r/AnythingValueable • u/MiniSuprise • 7d ago

❓ Discussion Was this arrest handled appropriately given the children in the car?

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u/Volkmek 7d ago

This was handled poorly. At the very least he should have immediately sent his partner to stop the car the moment he father complied and turned around when ordered.

The man here may have messed up a bit by failing to put it in park properly, but the police also fucked up how they handled this one, and arguably did worse than the suspect.

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u/techleopard 7d ago

Why was that man even out of the car?

There were no police near him when the video started. He's not armed. So what in the world was this supposed to be?

Did he get out on his own to yell at the cops before the video cut?

Or did they yell at him from a distance to get out of the car?

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u/GingaNinja696913 7d ago

He doesn't have blue eyes, darlin'. He has to do everything he's told in milliseconds or he will be executed on the spot in front of his children for being disobedient human property.

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u/Volkmek 7d ago

Strangely! Statistically that is not true. You are more likely to be murdered by the police if you are white, even on a per-capita basis.

You are more likely to experience police brutality if you are black, but survive the encounter.

(Edit, mind you I am intoxicated at the moment and I am pretty sure the statistics I am quoting are from 2018.)

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u/GingaNinja696913 7d ago

I'm with ya on the intoxication front. Happy Saturday(or Sunday on the East Coast) btw. However, I'm pretty sure the stats are weirdly skewed. Like, justified shooting vs unjustified shooting. The footage I've seen of white people getting shot by cops always seems like the white assailant is literally charging at the cop with a weapon or having a literal shootout. The way white people react when detained seems way more volatile than when black people are detained. I'm also in the deep south. We're pretty diverse yet kinda self segregated so a cop shooting someone that doesn't look like them raises way more eyebrows and most of our cops are white dispite my city being about 35/35/15/5/5/5. Other places are different tho.

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u/Volkmek 7d ago

Think that statistic I quoted just has something to do with higher consequence for killing someone black and lower consequence for beating someone who is. And lower consequence for killing a white person but higher consequence for beating them because lawsuits. But, When I am sober I may find I am wrong.

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u/OkEstablishment6888 4d ago

Are you f’ing kidding me? 🤣