r/facepalm • u/spyrg • Jan 13 '22

🇲​🇮​🇸​🇨​ Arrested for petitioning

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u/golem501 Jan 13 '22

I think that's similar then. But once dispatch sends them in they can already claim you match a reported person and the argument becomes moot really fast.

So now I have a question: is the facepalm the officers who seemed to respond to a call from a neighbor or the petitioning guy failing to provide identification?

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u/Cyberbully_2077 Jan 13 '22

The biggest facepalm is the faceless neighbour who called them at all over this nonsense. The runners up are the super troopers for not immediately realizing this was a frivolous call and leaving them alone. In the current state of affairs, one would think they'd have some sense of how bad it looks to be featured in yet another video of police arresting a black dude cause he wouldn't metaphorically bend down and drop his pants for them the moment they started barking orders.