I think you're generalizing. The people who fucked with me didn't go to prison. Then you say you are profiled multiple times a day, but then say when you are profiled you get killed. I think you're grandstanding a bit As for Travon Martin, it was an awful trajedy, but was it proved either way what happened? How can you send anyone to prison in that case? There is a lot of bad out there, but maybe it gets perpetuated a bit? The black womans book club asked to wuiet down then removed from a wine train. Claimed racism, but witnesses say they were loud and obnoxious. Black couple identified as such by a waitress. Claimed humiliation and racism. Really? I was referred to as the white guy in a chinese restaurant a few years back. No one hot fired. No news agencies were called. I was the white guy
Reminds me of the Ron White joke about cops stopping cars driving on the sidewalk after the bars let out. "That's profilin' and profilin' is wrong"
You don't know anything about how my day goes. Take it from me. Now, I know how to act. I'm clean cut and speak with my ers and ings. People who may not know how to present themselves are killed. I know when I'm pulled over to keep my hands on the wheel and narrate my every move. Travonn happened because he was a Black kid with a hoodie in an area where we are assumed not to have access to. That's why he had contact with the murderer in the first place. Had he not been Black with a hoodie on, he wouldn't have been chased. The question remains: When was he able to stand his ground after being chased?
He's a good driver this is true. This could certainly be the case. But when he drives his 69 Pontiac Lemans in the same area (Oregon City) this is not the case.
My thing is why would you drive a cop magnet if you know they are going to fuck with you? I know they can tell within a high percentage what race is driving a vehicle. I would pull over every lifted Monte Carlo on 28s or 32s or whatever just because they are dangerous. Google Henderson NV cops shooting people. I don't speed here at all. I'm white and I don't wanna fuck with those guys. They don't give warnings for speeding either, you get pulled over you're fucked 99 percent of the time. Don't even get me started on renta rims on a 2000 Taurus.
I'm still not sure whn In a country where you are to be presumed innocent, you shouldn't have to tailor your vehicle purchase depending on how cops are going to profile you. That's not the solution. The solution is for LEOs to pull over vehicles that are actually committing traffic violations.
I believe you are. I literally don't know what it would be like. I'll tell you this, when I go to Winco on the first I have animosity towards almost everyone there. Honestly the white girl with 3 kids at 20 and a boyfriend who makes Jesse Pinkman from Breaking Bad seem like Shakespeare irritates me the most. These kids with neck tattoos and those ugly fuck earrings make me sick. So do people who don't wash their hands after going to the bathroom. I could list things that piss me off all day.
The 4th amendment is pretty clear: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
I wish that were the way it was, but pragmatism is a good thing. I know fairness and right and wrong. I also know the real world.
I know, that is why when SWAT bangs in your door in the middle of the night over a child support warrant or some other bullshit it makes me furious.
Yeah but is it ugly and lifted on giant wheels? All of those cars violate bumper height laws in Nevada. They should be impounded, but so should the tinydick's lifted 4 wheelers. If the cops used that law against the donks but left the rednecks alone that would piss me off. If you'd ever seen the damage a lifted truck can do to a Corolla when the front bumper of the truck clears the entire trunk lid and smashes into the back window you would understand.
Amen. I'll say it again, very few people who want to be cops should be allowed to bring you . Most cops are the type of people that notice that the girl at the drive through gave them 5 dollars too much and don't say anything.
or I don't want to be drunk in public, they kicked me out of the bar, go harrass them because I didn't want to leave
It's not. It's restored and stock. It's pretty fucking awesome actually. If the vehicle is street legal, there is no reason to pull them over and ask them idiotic, irrelevant questions like "where are you headed?" and "where are you coming from?".
There is no question we need to upgrade police training and attract talent to the profession. It should be difficult to become a policeman, and it's not. Being a peace keeper should outweigh all other police priorities. Being a public servant should not give cops a license to harrass people that are not being aggressively dangerous to public safety
One of my favorite cars ever made. Those do stick out like a sore thumb these days so I'll give the cops a 2 percent chance they didn't pull him over for being black. They probably liked the car and would have asked a white guy what engine it had but found a black guy driving a stock A body and figured it was stolen. Who the fuck knows what someone is thinking?
