https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/sep/10/tyreek-hill-traffic-stop-police-miami-dolphins-nfl
The NFL star says his fame helped him get out of a tense situation. But there is little point in denying he was treated differently due to his race
TBF, he still got some preferential treatment, which he said himself. What if he wasn't Tyreek Hill?
The preferential treatment was that the body cams were just muted during the cover up and not all accidentally turned off for the entire encounter, not getting beaten up, tased or shot.
I mean as far as preferential treatment goes I’d take that deal, but the fact remains he was pulled out of his car, roughed up, taken to the floor and handcuffed for 18minutes for no reason when the cop should have been writing him a (dubious) ticket.
There are at least 2 cops here who should not be cops and the rest need to be retrained to ensure they step in if they see mistreatment like this again, for face being fired.
The window being all the way down was not a safety issue, but i have zero faith that a court would determine the cops to have used excessive force. I'll see you all at the next post where nothing changes!
I remember a video of a white woman closing the window into a policeman's fingers, driving off (over his foot?) getting forced off the road again, screaming insults at the police, hitting them with the car door, before they resort to, iirc, a taser or dragging her out (might be more than one such video)
So in my mind, that's kind of the 'gold standard' for behaviour which only leads to slow incremental steps in the use of force.
It was the fully tinted window being all the way up that created the safety issue in the officer’s eyes.
I find it interesting how some folks feel this is entirely an issue of policing gone wrong. There can be no fault for Tyreek here, apparently.
In Florida, the traffic code states that not following an officer’s lawful order or direction is a misdemeanor offense. It allows the police officer to remove Tyreek from his car and cuff him.
How else will the cops plant drugs in your car if you don't roll your windows down? Duh
I find it interesting that you didn't bother to consider what a "lawful order" is. If the cops order you to brush your teeth, do you have to comply?
I'm not being facetious. Seriously, if you wanna make a list of every order that you think the cops could give you that you would have to obey, I'd be interested in reading it. We'll be happy to go through it point-by-point and show the civil rights issues contained therein.
Try doing it the next time you are at a traffic stop and the officer asks you not too. See how it works out for you.
Really? The advice I've seen for years at a traffic stop is to only roll down your window enough to talk to the officer and hand over paperwork and to close it immediately after. Along with not voluntarily providing any extra information and only answering questions as asked.
That's for your safety, not theirs. You can argue the full tints, but the vehicle was surrounded by officers and many of them were aware this person was playing football that day.
In context this is one of stupidest escalations I've seen since ever and I can't believe none of these other cops stopped it from happening. Give this a little more time and the rest of the guys are gonna get lit up along with the dude who's on administrative leave.
Like in order to make this shit look ok, you have to full on compare the reaction to someone who was engaged in a crash or hit and run, has a warrant, or is a sovcit. They could run this dudes plates in 7 seconds and understand this dude wasnt a threat, they probably should have escorted him the rest of the way after they gave him his citation! This was a physical response to disrespect, ridiculousintimidation and you shouldn't be ok with it.
It sounds like you think we should always lick the pigs' boots because otherwise they'll beat the hell out of us, regardless of what the Bill of Rights says. Is that an accurate summary?
Morality? Legality? Ew. Corruption and abusing your monopoly on violence to get away with illegally ordering civilians around? Based.
when everyone and their mother has a gun in the U.S., and you're hiding behind heavily tinted windows, then yes, it is a safety issue. It's not an unreasonable request to keep your window rolled down during a traffic stop.
Don't take the job if you ain't willing to take a bullet over a traffic stop. That's the job. You don't get to violate rights for your own safety. Your safety is secondary as a cop. If you can't handle that fact of the position then you would be a shit cop.
Pizza delivery drivers have a higher chance to get shot than a fucking cop and yet you don't hear pizza drivers capping people left and right for their own safety. So I don't wanna hear your bullshit.
Die for that traffic stop pig. You wanted the badge without the risk.
You don't get to violate rights for your own safety.
Are we still talking about the window? How did telling him to roll his opaque window down violate his rights?
Because it isn't a lawful order. License and registration are all that's required for a traffic stop. If the officer had probable cause that a crime had been committed, then it would be a lawful order, but they didn't. Therefore, his rights were violated.
