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Originally Posted by MelBridgeman
I am not surprised and don't blame you, I am just a little annoyed at videos like these that show one part of a situation and everyone is a rush to judge....kinda like the cops?
must be human nature...
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You messed up the quote, but I think I separated which was your text in the middle and not part of my response.
I guess when you are unfairly targeted as this man was, and it's probably fair to say it wasn't his first time, you start to get a little annoyed and clam up and take our your phone.
People are quick to judge. But guess what? There's two reasons why we can judge better right now. One, we have video evidence. The cops had nothing. Two, cops are supposedly trained and taught not to judge. It's their freaking job not to. So yeah, higher standards and all that.
Lastly, and I'll repeat it cause it's important. If you don't defend your rights in situations like this, you will lose them. I have been in situations where I blurted out a bunch of stuff I didn't have to, to smooth the situation over and others where I had the foresight to clam right up and offer nothing. I wish I could say that the first situations always ended smoothly, but they didn't. Not all of them anyway. More questions often come.
It is entirely possible he says he's Joe Blow and he's waiting for his kids and that doesn't satisfy them. In fact, I'd give it a 50/50, especially when you see how professional they were.