Oh pur-leeze. Excuses, excuses. |
What's happened to our country is we've taught our kids to disrespect and question all authority. The first place outside of the house where this is learned is school. God forbid a teacher try to punish your darling Larla. Too many parents encourage their snowflakes to rebel against rules and ramifications. |
I am very afraid of you PP. You are a sick,racist individual and need some help. Can you please identify yourself so we can all keep our distance? Frightening. |
The customary penalty for failure to put on your turn signal is a civil infraction equal to a ticket. It does not equal a criminal misdemeanor. It does not equal a knee in your back. And, it most definitely does not equal a bag over your head or around your neck. I want you to remember that the next time you do a rolling stop; failure to yield; driving too close; speeding to get through that yellow light; talking on your phone while driving; going five miles above the speed limit; etc. etc. |
| If she were in court acting that belligerent would she go to jail on contempt charges? |
Come on. Have you ever been arrested for not using a turn signal? Her real "offense" was not sucking up to that dbag. |
And the customary reaction for being pulled over on for a civil infraction is to respectfully accept that you broke a silly law, apologize and be on your way. Not to blow smoke on the officer, roll your eyes, refuse simple requests, and scream and carry on like a lunatic. |
No, teaching your kids to not except and embrace authority just because it's authority is a good thing. I want my children to think and question right and wrong. They are not to agree to something just because someone is in authority. Otherwise, they will acquiesce to all things authority says, whether its right or wrong. It's a good thing the founding fathers of the U.S. did not respect authority and thus questioned the authority. Or, these United States would still be a colony of Great Britain. |
Where has it been reported that she was blowing smoke on the officer? Asking questions as to why she was pulled over equates to a lunatic. Alrighty now. DCUM never ceases to amaze me with their whacko views. |
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He is a trained police officer. No matter how much of an ass the citizen is, he should be capable of restraint. If my kid is an ass to his teacher, I don't expect the teacher to beat him, no matter how much my kid is "asking for it". Trained professionals are expected to maintain a higher standard. He should have written her a ticket for the failure to signal and sent her on her way. By your logic, anything the cop asks you to do during a traffic stop, you should just do, because it's not worth getting killed over. Cops are not God. We have a right and even a responsibility to stand up for our rights. We should not have to cower before policemen because if we don't,they might kill us. It's not illegal to be hostile or a jerk or disrespectful. I agree, it's not wise and I don't endorse it. But average citizens should not end up dead for being jerks. Cops should be better than that. Frankly I can't believe people are actually excusing, and endorsing, a citizen ending up dead because she was (you say) nasty to a cop. |
A judge is not equal to a cop. |
I know, right?! The board is full of crazies who believe the "victims" are 100% in the right, no matter what the circumstance. |
The thing is, whether or not she should have been arrested, she was arrested and brought to jail. She wasn't killed for anything she did or didn't do at the traffic stop. She died 3 days later, either at her own hand or someone else's. I get that she wouldn't have died in a jail cell if she hadn't been arrested. But most people who are arrested, and go to jail, pay bond and leave the jail cell. She died in the jail cell, not getting arrested. |
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Yes, but if not for the overreaction of the cop, she would probably not be dead. I believe that the medical examiner will find either that she was murdered or that the use of the taser/excessive force caused internal injuries that led to her death.
We shall see. |