Political rants

@Vanilla Good vid! Not all cops are bad, but there are a disturbing number of them who just shouldn't be wearing the badge for a number of reasons ranging from not enforcing the law and not doing their jobs to guys like the one in the vid who abuses his authority. I'm White and I've experienced this. Shortly after my divorce, I decided to take up jogging to lose some weight (but had to quit because my knees started hurting and I was worried about what might happen. knees are fine now) and I did so at night because it's cooler outside. One night I left my apt. and my shorts were a bit too lose and started falling, so I stopped for a moment to fix them. Suddenly a spot light from across the street shined on me and I'm like wtf, figured it was some idiot messing with a deer spotting light (I live in PA so some people have them in their cars) and then began jogging, passing two people on the sidewalk. About 90 seconds after the spotlight, a cop pulls up to me with flashing lights and tells me to stop. I did and asked why? He told me I was acting suspiciously. I asked what I was suspected of. He told me I was being suspicious because I ran from him. I corrected him, pointing out I was merely jogging, stopped to tie my shorts for a moment, and I wasn't moving that quickly at all (I'm out of shape) and obviously was NOT doing a flat-out run attempting to escape him and for that matter I didn't even know he was a cop because I was being blinded by his light shining in my face. To this day I still don't know why he was sitting in a private parking lot across the street from me because I live in a very low crime small town area so I highly doubt he was staking out criminals. But I was in pretty bad shape mentally from my divorce and didn't think to ask him. Officer unfriendly still wasn't convinced. He wanted my ID, but the only thing I had on me was my apt. key. He kept asking who I was and where I lived and I wouldn't tell him anything because it was none of his damn business. He tried telling me the reason he pulled me over was because the two people I passed while jogging told him I was being suspicious (which is impossible during the 90 secs it took him to reach me) and when asked about WHAT I was being suspected of (something I asked at least a dozen times throughout the encounter) he again would only repeat that I was being suspicious. I was just standing rocking back and forth slightly on my feet from having stood there so long and this jackass begins to reach for his gun and tells me not to approach him and I stepped back and I'm like, easy dude I'm not trying to do anything, geez. I asked if I was under arrest and he said no but falsely claimed he had a right to detain me anyways. I asked him to cite the law that permitted him to do this and he couldn't, but he still insisted he could do so. I pointed out that I was only wearing a tee-shirt and shorts. I showed him I had nothing on me but a key so clearly I didn't rob anybody. There was no blood or signs of my being in a fight so I hadn't murdered or hurt anyone. But this guy still insisted I was suspicious! After arguing with him for like 20 minutes, I was getting tired of it all. As I said, I was still quite a mess from having recently divorced at that time so I finally gave him my name and address just so I could get it over with. He called it in, and even told the guy on the radio "I have guy here who is acting suspiciously" to which I shouted "Why don't you tell him what it is I'm suspected of doing wrong, which is nothing!" It came back I had no record and he finally let me go.

@mirai_k: OMG, I'm not the only one who posts multiple wall-like paragraphs anymore! https://thumbs.gfycat.com/RareWanBordercollie-size_restricted.gif Ah, the blinding light designed to disorient people, and lull even sober people into a state of bewilderment for a few seconds. Yeah, that sounds about right. That's basically what the whole channel is about, encounters like yours. There's a decent number of fair cops and even good cops out there just doing their job. Then you have a shameful amount around who are like "If there aren't any minorities, then they gots ta harass the working class." They pull me over a lot because my car tends to be a little beaten down. I can't count how many times they've wanted to search me for drugs on the side of the highway. And hell, I don't even drink. Must be the long hair or something. Are you Appalachian by any chance? They tend to harass Appalachians pretty hard in Nelsonville, Circleville and Columbus for reasons I never quite understood, and I was wondering if they do that in Pennsylvania too. Being Appalachian is not always a racial thing, it's more of a cultural thing. Though if you go back far enough to the turn of the century, when eugenics was a big thing, they were deemed as the 'less white'. And have basically been kept in resource poor hilly areas for several generations, where impoverished conditions still persist to this day. Might have something to do with it.

@chocopyro that channel started popping up for me out of literally nowhere recently.. pretty interesting.. just seen the cops try to arrest the ATF fedboy. Funny stuff. Anyways all the black people vs white cop ones ive see where the cop 100% in the wrong and its not hard to see that.. curious if they cover some of the more controversial ones that tend to get debated.

Oh yeah, that one took place near a neighborhood I used to work in! (I was one of those people who put fliers in doors for a year or two. The scum of the earth. XD) Anyways, my guess is they try to avoid cases that draw a lot of media attention, since it tends to draw a wrong connotation of what they are about. If a police reform movement gets too left wing, people don't take them seriously anymore. And sadly, that's what tends to happen to cases that are too public or results in a death. I mean they got stuff about Ahmaud Arbery, but it's more a break down of what happened, who was involved, and what was actually going on, than an evaluation of civilian/cop interaction. So not like their usual stuff. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxhIL2iMdM8&t And yes, there are cases where the cops aren't 100% in the wrong, like this one. They did what they were supposed to do here, and nothing funny was happening behind the scenes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GmwlemfbHbw&t=832s

In relation to... https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1456344147103653889

@verucassault That was asinine lol.

I don't want to be "that guy", but if you announce your pronouns in the first three sentences you say to me I automatically don't take you seriously.