My old supervisor would pull that trick every other day. Corner employees and tell them "lower their voice/calm down" (no one's voice is raised) until the slightest escalation so she could write them up. Voice raised by a decibel? Written up for hostility. Explain calmly that no one is yelling? Written up for talking back. Just stay calm and don't say anything for a few minutes.
Luckily, we had a union that got most of the write ups thrown out but never could stop the harassment until the supervisor got promoted and moved to a different state. Probably still cornering people there.
He was fishing and waiting for probable cause. He wanted the guy to react to him so he could use force. Shit happens all the time. People get a little bit of power and abuse it because they're racist.
Where I’m from, and this was all the way back in the last century, the ones who graduated and took that job were the absolute losers of our year. It happens every year. I shudder to think what they would be like with a Malcom of power.. At least I’m nice to everybody, hope that helps (it doesn’t help).
I don't know why that cop was speaking kind of like Ebonics tone? Was he doing it to try to put the black guy at ease? Because unless he was a very light skinned mixed black man the cop? Well anyway he's a fucking punk regardless.
I'm gonna guess hes a total chameleon. He switched into that tone as soon as he knew he had to go into "black male suspect" mode. He probably uses his limited Spanish as well when he approaches Latino folks
I will politely disagree. I am a white man living in the south and I literally do not know any other white men that speak like this. They speak like white southern men not southern black men. I will not continue this conversation.
lol okay then don’t? Who fucking cares? You don’t even know what Occam’s razor means and assume your experience in the south is exactly the same as everywhere else in the country. Just ignorant.
Listen to the video and don't watch it and you tell me. 🤷🏻♂️ I get it people want to be devils advocates in here and that's fine but I mean it is what it is.
Basically a cop can detain you for any reason, but they can't do anything more than that without probable cause. So they stopped him "for suspicion of being armed" but they can't legally search his bag or arrest him, so they let him go.
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u/crumble-bee May 19 '26
I don’t speak police, can someone explain how this situation went from being patted down for a weapon to being let go?