Posted on 01/10/2023 10:19:05 AM PST by artichokegrower
Many of us know the names: Sandra Bland, Daunte Wright, Philando Castile, Walter Scott, Sam DuBose. They are just a few of the hundreds of Americans across the country who have been killed by police during a traffic stop. In many of these cases, police had stopped the victim using a practice called “pretext stops” — pulling someone over for a minor traffic or equipment violation and then using that stop to conduct an unrelated speculative criminal investigation, not for the purpose of enforcing the traffic code.
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“You could send them to Utah to learn how to drive.”
I drove through SLC on my way up to Yellowstone, and people up there drive civilized compared to the ones here in the third world s*ithole of Montgomeridishu Alabama.
It’s not always just fecklessness, sometimes being poor is just really hard.
I tell my wife it costs a lot of money to be poor. High interest hard credit loans, rent-to-own where you end paying double the original price, payday loans, cheap, shoddy goods that wear out quicker, poorer quality food, beater cars that cost more to keep running, higher prices at urban retailers, loosie cigarettes.
Update from my blind squirrel file...
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