As we saw, it's actually a bigger safety issue if the cops can order you to lower your window. Fortunately, you and I don't get to decide what's "reasonable" in this context. It would go to the appeals courts, and who knows what would happen.
I think it's likely that the appeals courts would say that Pennsylvania v. Mimms already let cops order people out of the car, which solves the safety problem, so there's no need to give cops extra authority to order you around willy-nilly. The ordinary person has a clear interest in knowing what exactly cops can and can't order, and you're proposing increasing the ambiguity of it all, which (as we just saw) is dangerous.
it’s actually a bigger safety issue if the cops can order you to lower your window
most inane take I've read about this interaction
You didn't explain, which suggests shadiness, but let's assume better... Let's assume you didn't understand what I meant.
Cops can let you stay in the car. They can make you get out, if they have solid grounds to do so. That's relatively simple, and it lets cops choose the best location for the interaction. So it's safe for the cops (but not the occupants). Whatever, that's the law, OK.
But they can't have it both ways. If they let you stay in the car, they've already decided you probably aren't going to grab a gun from under the seat. So there's no safety issue for them.
But there is for you. They might reach in the window, for example, violating your civil rights. It would be better for them to have to open the door. It's easy to see big actions on dash and body cameras, and it's harder to write them off as accidental. You could even keep your door locked. After all, who knows if the cops stopping you are upstanding citizens. Who will vouch for their character, my friend?
Lock the door, crack the window as necessary, get out when ordered, always film the pigs. This is 100% legal common sense. Or don't, and risk your own safety. It's your life.
If they let you stay in the car, they’ve already decided you probably aren’t going to grab a gun from under the seat. So there’s no safety issue for them.
Dude, you aren't making a lick of sense. Google "officer shot during traffic stop" and tell me again that keeping your window rolled down during a traffic stop is unreasonable.
crack the window as necessary, get out when ordered
two things he refused to do? What are you talking about, dude?
Did you watch the video? Your facts don't quite match what it showed. He gave the cops his papers, and then he closed the window, because he didn't need it open until they got back with his ticket. That's when they started power tripping. If they wanted him out of the car, all they had to do was wait 10 or 20 seconds. It really was that simple. But they wanted violence, so that's what they created.
What's actually dangerous to cops? The number one thing is bad driving by the cops themselves, which is the leading cause of death for officers on duty. During the pandemic, the pandemic itself was the other leading cause I think, because many officers didn't believe in it and they put themselves at risk.
Every year US cops shoot and kill over a thousand people. Many of those people are innocent. The risk to the average citizen is high, but the risk to the cop is much much lower. The last numbers I saw were in the hundreds, in the low hundreds, but it might even be lower than that. And now you're trying to carve out a special situation, where the cop is not shot when they first approached the car, but is only later shot after they already got the papers from the driver, and specifically because the driver closed their tinted window. I wonder if you can find even a single example of that happening in the last year. This is an issue that I tend to pay attention to, and I can't think of it happening in recent history.
And you might want to argue that we should err on the side of caution. First of all, that's not the law of the land. The Constitution doesn't allow you to do that. Second, if the situation is as rare as I think it is, almost or entirely non-existent, then what you're talking about is paranoia. In that case, you need a psychologist, not an open window. Third, the threat to the driver and passengers is real. If the cop makes a mistake, they may draw their gun and shoot people in the car. What if an acorn falls near them? They might shoot the driver. Sadly, this is a very real situation, unlike your hypothetical. In other words, the facts are not on your side here.
Because Tyreek Hill isn't going to shoot a police officer during a traffic stop on the day of a game?
I'll be honest, I've seen plenty of these types of stops on YouTube, I know guilty pleasure, and once he rolled up that window, Black, White, Chinese, Indian, you were going to get pulled out and arrested for contempt of cop.
Don't get me wrong, police do racially profile and harass Black people disproportionally and are racists assholes but the traffic stop? I don't think race played as much of a factor than just good ol' fragile cop ego where a white guy showing the same behavior would have been mostly the same thing happen, just that the white guy would have been in no danger of being killed but gun or suffocation.
It also wouldn’t have made the news. We wouldn’t be talking about a white cop violating a white persons rights either.
