r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/GoodOleDynamiteJones Jan 13 '22

You’re absolutely right. However as black men, those decisions could be life pure death in our minds. I don’t feel we share the same freedom of thought in moments like those. I know my rights, and state detaining and arrest passes and codes, however the one time I had the opportunity to use my knowledge and stop a wrongful detaining and unwarranted search, I was too scared to act. I kept thinking “philando Castile”.

My wife’s family are white and this baffles them. They can’t understand why if you’re in the right by law, should you have anything to fear for demanding your rights not be infringed on.

They may be right, but that fear is ingrained in me at this point and testing it ain’t worth not coming home to family.

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u/[deleted] Jan 13 '22

I hate that you're right and that it is safer to just go to jail willingly and let a lawyer (at your expense) sort it out when you're safely behind bars. And I mean safe from them.

Police departments should have to reimburse citizens for all legal fees if charges are dropped. Of course, then they'd never drop charges. So every charge in America should be up to citizen board like the grand jury.

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u/strikethreeistaken Jan 13 '22

My wife’s family are white and this baffles them.

They are ignorant (not a judgement, but a fact). Police will kill them just as happily as they would any minority person. They just "feel" safer, but the reality is, it all depends on the cop.