My Brother is a Cop and It's Getting Bad

[B. Kidd]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

This is the main reason I am leaving the democratic party. Who the fuck is peddling this bullshit? #walkaway. My Dad who adopted me was a cop. He's retired but geez so scary now!

Hopefully enough Democrats are aware and as smart as you!

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

You are an asshole.Yes he did something wrong, no he fif not know who was in the car and that is why he ran the plates.

What did the officer know that the driver did wrong?

His wrong doing was on the screen when his plate ran through the computer system.

 

[pknopp]

We are speaking by and large where there are no victims. Millions of people are arrested every year and no one is protesting the vast majority of those arrests.

what the fk does that mean?

Just what I said. Eric Garner was doing no one any harm by standing on the sidewalk.

He was selling untaxed cigarettes, which is a crime, and he and he actively resisted arrest by swatting away an officer's arm who was trying to cuff him, which is another crime. He had a long criminal record and was currently out on bail from another arrest and this arresting would have canceled his bail and sent him to jail to wait trial, which is likely why he so strenuously resisted the police officers. He weighed 350 lbs and had a plethora of diseases that were life threatening and it is not at all clear the coke hold killed him. What is clear is that any attempt to arrest this six foot three, 350 lb guy who was resisting arrest would be dangerous to both the police and to him. So you must be saying that the proper thing for the police to do would have been to just walk away and allow him to go on breaking the law.

He had sold untaxed cigarettes in the past. You do not get to search someone over something someone did in the past and NO ONE should ever be arrested for that.

 

[pknopp]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

You are an asshole.Yes he did something wrong, no he fif not know who was in the car and that is why he ran the plates.

What did the officer know that the driver did wrong?

His wrong doing was on the screen when his plate ran through the computer system.

The officer had no clue as to who was driving.

 

[Dana7360]

I would suggest that your brother is getting a taste of what black people go through every day.

Black people do NOT go through this everyday. Their biggest problem blacks have in this country is themselves and their decayed subculture

I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

It's happened to me and I'm not black.

I worked music concerts and other events for 35 years. I've seen it at work and not at work. I've experienced it at work and not at work.

I have friends who are black and they have experienced it. I've been with them a couple times when it happened to them.

There is a problem with some police in America. Not all but enough to make the rest have to deal with the consequences of the behavior of the bad ones.

I can tell you, I can't stand telling a cop something and not being believed. Being forced to prove what I say to a cop shouldn't happen like that. They should believe something when they're told by that person that they are also working and supposed to be where they are. Or anything else. I got sick of it and just started carrying paperwork to prove who I am and why I am there. It gets old after a while. Especially when I'm well known at the places I worked.

Just because you may not see it or experience it or because your brother and those he works with doesn't do it or you don't see them do it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. More often than you think.

 

[toomuchtime_]

We are speaking by and large where there are no victims. Millions of people are arrested every year and no one is protesting the vast majority of those arrests.

what the fk does that mean?

Just what I said. Eric Garner was doing no one any harm by standing on the sidewalk.

He was selling untaxed cigarettes, which is a crime, and he and he actively resisted arrest by swatting away an officer's arm who was trying to cuff him, which is another crime. He had a long criminal record and was currently out on bail from another arrest and this arresting would have canceled his bail and sent him to jail to wait trial, which is likely why he so strenuously resisted the police officers. He weighed 350 lbs and had a plethora of diseases that were life threatening and it is not at all clear the coke hold killed him. What is clear is that any attempt to arrest this six foot three, 350 lb guy who was resisting arrest would be dangerous to both the police and to him. So you must be saying that the proper thing for the police to do would have been to just walk away and allow him to go on breaking the law.

He had sold untaxed cigarettes in the past. You do not get to search someone over something someone did in the past and NO ONE should ever be arrested for that.

He was selling them at the time the police arrested him and that's why he resisted arrest so violently.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

You are an asshole.Yes he did something wrong, no he fif not know who was in the car and that is why he ran the plates.

