This is disturbing. I agree with you. Originally Posted by LexusLovermaybe I should re-think. hahaha
Not just "black people" ... all ACTUAL VICTIMS ...True, but the "black lives matter" loudmouths are very specific on the lives they care about. . .so that's what people will react to by tuning it out.
.. and it will end up having an impact on LE responses to real incidents. Originally Posted by LexusLover
Then I recommend you not come down to Texas, but if you just must...
...don't get an attitude with a state trooper during a traffic stop.
I recommend saying "Yes, sir" and "No, sir" and ...
.... comply with his or her* requests.
*Yes, there are female LE officers in Texas. Originally Posted by LexusLover
Keep in mind, She was , supposedly, on her way to a job interview at the local University, Praire View A&M......stoned. Originally Posted by Jackie SApparently the trooper got a whiff of the odor when he approached ...
Then I recommend you not come down to Texas, but if you just must...I've never been to Texas, but where I come from, policemen and state troopers act like professionals. If a driver spits on you, that's assault. If a driver "cops an attitude," that's a subjective opinion. When I was younger, I've had to work customer service jobs where people called me a number of things to my face, and I still managed not to have any response aside from, "I apologize (X happened). I will take your complaints to a manager."
...don't get an attitude with a state trooper during a traffic stop. Originally Posted by LexusLover
As in Ferguson, Missouri, stopping drivers and ticketing them is how Waller County makes a lot of money.
Attorney Emily Gerrick has studied the phenomenon. She is with the Austin-based Texas Fair Defense Project. It’s a nonprofit working to improve the state’s public-defender system and challenge policies that jail poor people because they can’t afford bail-bond fees and post-conviction fines and costs.
Those costs are legion and staggering. Texas has no state income tax, and money for social services must come from somewhere. Gouging people with traffic tickets and criminal convictions is an easy way for the state, counties, and municipalities to collect lots of money.
The worst place in Waller County to be driving is probably where Bland was stopped–the little town of Prairie View.
They do it through a byzantine schedule of fees. The state keeps most of the money, but counties and cities retain a percentage. There’s a $25 “records-management” fee, for instance. A $15 “judicial fund” fee. Fifteen dollars added to each bail-bond payment. The list goes on, with scores of charges. As a former Waller County Justice of the Peace described it, a trivial infraction can rack up charges totaling as much as $500.
Apparently the trooper got a whiff of the odor when he approached ...That is irrelevant. She was not charged with drug possession or usage in any capacity. She was charged with "assaulting a public servant," which turned out to be a lie.
.. .she was apparently trying to cover it with tobacco smoke. Originally Posted by LexusLover
I've never been to Texas, but where I come from, policemen and state troopers act like professionals. If a driver spits on you, that's assault. If a driver "cops an attitude," that's a subjective opinion. When I was younger, I've had to work customer service jobs where people called me a number of things to my face, and I still managed not to have any response aside from, "I apologize (X happened). I will take your complaints to a manager."If you are ok with living in a state that has a state income tax and elects "nanny-state " politicians like Bllomberg as Mayor of NYC, then just keep your liberal, tax-and-spend loving ass right there ! Are you yet another liberal defending a member of the Dindu Nuffins so that you can feel good about yourself and say " well, I have black friends, therefore I'M NOT racist ! " Try not to sweat to much this winter with all of that "Global warming. climate change " that is expected for you Yankees !
If state troopers in Texas by and large just arrest people for "attitude problems," they need to clean fucking house, then. I have a low tolerance for people who can't behave professionally in a capacity where they wield power over others.
Of course, the real likely reason for the arrest I'm finding is that Waller County does these petty arrests regularly to exploit citizens as a source of revenue in a state without state tax.
http://www.thenation.com/article/the...got-locked-up/
That is irrelevant. She was not charged with drug possession or usage in any capacity. She was charged with "assaulting a public servant," which turned out to be a lie. Originally Posted by Yosun
If you are ok with living in a state that has a state income tax and elects "nanny-state " politicians like Bllomberg as Mayor of NYC, then just keep your liberal, tax-and-spend loving ass right there ! Tyr not to sweat to much this winter with all of that "Global warming. climate change " that is expected for you Yankees ! Originally Posted by Rey Lenguashut up, ur not helping.
A woman is pulled over by LE.That's the way it went down. Autopsy report confirms cause of death was ruled suicide by hanging. There was a plastic trash can in her cell which was lined with a clear plastic trash bag, Bland apparently rolled it into a rope and hung herself with it. Nothing further to investigate. Now if Black people want to dance in the street and protest they can have at it, but it won't bring Sandra back from the dead and won't make the cops guilty of her death.
She cops a tude that results in her arrest.
She goes to jail.
She cannot find anybody that will bail her out (see line2).
she finally realizes the problem is her.
She hangs herself.
What amount of shame is there in being arrested for belligerence that would cause you to hang yourself. The end result is that she must have had deeper issues and disappointment in how she had treated people to the point that nobody would bail her out. The things that ultimately led to her arrest did not happen in the few minutes before she was pulled over but more than likely a lifetime sprinkled with poor choices that left an enormous chip on her shoulder. To discover that people thought so little of her to let her sit n jail must have been overwhelming enough to thrust her into a depression deep enough to take her own life. Sad. Originally Posted by The2Dogs
I've never been to Texas, ...... Originally Posted by YosunWell, I've been to New York a number of times, and any time I was around a police officer (or someone who appeared to be "in authority") I was sufficiently respectful to them so it was UNNECESSARY for them to "tolerate" ANY "ATTITUDE." But I was raised to be respectful to people generally, unless of course they are disrespectful to me, and then I figure that's what they understand best so I confirm so they will comprehend.
A woman is pulled over by LE.You're a cunt
She cops a tude that results in her arrest.
She goes to jail.
She cannot find anybody that will bail her out (see line2).
she finally realizes the problem is her.
She hangs herself.
What amount of shame is there in being arrested for belligerence that would cause you to hang yourself. The end result is that she must have had deeper issues and disappointment in how she had treated people to the point that nobody would bail her out. The things that ultimately led to her arrest did not happen in the few minutes before she was pulled over but more than likely a lifetime sprinkled with poor choices that left an enormous chip on her shoulder. To discover that people thought so little of her to let her sit n jail must have been overwhelming enough to thrust her into a depression deep enough to take her own life. Sad. Originally Posted by The2Dogs