I’ll get downvoted, but the body cam footage I saw showed Tyreek talking back to the officer, refusing instructions by rolling up his window, and telling them not to knock on his car window. It’s not exactly surprising he got yanked out of his car. Go ahead and argue it wouldn’t happen to a white person. I’m not getting into that discussion. Perhaps the cops should have attempted to deescalate, but Tyreek did himself 0 favors. Was not surprised that he found out after fucking around with the cop.
At this point, what you're saying is like telling a woman she shouldn't have been there or wearing that, and ignoring the real issue with power here.
Cops largely are pathetic power-abusing shitheads who escalate at every possible opportunity. You should not have to cower to every whim and demand of a cop if you are not doing anything dangerous. Cops have lost any credibility to suggest that we should have to give a shit about every stupid fucking tiny thing they have an issue with.
Based on your argument, you could say you'll only speak to a lawyer and you're giving the cops an out to beat the shit out of you for not complying. Cops don't understand non-violent approaches to solving any problem, and THAT is the problem to focus on.
Fuck the police.
Sure, fuck the police but I argue a white person or a black person is heading for a bad time if they act the way that he acted. I can’t speculate on this any more than anybody else on “what if” scenarios should Tyreek have been white, but if you create a situation where the cop does not feel safe (e.g. rolling up your 100% tinted windows against their instructions) then you are going to get an escalation from the police.
if you create a situation where the cop does not feel safe
You reach for your license 'too fast' - cop does not feel safe Acorn falls on car - cop doesn't feel safe You are boiling water at home - cop does not feel safe You are writhing in pain underneath their boot - cop does not feel safe
US cops are literally brainwashed into feeling like the public is a threat to them. They are wired to look for a reason to escalate.
Fine but those situations are not the same as “angry and noncooperative citizen disobeying my request and I can no longer see what is happening inside the vehicle.”
I would argue that this is actually the correct situation for a police officer to feel more concerned for their safety.
The fact that we need to be concerned for our safety at all while "disobeying" a cop is proof that they act too aggressively and with almost no accountability. Cops can start a gang and murder you and no one bats a fucking eye
Why would a guy in a McLaren, who already gave you his ID, raise suspicions that he might be trying to harm you by simply rolling his window up? This cop mentality that everyone is seconds away from ambushing them like they're in Fallujah circa 2002 is absurd and drives a lot of this police brutality and overreaction. Don't forget that these are paid professional government employees. It's not the citizen's job to coddle police and play into their own personal paranoia and delusions just to avoid getting beaten or shot.
I dunno, I'm way less terrified of the guy with a 40k watch in a 150k car than I would be in any other situation. Unless I was super jealous that this black dude was rich, and he didn't show immediate respect to me. Then I might pull him out of his car despite having everything I need to write the citation and being in 0 danger literally surrounded by other officers.
I don't have any studies to hand, but isn't the disparity between police responses to non-white vs white suspects a given at this point, in the US at least?
But lets look at your argument both ways.
On the one hand you'd be arguing that race disparity in police responses doesn't exist at all and so wouldn't apply here.
Or
Race disparity exists, but in this specific situation it doesn't apply for some reason.
If that's the case , id be interested in hearing why you think it doesn't apply in this specific circumstance?
Neither of those sound plausible to me but i could be missing what your actual argument is entirely, in which case, would you mind explaining why it doesn't fall in to the above categories?
It’s more the latter. I don’t argue that race disparity exists. I’m only arguing that Tyreek did not do any kind of favor to himself in how he handled the situation. I’m sorry he got pulled from his car and cuffed, but my reaction to the video was that he had this coming. Blatantly disobeying an officer’s requests and in a way that can lead the officer to feel unsure over his/her safety and perceived control of the situation is going to end poorly. This could easily happen to a white person.
It’s more the latter. I don’t argue that race disparity exists. I’m only arguing that Tyreek did not do any kind of favor to himself in how he handled the situation.
Agreed, but "didn't do the most optimal thing in a given situation" isn't the same as "deserved to be dragged out of his car"
Especially in a situation where it is known to be significantly more dangerous, regardless of behaviour, for someone of a more melanin-rich persuasion.
This confusion is easily resolved though, let's clarify with a couple questions.
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) should have received that level of response in that situation ?
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) would have received that level of response in that situation ?
I’m sorry he got pulled from his car and cuffed, but my reaction to the video was that he had this coming.
