Re: Bad Cop, Bad Cop, Whatcha gonna do?
Doesn't it suck to have a comeback that's completely irrelevant?
I saw Keps flag wrapping retort. Pretty sure I'm not your guy. And while I'll never be a black man dealing with a cop I've had hs and college parties get out of control, taken a breathalyzer, been pulled over in a college town in my then red Audi GT Coupe with deadhead stickers, a doctored "Kato State Man" sticker on the window and dime bags, experienced the, "you're not from around here?" moment, been talked to tripping balls at a concert at Alpine Valley without incident, been pulled over in a stolen vehicle driven by someone I didn't know very well that could have been really ugly, etc.
While none of that compares to getting shot at, I never frequented street corners, never stole (not even petty shoplifting) never assaulted anyone and never gestured toward any cop in any way ever. My dad told me when I was learning to drive have your papers ready and your hands on the wheel when he reaches that window. You want to learn about dealing with crooked cops try Uruguay, Bahrain, Morocco, Thailand and the Philippines and get back to me.
And lest anyone not understand me, again I don't walk on anyone else's shoes and I'll probably never again be profiled in US. But this relationship on the streets cuts both ways and while the cops need to improve their approach, how many other incidents could have been avoided had the "victim" chose differently? Not talking about events like the one in Cleveland or NY of course. When you have so many people that assume every single engagement with a cop is going to turn out badly what mindset do you think it puts the cop into?
Never once has the discussion here been about what communities under siege can do to also reach across that aisle, it's that cops are morons coked up on testosterone ready to bully everyone they come across because it gives them an even bigger woody than sleeping with their shotgun. But nope the rhetoric and blame goes one way only and only by completely erasing negligent cops from the streets will the relationships improve, street level racial profiling won't be necessary, and all the people on the street making bad decisions that make it worse for everyone else will magically change their ways.
Thank you Pricelss, thank you.
