Canadian Prime Minister (and blackface aficionado) Justin Trudeau banned assault-style weapons a few days ago following a deadly shooting in Nova Scotia.
Police in Alberta apparently thought that the draconian ban included fictional guns from “Star Wars.” (Daily Wire)
In a video that has gone viral, police in Lethbridge, Alberta, can be seen converging on, surrounding, with weapons drawn, and handcuffing a woman dressed as a stormtrooper in celebration of May the Fourth after they received multiple “firearms” complaints over the woman’s obviously fake, plastic Star Wars blaster. Video of the arrest shows the woman crying hysterically while her boss tells police, “It’s a plastic gun!”
May 4 is well-known as the unofficial Star Wars holiday for fans of the franchise, who often repeat the decades-old play on words, “May the 4th be with you.”
A “May the Fourth Be With You” promo by Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina quickly escalated into an alarming situation, owner Bradley Whalen told Lethbridge News Now on Monday.
“We had music playing in the parking lot, we had one of our staff dress up as a stormtrooper kind of waving to people walking up and down the road, we had people stopping by and getting pictures with the stormtrooper, we put a couple of promotions on in the restaurant to entice people to come,” Whalen told the outlet.
One of Whalen’s female employees got into full costume that morning with the plan to promote the restaurant and interact with passersby. One of those potential costumers filmed his interaction with the employee — then ended up catching the stunning police response to the harmless promotional stunt.
According to the store owner, the police shoved the woman to the ground hard enough to draw blood, after she tried explaining that she couldn’t get on her stomach due to the costume’s constraints.
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police brutality. they should be fired, sued for full damages and barred from police work for life.
Unfortunately, we expect the police to react with common sense. What the buik react to is the voice from headquarters speaking the law into their ear. It’s a rude awakening to lawabiding citizens. Also a wake-up call that the police chief is a political appointment by the mayor, so that person’s party affiliation is going to matter big time. Unlike sheriffs who are elected by the People and who protect the people and support the people’s right to bear arms. Back to this case, the woman in costume is very fortunate that she was NOT SHOT! Remember the case of the playground pre-teen who had a toy gun and was killed. The Four Foot Monster on the Swing. Killed. Not wounded. Killed.
This is what you expect from the real Storm Troopers. Hitler would be proud.
Stupid is as Stupid does.
Any policeman should be capable of instantly recognizing a toy gun from the real thing.
Especially a “Star WARS” blaster.
Throw caution to the wind and go for stupid. EH?
These are the “Heroes” of society with automatic weapons drown, defending us from the mortal dangers of evil dressed up actors wielding plastic toys.
Canada, the country on a planet, in a galaxy far far away. And the experts believe there won’t be mental scars left over from this pandemic. Come back in a year and see how this young lady feels about all this. Ask her how she feels about police and ask her how she feels about her Prime Minister.
This is OUTRAGEOUS, and the policemen involved with arresting this woman should be reprimanded for their reaction, for they overreacted and should of followed a more proper proceedure!!!!
They should be fired. The next time they might shoot someone.
Did you hear the guy videoing say it was the United States and blamed Trump?
yeah i caught that, another stupid Trump Hater hasn’t a clue to where he’s at, What would the Canadian police being doing arresting anyone in the USA?
I’m sure that was all done on purpose, for the camera, to make the President look bad. More fake news.
Coward cops and idiot calling it Trump and his friends
And the idiot recording it says it’s the United States and these guys are Trump supporters. What a loser Canuck!
He is a moron and an a–hole.
This Police Brutality! It cannot be anything else. Any police officer with 1/10th of a brain should know better than treat a person that way, especially with NO PROVOCATION! I do not care that it happened in Canada. I am glad it did not happen in the USA but these cops are nothing but Jack Booted **** hugs!
Canada is another enemy country. Twenty minutes of offense and they will fold.
**** 44/40 or fight. They should be a territory of the US.
Hysteria whipped up by liberal politicians is a symptom severe paranoia. This is far worse than the disastrous long gun registry that cost Canadian taxpayers $2 billion and accomplished nothing. Liberals in the U.S. are competing to be first to trigger a revolution.
Peaceable, lawful arms owners in New Zealand, Australia and the U.S. have demonstrated that only about 20 percent are complying with such laws. Soon enough, imperious leaders in the free world will learn they cannot gain compliance before they gain subordinate acceptance.
They must be SO proud arresting a woman dressed as a storm trooper with a PLASTIC gun. Really should be posted as a reason to NOT vacation in alberta. They might take offense at your nail scissors next and they might toss you to the ground and arrest you.
After posting this to my family all have stated that they will never take another trip to Canada.
As for the idiot who blamed Trump for this; he needs to re-educate himself as to who is pushing the gun control agenda! It’s not Trump and the conservative movement, it’s the fanatical liberals who have no clue. Guns don’t kill people; people kill people; with anything they can find, whether it is with a vehicle; a hammer; a knife; or a scalpel (as in abortion)!!!
The worst thing here is the utter incompetence of police who can’t even tell the difference between a toy and a deadly weapon. These “police” should no longer be police as they clearly lack the competence to not kill citizens who have done NOTHING WRONG
Craziness is contagious and it even crosses borders. What makes police believe their badges give them more power than they actually have? Don’t police learn how to handle different situations when they attend LE schools? They wasted their time and money. They sure are poor decision makers and endanger innocent people with their behavior.
Trumps fault? Honestly the last time I went to Canada which was a year ago, I told my husband never again! There was just a weird vibe there. Now I know what the vibe was!
why did the photographer have to mention Trump and not his Prime Minister ha kept saying this is Canada
To the dude with the camera. You were in Canada not the US. Trump doesn’t harass people at star wars clubs!!!!!! Duh!!
Seems to me that the offended party, the lady playing Star Wars, needs the services of legal counsel, quite possibly the services of legal counsel with a dislike for Hot Dog Storm Trooper types who might well be on an unending power trip. As to those citizens phoning in complaints, warnings, alarms, how many of them might have seen Star Wars?
Let’s see, a deranged killer is allowed to roam Nova Scotia for TWELVE HOURS.killing people and burning homes at will, but a promotion involving a Star Wars storm trooper and a plastic “blaster” draws what, FIVE CARLOADS OF COPS, storm troopers, (real ones), and terrorizing of the actor and random people on the street? This is why this old boy doesn’t go to Canada, California, or anywhere they treat people like animals. The Lethbridge Police Gestapo must be so proud!
My head is reeling right now!! Are they serious???? They’re so on a power trip that if this wasn’t so scary for that poor lady, it would be laughable. This should show everyone where we stand with the cops!! Trump.. maybe it’s time real soon to call the real big guys in.. The ARMY!! That’ll put these tyrannical police in place. This may have happened in Canada but it’s happening here too. I have cousins in Italy and I saw a video on FB of a politician who was on the side of the people screaming that they can’t let the communists take over. This is global stuff. It’s their plan.. but you know what.. the old adage holds true… “We make plans… and God laughs”.
This proves two things 1. Canadians’ are stupid; 2. some people shouldn’t have cellphone cameras. The topic was great he photography was terrible.
Very few people can handle authority properly over others and don’t care who it is. How stupid can you be even when it is obvious it is a plastic gun they continue to treat it like it was a real weapon. Wonder how many real crimes were being committed while they were wasting their time with this.
Do you really want law abiding citizens to turn on the police? This is a good way to start.
No sense in being stupid unless you advertise your ignorance. I support police, these Canadian cops are dumb, who is the nitwit filming this making comments on Trump. How do you tie Trump to his, what an ignorant moron..
You get the Gov’t you choose.