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"Plain and simple, if you **** with me, I'm going to break your leg before you get the chance to run," officer Rod Webber can be heard saying in the video. "I'm being honest, I don't screw around."
“Can you tell me why I'm being arrested?” victim asks.
“Because I feel like arresting you,” Webber responds.
The teens were eventually let go.
Another cop who needs a refresher course in citizens rights not to be abused.
Hamza Jeylani, 17, said he and his three friends had just gotten finished playing basketball at the YMCA on March 18 when they were pulled over by police. Jeylani told MPR News the four made a U-turn when they saw police because they were hoping to avoid confrontation. The attempt failed.
Want to have a problem? When you see a policeman, just make a U-Turn.
You are going to be there a while.
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The Council on American-Islamic Relations called on the Department of Justice to investigate the incident last Friday.
Mohamed told MPR News that he no longer feels safe around police.
"Anytime I see the police I get scared," he said.
Oh, Thank GOD! there is a Council on American-Islamic Relations! Whatever would we do without them?
Mohamed is now afraid any time he sees the police? Tough. He brought it on himself.
Want to have a problem? When you see a policeman, just make a U-Turn.
You are going to be there a while.
Mohamed is now afraid any time he sees the police? Tough. He brought it on himself.
So ... what did these boys do wrong to warrant this police response? Apparently they weren't violating any traffic laws since they weren't even ticketed.
Want to have a problem? When you see a policeman, just make a U-Turn.
You are going to be there a while.
Oh, Thank GOD! there is a Council on American-Islamic Relations! Whatever would we do without them?
Mohamed is now afraid any time he sees the police? Tough. He brought it on himself.
On what planet do you live where you think making an illegal u-turn warrants being threatened with blatantly unconstitutional, extrajudicial assault/torture (ie, breaking legs)?
Are you really such an authority leg-humper that you fantasize about draconian force being whimsically meted out on the spot?
On what planet do you live where you think making an illegal u-turn warrants being threatened with blatantly unconstitutional, extrajudicial assault/torture (ie, breaking legs)?
Are you really such an authority leg-humper that you fantasize about draconian force being whimsically meted out on the spot?
Yes, and in the interests of a just society it's perfectly legitimate that we should obey people like that that give orders like that for our own protection or else, right? That's what the killer-cop apologists say, and in doing so they have all but admitted that the "heroes" they revere so much are in essence the same as a rapist, a wife-abuser, a mafia, or a gang of criminals, all of which demand "comply or die" and say "you'd be better off if only you didn't resist". Police, legitimate police, comply with the public's demand to "protect and serve" them, rather than demanding the public comply with their demand to "obey or else".
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Originally Posted by Listener2307
Want to have a problem? When you see a policeman, just make a U-Turn.
You are going to be there a while.
Why shouldn't people make a U-turn if they feel like it? If he made a U-turn upon seeing any other kind of vehicle no one would bat an eye, and the occupant of the vehicle in question would have little ground to arrest him. Why should police be any different in this respect? It's at least as good a reason for the driver's behavior as "I feel like arresting you" was for the policeman. Considering what happened to him, in retrospect he had every reason to get away from this hostile person.
As far as I'm concerned people that want a society where police (or anyone) may prey at will upon drivers maiming and killing them with impunity because they feel like doing so after a petty traffic offense are nothing less than handmaidens of evil. These are the same types of people that do the menial work required of all predatory regimes in history and they exist everywhere, though they only pose a danger in an unfree society.
Offhand, I would say that we should rethink our traffic laws to minimize the risk of such encounters, in order to minimize both contact with the police and the pretext police have to brutalize people. If current trends continue we may have to think in a new dimension of "highway safety". Also offhand, drawing guns and arresting people for an illegal U-turn was completely without justification; if I recall correctly, the penalty for an illegal U-turn is a ticket and few drivers pose a threat to police in such encounters.
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