“…At first, police didn’t know how to handle the armed cop-watchers. They weren’t used to having people carrying weapons while recording them at the scene of traffic stops and service calls, trying to engage them in dialogue, or following them as they conducted their nightly patrols.

“They have become bolder and more confrontational,” Assistant Police Chief Leland Strickland wrote in a memo in July. “Group members have increasingly encroached upon officers at scenes of law- enforcement activity.”
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On numerous occasions, police officials later said, cop-watchers responded to officers’ instructions by shouting, “Arrest me!” and “It’s legal to carry!” before slipping into a barrage of obscenities.
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