I don’t think this is stupid. cops overstep their authority a lot, saw a video yesterday where a cop arrested a woman for not allowing him to test her tint. in the USA, you are not required to provide assistance to the police in an investigation against yourself, it’s the 5th amendment. they arrested her for “obstruction”, which directly violated her 5th amendment right to not incriminate herself.
you’ll see many where cops overextend their power and try to bully citizens into following non lawful commands just because the cop feels like bossing people around.
youtu.be/Yj6YXF5qh7w?si=SNZVn9Jkgp_MoNZ4
so I don’t feel it’s a stupid question whatsoever, if your freedom is being jeopardized with the threat of being placed in a cage, that arresting officer better damn sure know wtf he’s talking about and not basing all this off feelings. cops like to do what they want, even when proven wrong, and they get away with it without consequences, so why would they care about actual law when they can make shit up and later go “oops”. while leaving people in their wake with lots jobs, children taken from them, property damaged, etc.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
But you see it’s perfectly acceptable to drive into a lamppost. The police have just been unreasonable.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
sometimes it is very clear they fucked up, many times not. existing while black is a serious issue that cops use against citizens all the time.
I recently got pulled over for flipping off a cop for blaring his horn at me when I changed lanes, with plenty of time and space and blinker. he drove past and then stopped on the highway and backed up to get off the exit to follow me. there were not lights, just a crazy man yelling at me through his passenger side window, driving a Kia minivan. I told him to fuck off and kept going. he follow me into a parking lot and THEN put on lights.
I got out expecting to defend myself from a road rager. he made up some shit about me not obeying his right of way and made up a ticket, when in reality his ego was bruised for getting flipped off. I got it all on dashcam and phone. but there will be no punishment for him being an ass hole to citizens, he probably won’t even come to court which is next month.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 months ago
I was more thinking just internationally. Not everyone is American.
Generally speaking in most parts of the world they’re doing an okay job and the person has just been an unreasonable dick.
thermal_shock@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I agree with that, most cops outside of USA you can have a conversation with like a normal human. in USA, they are ALWAYS right, even when they’re wrong, their goal is to ticket you, not listen or see what is actually going on. they’re more of a nuisance than an asset.