Author Topic: I laughed so hard I almost hyperventilated. (Read 1929 times)

rpm · « **Reply #15 on:** June 18, 2005, 12:02:47 AM »

I don't think it was anything more than her failing to obey an officers command (not request) to get out of the vehicle. I'm a white guy and he woulda zapped my arse if I did the same thing.

AKS\/\/ulfe · « **Reply #16 on:** June 18, 2005, 12:06:36 AM »

Sorry MT, it ain't just minorities here. I have been pulled over for a suspended. State failed to inform me, however, and I was cleared of the charge.

They won't give you a why until they have you out of the car in cuffs.

I thought that I should be told what I was accused of before I was in cuffs, but apparently its the "arrest them before you get an explanation" US now.
-SW

NUKE · « **Reply #17 on:** June 18, 2005, 12:10:36 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
you see.... I said "might" in almost every sentence. That means it is conjecture. Thanks for pointing that out though.

So, I can add my conjecture and be just as relevent I guess.

The lady might have been armed and dangerous. She might have been on drugs and had aids and was waiting for a chance to bite one of the cops. She might have been a vampire. She might have been an escaped murderer who just killed 5 people.

The only thing that is known is that she was being an idiot and not cooperating with the cop. If you choose to ignore the apparent facts and instead make up a bunch of "might-haves", then I guess thats up to you.

Holden McGroin · « **Reply #18 on:** June 18, 2005, 12:16:19 AM »

She was a Vampire?

Russian · « **Reply #19 on:** June 18, 2005, 12:27:57 AM »

LOL.

Steve · « **Reply #20 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:23:55 AM »

Personal attack

Tarmac · « **Reply #21 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:27:51 AM »

Ideally you don't tell someone they're under arrest until about a half second before the cuffs hit their wrists. Keeps them from resisting.

Obviously, that requires that they're out of the vehicle before you tell them they're under arrest. A suspect is most likely to resist an officer when they realize they're under arrest. You want them out of their car to eliminate the chance of them going for a weapon.

Standard procedure. That whole "for both of our safety" thing.

And she's a wimp. I've ridden the taser train, and the best part of it is when it doesn't hurt anymore.

Steve · « **Reply #22 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:34:03 AM »

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And she's a wimp

Classic...the link is from Wimp.com

moot · « **Reply #23 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:36:14 AM »

The post-taze mooing is the same as the grape-stomping reporter's.

Traumatized for life.

LePaul · « **Reply #24 on:** June 18, 2005, 01:49:29 AM »

Oh wow. That's awesome. Let's see, argue with cop for pulling you over. Claim he has no right to clock you on radar. Have no belt on, have a brake light out, have a suspended license, ignore cop's orders while calling bf....oh man.

The taser was too nice. She needs a rubber mallet to the head

JB73 · « **Reply #25 on:** June 18, 2005, 02:16:56 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Typical

Another perpetrator of DWB.

someone has watched TOO much of martin lawerence movies.

find another video (of the literally 1000's on the intardnet) of a supposed innocent black person being tazed.

show me.

i dare you.

if you happen to find anything, then show where the perpatrator commited that many crimes, and refused to follow the officers orders while sober.

Thrawn · « **Reply #26 on:** June 18, 2005, 02:49:52 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
Typical

Another perpetrator of DWB.

Typical unsupported racist statement.

beet1e · « **Reply #27 on:** June 18, 2005, 02:52:24 AM »

I thought US cops saved the tazer for zapping elderly ladies for sounding the horn.

I've had roadside dealings with US cops, and it never occurred to me to withhold any documents they were asking for. And once we started actually talking about what had happened, any of their remaining hostility seemed to evaporate. They wuz like putty in mi hands! Got away with 2 out of 4, and had I known the system could have got away with a third.

SaburoS · « **Reply #28 on:** June 18, 2005, 03:05:32 AM »

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Originally posted by midnight Target
I'm saying she might have been treated differently if she were white. I'm saying the cops might have told her the reason she was being asked to step out of the car if she were white. I'm saying that they might have been more hesitant to tase if she were white. I'm saying that her reaction to the stop might have been based on her historical issues with the cops.

I also think she acted like a dimwit.

Take everything that she did/said but make it a _____(<---insert race/ethnicity of choice) woman instead and I'd bet the she'd still get tazed.

Had this woman obeyed the officer's requests in a friendly manner instead of the beligerent, combative, and insulting way she did, not only would she not have gotten tazed, she might well have gotten off with a warning instead.

Conjecture, of course.

Edit: oops, forgot the suspended license bit. Not going to get just a warning then.

Maverick · « **Reply #29 on:** June 18, 2005, 08:30:31 AM »

It never ceased to amaze me about the number of folks who figured the way to get out of a ticket was to be beligerant and offensive to the Officer. To threaten action, legal or otherwise, because they got pulled over.

She had ample oportunity to mitigate the results especially when looking down the business end of a taser. People just do not realize the time to argue a ticket is not on the street. It's in the court room where the arena is set for contending the situation. Arguing on the curb won't get the job done.

For a lot of folks, getting a ticket seems to be so terribly traumatic but they don't realize that they are the ones making it so. All they have to do is just relax and get on with their life not try to make a "federal case" out of it. If a ticket is the worst thing that ever happens to them they will have had a very charmed life.