Posted on 07/26/2015 5:53:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Perhaps what you said happens sometimes. But in the video with Ms. Bland it was the officer doing the baiting.
Bland was social activist and no stranger to negative contacts with law enforcement, as evidenced by over $7000 dollars in court fines and fees. Any reasonable person could easily imply that she desired confrontation.
Folks from Texas answer this please? If I move from Missouri to Texas how long do I have to get my plates switched to Texas plates?
In Missouri, you have one month. We have a problem with our neighbor to the east, Illinois. They have no personal property tax on vehicles. So people very much like Bland buy cars in Illinois, register them in Illinois to a family member and then drive them in Missouri. I suspect the same for Bland when she moved to Texas, she did have a Texas DL.
How do Texans feel about those the evade the taxes that they, the law abiding Texans pay, the same taxes that pay for the road she was breaking laws on, the same taxes that would have been paying her damn salary working for the “new job” at the university? That should have been paying for the DPS trooper who pulled her over?
No Bland was no heroine. She got high, got mouthy, got arrested and couldn’t deal with the consequences.
Things are tough all over.
You bring up interesting points. Bland was not a perfect person, but none of that is relevant to the evidence. You have framed a potential motive for her to escalate it, but then you offered some motive for the cop to escalate it as well. I suppose they both had motive. But the evidence is still the evidence. To me it looks like the cop escalated it.
I do not believe blacks are more targeted than whites but at this point, with all the false information being fed to the public by the liberal media, you cannot entirely blame blacks for being apprehensive. Cops would be wise to show extra patience because of that, not extra combativeness. They are the ones with guns and the power to arrest.
We may find this kind of cop thug behavior was exactly what happened in the Waco police massacre of the bikers.
Cops or cop bootlickers have come right out and said the bikers deserved it simply for being there. A routine political action meeting held every other month for the last 20 years. Then have it one time in Waco and they get massacred.
I used to be supportive of the dangerous job the police have but more and more I see they are just as bad as the criminal thugs. Only difference is a badge and a uniform. Different gang. Different name.
Not all of course and probably not even most but enough that it’s impossible to tell who the good ones are.
She sure was
Most of them are good though, just as there are good and bad teachers or good and bad teachers.
I just looked at your homepage. Funny you have the Kalifornia flag there and not the New York flag
I was talking with a guy at the gym who had been a cop in New Mexico, and a sheriff's deputy in MA. Good guy. At one point, I asked him what percentage of cops had major authority problems versus what percentage were regular guys doing a difficult service. I was rather surprised by his answer--he said first, "It depends on where you are. Big cities are worse." (No surprise there). Then he said, "Mmmm... about 35%." So, from a guy on the inside, 1 cop in 3 has at least some attitude problem.
One data point only. As a consumer of police services via the occasional stop-sign type traffic ticket, I'd have guessed a little lower.
Exactly. She did nothing illegal. And being polite to a cop is not required.
He had no right to tell her to put out her cigarette.
Did you know, before feminism, LA cops had to be tall, 5'10”? That's above average height. That's what cops are (or were), the big boss in any situation they are involved in.
Now days, they must follow goofy rules that allow 5'3” females to be the boss. Everyone is losing the fear/respect for cops. Do you remember when feminist said they would show how it's done because men are too patriarchal? Look what's happening now, lol.
That's S.O.P. for police in this circumstance. A lit cigarette can serve as a weapon, flicked into the eyes, e.g., or a distraction, while the smoker reaches for a gun.
Yes, they have a well-established right.
“Now days, they must follow goofy rules that allow 5’3” females to be the boss.”
And most 5’3” females can’t physically restrain most 5’7”or larger males so they have to resort to a weapon of some sort. It wouldn’t be PC for the male cops to use their physicality when the female cops can’t, so...
I actually think there is a place for using intimidation. I just don’t think the place is on minor traffic stops.
That’s interesting about the height thing. Liberals always think they can fix away human depravity. Even if that were possible (it isn’t) their solutions are always looney. The Founders of this country knew we could not and that the answer was checks and balances as well as respect for religion and morality (the private sector of checks and balances). We will always be fighting crime on the one end and corruption on the other. Anyone who says one side doesn’t exist is fooling themselves.
You obviously don't watch a lot of Hollywood movies, there's always some short chick who can whip three guys at once.
Most of them are not criminals, but they are commies for big government spending.
Does that attitude you carry with you weigh you down much?
It seems sometimes people forget we are all human and we are not made perfect simply because of a job title.
Oh christ on a crutch...was it a semi automatic cigarette or fully automatic?....did she have a cigarette arsonal in the car with her...like a fully loaded high capacity pack...or even god forbid an entire carton?
I’ve seen this lame ass argument popping up from bootlickers....a cigarette can be a dangerous weapon....and like the others...I will gladly laugh in your face.
And I’ve never been asked to put out a cigarette during a traffic stop...and if I was I’d laugh and think it was a joke.
What kind of pussy is scared of a lit cigarette?
It could be this..or it could be that....well...WAS IT?
No....so drop it....it’s a stupid line of reasoning.
A lit cigarette can serve as a weapon...
If the cop is a pussy.
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