Police Officer Above the Law?

An interesting story about a strip mall manager who threatened to have a Police Officer's car towed for parking in a "No Parking" spot outside his store in St. Louis.

According to the report, when first confronted about the issue, the cop flashed his badge and walked away. Unnerved, the manager repeated that he would call the towing company if the officer's car remained illegally parked. The officer returned to his car, took out his pistol, jammed it into the shop owner's chest, (reportedly) uttered a racial slur, and asked, "What are you going to do now?"

The Prosecutor's office is still determining whether or not to press charges on the officer.

Granted, most police officers do not consider themselves above the law. Certainly very few of them would come unglued to the point of jamming a pistol into another man's chest and threatening them. But why the delay from the Prosecutor's office in filing charges on the officer?

Police should not be granted any special privileges by virtue of their being police, and certainly should not have any more rights than any individual enjoys. This belief covers every action from parking illegally to owning firearms. When one group of individuals has more rights and privileges than another, the inevitable consequence of the beneficiaries bullying the less fortunate becomes increasingly commonplace.