I'd personally view that as two opposing viewpoints, either you think he had it coming or you're sorry it happened.
Blatantly disobeying an officer’s requests and in a way that can lead the officer to feel unsure over his/her safety and perceived control of the situation is going to end poorly.
And this is the crux of the issue, officers feeling unsafe and their level of perceived control is known to have a direct correlation to how reflective your skin is.
That doesn't even account for the officers with a blatant racial bias.
So you can argue that point, but the threshold for where actions end up in poor outcomes is intrinsically linked to race, any argument you make is going need to account for that or it's going to be perceived as missing a large chunk of the context.
Which is what is happening here.
This could easily happen to a white person.
That's subjective but again, let's clarify :
In these exact same circumstances, you'd expect a white person to be treated in the exact same way ?
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) should have received that level of response in that situation ?
As with any dispute, both parties can always strive for more, but I try to put myself in the cop’s situation. How long is long enough before you have to pull somebody who is clearly not cooperating from their car? Not following a lawful order during a traffic stop is a misdemeanor, which means you may be exiting your vehicle whether you like it or not.
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) would have received that level of response in that situation ?
I am positive racism plays a part in policing. But I didn’t see anything in this that leads me to believe Tyreek’s skin color affected his outcome. I’m a white dude and I easily see this happening to me if I did what he did.
I’m sorry he got pulled from his car and cuffed, but my reaction to the video was that he had this coming.
I'd personally view that as two opposing viewpoints, either you think he had it coming or you're sorry it happened.
They are not opposing or mutually exclusive viewpoints. I can be sorry for someone for the outcome they have been dealt based on their own actions. I can be sorry for him but also unsurprised.
In these exact same circumstances, you'd expect a white person to be treated in the exact same way ?
Yes, I truly feel this way in these circumstances. Perhaps I’m a naive idiot, but I just didn’t sense that he was treated that unfairly given his actions.
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) should have received that level of response in that situation ? As with any dispute, both parties can always strive for more, but I try to put myself in the cop’s situation. How long is long enough before you have to pull somebody who is clearly not cooperating from their car? Not following a lawful order during a traffic stop is a misdemeanor, which means you may be exiting your vehicle whether you like it or not.
That's not an answer to the question, that's a reiteration of your previous stance.
Do you think anyone (regardless of race) would have received that level of response in that situation ? I am positive racism plays a part in policing. But I didn’t see anything in this that leads me to believe Tyreek’s skin color affected his outcome.
Given that answer i go back to my previous question of :
If you understand racism plays a part in policing, what makes you think this is the exception ?
I’m a white dude and I easily see this happening to me if I did what he did.
You are entitled to your opinion, but the overall statistics disagree with you.
Not in an individual instance sense, but in an overall sense. You might very well have this same thing happen, but it's statistically much less likely.
I’d personally view that as two opposing viewpoints, either you think he had it coming or you’re sorry it happened.
They are not opposing or mutually exclusive viewpoints. I can be sorry for someone for the outcome they have been dealt based on their own actions. I can be sorry for him but also unsurprised.
Now this is interesting, i wouldn't consider "they had it coming" to be the same as "I'm unsurprised this happened" , one is very much assigning blame and the other is more neutral.
If you meant the latter, then sure, not mutually exclusive.
"I can be sorry for someone for the outcome they have been dealt based on their own actions." can easily be interpreted the same way as "I'm sorry he made the officer drag him out of his car but he totally deserved it".
Yes, I truly feel this way in these circumstances. Perhaps I’m a naive idiot, but I just didn’t sense that he was treated that unfairly given his actions.
The point the article was making wasn't that he was treated unfairly based on his actions, it was that the treatment he received was different (read: worse) because of his race.
That the treatment he received could be considered unfair for the situation isn't the point.
A boy and a girl both steal an apple, they both get grounded, the boy is also banned from the shop.
"Well the girl still got grounded" doesn't negate that the punishment wasn't equal.
Same as "The boy deserved punishment" doesn't negate that the punishment wasn't equal.
If you truly understand that racism is a large problem in all aspects of policing, that isn't naivety that's wilful ignorance.
I really can't imagine thinking that no matter how disrespectful someone was during a traffic violation, that escalating to pulling someone out of the car and putting them in handcuffs is ok.
