There are numerous signs. Many people chose to disregard them. I’ve been at that Bart Station. Very nice, well lit, clean and quiet. The polar opposite of what I remember other stations such as Oakland West, or 19th Street Broadway or Powell St. being like.
The officer spoke to the young man once about the violation, and walked off. 10 minutes later, he sees the guy totally disregarded his instructions, preferring to debate the law instead.
If all those screaming ‘Racism!’ don’t like the rules, they should lobby to change the rules.
Not just that, but when the cop went to write him the ticket, he pulled the “I’m not giving you my ID” gambit, which is only a step above the “I pay your salary so you can’t do anything to me” gambit. Once you are getting a ticket, you can try that, but it won’t end well, and that is what he was arrested for. If he had produced ID, he’d have gotten the ticket and been on his way. I guarantee you the cop didn’t give a fuck, it was a job to him.
These stories which go viral, off complete bullshit, and then there are tons of people online supporting the wrong representation of them feel off to me. Why am I seeing this story everywhere? Why are 95% of the comments about how wrong the cop was, how this guy is great, and how if it was me, I’d have shit on the platform in front of the cop because that would have really taught him a lesson?
And why are there so many conservatives here saying he should have pissed on the platform, or the cop looks like a grifter, or something similar. This was a hippie dude who ignored a cop’s warning, got an attitude, and then basically gave the cop no choice but to haul him in to ID him. What if he wasn’t producing ID because he was wanted on a Child Molestation charge?
Very often lately I feel like 60% or more of what I am seeing online is created, as if they have unleashed some sort of AI botnet writing fake comments that are totally wrong just to see what flooding all the forums with completely wrong information will do to the public’s ability to honesty resist real tyranny.
It really feels like something strange is going on.