Posted on 10/31/2015 7:24:49 PM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
So she is a liar with an agenda? Are we shocked?
On YouTube there’s a video of guys in a car with a train horn hooked up. People react.
I have a solution for this.
If everything is about race - before long - everything is going to be about race.
The entire world seems to be losing its mind...
This American does, all the time. I slip my DL out of my wallet and into my pants pocket before every walk and hike. It's just common sense in case you get hurt, hit by a car, or get sick. I want to be sure emergency teams can reach my wife in an emergency.
This sounds more like a case of Walking While Stupid or Walking With a Big Black Chip on Your Shoulder.
Did you watch the video? They were concerned because she was walking on the wrong side of the street facing away from oncoming traffic. That is what they said from the very beginning. They had come up behind her and she hadn’t noticed them, nor had she noticed a truck that had had to stop behind her to avoid hitting her as she veered out towards the center of the street. They were right to stop her and she was very defensive instead of responding to their courteous concern.
I have stopped to caution a neighbor on my street for the same thing. The sun blinded me momentarily and I had a scare when he came up suddenly on a dip in the road. Its not safe to walk on the side of the road in the same direction as the traffic and she should have already known that but when she needed to be reminded she should have thanked them.
I watch the video and I couldn’t tell she was black until the cops got out of the car and she turned around.
It’s not an offense that calls for producing ID to the police.
Trolling For Trouble
File this one along with “Muslim Clock Boy” in the Trolling For Trouble file.
It was a citeable offense.
They chose to let her off with a warning.
MBA from GWU. Strange a Dean would not have a doctorate.
Do you personally know anyone who has ever been stopped and asked for ID because they were jogging in the road?
I carry ID when I’m out and about for two reasons, required when driving and if walking & I drop dead, my family gets notified, plus I don’t end up unclaimed at the morgue.
If the police have a valid reason to stop you they have the right to your name and date of birth to ID you.
Since could have cited Ms. Bland for a pedestrian violation...i.e. a ticket....they had the right to ID her.
They were polite, explained why tjey were stopping her, they were calm, they were friendly.....
They were doing their job.
Actually there was every reason to stop her....she was a danger to herself and others. Walking in the middle of the street is not only stupid and childish it can be a sign of mental illness. I have seen tweeters approached by police to assess the situation many times.
As a driver I don’t want some crazy ass person wandering around on the roads (try the side walk okay?) waiting to get hit so they can sue some one.
I worked in a neighorhood that folks always walked in the street and hardly ever used the sidewalks....drove me crazy.
I asked a guy once from the window of my car “how come you don’t use the sidewalk?”
“There are a mess of spiderwebs over the sidewalk”
Felt it was the most reasonable reason I had ever heard.....e even though I didn’t believe him.
Its a rejection of society’s standards and rules for behavior which is common nowadays.
Although I don’t think that is why Ms Bland was doing it in this video..she was just jammin to tunes and getting her walk in.
I had no problem with them talking to her. They were initially polite and she was initially polite. What was the point of asking for ID?
She was walking in a traffic lane with earbuds in. The cops observed her impeding a truck. That’s a class c misdemeaner. The driver of the truck saw the cops, threw his hands up in a wtf motion. Cops turned around came up behind her with lights.
Cops usually check for ID when they witness a crime. They should. What if the person was wanted for felony mass murders and the cops didn’t check? That has happened. They were supposed to check. And they did.
She was comitting a crime and now pulled the race card. Which makes her an asshole, and everyone who supports her is the same. Babies banging on high chairs.
It does seem to be strange that she couldn’t walk on the sidewalk... Makes me wonder if it was a setup.
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