I find this video amazing, but more, the comments that follow.
This guy appears to be a golfer, so a man of some means, and he yelled at the officer putting his hand in her face. He was stopped for going 57 in a 35. He exited the vehicle without asking, was hostile, and failed to comply. In a reasonable world, people would be glad that civilians helped her subdue this man, but no, not in this world.
In this world, she is being ridiculed and vilified.
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@ChippySuave Vilified by who?
I have all sorts of furious opinions about police in this country, but there is no way I am interpreting her actions as wrong here.
That guy was a maniac.
I once was attacked by a man with a golf club in a city park (I asked him to please stop striking balls towards a playground nearby).
This person reminds me of him. I wouldn't be surprised if it was the same one - but apparently, there's a factory that makes them somewhere.
@AskTheDevil The comments following the video feature many who are supporting the man and excoriating her.
Of course. Thanks.
(slaps forehead)
I think my brain blanks out that section under videos and news articles, they way it does ads.
@ChippySuave Oh my goodness. The ones claiming he didn't push her, and she's the one who got physical first.
I hate to say it, but if I had been present and witnessed that, I'd have jumped on him also.
@ChippySuave I also agree. It's almost certain that would have gone differently were the driver not a white person.
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She had every reason in the world to pull out her gun. Omg the world is upside down.
@ChippySuave I'm a little surprised that he wasn't tazed. While she didn't exactly have an opening to go for it once the grappling began, when he first put his finger in her face, she could have reached for it and got it right in his chest.
As you said, had the driver been black, they would have already had a gun on him and just dumped rounds into him for getting out of the car.
@ChippySuave naw, screw that cop. She escalated unnecessarily out of fear and couldn’t back her power trip up.
That old man, while belligerent, wasn’t a threat. She could have backed off, pulled if she needed to feel safe and held off until backup arrived 30 seconds later.
@Smersh @ChippySuave NO
The moment he existed his car without being instructed to, he was in the wrong.
The moment he approached her in a belligerent manner, he was in the wrong.
And I think about all the men and women who have been stopped for being merely Black. I think about all the Black men and women who have been killed by law enforcement. How many times have we heard, "Well if they just complied..." or "Well, they should have just listened.." .
I watch this and know he won't be hurt, but I also know if the driver had been Black, I would be watching a video with a completely different ending, with comments instead defending the cop.
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