I watched the entire video.
The man:
-Didn’t say “sorry” and offer to put the sandwich away.
-argued with an officer who was just doing his job.
-refused to provide ID.
-didn’t cooperate at all.
-Seemed to want go to jail.
I hope it was a good sandwich worthy of going to jail for.
The officer was actually trying to reason with the man.
Same place with a new communist terrorist Scion district attorney who won’t prosecute against openly sh*tting on the public streets
State of Californication. Shit on streets is okay! A possible food wrapper, though, gets you handcuffed and arrested a dnc paradise ! ( just open carry a drinking straw and they’ll crucify you right there in Union Square!? ).
I saw the video. He wasn’t handcuffed for eating.
He refused to put the food away as if the law doesn’t apply to him.
Just another entitled Democrat Socialist who thinks rules apply to others, not him.
There’s no smoking on the platform or train either. What if he was smoking and refused to stop?
Don’t blame the police, blame the legislators. They create the laws that the police are required to enforce.
A lot of cities have zero-tolerance rules on public transport, Atlanta, for one. I always marvel how nicely kept Atlanta’s public transportation is. Of course, in Atlanta, you can’t evacuate yourself in public, because those people there actually have some sense.
“Stories like this make it tough to support police....”
You might be aiming this in the wrong direction. The cops are not to blame for the enforcement of a law they were a small piece of in it’s creation. Blame the California voters for putting people in place that do things like this.
But to compound the problem, is the pandering of laws and a point of inconsistent enforcement:
According to BART’s general manger, “The officer was doing his job but context is key,” his statement read. “Enforcement of infractions such as eating and drinking inside our paid area should not be used to prevent us from delivering on our mission to provide safe, reliable, and clean transportation. We have to read each situation and allow people to get where they are going on time and safely.”
In other words, we looked bad when it was enforced, a law we knew was on the books, so we want to “just get along” and only enforce it when we don’t want to harm are bottom line. If it’s a law, follow it or get it off the books. You can’t go half way and expect it to work at either half.
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Because they are not following one set of laws now it seem like some Freepers want them to disregard more laws.
This cop was doing his job. Instead of pissing on him, we should be encouraging other cops and their boses to do their jobs for public good.
The rule is no eating in the stations and on the trains.
The REASON this rule exists is because people treat the stations and trains like a garbage can.
There are people who bring bags of Burger King, Subway, and single slice pizza boxes, eat the food on the train, and when they get to their stop, they drop the trash on the seats and floor and walk of the train.
The people supporting this guy are the same people, who if they rode these trains, would be screaming how the stations and trains are full of trash (and rats).
This guy isn't a 'hero fighting an unjust law'. He's a class-A pr*ck who was flouting the rules and goading the police; likely for a big payoff after the lawsuit.
I've read comments, 'he's just a guy eating on his way to work'. Try this, 'he a good boy. He ain't never done nothin' wrong.'
He was doing his job. So was Ivan the Terrible at Treblinka. The good news is that applications for official waivers are not available for chewing gum on BART.
You can’t eat on BART. You cannot eat in the BART station. This has always been the case on this system.
There are signs all over the place. It is impossible to be on this system, and not know this rule.
If you violate a rule and refuse to cooperate, you will be arrested. That’s just the way the law works.
This guy made several decisions that led to him being handcuffed.
1. He chose to eat, even though it was against the rule
2. He ignored an instruction to stop.
3. He refused to produce ID or accept a citation.
If he had agreed to follow the rules at any one of these three points, this whole thing could have been avoided. But he did not, and he got what he got.
As far as the rule against eating on the BART goes, this is a necessary rule to keep the system clean. It is hard enough to maintain a system without having people dropping food and waste all over the place. Banning eating is an obvious and sensible rule.
Pretty sure a lot of Nazis used this excuse as they loaded people into boxcars.
Ironic this happened on a train platform.
That boy's name was ... Gavin Newsom.
But he's getting revenge, one sandwich at at time:
Sacramento, CA — The California State legislature passed a new bill today that will phase-out all sandwich toothpicks by 2022. The bill, Senate Bill 4320.1 will require all restaurants to discontinue using “single-use toothpicks” both for sandwiches and teeth cleaning. Governor Gavin Newsom is expected to sign it into law.
Now he's forcing Californians to share toothpicks.
Maybe one of them attacked him as well.
You can poo but you can’t chew.