Detroit police seek to end citywide paintball battle

[Lowell]

So reads the byline from today's Free Press. If it weren't for the reckless endangerment, it would be kind of funny.

Stepped up police enforcement is planned this weekend in Detroit to quell a social media-publicized citywide paintball war that - so far - has resulted in six arrests and left an unmarked patrol car splattered.

Chief James Craig referred Friday to the running battle along city streets as “Paint Up, Guns Down,” and said organizers are pitching it as an alternative to gun and other violence.

“If you want to work with us and stop the violence, there are a number of things we can do together, but having paintball wars across the city is not the way to do it,” Craig said during a news conference.

freep.com

[Pat001]

Pointing a paintball gun at cops who have real guns doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.

[Dan Wesson]

Pointing a paintball gun at cops who have real guns doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.

+1000
That's a given, a constant, not a theory... a Law. Duh?

[Richard]

Besides taking unwise moves,it sounds like it could have actually been fun.

[Meddle]

Pointing a paintball gun at cops who have real guns doesn't seem like a smart thing to do.

Or any one of the multitude of various levels of dirtbags in the City.