Picking Up Trash While Black: Colorado Police Draw Guns on Black Man Picking Up Trash In His Backyard (legal, crimes)

[The Dark Enlightenment]

Originally Posted by RMESMH

HLN Headline News did a story on this.

A nosy neighbor called the cops:

https://newsone.com/3847888/boulder-...king-up-trash/

Police Chief Whitesplains Officers Pulling Guns On Black Man Picking Up Trash In His Back Yard

You can either make a convincing case for your grievance that will be taken seriously, or you can talk about "whitesplaining". You can't do both.

[ironpony]

Originally Posted by Floorist

Cops would ignore the law, or make up an excuse.

But it looks bad for a cop to ignore the law especially if they choose to record it on video. A lot of them will think it's not worth the headaches if it was illegal without probable cause. Plus if they make an arrest for someone not showing their ID, and had no probable cause, if it was illegal, then the defendant gets off then, so a cop might not even bother in that case then. So make it illegal?

[Old Town FFX]

Originally Posted by hbdwihdh378y9

No, it's the same incident.

This thread has since been clipped.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by pknopp

That is the law. Well, they can ask but you don't have to provide it.

Then of course they just make up some "reason to believe there is probable cause". A right that a cop won't respect is no right at all.

[jacqueg]

Originally Posted by Pittsburg Landing

Wait until all the facts come out.

???? All the facts about this incident came out several weeks ago.

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by ironpony

But it looks bad for a cop to ignore the law especially if they choose to record it on video. A lot of them will think it's not worth the headaches if it was illegal without probable cause. Plus if they make an arrest for someone not showing their ID, and had no probable cause, if it was illegal, then the defendant gets off then, so a cop might not even bother in that case then. So make it illegal?

I am on another forum with a cop who says he can always find "probable cause".

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

Police bruality is a big problem, and I agree that it needs to stop. I also want to say something else. Most of the biggest racists I've dealt with were not cops. It was individuals I went to high school with. It was some bigot in his truck screaming the N word at my while driving by. It was someone making bigoted remarks about interracial marriage.

It goes both ways. I worked in a factory with blacks and whites. Many of both were racist toward the other. I am white, my best friend at the time was black. If we went somewhere together, we got called names from both sides.

[ironpony]

Originally Posted by Floorist

I am on another forum with a cop who says he can always find "probable cause".

Well what would the probable cause be in this case of someone picking up trash outside their apartment building?

[Floorist]

Originally Posted by ironpony

Well what would the probable cause be in this case of someone picking up trash outside their apartment building?

Cleaning up while black?

[RMESMH]

Originally Posted by hbdwihdh378y9

This was a long time ago and discussed ad nauseam here already.

The dates on threads often (or at least it seems as though it is often) get 'booted up' and don't reflect when the posts were actually made. I didn't start the thread recently, even though that is what the system is indicating.

Additionally, it appears that two threads were merged.