COPS COMPLAIN ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE WASTING POLICE TIME CALLING 911 WITH IRRATIONAL FEARS OF BLACKS

[Lee-Lee]

22. Keep in mind two things

First, they were not arrested at the insistence of the manager.

They were asked to leave at her request.

They were arrested for refusing to leave when asked by the police.

That’s a big difference. It may not be a big distinction in your eyes, but legally it is.

Now yes, I would have asked them to leave even if she had said she was unfairly enforcing policy. And I would have made sure that her admission the rules were arbitrarily enforced and anything else she said was in my report so that it was on record when the men went to seek legal remedy for the ejection.

Like it or not, it’s not the role of the street cop to judge a person degree of racial bias and then choose when to enforce the law for them or not.

If a store owner let white people who shoplifted off with a warning but called the cops on any black shoplifter we couldn’t say “well you let the white person go so we are not going to act on this call either”. All we could do was see if the elements of the crime of shoplifting existed and if they did then act on it.

If a person who owned a pond let white people fish there and called the cops saying every black person who fished could we refuse to enforce the law? No.

Does it suck that racist people can choose to make legal complaints differently for different people based on race? Absolutely.