despite what we are told,
this will not help
Posted on 10/01/2016 5:09:01 AM PDT by Kaslin
Comply or Die...
OTH, you can argue, in court, there is a bias...
Fahrenheit 451
Obey the officer. Simple.
Keep the macho stuff for your baby mamma.
It is not that they do what they think of as dumb and dangerous things. It is that they are raised to feel in their bones that any demand or request of a black person by a white person or any person in authority is demeaning and is not to be tolerated. Consider Michelle Obama’s description of the short white woman asking her to reach a product on a high shelf for her. That was, for Michelle, an instance of unforgivable racism. When you have that attitude toward a cop who has reason to believe that you might just kill him, that attitude makes it almost impossible to protect your own life by co-operating.
That is an excellent point.
Excellent observation.
And they still don’t seem to understand that if you just cooperate with police, you will live. You might get to stay at the crossbar hotel for a while, but it’s probably better than a hole in the ground forever.
Virtually every one of the recent police shootings occurred for the same reason. Resisting arrest. Michael Brown, Freddie Gray, Eric Garner, I can’t remember the names of those in the past couple of weeks. Every one of them was resisting arrest. Which the mainstream news conveniently omits from their reports.
I was pulled over on a misidentification in Austin years ago. I fit the description of a guy who robbed a hamburger joint an hour earlier, was walking down Guadalupe Street to go to a sit in gig carrying a guitar case. The officer got a bad description, thought I might have the shotgun used in the robbery hidden in the guitar case, so he pulled over, hand on his gun, and asked for an ID.
When he called it in, he also asked for the description again and found out it was wrong, and apologized for having to arrest me anyway, warrant for a parking ticket I forgot about. OK, I’m off to jail.
The cop was nice as he could be, once he realized the mistake, and actually apologized for having to arrest me, I told him don’t worry about it, he was just doing his job. We talked and joked around for 15 minutes while we waited for the city guys to show up, he was a county sheriff’s deputy, and the city cop was cool about it too, even asked me of the cuffs were too tight. No...
All I did was cooperate, and show them a little respect. Didn’t run, didn’t fight, didn’t cuss anybody over a faulty description...when he told me that I said something like oh crap, just what I needed...we both laughed...He already knew I was the wrong guy and a guitar was actually in the guitar case...
So it’s actually that simple. Don’t give the cops a hard time. Even if they do have to arrest you, they are usually decent guys and will treat you like a human being. Fight them and they will treat you like what you are...a low life thug.
Their responsibility is rather simple. No sudden moves, no reaching into your pockets, no acting like you’re on drugs.
In short, OBEY THE POLICEMAN.
Even white people know that, if you feel you have been wronged, you fight about it at the police station or the courthouse, preferably with an attorney present. Not at the curb where it is your word versus theirs.
I could not have said it any better.
The same as every other citizen. We are a nation of laws and we are all duty bound to obey them, and lobby to change the ones that are impractical or anachronistic. But we don’t change them by resisting police carrying out their duties.
I can tell you from direct experience they do. And they smoke weed in their car like most people drink coffee.
You might want to schedule your sarcasm detector for a tuneup. :=)
Those for whom the /s is necessary won’t get the connection anyway
They could try adjusting their BEHAVIOR.
There are profitable businesses in mostly white communities.
Communities age over time and different folks move out - others move in.
The stores in the communities start making less and less profit (Why might be asked)
Finally; the business owners decide to move away.
RACISM!!! is the cry.
Just WHO places the chip on their shoulder from the day they learn to talk?
Stopped by the cops for no good reason? It’s annoying, it happens to us White folks too. A cop challenged me with a ridiculous allegation once. Did I jive talk him? No. he asked me to get in the squad car while he checked my ID, I complied. He checked my id and let me go while warning me not to do what he falsely thought I was doing. I was a bit shaken, POed, and wished him ill. Did I spit on him? No, I said ok officer and went home. You aren’t in court, there is no need to argue with him. Answer his questions (or plead the 5th) and comply with his instructions especially the KEEP YOUR HANDS where he can see them one.
Here’s what you don’t do
DON’T GET BELLIGERENT
DON’T STICK YOUR HANDS IN YOUR POCKET
DON’T PRETEND YOUR HAND IS A GUN
DON’T RUN AWAY
And here’s the big one, if you are getting arrested justly or unjustly DO. NOT. RESIST. ARREST.
If you behave like a rational person your chances of dying are ZERO!!! ZERO!!!! The cop does NOT want to shoot you any more than you want to be shot, he wants live to go home to his kids that night, not get reamed by the media because he felt he had to shoot you to protect his own life.
And if you happen to actually have drugs in your pocket or something, justifying the cop stopping you, STOP DOING/SELLING drugs. DON’T COMMIT CRIMES.
IT’S. NOT. ROCKET. SCIENCE.
Sorry for the rant.
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