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Originally Posted by Happy Monkey
I'm sick of people acting like cops are wild animals, and if you don't tiptoe around them you deserve what you get.
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This.
Images from Texas where the cop pulls granny over and gives her a ticket, but she refuses to sign it. (It's her right not to sign it.)
Cop doesn't see it that way, so he physically pulls her out of the car, pushes her to the side and SCREAMS at her. She yells, fine, I'll sign it. He's pushing her again.
She gets pissed he's shoving on her, and screams right back. He decides he's gonna get control of the situation, so after a few warnings, (and her trying to get back in the truck), he finally tazes her, then yells at her to get on the ground.
At first, I thought, well, she should have just signed the damn ticket. Then, she should have just complied with the officer, and none of that would have happened.
Then I realized, wait a minute. She chose not to sign the ticket, which is well within her rights. That cop should have just said ok ma'am, have a good day and left. As soon as she exercised her right to NOT sign that ticket, he got it in his head that she was "a trouble maker". And he wasn't having that. No 72 year old woman is going to give him trouble. No siree.
As soon as he put his hands on her and forced her out of her truck, he committed a crime: assault, and technically, kidnapping. She had broken NO law, he had NO probable cause to pull her from that vehicle.
At that very moment, he STOPPED being a police officer, protecting the public safety, and became a thug. Abuse of power, no?
This woman did NOT deserve to be tasered. She was beligerent, yes, but aren't cops trained on how to handle beligerent people? Isn't that kind of the down side to being a cop? I mean, wouldn't one think the vast majority of criminals are beligerent in the first place?
(And I'm too lazy to look up beligerent at the moment.)
Gates, while a cock, should not have been arrested. He was not in a public place, he was in his yard. Private property, yes? The cop, after finally getting ID on this cock, should have said, ok sir, have a good night, and walked away. Gates did NOTHING against the law, and I think he should sue the fuck out of Cambridge PD. Not because of the race issue, but because he didn't break any laws and got arrested anyway.
This wasn't a case of racism, it was case of cop-ism.