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Yeah, they shot a guy last month for daring to answer his door at 1 am with a gun in his hand.
No, I'm not joking. Morons didn't announce themselves and went banging like hell on the wrong door at that time of night and this guy had the audacity to think he might want to arm himself in his own home in case it was someone with ill intent.
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Sometimes when the police ask too many rapid-fire questions it becomes obvious they don't really want responses so I just quit trying. I know, irrelevant to the topic at hand, yet slightly applies to their mentality which is "I will control this situation no matter what" Truth is you have no control over a damn thing, the world is chaotic.
I like it when they say "I'm only gonna ask you this one time" Which translated means they will keep asking until you give them the answer they want to hear, then they get mad about it when you won't tell on yourself. So police scream "get back in the car" and expect instant results, yet you get all pissed off once again when driver decides to follow orders, get back in car and take off or attempt to run over your ass. Personally I'd rather keep the irrational drunk out of the car, but I don't have all that fancy police trainin'. The woman in the video kind of gave me the impression she might be a runner though. Anyone who has experience with drunks knows they are all blah blah blah, no listen anyhow, and they laugh at pain. |
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What a clown eye cop.
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To justify that is just plain B.S. Bravo..... First face palm of the week. Oh, and you're right. No one else but a cop deserves an opinion.
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Sorry, I just don't believe in that crap.
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Unfortunately, "get back in the car" is an order you should follow, unless you want to sit in theirs. |
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I get what you're saying, but just try not following even one of their orders, even when you don't legally have to, and see where it gets you. Hell, I once had a cop give me a ticket when another person backed into me in a parking lot simply because he didn't know the law and got royally pissed when I very calmly explained to him I wasn't required to carry proof of insurance (I had it, but the state I then resided in didn't require it and the insurance companies didn't give you those nifty little cards). I had to go to the DA's office and get it thrown out.
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Police brutality is nothing new. Agreed. BUT, I would be more than willing to put big money on it being very isolated. I've dealt with many cops, and most of them are very professional. My dislike involves their "exemptions" from the law in a duty capacity. For example, they can talk on cell phones while driving because it's in their job (police cars can't get bluetooth I guess). A lot of them speed everywhere they go. 10mph over seems pretty common to be honest. Making illegal U-turns without lights. They are little things that bother me. Yeah, there are laws that infringe upon your freedoms. But I would hardly put running a red light into a batch of things that are doing that without purpose (just for example). Running a redlight makes you endanger someone else. Those types of laws are there for our safety, and laws involving public saftety should definitely be here. Unfortunately, some laws that help public saftey stretch too far into violating our privacy and freedoms. Most of them are an inconvenience though, and nothing else. As for law enforcement acting like this and so on... yeah it's a bigger deal in bigger cities. But for REAL? Occupy? That group of nitwits has done nothing productive with their protests, and have intruded on normal working people far too many times. They have blocked normal people from going to work (wall street, port of calls, etc). They have no plan, just that they basically want crap for free, and want to smoke pot. I use those because I watched a bunch of them interviewed in California. The biggest complaints was college debt that they wanted forgiven, and then of course they attracted the pro-pot people (another topic entirely). That's why they attracted the kinds of people they did. The movement was strong, but it had not direction, no real organization, and no real solutions to fix things. And when they gather for long periods of time, they leave the place a mess. Not throwing their stuff away where it belongs and etc. I don't want to get into politics about any of their activities , but they are not getting anything done. Now, those groups have been broken up in ways I don't agree with, but some of those groups have also thrown things at the officers trying to disburse them, protested on private property, and disrupted daily activities for normal people. The rest of your post... well it's opinion. And you're entitled to it. I'm not saying you're wrong or right about any of it. I disagree with... a lot of it. But not all. I think certain things are too situational. Take this girl with the Camaro. I think the cop could have had better control of her. I do NOT think that he intentionally faceplanted her into the car. She very obviously tripped when he tried to flip her around. So I really don't think anything he did was too much as an intention. But we all know and have seen other stories where it WAS too much. I saw a guy get "tazed bro" at a traffic stop after the cop asked him to get out. The cop lost his temper. And his job. But seriously, even if it was 10 different cops, every day, for the entire year (still too many), that's only a small fraction of cops in the US. I think there is a much bigger problem with bribes and not leading by example. I just can't prove the first one. Also. IBTL. It's only a matter of time until someone tried to jump in this discussion and is unable to remain civil. |
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There's a reason we have the police. To "police" and take care of idiots like the woman in this tape. It's not about bullying. It's about keeping order. I guess your solution is to just let everyone do their thing and drive drunk...until they kill you or one of your family. Then suddenly your thought process changes. |
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Nice blanket observation and grouping of thousands of people. |
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