Will Grigg's Liberty Minute

September 21, 2007

After being assaulted by an off-duty police officer, 20-year-old Brett Darrow installed a video camera in his car to record encounters with law enforcement.

In early September, Darrow recorded a run-in with a policeman in St. George, Missouri. When Darrow ? who obeyed traffic rules and was polite and cooperative ? didn't display an adequately submissive attitude, the policeman threatened to perjure himself to justify a needless arrest.

"I bet I could say you resisted arrest or something," boasted the officer during a lengthy profane tirade. "You want me to show you? You want me to lock you up to show you I'm right and you're wrong??

Darrow recorded and publicized a similar encounter last year, earning him a death threat from at least one police officer. The St. Louis policeman told associates that he longs to ?pull him over alone ... and place a hunk of hot lead right where it belongs.?

How many other officers look on the public with such potentially murderous contempt?

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.