black driver and white cop have positive interaction

[Liberal_in_LA]

Cosgrove pulled over Barnes on State Road 332 and issued him with a warning for driving too fast. Barnes, from Muncie, Indiana, told WishTV.com that he 'immediately knew' he was in the wrong.

After receiving the warning, he got talking to the officer. And he wrote in his Facebook post accompanying the photo: 'I was pulled over today for speeding. The officer did not know me nor did I know him, but we each showed one another a mutual display of respect in our interaction.

'He was doing his job, and I had made a mistake in trying to hurry home to get started moving that lead to our path's crossing.

'He ran my information, and in the end we talked more about how are (sic) individual days were going, and the situations and circumstances within our society that have lead to interactions such as he and I's to play out much more negatively, some even deadly, than ours

'Then we talked about the situation that lead to him pulling me over.
'In the end we both thanked each other for our mutual displays of respect and agreed to take a "selfie" together to help tell our story.'


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3246313/Selfie-taken-black-man-police-officer-pulled-speeding-shared-400-000-times-posted-online-promote-equality-mutual-respect.html#ixzz3mbFfTLe7

[nichomachus]

1. Cop does his job -- stop the presses!!!!!

[Skittles]

2. acually, it happens a lot

[Egnever]

5. All the time

Still when it doesn't it is a problem.

[Skittles]

7. I know that

I am not an idiot

[Egnever]

10. Didn't mean to imply you were

Was agreeing with you.

Sorry for the confusion.

[Skittles]

13. heh

I knew that too

[TeeYiYi]

3. That IS news...

...and nice to hear for a change.

TYY

[KamaAina]

4. ...

[elleng]

6. Nice story.

Too bad it's 'news.'

[Rex]

8. That is why I have a problem with police brutality.

The cops in my town are the 'protect and serve' type like the cop in that pic. So if THEY can do it, ALL cops can...do their job without killing anyone or violating their civil rights.

Good on em.

[G_j]

9. well said

[romanic]

18. Agreed.

[Snobblevitch]

11. This happens all the time, all across America.

This is the norm. Not all cops are racist pigs. They are human and the majority of them treat the public with respect.

[MohRokTah]

12. I want to know how many times that cop looked the other way when his fellow cops were lawbreakers.

There's no such thing as a good cop, even this cop. There are only not as bad as other cops.

[Snobblevitch]

14. Do you really believe this?

If so, you do not understand humanity. Of course there are bad cops. The vast majority of LEO are good cops.

[MohRokTah]

15. There is no "believe" to it. It is a fact.

There is no such thing as a "good cop". The best they can do is not as bad as the worst cops.

[damnedifIknow]

16. Currently on pace to break 1200 killed by police

In 2014 there were 1106 people killed by police.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/09/22/1423847/-Police-brutality-is-getting-worse-and-shows-no-signs-of-slowing-down

[romanic]

17. Lets hope you don't need a cop then.