Office was never in any danger, he was actually surrounded by other officers. You should be able to disrespect an officer and that should not escalate being physically handled like that.
The expectation for a criminal in a criminal act is to have as much force as needed applied to them to get them to comply. The expectation of an asshole at a traffic stop should be to get his big ticket and keep moving.
If you don't want to be called a boot licker, stop licking boots!
There are videos of white people doing this kind of thing and getting manhandled. Usually Karens.
Yeah nah. I thought your comment was probably the reasonable middle ground until I watched the footage too.
The police has 100% needlessly escalated to violence and fully on a power trip. They have not provided any reason for asking the window to be rolled down - nor did they have any. You can see into the car even though there's a lot of glare on the camera, most likely even better vision for a person. They made no attempt to explain any reasoning for the request to persuade him. Once on the ground and being cuffed, they proceeded to shout at him "when we tell you to do something you do it, not what you want". That's not how it works.
He didn't even try to resist the arrest but they treated him with quite a bit of force. They didn't listen at all when he called out he had an injury and needs more time to comply with the order of sitting down.
Yes, Tyreek did himself no favours with his attitude but he has also done absolutely nothing to deserve this treatment. He wasn't even particularly rude to the cops, his mistake seemed to be not to act fully deferential to a cop on a power trip, which is absolutely no reason to treat anyone like this.
So you think that we owe abject obedience to authority figures because they might hurt you otherwise but it would still be your fault if they did?
Sounds a lot like an abusive husband claiming that he wouldn't have to beat his wife if she hadn't burned their dinner.
This is what I greatly dislike within this community. Why must you resort to calling me names because you disagree with my point of view? Your view of my opinion on an isolated matter does not make me those things and I don’t appreciate it.
Just slap a label on me and make that your reason to be “correct”. This place sadly does not support opposing points of view that are thoughtfully made without cutting each other down and calling people names.
You’re advocating for those two things. Starting the obvious isn’t an insult. We have a right to comment on that things we see with our eyes.
My friend, you engaged in victim blaming, and when called out on it, you doubled down. That's uncivil and generally insulting. Meh.
How does this relate to domestic abuse and what did I say to imply that I am one who would do such a thing?
Because you implied that he deserved to get assaulted and thrown to the ground for "talking back" and "not following instructions." You don't see the parallels between this and a husband assaulting and throwing to the ground their wife for talking back and not following instructions? What makes this okay simply because it's being conducted by a person who took a 6 week training course and gets to wear a badge on their chest?
They're also literally defending cops, probably the most well known group of domestic abusers out there. It really isn't a big leap to make that if someone gets defensive over abusers (or racists), it's because they're actually getting defensive about their own behaviour.
E: also, the fact that the mods had removed your comment, but none of the racist bootlicker's, tells you everything you need to know about who they prioritise in this space - when "don't be a dick" becomes "don't be a dick to fascists", you're actively platforming fascists.
I've been Tyreek and have been picked up on disorderly conduct charges for mocking a police officer to his face. They did not treat me like that. It was all bullshit too, they just wanted to search me thinking I was an easy target.
What you're are saying is the police get your complete obedience no matter what. Frankly, that is just not how humans work. I don't care if you're an authority. If you target me I will feel a way about it.
Edit: BTW charges dropped because being rude is not illegal. Cops don't just get your complete obedience. That is not the law. It may be a norm but we have the power to change norms. To change laws. Don't perpetuate your own oppression.
Disrespecting a police officer is not an invitation for police brutality. You are a bootlicker for having this mentality.
Police officers should be professionals and try to use the least violent means necessary, and if there is even a hint of excess, they should be deemed unfit to hold the power of authority over others. Police should be reactive on the escalation ladder, only using violence when they receive violence. However, police are given a carte blanche to do violence by claiming in any interaction that they felt threatened, giving them impunity and why we're here today.
It was Tyreek not following directions and making the inside of his car not clearly visible to the officer (despite his requests). That creates a safety problem for the officer. This was the main issue IMO. If words don’t work and the citizen is not cooperating then I’m curious what is the next step besides pulling the guy from his car?
He lowered his window, handed his license over, and put his windows back up. The officer felt safe enough to stand by the widow for half a minute, knocking on the glass. The argument that the situation was threatening holds zero water and is just bootlicker cope.
