Always ask the cop if he has been drinking or is on drugs...

[multigraincracker]

I love this video..

[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Can you imagine if the guy asking these questions were black?

He'd have been on the ground with a boot to his neck about 1 minute into it.

[Hortensis]

10. Sure. On average, a black guy'd definitely be more at risk than a white one.

But, in the real world, the vast majority of police stops do not involve brutality and a large majority of those that do are within guidelines. (Note that the the scenario you draw emphatically would not be.)

That leaves the criminal LEO attacks. Aren't they full reason for outrage? Don't they deserve it?

[Hugh_Lebowski]

12. In the exact same scenario, if the guy with the camera were black

The detective would've hit his walkie about 1 minute in, and the police station behind him would've emptied like a dugout when a batter got beaned in the head, and the pitcher flipped him off afterwards.

That's my point. I'm not talking about police stops in general, I'm talking THIS case.

A black man doing THIS particular thing ... would've almost certainly have ended up arrested, and very likely gotten the shit kicked out of him.

[Hortensis]

16. Well, we can agree that challenging a police officer

should always be regarded as challenging fate. I'm an old white woman and I'd be about as likely to challenge an unknown cop as a belligerent drunk in an ally. Just watching that made me uncomfortable, though for more than one reason.

I'm also sure we both recognize others well enough who refuse to understand their world, and so be able to evaluate its problems anything like realistically. Like those desperate to stop the Democrats before they throw the borders open to the brown hoards come to replace us. Game over.

[walkingman]

11. Just make sure they know they are on camera - it is the great equalizer. Most

cops are decent people but they also have a lot of assholes that let their badge and gun go to their head.

Having been harrassed by cops a lot in the late 60's and early 70's because of my long hair, I always enjoying seeing these types of videos.

[Polybius]

17. Even if this were just the 70's, the white guy would have been on the ground as well

I knew a white old man who said he got the shit beaten out of him by a cop for carrying condoms as a teen (I think the 40's or 50's).

[Walleye]

2. Do you know why I'm filming you, maybe you are doing something wrong. Let's see your license

[notinkansas]

3. This is not journalism. It is not investigation. This is a dumb stunt.

[multigraincracker]

4. No it is not a dumb stunt. A dumb stunt

is having 6 cops from 2 departments handcuffing a woman and placing her in a squad car parked on the railroad tracks and watching her get run over by a train.

[Cracklin Charlie]

9. That's attempted murder.

A stunt would be doing a back flip off the police building.

[GoneOffShore]

5. A time waster.

[TlalocW]

6. I'm asking the question. No, I'm asking the questions.

No, I am! No, I am! Rabbit Season! Duck Season!

[blueinredohio]

7. Looked a little staged to me.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

13. Yeah mainly because actual cops are never this patient and non-violent when they're questioned

like this detective was.

[Iggo]

8. All these stunts are for people who don't mind going to jail today.

It’s not a game, kids.

[Sky Jewels]

14. Only a white man could get away with doing this.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

15. Or a white woman, esp. if she were 'attractive'

But certainly not any black person.

[Polybius]

18. I really don't like the fact that anyone can get away with this n/t

[mahina]

19. I don't see the point of provoking and just being rude

It’s just privilege. Cops don’t need that treatment anymore than the rest of us. It certainly doesn’t make the point that civilians should be respected.

[multigraincracker]

20. Only it goes both ways.

There are many rude, full of themselves, power tripping cops. Lots of White folks don’t have any contact with those kind of cops.

[mahina]

21. Yes that is true.

[multigraincracker]

22. I was married to a cop and learned a lot about some of them.

Thought they were above the law. "Who's going to arrest me, I'm a cop?" and "I'm a member of the largest gang in the country, mess with one of us and you mess we all of us", just a few of the things she use to say.

[Hotler]

23. Remember, even casual conversation can be and will be used against you in a court of law.

These guys are not your friends. I don't even make eye contact, I don't say hi or wave unless I have to. I give them plenty of room. Never ever talk to a cop without an attorney present.

And since it is Friday, It's shut the fuck up Friday. Caution, a lot of F-bombs in video. good advise.

[multigraincracker]

24. This is a 46 minute video by a law prof. and cop that

tell you why you should NEVER talk to the cops.
Not because you are a minority or a rich White male. They want convictions.

[Hotler]

25. A classic, should shown in every high school.