Cops detain citizen for committing a Major Infraction!

[zebonaut]

Unbelievable. Blacks cannot put their hand in their pockets on a cold snowy day.

&sns=em

as an aside; I once got stopped by the cops in my own neighborhood for carrying a basketball. Apparently I was not "dribbling' the basketball as I walked down the street; but just holding it. so I was suspicious. And I happen to be white.

[Xipe Totec]

1. I wanted to make a snarky remark but this is so over the top it is infuriating

The copy actually thinks that charge is going to stick.

What an imbecile!

[ReRe]

2. Guilty?

... of a future crime, I suppose. Cops have to check these kinds of calls out, I guess, but if I checked it out and turned out there was absolutely nothing wrong with the dude, I would pay a little visit to the complainers home and give them a ticket, with a nicer little fine to pay.

If this kind of shite doesn't stop, everyone who walks down the street is going to be suspect!

[zebonaut]

5. Affluent white folks don't like to be nervous

[ReRe]

6. They need to blacken...

... their windows, build a high solid fence around their property, or move into a gated community.

[NoQuarter]

8. And NEVER go out. eom

[ReRe]

9. Exactly! n/t

[Scootaloo]

3. I just had a DU'/er tell me tht this stuff is only a problem in Ferguson

And that protesting it anywhere else is useless.

Are you fucking serious.

[Leith]

4. I Don't Believe That Anyone Called the Cops on the Pedestrian

If you listen carefully, the cop says that he is just south of Michigan. The pedestrian mentions that they are in Pontiac. That's enough to go on to check Google Maps.

Fortunately, Michigan Avenue in Pontiac is not very long. There seems to be only one larger road intersecting Michigan Ave, so I went south on it. About a block along, I found the houses that you can see in the background. The name of the road they are on? Martin Luther King Blvd.

I think the cop decided to check out a young black man walking along the street in broad daylight just because he could.

[rwsanders]

7. Yep, they always roll with some sort of standard story like this to pull anyone over...

the first time it happened to me (about 3 miles from Ferguson, in Edumdson, MO (speed trap city) the story was "someone in the area has been stealing car batteries" so my cousin and I were stopped and frisked even though we were teens on foot, wearing 70's style gym shorts that we couldn't have hit a dollar in change in. In fact I don't think the shorts even had pockets and I think we were carrying our money and a door key in our socks.
I've had literally dozens of similar encounters.

[tomm2thumbs]

10. the cop's ignorance is so deep, so wide, it makes one wonder how he can even find a meal to eat

nevermind, even the lowly fruitfly can smell its way to dinner

(and the fruitfly's brain is probably larger than that cop's)

[tomm2thumbs]

11. ** Link to Pontiac Tribute story re: video **

http://pontiactribune.com/police-detain-man-for-walking-with-hands-in-pockets/

No small irony the guy was walking on Martin Luther King Jr Boulevard... no small irony at all.

[zeemike]

12. I think this shit is deliberate.

As a way to intimidate and get us to accept the authority of a police state...Remember that some people like a police state.

[SoapBox]

13. This police crap seems to be spreading...

Is it blow back and cops are doing this shit because they can? Is the leadership really stupid enough to not be teaching the law? Multi million dollar lawsuits against departments don't worry them?

I still blame the Bush War Criminal Regime, for getting all this police militia bullshit started.