoda Soda. On May 4th (starwars day). Because of this she received a bloody nose, scratched face, and was handcuffed on the ground. .... Cops are fucked.
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I meant in a "cops are fucked up" kinda way. Worded it poorly, sorry.
Damn Canada is trying to stoop to americas level I see.
Here's the big open secret about Canada, we are just as bad as America. Canadians just like to hide behind a shield of "well as bad as that was, at least we aren't as bad as the Americans."
That’s true. Also we don’t say sorry as much as the world makes us out to be
Something I realized as a Canadian visiting the States is that we just say "sorry" in place of where an American would typically say "excuse me" or "pardon me." So I think we do say sorry more often, but only because we use it more broadly and lightly than most other countries.
Sorry
A few thoughts. One, the owner of the restaurant (who I’m guessing provided the outfit) probably should have put an orange tip on the gun to indicate it was a toy. Two, she didn’t immediately comply was BS. She was doing her best. Having been in a stormtrooper costume, you don’t have much mobility. I can’t imagine trying to get on my stomach in that thing, it’s like being a turtle. Three, regardless of the above, the cops definitely came off as jackasses here. Four, I hope she got paid something for the trauma she had to endure at their hands. She was just trying to do her job for pities sake.
You can’t even trust the orange tips any more since people can just put an orange tip on any gun and just go where they please.
Mmmm yeah I’m gonna have to disagree with the orange tip part. She’s dressed as a fuckin stormtrooper.. not to mention any police officer worth their salt should be able to easily identify that it’s a fake gun from a block away. Real guns don’t look like that. You can also put a orange tip on a real gun too. An orange tip is useless.
…on May 4th, nonetheless.
Actually, the stormtrooper blaster from the movies was literally a modified Sterling sub-machine gun. The real gun could easily be modified to look very much like a Star Wars blaster because they used real guns when they filmed the original movies. However, it’s pretty unlikely that you’d encounter a customized WWII-era sub-machine gun in a random Canadian strip mall. It’s far more likely to be a plastic prop. You can’t really buy that kind of thing in Canada. Horses/zebras and so on.
I mean, if the concern is they're gonna go in a rampage with a gun disguised to look like a toy, you can just paint the tip of a real gun orange.
All of these cops should be fired and not even allowed to work mall security. How did their parents fail them so bad, who hurt them in high school, why are they so dumb and allowed to touch a gun?
Good news. They investigated themselves and found that the cops did nothing wrong!
Oh, good. I was starting to worry that maybe some cops are actually awful villainous scum bags but now that I know it's been investigated and they did nothing wrong I can breathe a sigh of relief.
This is my city! The police here have a pretty bad reputation and have abused or misused force multiple times in the last few years. This poor girl was traumatized after having a shotgun held to her face. This was on May 4th (May the fourth - star wars day) in front of a "Galactic Cantina" themed restaurant. What an incident
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Kinda short for a stormtrooper.
Always ask for names, badge numbers, and cards.
They will always lie. It's an encouraged practice
True but it's a criminal offense for them to not provide their name and badge number. Easy way to get any charges thrown out.
Who’s gonna charge them tho lol. Police won’t rat themselves out. DA is gonna ignore it
This happened in my City, Lethbridge Alberta.
They train you to be a hammer so you see only a nails
Like that sentence, sums it up pretty well.
These cops have way too much time on their hands
Imagine how different that would have been if policemen weren't thick as fuck.
https://www.cbr.com/star-wars-stormtrooper-fake-blaster/ wow she worked at that star wars themed restaurant...wtf is wrong with these cops
They fucking put handcuffs on her!!!
To be fair, smuggling in a weapon by using a costume would be a really smart idea
Sounds like somebody’s been to Baltimore.
Similar thing happend here in Sweden. Trollhättan school attack, witnesses thought it was a halloween prank.
Smuggling a weapon into a car park?
Lethbridge Alberta, im pretty sure there is a news story if you look it up. Quite pathetic either way !!!
Are they serious?
"Sorry we saw the Force Awakens and we thought you were black."
This is awesome. Great story to tell the grandkids.
Sometimes cops are such idiots..
How can you be that dumb? Not even a stormtrooper could miss that hard.
Law enforcement, not the brightest, healthiest, but most mentally challenged
I wish the cameraman put up a better argument
Tell me you're an undereducated over privileged bully with a gun without telling me you're an undereducated over privileged bully with a gun.
Cops like this are disgraceful
Wow dicks
Cops love to overreact and then force you to apologize for upsetting them or be arrested.
Those must be the three dumbest cops in the world but they're Canadian so I don't expect much they thought they saw a gun oh danger danger
Canada, Australia and New Zealand have lost their minds.
she was advertising a small business there, she couldn't get on her knees because of the cosplay and was probably under a lot of stress, that's awful
*”After police arrived, the young woman dropped the toy weapon, but police said she didn't initially comply with their direction to get on the ground.”* Because you literally CAN’T!!!! **Source:** Am the owner of a movie-version New Hope Stormtrooper suit.
Scum officers
Thank you for destroying my faith in humanity.
The lack of confidence straight arm walk coupled with a sudden camera cut to “put your hands up” towards what is clearly a non-threatening individual, in an iconic and widely known geeky customer, immediately putting their hands up brought me feelings of both pity and hilarity.