This thread makes me feel some sympathy for the police in that they clearly deal with more ridiculous and stupid calls from whackjobs than I had imagined.
You have no idea...and more often than not, they are forced to attend.
The police chief in a small Florida town is accused of encouraging his officers to pin unsolved crimes on random, nearby black people so the department would have a better arrest record, the Miami Herald reported Thursday.
Former Biscayne Park Chief Raimundo Atesiano and two officers, Raul Fernandez and Charlie Dayoub, have been charged with falsely accusing a black Haitian-American teenager — identified as T.D. — with burglaries to impress local officials in the village north of Miami Shores.
The more I think about this one, the more stupid it becomes to me. Angry at the media manipulation and the way people like PsYcNeT eat it up to get their jollies off. There's actually major issues with race plaguing the States and the world. We don't need to make up more. A kid broke a fence, the neighbours (who already have an extremely poor relationship - probably in part because one is inconsiderate and the other is police happy) called the non-emergency police line. Hardly racist. And all it does it divide people even more as now you guys like PsYcNeT who will try to disparage anyone who isn't willing to call out the neighbours as KKK members. If you don't think there's neighbours out there that would call the police on a white kid who broke their fence, you're lying to yourself.
Even the tweet designed to cause outrage
"You're a 12 year old. And your neighbors have called the police on you twice in recent weeks for for 1) mowing the lawn 2) playing on a Slip-N-Slide."
No the police were not called because they were playing on a Slip-N-Slide, they were called because they broke the fence. It's in the police report.
Again, neighbours are probably hard to get along dillweeds. But no reason to call them racist. Except of course people love being faux-angry and self-righteous today. And just being a lousy neighbour isn't a good enough reason - no, let's portray them racist so we can get that justice boner hard on when we ruin their lives.
You know, I’m honestly thinking about it here, but if a 12 year old white kid slid and broke my fence?
No, I’m not calling the police. That is absurd. The police?! Why? To arrest the kid? I’d be talking to the kids parents to try and figure out a solution on how they can pay to fix my fence, but I don’t think I’m dialling the police as my first instinct. Also if you would, I assume you’re the type to just call up bylaw about something that annoys you rather than just politely and respectfully bringing it up to said person?
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You know, I’m honestly thinking about it here, but if a 12 year old white kid slid and broke my fence?
No, I’m not calling the police. That is absurd. The police?! Why? To arrest the kid? I’d be talking to the kids parents to try and figure out a solution on how they can pay to fix my fence, but I don’t think I’m dialling the police as my first instinct. Also if you would, I assume you’re the type to just call up bylaw about something that annoys you rather than just politely and respectfully bringing it up to said person?
Please reread what I posted. You clearly misunderstand substantially. But way to be a dick and take a jab for no reason. Especially ironic as it was about being "polite and respectful." Lol.
I'm not saying the neighbours were reasonable in calling the police. Had you actually read the post you would have seen me call them dillweeds and lousy neighbours. I'm saying they were not racist in calling the police. We're talking about the same people who called the police so they could park their car on the street. So while you, and most reasonable people, would not call the police over an accidental broken fence, these people would. That does, however, not make them racist.
This is the ongoing anti-racism thread, not the ongoing anti-bad neighbour thread.
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I always wonder how many of those sorts of foiled plots we never hear about because they're stopped too early on in the process for there to be art (like say, a giant stack of gasoline containers). I wonder what the rules are there for charging someone with attempted murder - that could be like 1000 counts.
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TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Toledo police arrested Patricia Edelen for spray painting racial slurs on her neighbor's home Friday night.
The police report lists the charges as "ethnic intimidation by reason of race, color, religion or national origin, criminal mischief, and criminal damaging/endangering property to cause/create substantial risk of physical harm."
The police report says Edelen spray painted "N" (word) stay out" "Hail Trump" and a Swastika on her neighbor's home.
Basically, one of the residents saw the black family getting ready to use the pool and he asked the caretaker to ask them for ID verification that they were residents (other non-black families around who the resident wasn't suspicious of).
It does fit in this thread just fine. But people who pay attention to MelBridgeman's posts over the years know the reason he posted it and it ain't because he cares about the topic at hand.
It does fit in this thread just fine. But people who pay attention to MelBridgeman's posts over the years know the reason he posted it and it ain't because he cares about the topic at hand.
Long time listener, first time caller?
I do care about the topic at hand. What i don't care FOR are 30 second cellphone videos, rush to judgment and lack of due process ect ect .... Basically the complete toxic tribal anti science hyperbolic dumbing down of (internet) society.
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I do care about the topic at hand. What i don't care FOR are 30 second cellphone videos, rush to judgment and lack of due process ect ect .... Basically the complete toxic tribal anti science hyperbolic dumbing down of (internet) society.
So your solution to that was to... participate in it?
