I work in local government and people throw their weight around constantly. A few years ago, I was filming a project, for the city, at the request of the city manager, and some random citizen starts shouting at me that I'm stalking them. Told'em who I was, what I was doing, that I've literally never seen him before, and showed my ID badge. They storm off and maybe ten minutes later, I get a call from the city manager telling me to leave because the person was like...hunting buddies with the chief of police who called the city manager about "some stranger with a camera following people and harassing them". The chief wanted me to be fired for no damn reason and I had to show'em the hour-long raw footage of what I was filming, including the interaction. Chief still wanted me fired. The mayor had to tell him that there's no legal grounds and to just drop it. I did get a written/verbal warning in my file as a compromise.
I can honestly believe someone living in one of those fancy houses knows an officer and made a direct complaint to their cellphone.
It says suburban neighborhood -- this type of thing only happens in places where the police don't really have much to do, which correlates with places where residents think black person == criminal.
*hate black people*
*Choose to live right next to the city of Detroit*
I’m a Metro-Detroiter and I’ve always hated the city of Grosse Pointe. They have a long history of racism against Detroit residents. It’s so garishly rich and it is literally right next to Detroit where people have struggled with homelessness and burnt out buildings for the last 30 years. The dichotomy is Disgusting.
Not sure why you got downvoted, they select for stupid, It’s the billionaires’s best defense against a revolt of class traitors.
Google “Robert Jordan New London” for those of you interested in learning more.
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u/SimikielShe/her Cisn't afraid to fight for my rights 🏳️⚧️9m ago
Sorry just a minor correction, but
It’s the billionaires’s best defense against a revolt of class traitors.
People finally revolting against billionaires wouldn't make them class traitors. It'd only be class traitors if it was other billionaires revolting against billionaires. The Police are class traitors against the general populace however.
I can't believe he tried to white-splain profiling as if it's ok that another person called the cops instead of the cops just acting on their own racist suspicions.
Right? And if the cops saw him, decided "nah, he's not suspicious." then it isn't profiling. But the fact they even stopped him, it most certainly was.
Ugh, for anyone outside of Michigan Grosse Pointe is where anyone with money can actually live around Detroit without having to deal with the crime, poverty, etc. So yeah these are really just people too scared to be living where they are.
You need to ask the porker what "reasonable, articulable suspicion of a crime" to be detained. I'm surprised they didn't pretend he looked like a burglary suspect.
Okay so looking all over the country with videos like these since body cams have been getting posted on here for more than 8 years now.
Now are these the good cops people talk about in the rare videos that pop up every now and then where 1 cop actually does their job?
Yeah not all cops are bad I know, just like not all leopards are bad, but would you let the leopards walk around freely and with protections?
They ain't all bad though, so why would you have a problem with them when only 35 percent of them attack people and kill them? That's just the price to pay for feeling safe though huh because when it ain't you then a twitter rant is a good enough repayment for innocent lives lost to people given the authority to take our bodily autonomy away from us.
That's why I think we should set all the leopards free and give them wildlife protections. If you get attacked by them, then it was probably your fault for making them feel threatened.
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u/SheriffOfShart 17h ago
"The people think you need to be checked on" is never an excuse for police harassment. Get that lawsuit money!