What did the officer know that the driver did wrong?

His wrong doing was on the screen when his plate ran through the computer system.

The officer had no clue as to who was driving.

That's why, after seeing the car was registered to a guy with an outstanding warrant, the car was pulled over.

 

[esalla]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Well democrats are zoo animals, not even wild animals because wild animals can support themselves

 

[DigitalDrifter]

I would suggest that your brother is getting a taste of what black people go through every day.

Black people do NOT go through this everyday. Their biggest problem blacks have in this country is themselves and their decayed subculture

I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

It's happened to me and I'm not black.

I worked music concerts and other events for 35 years. I've seen it at work and not at work. I've experienced it at work and not at work.

I have friends who are black and they have experienced it. I've been with them a couple times when it happened to them.

There is a problem with some police in America. Not all but enough to make the rest have to deal with the consequences of the behavior of the bad ones.

I can tell you, I can't stand telling a cop something and not being believed. Being forced to prove what I say to a cop shouldn't happen like that. They should believe something when they're told by that person that they are also working and supposed to be where they are. Or anything else. I got sick of it and just started carrying paperwork to prove who I am and why I am there. It gets old after a while. Especially when I'm well known at the places I worked.

Just because you may not see it or experience it or because your brother and those he works with doesn't do it or you don't see them do it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. More often than you think.

Sounds like some of your behavior is why you have had interactions with the police.

 

[toomuchtime_]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

You are an asshole.Yes he did something wrong, no he fif not know who was in the car and that is why he ran the plates.

What did the officer know that the driver did wrong?

His wrong doing was on the screen when his plate ran through the computer system.

The officer had no clue as to who was driving.

So what? There is no rule about police running plates whenever they want to.

 

[B. Kidd]

I would suggest that your brother is getting a taste of what black people go through every day.

Black people do NOT go through this everyday. Their biggest problem blacks have in this country is themselves and their decayed subculture

I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

It's happened to me and I'm not black.

I worked music concerts and other events for 35 years. I've seen it at work and not at work. I've experienced it at work and not at work.

I have friends who are black and they have experienced it. I've been with them a couple times when it happened to them.

There is a problem with some police in America. Not all but enough to make the rest have to deal with the consequences of the behavior of the bad ones.

I can tell you, I can't stand telling a cop something and not being believed. Being forced to prove what I say to a cop shouldn't happen like that. They should believe something when they're told by that person that they are also working and supposed to be where they are. Or anything else. I got sick of it and just started carrying paperwork to prove who I am and why I am there. It gets old after a while. Especially when I'm well known at the places I worked.

Just because you may not see it or experience it or because your brother and those he works with doesn't do it or you don't see them do it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. More often than you think.

No one said it never happens.
Given the amount of stops police make yearly on a national basis, what you allege is very miniscule.
Remember that driving IS a privilege and have your paperwork handy and in order.

You are not very convincing.

 

[Ghost of a Rider]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

Plates get run as a normal course standard to check for stolen vehicles, dummy.

Was there a report of such a car being stolen? If not they have no reason to run the plates

Running plates does not violate anyone's Constitutional rights. An officer can run plates, find out the car is clean and go back to patrolling all without the driver even knowing. You're aware of this, yes?

If you have a problem with this then you must have a problem with having your license and car plates on record at the DMV.

and again, it does NOT prove the person in the car is wanted.

If the car turns out to be stolen, the driver IS wanted now. For driving a stolen car. Duh.

The car wasn't stolen.

No shit.

Your problem seems to be that officers run plates as standard procedure, not just that they ran this guy's plates. Am I right? That being the case, if they run someone's plates and it turns out the car is stolen, do you think they're going to go look at Wal-Mart for the thief? Of course not, they're going to assume the driver is the thief and pull him over.

What is it about this you don't understand?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

What is it about this you don't understand?

He's a liberal and all police are bad. Get it?

 

[Dana7360]

I would suggest that your brother is getting a taste of what black people go through every day.

