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F is for Fascism (Ferguson MO)

[h=1]Video shows off-duty officer pulling gun on man mistakenly suspected of stealing Mentos[/h]
One minute, Jose Arreola was buying a pack of Mentos at an Orange County service station.

The next minute, he was at the business end of a gun drawn by an off-duty Buena Park police officer who thought Arreola had stolen the $1.19 roll of mints.

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Arreola said he and his wife, Jacqueline, were driving to a club about 10 p.m. on a Friday when they pulled into a Chevron station on Beach Boulevard in Buena Park to use the ATM. Jacqueline Arreola told her husband to buy her some Mentos.


Arreola, who wears his hair short but has a long goatee, can be seen in a store security video placing the candy on the counter and handing the clerk a $20 bill from the $60 he got from the ATM.


While waiting for his change, Arreola pockets the candy. Immediately, a man in black shorts standing behind him in line pulls a gun from the pocket of his black hoody, announces he is a police officer and tells Arreola to put the Mentos back on the counter.


Arreola throws his hands up and protests that he paid for the mints. The officer can be heard telling Arreola to take his change and leave, minus the Mentos. Finally, the officer asks the cashier if Arreola paid for the mints.


Yes, says the cashier.


“Are you sure?” the officer asks.


Again, the cashier says yes.


“My apologies,” the officer tells a visibly shaken Arreola.


Sorry isn’t enough, Arreola said in an interview. He has retained an attorney and requested financial damages from the Buena Park department.


“Are you seriously pulling a gun out over a pack of Mentos?” he asks.
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Watch the video. It's even more ridiculous than the description. The off-duty cop is behind Arreola through the entire transaction and still pulls a gun on him.

 
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He sounds like he could be from Mexico.

Our dear leader has repeatedly warned us about the criminal proclivities of them folks.
 
RJKarl said:
Talk about fascism and cops overreacting. The guy in the video in this article got arrested, tackled and thrown to the ground for having car idling while he was standing next to it in a 7/11 parking lot.

http://www.kcra.com/article/sacramento-pd-releases-body-cam-video-of-viral-idling-arrest/20641030
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So I live in Sac and lots of folks have been talking about this one. The cop definitely overreacted. Especially when you consider where we are as a community after the Stephon Clark shooting. That being said, I don't know how many more times a police officer can ask.

My ruling? 80% police officers fault (a little bed side manner would go a LOOONNGGG way); 20% citizens fault (after the 5th time, you are going to have to comply).
 
There was zero reason for the stop. In Gary, IN, it's still "illegal" to ride public transportation within two hours of eating garlic. Would it be legitimate to follow people leaving Italian or Chinese restaurants to see if any get on a bus? it's a law. That cop was looking for a fight.

This is how so many people get into the prison system. A cop does something totally ridiculous and then escalates nothing into a felony conviction. This cop should be fired. It wasn't his first rodeo. If cops see they will be held accountable, maybe some will stop.
 
Police need to start "snitching" on bad cops. https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/05/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes/560324/

The National Crime Victimization Survey compiled each year by the Bureau of Justice Statistics found in 2010 that violence against black people and white people were reported at nearly identical rates (blacks slightly higher), while violence against Latinos was the most likely to be reported. The latest National Crime Victimization Survey in 2016 again found violence against Latinos (52 percent) was more likely to be reported to the police than violence against blacks and whites (40 percent alike). For serious violent crimes, violence against Latinos (65 percent) and blacks (60 percent) was far more likely to be reported to the police than violence against whites (45 percent). But these statistics did not inflame the policing community to start lamenting about a no-snitch white culture.... Police officers, however, do not appear to be commonly snitching on themselves... There is a no-snitch police culture that may be as widespread and harmful as the myth of a no-snitch black culture. The National Institute of Ethics surveyed 3,714 officers and academic recruits from 42 states in 1999 and 2000. A no-snitching code of silence commonly exists, responded 79 percent of officers. More than half of the officers said this no-snitch code does not bother them. Nearly half of the officers reported witnessing misconduct and not reporting it. That’s probably because 73 percent of responding officers said they’d be fired if they snitched. And 73 percent of the officers said the individuals pressuring them to keep quiet were leaders.

In 2001, a national survey of police attitudes conducted by the Police Foundation found that a majority of officers said turning a “blind eye” to police misconduct was not unusual. Meanwhile, roughly two-thirds reported they “did not always report serious criminal violations” by fellow officers and they’d be given the “cold shoulder” if they did.
Black people, in other words, have every reason not to snitch. And yet, the evidence shows, we still do—even as we are ridiculed for not doing so. Police officers have every reason to snitch. And yet they still commonly do not—and get praised as if they commonly do.
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thatguy2016 said:
what is the correct police officer response at this juncture:
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retreat and call for backup?

I'm pretty sure that's how police forces in the entire rest of the industrialized world handle these situations, being as how they almost never shoot and kill people, especially unarmed people. But probably naked crazy Americans are more dangerous than naked scary Germans.
 
Deacon923 said:
retreat and call for backup?

I'm pretty sure that's how police forces in the entire rest of the industrialized world handle these situations, being as how they almost never shoot and kill people, especially unarmed people. But probably naked crazy Americans are more dangerous than naked scary Germans.
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sure hope the guy can't outrun the cop, since he's within 10 meters and already running full speed
 
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