There Is No Such Thing As An "Unprovoked Attack" On The Police

Probably not the E.P.D. vehicle in question.

Man high on drugs pummels Escondido police car with rock in unprovoked attack, authorities say

A man apparently high on drugs attacked an Escondido police officer's car with a rock Saturday morning, authorities said.

The officer was on routine patrol, stopped at a light at Quince Street and Washington Avenue about 9:30 a.m., when he noticed a man walk across the street to the rear of his patrol car, police said.

The officer didn't think anything of it at first, then felt a big thump on the car, police said. He looked in his rearview mirror and saw the man climbing on top of the car, striking the roof with a softball-sized rock.

The officer pulled the car forward, and the man jumped off and ran away, police said. The officer got out of the car and, after a brief foot chase, arrested the man.

Police said the 29-year-old man, who [sic] not immediately identified, was under the influence of an unknown drug.

How many things are wrong w/ this story besides the fact that any attack on the police is an act of pre-emptive self-defense? As there was no statement from the so-called perp, for all we know the attack could well have been provoked. (I know it doesn't take much to provoke me.) A uniform itself is upsetting/triggering; the very concept already smacks of authoritarian assholery & bullying morons.

We could as well ask, if the oinkers were so sure the alleged attacker was on a "drug", why was the "drug" unknown? The police know nothing about whatever they allege their prisoner may have been "on", but they're happy to defame him anyway.

Our editorial guess (in the "Kurt Schlichter & his soldier boys will fuckin' kill you, libdart!" discussion) is that law enforcement will be a greater danger to the American people than military personnel when the street-fighting begins once Trump has refused to leave the Executive Mansion following his impeachment in the House & conviction by the Senate.

[The Official Stenography Site for Southern Calif. Law Enforcement, the L.A. Times/S.D. Union-Tribune]