The officer can make all kinds of demands, but if they don't fall under the procedures they are required to follow, then it's on the officer. The lack of following procedures is likely why the officer is suspended and will hopefully no longer be on the force. The excessive use of force is also going to result in tax payers paying millions to the recipient of the assault.
Please stop calling me a bootlicker. It’s not necessary for this conversation to occur.
Sorry about that.
It is a pejorative, but only trying to use it as short hand for people that freely give away their rights to authority.
It is a pejorative
No, it isn't, just like TERF isn't or like pointing out someone is white or male isn't, they are all simple statements of fact, that those they apply to don't like because, being used to always being the "default" that doesn't need categorising, it gives them the tiniest of glimpses of being part of an out group, without all of the oppression people like them actually enforce on members of the groups they marginalise.
Don't play in to the hands of the victimhood seeking bootlicker. This person is not being attacked or bullied or harmed in any way, they are literally just facing the consequences of their actions and words.
As they fucking should.
Requests are optional, my friend. And the visibility no concern. We know that's a blatant lie. You want to know how we know? Easy.
What if the cop doesn't force him out of the car? What would the cop do? I got it! He'd go back to his police car, far from Tyreek, perfectly safe, and then he'd write up the ticket. Then he'd walk back to Tyreek and give him the ticket. The end. Almost no contact, and all of that with backup officers on hand ready to assist. No violence, no handcuffs, no nothing.
After all, most people driving expensive cars aren't gonna stress about a speeding ticket. So give them the ticket already.
Yeah man, being rude to a public servant justifies being torn out of your car, slammed into the pavement and placed in handcuffs. Fuck right off.
Please don’t resort to those words. I am entitled to my opinion in this community without being told to fuck off.
No you ain't. Open your mouth and get a mouth back. Telling people to obey or be beaten like that's a reasonable thing to say. Go fuck yourself.
I am entitled to my opinion in this community
As is everyone else!
And just like everyone else, your feelings of entitlement don't protect you from having your shit opinion criticised, nor you, for having it!
So fuck off, racist bootlicker.
You must be new on the internet. But for real, I feel you. Internet is very polarized and people resort to rudeness way too quickly.
My dad once rolled his window up on a cop. He told officer to wait because he was on a cell call with my step mom.
He didn't get dragged out of vehicle, the state tropper waited and then gave my dad a huge fine.
Two things this was the 90's in Texas and my dad is white.
Being rude is protected by the Constitution, as you learned in high school civics class. You did a perfect job of blaming the victim.
On the other hand, maybe what you were trying to say is something like, "We gotta be practically-minded because the cops are dirty racist bastards who will beat the hell out of us."
I took AP US Government in highschool, but I don't remember what the non-AP alternative was. I think civics classes were the same idea but got removed at some point because I don't remember hearing about them while I was in school. The same way reading class got merged into language arts class I guess.
I don't know. I slept through a bunch of high school classes, but I heard that people studied that kind of stuff.
Being rude is protected, but holeing yourself in the car after committing a crime is not.
The police have to identify, notify, serve and if required detain. Preventing this is obstruction.
Still they handled this in one of the worst possible ways. Obstruction doesn't mean force is required, and specially not before extensive attempts to deescalate.
Speeding isn't a crime, it's an infraction. If speeding is a crime then everyone is a criminal. It's not like he held up a gas station.
He was waiting to receive his ticket. All they had to do was wrote the ticket. What was obstructed, other than their egos? ... This is contempt of cop, nothing more.
If you don't do anything immoral, you shouldn't be arrested. Refusing to submit to cops is not enough reason alone for them to physically harass you.
He wasn’t arrested. He was temporarily detained so that the police officers could safely issue a speeding ticket to an uncooperative citizen.
Detain and arrest are the same thing. If you aren't under arrest, then you're free to leave.
What if I told you none of this should matter in how people in positions of authority treat you. The cops were wrong here. End of story.
You've got plenty of replies already, but I don't see one saying this. You do not have a requirement to be nice to the cops. You have to identify yourself in most states, and you have to provide license and registration. You do no have to (nor should you) answer questions or be polite. The reason they ask questions is to get you to contradict other statements or to otherwise incriminate yourself. Their job is not to protect people. It's to arrest people. It's shitty, but that's the world we're in. We should not defend the state agents who are given this much power over us. It is wrong and indefensible.
