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Old 07-23-2009, 03:02 PM   #90 (permalink)
Zenturian
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Originally Posted by Derwood View Post
I've noticed (both on TFP and in my own life) that there are two types of people when it comes to cops. I'll provide a brief example:

After being pulled over for speeding, a police officer asks if he can look in your trunk. You know there is nothing in the trunk besides the spare tire, jack, and a change of clothes for the gym.

Person A allows the officer to take a look, knowing that they've done nothing wrong and that the officer won't find anything.

Person B raises a huge stink, yells at the officer about not having a warrant and that his rights are being broken, etc.


Now, is Person B in the right or in the wrong? Technically, they're probably right, but I'm of the opinion that you have to choose your battles. Then again, I don't have a chip on my shoulder about authority figures and have never had a bad run-in with the police....
You are correct. I have been searched for no reason, stopped at airports for no reason. Was I wrong in just letting the cops do their search and then let me go, or should I have just screamed and made an incident of the whole thing? Who knows. The path of least resistance worked out for me. But then, I have nothing to hide. This proffessor could have just showed a driver's license. He could have said, " Boy, I know how this must look, but this is my house. Oh, here is my id." And the cops would have looked about for a nano second more, and carried on. But then, we wouldn't know this guy's name now, would we? When your whole life is based on how the black man is being screwed over, your mind set is slanted or should I said, prejudiced towards a bias that permeates everything.

Example. I was a manager at a GNC. The policy there is every person gets a personal greeting. I was working with a new cashier, when she didn't great a customer. Fearing this could be the secret shopper, I walked up to them to give them the personal greeting. The couple, black, shouted at me. " We WERE going to spend 50 dollars in this store, but since you are a racist who thinks all blacks are theives and ahve to follow us around wil, and all our friends, will not spend a dime in this racist store. ( I cleaned up what they really said).

Who is the racist here? They didn't even want to hear an explaination. IN their mind the ONLY reason was racism. Couldn't possibly be a store policy or fear of my paycheck being cut down, no racisim. Some people have been conditioned and their minds are closed. I think this proffessor is one of the conditioned if not the conditioners.

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Originally Posted by FuglyStick View Post
Even if you're in the right, it's best not to respond to law enforcement with insolence. That's just common sense.
Quoted for truth!
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