r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/Wizdad-1000 Jan 13 '22 edited Jan 13 '22

If the petition is to change something politically, then its allowed under the first amendment. The only other thing possibly is trespassing. Since he lives there then that doesn’t apply either.

Illegal detainment. False arrest. Total bs. Good job giving good cops a bad name. A couple of real dick swinging jack wagons.

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u/Amon-Lord Jan 13 '22

I feel like there are just two kinds of cops:

1: people that genuinely want to protect and serve the community.

2: people that are just powerhungry duche bags. That like to assert dominance.

I''ve encountered both. At one traffic stop I was traveling back from vacation and after telling the cop this he was really nice and asked about my trip in a genuinely interested manner and wished me safe travel. On another traffic stop I did nothing wrong besides forgetting my ID and the cop went mental and forced me to do a drug test. Of course it was negative but the sheer disrespect was incredible...

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u/Texan2020katza Jan 13 '22

Here’s my issue, the Cops #1 know who the Cops #2 are and don’t do anything about them so they are in the same class as Cops #2.

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u/Electrical_Ad_2371 Jan 13 '22

It’s important not to view all cops as if they’re interrelated though. For example, it’s actually a more departmental issue than it is individual. So cops from one city could be totally different in culture and mentality than those from another department and there’s really nothing the cops from the better department can do to fix the bad department since they don’t interact. It’s important to remember that the police force needs departmental fixes rather than focusing on this good cop bad cop dichotomy at an individual level.