Okay, I will argue that. Because it wouldn't have happened to a white person. I've seen white people get away with doing a lot more than that to cops.
I've seen plenty of sovcit videos where white people get their windows smashed and dragged out of the car
Yes. After doing a lot more than he did first.
Also, cops leave SovCits alone all the time because they don't want to deal with that shit. Black people, not so much.
Sov Cits don't have documentation and refuse to comply with lawful orders. This gentleman gave the police his documentation and they got mad he wasn't bending over and spreading his asshole.
It's funny cause this situation is so crazy with how the cops escalated this situation when it wasn't warranted, you actually have to compare them to someone doing an actual crime!
Like that's how crazy this debate even is. Rich dude in super car being an asshole vs a person who is willfully driving with fake paperwork hoping a cop pulls them over.
Hill just looked like a rich asshole in a hurry and I can't imagine anyone advocating that the police action was OK.
Squid - I think your arguments are subjective at best. Because I saw a white guy get away with more doesn’t mean that this is an issue of race and your sample size of n=1 doesn’t hold a lot of weight for your argument either. I’m a white guy and I would never dream of acting out like Tyreek did for fear that the same thing could happen to me. I have a hard time seeing race as the issue based on what I saw. Tyreek even said he was embarrassed after the fact. He didn’t handle this situation well at all.
Like dodging charges for assaulting his girlfriend in college? Or how about when he beat his kid and told his wife, "Bitch, you should be too" after she said to him, "your son is terrified of you" the proceeded to threaten his wife to lie to the authorities so the charges would be dropped.
He acted like the fucking scum bag he is to the cops and he fuckin got what he deserved. Mother fucker has been dodging charges that any non-athletic white person would never get away with. This piece of shit deserves to get hog tied and strung up like s pinata for his son to break open.
Sorry, the cops did that to him because of things he did in the past and not at the time of arrest and he was not charged with those things at the time of arrest?
This sounds sort of like people excusing Kyle Rittenhouse because he killed a sex offender, as if he could have known that.
I have no problem with rich assholes getting knocked down a peg or two or three.
Keeping your window rolled down during a traffic stop is not an unreasonable demand, especially when it's heavily tinted.
He already provided his license. The officers job was to go back to his vehicle and prepare a citation. Instead they decided to go on a power trip.
I've seen videos of it happening to white people. They are all over youtube. I don't think k he was wrong for first pulling him out, if the police just let you ignore them they couldn't do their jobs, but after that he started power tripping.
Fuck the cops anyways though
Lemmy is turning into Reddit...."if I was a cop..." lol..I mean, we live in a day and age where people are being taught NOT to respect or listen to cops. This is what actually happens when you're not obeying the officer. It doesn't matter if your a millionaire athlete, or some homeless dude... you don't talk back and ignore cops if you've been pulled over and/or detained.
You're part of the problem. Why should cops have this power over us? I bet you like to say stuff about liking small government and talk about how bad tyranny is too, and somehow don't see how those beliefs contradict your support of cops having total power.
Did you watch the video? Hill rows up his window and ignores the cop... the cop doesn't know if dude has a gun in there or not... it's now about "having power over us" it's about having law and order. Our laws and order is what keeps us from becoming a third world country. The minute you start allowing people to disobey law enforcement, not care, or ignore them.. you lose that law and order. If you think cops have "power" over us, you're spending too much time on Lemmy and Reddit...
Our laws don't say anything about being polite. The attorneys I've heard talk about the subject say to crack the window just enough to pass over your information and to not engage with the officers, besides telling them you're evoking your fifth amendment right to remain silent and not answering questions.
Yeah, that's the kind of thing bootlickers say, good job. It's cute that you think I'm a liberal though, like that's as far left as you can go or liberals are anti-establishment.
This is what actually happens when you're not obeying the officer.
You think that's okay?
That cop doesn't know if Hill has a weapon in the vehicle, a gun, something... you don't roll up your windows and ignore a police officer when you've been stopped for breaking the law.
Why? I mean seriously, why do you think that? Should we be afraid of them because they can abuse their authority?
Who's afraid of cops? You? I'm not...I'm a minority myself, I've never once felt afraid. I've been pulled over before. the difference is I don't get confrontational with them, ignore them or fight back...