Black people do NOT go through this everyday. Their biggest problem blacks have in this country is themselves and their decayed subculture

I've seen it happen with my own eyes.

It's happened to me and I'm not black.

I worked music concerts and other events for 35 years. I've seen it at work and not at work. I've experienced it at work and not at work.

I have friends who are black and they have experienced it. I've been with them a couple times when it happened to them.

There is a problem with some police in America. Not all but enough to make the rest have to deal with the consequences of the behavior of the bad ones.

I can tell you, I can't stand telling a cop something and not being believed. Being forced to prove what I say to a cop shouldn't happen like that. They should believe something when they're told by that person that they are also working and supposed to be where they are. Or anything else. I got sick of it and just started carrying paperwork to prove who I am and why I am there. It gets old after a while. Especially when I'm well known at the places I worked.

Just because you may not see it or experience it or because your brother and those he works with doesn't do it or you don't see them do it, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. It does. More often than you think.

Sounds like some of your behavior is why you have had interactions with the police.

No I'm a professional photographer. Most musicians want photographers from Rolling Stone Magazine and Getty Images. In fact, I was the first person contacted to cover those concerts. I worked with the greatest musicians in rock and roll for 35 years. I'm well known in music photography and music in general. People say it's an honor for them to have me working with them. Others just say I'm the best fucking photographer in rock and roll.

When you first arrive you have to get a credential for that one specific event. There have been many times that I didn't have that credential yet and the police gave me a hard time. Mostly the ones who are new and didn't know who I was. All those who weren't new, knew who I was and never gave me any problem. In fact some would clear the road to one amphitheater for me to get there in time. Or other things so that I could do my job.

When those people find out who I am, they profusely apologize. A few have gotten in trouble for trying to prevent me from doing my job.

No you have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[pknopp]

We are speaking by and large where there are no victims. Millions of people are arrested every year and no one is protesting the vast majority of those arrests.

what the fk does that mean?

Just what I said. Eric Garner was doing no one any harm by standing on the sidewalk.

He was selling untaxed cigarettes, which is a crime, and he and he actively resisted arrest by swatting away an officer's arm who was trying to cuff him, which is another crime. He had a long criminal record and was currently out on bail from another arrest and this arresting would have canceled his bail and sent him to jail to wait trial, which is likely why he so strenuously resisted the police officers. He weighed 350 lbs and had a plethora of diseases that were life threatening and it is not at all clear the coke hold killed him. What is clear is that any attempt to arrest this six foot three, 350 lb guy who was resisting arrest would be dangerous to both the police and to him. So you must be saying that the proper thing for the police to do would have been to just walk away and allow him to go on breaking the law.

He had sold untaxed cigarettes in the past. You do not get to search someone over something someone did in the past and NO ONE should ever be arrested for that.

He was selling them at the time the police arrested him and that's why he resisted arrest so violently.

No he wasn't. You know this by now also but you aren't going to let that stop you.

 

[pknopp]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

You are an asshole.Yes he did something wrong, no he fif not know who was in the car and that is why he ran the plates.

What did the officer know that the driver did wrong?

His wrong doing was on the screen when his plate ran through the computer system.

The officer had no clue as to who was driving.

So what? There is no rule about police running plates whenever they want to.

I understand and the authoritarians just eat it up.

 

[Penelope]

I have an issue with running plates since they have nothing else to do, why did he pull him over?

 

[pknopp]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

Plates get run as a normal course standard to check for stolen vehicles, dummy.

Was there a report of such a car being stolen? If not they have no reason to run the plates

Running plates does not violate anyone's Constitutional rights. An officer can run plates, find out the car is clean and go back to patrolling all without the driver even knowing. You're aware of this, yes?

If you have a problem with this then you must have a problem with having your license and car plates on record at the DMV.

and again, it does NOT prove the person in the car is wanted.

If the car turns out to be stolen, the driver IS wanted now. For driving a stolen car. Duh.

