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California Decriminalizes Jaywalking Due to Alleged Racial Bias
Breitbart ^ | 10/02/2022 | Joel B Pollack

Posted on 10/02/2022 7:18:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a law Friday that will decriminalize jaywalking across California, ending the familiar practice of police handing out tickets to pedestrians on the argument that the law is enforced more often against minorities than other people.

The new law, AB 2147, known as the “Freedom to Walk Act,” could bring an end to a cultural difference that has marked otherwise libertine Californians as being uniquely deferential to laws governing pedestrian traffic. The difference between Californians, who ostensibly tend to obey “don’t walk” signals, and urban dwellers elsewhere in the country, who are notoriously defiant when it comes to crossing against traffic signals, was lampooned in the 2011 film Friends with Benefits, starring Mila Kunis and Justin Timberlake:

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: california; decriminalizes; jaywalking; racial
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And this helps everybody and their daily life. How??? 🙄🙄
1 posted on 10/02/2022 7:18:20 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Then they also need to decriminalize running down jaywalkers. It’s not like folks will deliberately run them down but hey.....


2 posted on 10/02/2022 7:20:06 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I don’t think jaywalking should be a crime, but the bill should be called blacks can’t follow the rules.


3 posted on 10/02/2022 7:21:08 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

“Hey, here’s something that is illegal.”
“But black people do that a lot.”
“Well, they can’t do that! It’s illegal!”
“But black people do that a lot.”
“Oh. Okay. We’ll make it not illegal.”


4 posted on 10/02/2022 7:21:32 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (We are already in a revolutionary period, and the Rule of Law means nothing. )
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Freedom to get run over act


5 posted on 10/02/2022 7:22:12 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Wonder when they will decriminalize the future sale of gas powered vehicles? You know that will have an inordinate impact upon poor folks.


6 posted on 10/02/2022 7:22:12 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Using that logic, murder should be decriminalized.


7 posted on 10/02/2022 7:22:49 AM PDT by GMMC0987
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To: EEGator
They need to also decriminalize barbecuing. Why was it criminalized again?


8 posted on 10/02/2022 7:23:47 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Laws don’t matter, only black lives do.


9 posted on 10/02/2022 7:23:55 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Won’t be long before Gruesmone Newsom outlaws white cars in Cauliphonya.


10 posted on 10/02/2022 7:23:57 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (You can vote your way into socialism/communism but you need guns to shoot your way out.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder if this same law legalizes camping on the road.


11 posted on 10/02/2022 7:24:12 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: ClearCase_guy

The reason Leftwingers see racism everywhere is because ...


12 posted on 10/02/2022 7:24:22 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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....and there are many out there who would support doing so, if it gave them another opportunity to virtue signal...


13 posted on 10/02/2022 7:24:41 AM PDT by drwoof
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Before you know it Californiation will only have laws against murder and those will be considered misdemeanors.


14 posted on 10/02/2022 7:25:50 AM PDT by ChuckHam
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To: ClearCase_guy

“But black people do that a lot.”

They do like to walk in the road.....WTH is that anyway?


15 posted on 10/02/2022 7:26:08 AM PDT by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave)
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To: Larry Lucido

LOL, I had to look into that picture...hilarious backstory.


16 posted on 10/02/2022 7:26:34 AM PDT by EEGator
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Minorities don’t assimilate


17 posted on 10/02/2022 7:27:06 AM PDT by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality day)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Traffic laws are inherently racist. Repeal them all.


18 posted on 10/02/2022 7:28:17 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: EEGator

Yep. Pass stupid “environmental” laws, and you create more “Barbecue Beckys.”


19 posted on 10/02/2022 7:30:25 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is there anyone who does not yet understand the left is using ‘racial diversity’ to implement communism?


20 posted on 10/02/2022 7:30:43 AM PDT by skeeter
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