Roadside adventures with small-town cops in Electra, Texas

Dallas News ^ | February 28, 2014 | Rodger Jones

[Altariel]

Here’s a YouTube that the Electra, Texas, convention and visitors bureau probably would like to see disappear from the firmament.

It shows what can happen when cops with a bad attitude come up behind you at night and end up accusing you of the bad attitude.

You can end up driving off with a couple of bogus tickets. Or, if you’re like the guy who produced the video, you can stand your ground and beat them at their own game.

Ask yourself how you would handle something like this. You can imagine these two cops were the overgrown bully-boys who had their way with the underclassmen in the high school locker room. Then someone gave them badges and guns.

The most chilling words you’ll hear in this episode came from the now-former city attorney, Todd Greenwood, who conceded there are hazards of getting caught up in a small town. Especially for outsiders. “Ever hear of the movie Deliverance?” he asked the out-of-towner. Creepy.

Later, Greenwood said: “What’s written in the Constitution is one thing, and the real practice is another, and you’re not in the same kind of protection as you have in Allen and Plano and Richardson and places like that.”

[houeto]

Now if we can just awaken the slow-learners and racially blinded we might have a good chance of turning this around.

That's a mighty big IF you have going there jsanders2001.

[TADSLOS]

Excellent post.

[laotzu]

the first bootlicker freeper

You appear to be the only "bootlicker freeper" around.

Better trolling next time. Maybe if you insult their mama.

[Titan Magroyne]

Fantastic, also pretty friggin amazing that the prosc’s mouth kept running even as the tape kept rollin.

And here’s the other you mentioned to me in private conversation, where they’ve flipped the view rightside up & it’s easier than the original to watch:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNjaEVFiku0