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Originally Posted by Jinn
The very fact that this HAPPENED means there are officers who think they can do whatever they want on a man's private property. This HAPPENS because they're not trained by their departments and citizens saying "No" to keep their power in check.
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Well now, hold on. There's no reason to search a car when it's pulled over for speeding and there are no suspicious odors or visible crack pipes. But when a cop is called to a house with a report of a possible burglary in progress, it's his job to make sure that there isn't one in progress.
Were I the cop, I'd ask him to step out on the porch, to make sure there wasn't some jackass behind the door pointing a gun at his head to get him to convince me to go away.
This professor has a chip on his shoulder about either white people or the police. . .Or both. The cop's request that he join the cop on the front porch was not unreasonable. Nor was it unreasonable for the cop to be there.
If there actually HAD been someone breaking into the house, our professor would have been the first one howling that the goddamn cops don't do their jobs. And I wouldn't be shocked if he claimed the cops wouldn't protect him 'cause he's black.