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Originally Posted by Derek Sutton
In his own mind. The store owner called the police for some reason, the police only know one side (what was called in) and should be trying to get his side. I would be more then happy to tell my side if I was innocent of everything. The lady kinda is but the male who arrives certainly is not. The police handled this horribly, but the guy filming certainly did not help his cause.
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It's so chicken and egg. Would he have needed to film if this hadn't happened to him before? If the police hadn't acted poorly in the past and poorly there? You can say maybe it doesn't go so bad if he doesn't. But if he felt he needed to, then that doesn't amount to a hill if beans. If your rights are being violated, which they were, why not defend them?
Him filming it changes nothing and probably was brought on by things he's gone through in the past. Not only that, their reaction shows it was completely justified there as well.
You might say 'if I was innocent I would have no problem with' etc etc blah blah. But I'd be willing to bet if you had to put up with it more than once, you'd be filming when you had to. As I said. I was in a position once where I thought explaining my innocence would help. Guess what, it only led to more questions, and more problems. And I'm not even a minority. I can only imagine how persecuted minorities feel. There are reasons why lawyers will tell you to protect your rights when you can. Cause explaining will not always (often?) help you and will not deter police. There's a whole reason you have the right to remain silent. If they are not dissuaded by the law and want to cling to their notions, why would your story help?
You guys seem to think that simply by being innocent and explaining your side that they'd be all 'okey dokey'. This does not always happen. In fact, the opposite happens enough that it's a serious problem. We've seen examples of it a hundred times over. Not just racially, but police officers so sure that they are correct that do not listen, do not investigate, and do not believe.
There are reasons we have these rights. Cause of crap like this. Well, one of the reasons anyway. And legally and morally the police in this situation are wrong wrong wrong.