another cop video

[Biomech]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e3_1427858119

OMG!
This is not the way things are supposed to be handled by a police officer..That cab driver was behaving so politely...
Officer is, to be put in plain manner, a bully...
Police are for the people... this is not the way it is supposed to be done... nope... can't be accepted

Therein lies the crux of the problem. That idea has been very successfully sold. Cops are NOT for the people. While a few of them may INTEND to do good for the people, it is the government that they serve and protect. As early as 1867 the Supreme Court of the United States held that the police have NO duty to protect or respond to the citizens. Given that Police forces were first in the United states just five years prior to that, it's pretty well established (though downplayed) who they actually serve.

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[jaysabi]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e3_1427858119

OMG!
This is not the way things are supposed to be handled by a police officer..That cab driver was behaving so politely...
Officer is, to be put in plain manner, a bully...
Police are for the people... this is not the way it is supposed to be done... nope... can't be accepted

Therein lies the crux of the problem. That idea has been very successfully sold. Cops are NOT for the people. While a few of them may INTEND to do good for the people, it is the government that they serve and protect. As early as 1867 the Supreme Court of the United States held that the police have NO duty to protect or respond to the citizens. Given that Police forces were first in the United states just five years prior to that, it's pretty well established (though downplayed) who they actually serve.

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Do you have a cite for the 1867 Supreme Court case? I have searched for it and cannot find what this is referring to.

[Biomech]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e3_1427858119

OMG!
This is not the way things are supposed to be handled by a police officer..That cab driver was behaving so politely...
Officer is, to be put in plain manner, a bully...
Police are for the people... this is not the way it is supposed to be done... nope... can't be accepted

Therein lies the crux of the problem. That idea has been very successfully sold. Cops are NOT for the people. While a few of them may INTEND to do good for the people, it is the government that they serve and protect. As early as 1867 the Supreme Court of the United States held that the police have NO duty to protect or respond to the citizens. Given that Police forces were first in the United states just five years prior to that, it's pretty well established (though downplayed) who they actually serve.

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Do you have a cite for the 1867 Supreme Court case? I have searched for it and cannot find what this is referring to.

I may have been misinformed on this one. I can't seem to find it now, either. Earliest cases I am currently finding are in the early 1960's, and there have been a number of them, both in the supreme and lower courts, all with the same ruling: Police have NO duty to protect or even respond to individuals. I'm gonna keep looking, I know there was such cases in the mid 19th century, but it may not have been the Supreme Court.


It remains true that the subjects of the empire are NOT whom the cops protect and serve.

[dblink]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e3_1427858119

To be honest and honest, this is purely a communication gap, at first that guy who is driving the taxi seems like a Pakistani or Indian (no idea but certainly from an Asian countries), the driver gestures drove that officer crazy, the driver every time spelling that OK OK OK, come on dude, let the officer finish what he wants to convey and then say alright at the end of the conversation.

[Biomech]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2e3_1427858119

To be honest and honest, this is purely a communication gap, at first that guy who is driving the taxi seems like a Pakistani or Indian (no idea but certainly from an Asian countries), the driver gestures drove that officer crazy, the driver every time spelling that OK OK OK, come on dude, let the officer finish what he wants to convey and then say alright at the end of the conversation.

If this were an isolated incident, you'd have a point. If it weren't in New York, the most international of American cities, you'd have a point. But neither is true. This is how American cops ARE. He wasn't even extreme. He just got caught.