The car wasn't stolen.

No shit.

Your problem seems to be that officers run plates as standard procedure, not just that they ran this guy's plates. Am I right? That being the case, if they run someone's plates and it turns out the car is stolen, do you think they're going to go look at Wal-Mart for the thief? Of course not, they're going to assume the driver is the thief and pull him over.

What is it about this you don't understand?

If they get a report of a stolen red 2016 Accord then they would have a reason to check a red 2016 Accord. Otherwise, no, leave people alone.

 

[Penelope]

We were supposed to have dinner at my brother's house yesterday, but he called me up when he got home from his shift and cancelled. He wanted to just chill after the shift he worked yesterday. He patrols a higher crime neighborhood, which is mostly blacks, and he said the past couple of weeks have gotten really bad. People aren't respectful at all. They're rude and belligerent towards him. He's been called names, taunted, it's been constant chaos. He stopped a car yesterday because the guy came up with a warrant in the system. Immediately, when he had the guy step out of his car he started screaming something about George Floyd and then became nasty and resistant. My brother and his partner, who arrived shortly after, had to tackle the guy to the ground in order to get him restrained. While this was going on he said a dozen or so blacks came running up on them, whipping out their phones recording, calling them names, taunting them. He said it was super nerve racking because in the middle of the skirmish he had no idea if any of these other people, who had no business being up that close to them, were going to run up and attack them from behind. He said it was like being in the middle of a zoo. He is starting to consider leaving the department at this point because it's become incredibly dangerous for them.

And my brother is Asian and the officer who responded to back him up is Hispanic, so this wasn't even a white cop thing; it's just an anyone in uniform thing. We're told we should be judging people by their character and not their skin color, but apparently these same people think it's fine to judge anyone in a uniform as evil.

Why would he run the plates? Did the guy do something wrong? How did he know who was in the car?

Plates get run as a normal course standard to check for stolen vehicles, dummy.

Was there a report of such a car being stolen? If not they have no reason to run the plates

Running plates does not violate anyone's Constitutional rights. An officer can run plates, find out the car is clean and go back to patrolling all without the driver even knowing. You're aware of this, yes?

If you have a problem with this then you must have a problem with having your license and car plates on record at the DMV.

and again, it does NOT prove the person in the car is wanted.

If the car turns out to be stolen, the driver IS wanted now. For driving a stolen car. Duh.

I am a law abiding citizen and I have a clean record and I have an issue with running the plate, why would they pull him over, make something up to pull him/her over.

 

[toomuchtime_]

We are speaking by and large where there are no victims. Millions of people are arrested every year and no one is protesting the vast majority of those arrests.

what the fk does that mean?

Just what I said. Eric Garner was doing no one any harm by standing on the sidewalk.

He was selling untaxed cigarettes, which is a crime, and he and he actively resisted arrest by swatting away an officer's arm who was trying to cuff him, which is another crime. He had a long criminal record and was currently out on bail from another arrest and this arresting would have canceled his bail and sent him to jail to wait trial, which is likely why he so strenuously resisted the police officers. He weighed 350 lbs and had a plethora of diseases that were life threatening and it is not at all clear the coke hold killed him. What is clear is that any attempt to arrest this six foot three, 350 lb guy who was resisting arrest would be dangerous to both the police and to him. So you must be saying that the proper thing for the police to do would have been to just walk away and allow him to go on breaking the law.

He had sold untaxed cigarettes in the past. You do not get to search someone over something someone did in the past and NO ONE should ever be arrested for that.

He was selling them at the time the police arrested him and that's why he resisted arrest so violently.

No he wasn't. You know this by now also but you aren't going to let that stop you.

We both know he was selling untaxed cigarettes at the time of his arrest and that's why he refused to allow the police to search him. I think you are carrying on like this because you are trying to make a case for racism, but there is no evidence any of the police actions were motivated by racism in any of these cases so all you doing is making a case for not arresting criminals.