I got blacklisted today (and had my appeal denied) for shooting a cop who was actively trying to detain me, and admitted to having an encounter where I ran away previously in his own player report. The player in mention who reported me had pulled me over minutes prior for simply having a holster equipped, saying that I didn't have a gun license. I lied to him and said I only had a holster, which then he started to ask me for more info and I drove off, not wanting to have to buy another one of the revolvers I favor using to a geared up officer. I eventually escaped and ran to the bank to depo some items I had been holding onto, when my friend happened to be there for a different reason and we started to chat and talk about stuff before walking outside. Another cop relayed our location to the player who was pursing me/reported me and within seconds he arrived on the scene, took no time to properly park and drifted into us ready to draw his weapon and detain us. Just as I assumed and just as what is shown in the video the player provided. I then pulled out my revolver and shot the cop who was brought onto the scene, not wanting to have to sit in jail nor lose my pistol, and then quickly turned around to take down the other officer who pulled out a UMP-45 and opened fire upon me. Some time after this instance, me and my friend both received 2 day weapons blacklists for RDM.
Before I get onto the portion pertaining to my friend, I want to explain the reasons why I KNOW I am not deserving of any of the punishment dealt out.
To start off, Scottish accuses me of copbaiting simply because of the fact I made myself present in front of an officer with a holster/pistol when I was doing nothing more than trying to get back to my car from the drug dealer under the bridge. Not only was the revolver I had on me not equipped onto my person, but I was in a car and incapable of using it without hopping out, risking being detained and searched. Also, if I was making an attempt to copbait for the frags as you're accusing me of doing, then why did I successfully run away from the player reporting me initially and make no attempt to interact with him until he was called to my location? Your accusations are inconsistent with what I know happened, and even with what is present in the video.
Secondly, he responded in the denial to my appeal that the actions I took were drastic, and that I could've simply ran away from the situation rather than shooting the cop. Not only were there 2 cops ready on the scene with primary weapons to stop any attempt I could make from driving away, but the officer I fired upon initially I had literally RAN AWAY FROM amidst being pulled over. Not only that, but there was conspiracy that I had an unregistered firearm. At that point, it was either I make an attempt to kill the threats, or be shot down in my car and arrested for a lengthy time for my crimes. Even in the video provided by the player who reported me, he was a literal keystroke away from equipping his M4 and detaining me before I shot him, validating the fact that I had genuine intuition on the context of the situation. Even if the player who reported me had no intention to detain me, that would be failRP on his end because he would be actively refusing to detain me or dish out any attempt of punishment for fleeing being pulled over with conspiracy of having an illegal firearm.
Another massive mistake here and evidence that literally no time was taken to analyze the situation was the fact that my friend, who both in the video the PLAYER provided and in the logs, had no weapon and only made an attempt to run away from the police I was fighting. Under no just circumstances should he have been punished with a weapons blacklist, but lazy investigation and bad judgement led to this anyway. My friend's blacklist was eventually lifted, but instantly replaced by 2 warning points leading to a ban for FTVL. In my opinion, this seemed extremely biased and aimed at giving him a punishment regardless of his actions in the situation. The report mentioned didn't even involve him in any way, but it was spotted that he was involved and he was quickly punished along with me for something he didn't do. Upon providing video evidence, again he was disagreed with and told that he made an attempt to FTVL by blocking the officer's bullets in the fight. Not only was he pinched between 2 guns firing at each other in the video, but his car was entirely blocked by 2 others in the parking lot, so trying to drive off was the least rational decision any innocent bystander could've made given that situation (all clearly shown in video as well). Not only this, but he staggered in front of the officer for a literal few frames before bolting the opposite direction, not even taking an ounce of damage from either me or the officer.
The issue I derived from this along with the unjust punishment, was the fact that Scottish somehow "investigated" and found him guilty of RDM, even though he is literally visible in the provided clips for literal FRAMES, but didn't jump to the more obvious possible offense which would've been FTVL nor stack it on top of the blacklist he received initially, making it look like scraping up reasons to punish him after his initial attempt didn't succeed. If he had actually investigated, my friend wouldn't have been punished for RDM, nor would I have a blacklist for any of the actions I decided to take.
This entire situation seems ridiculously biased and I feel neither me nor him were deserving of any punishment received, regardless of his being lifted after the fact of proving to Scottish he was innocent leaving no steady foundation for further contesting. The investigation efforts that seemed to go into this seemed little to none, and it almost seems as if he just glanced over the video for a mere few seconds and punished whoever he saw present rather than actually putting in the effort he's responsible for to make sure just punishments are laid out. Either that or all of this was done in an effort to intentionally target either mazen or both of us, because I can't see any other player reacting differently to the way we did shown in the video evidence.
If you or any other staff members find the time to watch my video, I highly recommend you do that rather than base your decision off of this text alone. I voice my points much more clearly when actually talking and provided visuals of everything to compound it all.
