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If you're an actor playing a cop, can you be ARRESTED for impersonating a cop?

Posted - February 13, 2017
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  • 34451
    If you act like a cop while not on the acting set, yes. 
      February 13, 2017 6:37 AM MST
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  • 3907
    Hello my:

    Well, chalk up another crime I committed...  I've told the story about being an extra in the movie business, where I played a cop in Dangerous Affection.  We were filming at the REAL Seattle Police headquarters..  So, it came to pass that I needed to use the john.  As, I'm wandering down the hallway, a REAL cop was struggling with a prisoner..  As I passed, he said, "Aintcha gonna HELP"?  So, I helped. 

    I guess I COULD have been arrested for it, huh?  I blame it on the uniform..  It changes you..

    excon
      February 13, 2017 6:47 AM MST
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  • 34451
    Officer Excon has a nice ring to it. Lol
      February 13, 2017 7:02 AM MST
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  • Great story. :)
      February 13, 2017 4:14 PM MST
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  • 5614
    Why not? Laws apply to everyone except politicians.
      February 13, 2017 6:56 AM MST
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  • 5354
    As long as you are on the set with people to vouch for you it is no problem. It is OK for the 'villains' to run around with guns too. But then the local cops must be informed of when,where and who before you start the filming

    And if you try to 'be funny' with it in the adjacent cafeteria you will be breaking the law.
      February 13, 2017 8:26 AM MST
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  • 5354
    PS: The nightmare scenario is where a movie director do all he should, and then some REAL criminals come and rob everyone on the set ;-))
      February 13, 2017 8:29 AM MST
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  • Then it would also be true if an actor played a murderer or child molester then they would also be arrested etc.
      February 13, 2017 9:11 AM MST
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  • 22891
    i doubt it since youre just an actor
      February 13, 2017 9:50 AM MST
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  • I've seen a few who should have been arrested for impersonating an actor. :(
      February 13, 2017 4:15 PM MST
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  • 1523
    LOL :)
      February 13, 2017 7:33 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Not if you are a actor but umm if you are an ex-con;))
      February 13, 2017 8:06 PM MST
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