Border Patrolman detains two American citizens for the crime of speaking Spanish in Montana.
Holy Shit! If Mexicans start crossing the border from Canada too, who knows WHAT we can do to protect our country!
Dunno, which one turned his colleague or neighbour in for a petty “crime” that most people don’t actually think is wrong?
Oh, wait, that doesn’t actually apply here in any fashion.
Depends, was one of them playing music loudly?
I don’t recall advocating for calling the police on people playing music too loudly, just being allowed to defend yourself against people who threaten to shoot you if you ask them to turn it down.
So calling the police is unnecessary, but shooting people driving away is not.
You think that a cop kicking a man in the head while he is on the ground handcuffed is a petty crime that shouldn’t result in any repercussions. You also think that a person who shoots another person because they were playing loud music is a good guy to have around. Your judgement is flawed, and I dare say, dangerous. You should probably look into that.
I’ve never claimed that, I’ve said that someone who’s not afraid to stand up to antisocial behaviour and willing to defend themselves if attacked is a good person to have around. I don’t think there was ever a reasonable claim, even by the prosecution, that he shot him because he was playing loud music.
The irony of everyone here overreacting to supposed police violence and self defence is that, if your ideas came to pass, you’d have violent criminals going around unchallenged. Hell, there’s already far too much of that happening because the justice system is far too focussed on petty but easily proven “crimes”* such as drug possession.
*Quote marks because this sort of thing obviously should not be a crime.
Why do you continue to talk to Steophan as if there was any sense of rationality there that could be engaged with?
Bored 
You used the guy who shot a person for playing loud music as an example of someone who is a good person to have around.
You think a video of a cop kicking a handcuffed man in the head is “supposed police violence” and “petty crime”??
No, you fucking idiot, that’s exactly what racial profiling is.
Bolding mine.
I often attack idiots by driving away. I’m surprised no one has defended against me to death!
As for “violent criminals going around unchallenged”, last I checked, this entire thread is devoted to innocent people being assaulted or murdered by police, and the thought that police officers are not the judge, nor the jury, nor the executioner, yet we find them acting in this regard repeatedly. Cite that recent calls for police to not be assholes have caused an increase in violent crime?
Well it pisses them off, and the more they are pissed off . . .
Atlanta: Three black women arrested for spending too long in a bathroom.
Kansas: Black man pulled out of his car and the car searched without his consent because there were leaves stuck to his windshield.
I don’t think this one counts.
The restaurant was no longer serving customers, but there were still customers eating. It was not closed.
That’s not how it works. You close at 9, you stop letting people in at 9.
You’ve heard people say ‘Sorry, we’re closed’ haven’t ya? Happened to me!
And if he weren’t an NBA player, we’d never have heard about any of this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPSpmk7S4eg&feature=youtu.be
An assistant police chief actually asked for support from a (black, I think) church a little while ago. They knew.
I wasn’t sure if New Mexico Republican legislator Monica Youngblood should go in the Stupid Republican Idea thread or this one. If there was a thread for Blatant Republican Hypocrisy I’d post this there.
Yeah, her aggravated DWI arrest is a “controversial encounter,” all right, but not for the usual reasons. The arresting officer was unfailingly professional, polite, and correct. Monica, on the other hand, tried to use her political position to sway the police to make an exception for her. Which is a crime, isn’t it? Abuse of power under the State Governmental Conduct Act. The NM attorney general is investigating whether to bring charges on that.
The kicker is — get this: As part of her get-tough-on-crime politics, she supports mandatory breath tests on DWI suspects. But when she failed the field sobriety test, she refused to take the breath test. :dubious: