-RW‘You don’t know my name, so how can you tell me I have an open warrant?’ — This officer tried to arrest a Black father in front of his own home after incorrectly identifying him as a suspected criminal from another state pic.twitter.com/fOPKtUDv6s— NowThis (@nowthisnews) May 14, 2019
Sunday, June 30, 2019
Coppers Harassing a Totally Innocent Black Man
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From experience I have determined that either cops are two standard deviations stupid from the mean or they will exploit any tiny similarity to an actual case in order to harass someone or do something towards meeting their performance objectives.
ReplyDeleteCops are just public school teachers with guns.
DeleteAccording to FBI statistics, blacks commit 50% of the violent crime in the U.S., whereas, they are only 13% of the population.
ReplyDeleteAnd since cops know that a random black person has a 400% higher chance of being a violent criminal than a person of another race, they act accordingly.
DeleteAnd so you give this cop a pass?
DeleteYes, he is protecting the peaceful people.
DeleteLink to this cite? And does that purported statistic show that blacks actually COMMIT 50% of violent crime in the US ... or that blacks are ARRESTED at that rate? Huge difference.
DeleteAlso you are disgusting racist and, based on my own stereotype I will now apply, I assume you are a dirt poor, pathetically stupid, lazy waste of oxygen
Also, for the sake of the argument, even assuming Blacks are more likely to be criminals, a random Black person has an infinitessimal probability of being a criminal.
DeleteI incorrectly put a warrant out on a guy once. Turned out the perpetrator was the guys cousin. Spitting images of each other, and I got a tip from what I thought was a reliable source. I didn't make the mistake of over-relying on video evidence again. Fortunately,it was all sorted out.
ReplyDeleteThe legal standard for police conduct is: would a "reasonable" officer make this choice?
In my case, it was a yes. I wasn't sued, so it wasn't tested legally. I was wrong, but it was done with reason given the facts I had before me.
In this case... is it reasonable? Not really... Buuuuut in court I could make the case sound like it was. Whoever has the better lawyer wins if this interaction came to civil suit.
In a PPS or NAP society, would security workers be afforded similar legal standards? If a private eye messes up like I did, would he lose his house? Is the "reasonable officer" standard good? I wonder how it would be done. Demanding perfection on pain of tort will guarantee no one would take the job. But I don't think anyone here thinks a libertarian society should be without investigators and security. So what standard would they have?