When officers with the Brooklyn Center Police found that Daunte Wright's tags were expired, surely there was a way to make him aware of that—and get the problem fixed—that did not involve armed agents of the state physically confronting him. Do police need to conduct so many traffic stops, particularly for relatively minor violations? Every time there's a stop, it raises the risk of violence and tragedy, because it creates an opportunity for confrontation and misunderstanding. It raises the temperature. It's one thing if a person is swerving all over the road, posing a threat to himself and others, but this was not that. Maybe these officers did not feel they were given discretion on how to act here, but they should be given that leeway by policy in every jurisdiction. We should end any incentives, like quotas, that lead to more traffic stops. In general, we should encourage police officers to let more suspects get away.
Of course, the issue here was not that Daunte Wright was driving with expired tabs. I have been pulled over probably a half dozen times in my life for expired tabs and would bet half of the time I had them in my car and just hadn't gotten around to putting them on. I believe out of all of that, I was ticketed once.
What I can tell you is that no police officer has had to pull a gun or threaten to shoot me over expired tabs. Nor was Daunte Wright threated or shot over expired tabs. Certainly the author of this word salad actually knows this, but his argument is better if he ignores the fact that there was a warrant out for the arrest of Daunte Wright because he refused to go to court to face previous charges of carrying a gun without a permit. He apparently had also fled that original scene as well. Hint: when you are arrested and ignore a court date, you technically become a fugitive (whether you are actively hiding or just avoiding the situation).
Also, contrary to some popular internet nonsense, the warrant was not actually sent to the wrong address. There was a similar case where the warrants were sent to the wrong address, but it was a different crime and a different Wright.
So what we have is this:
- Wright was arrested for a gun related crime
- Wright refused to go to court to face the charge
- Wright was driving illegally on expired tabs
- Wright resisted arrest and tried to flee
Apparently following the law is not a possible solution because of systemic racism, white supremacy or something to that extent. Apparently certain people are not capable of following simple police instructions, much less the law. But it's not their fault, of course. The fault lies with anyone who tries to hold people accountable for their own actions.
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Got stopped in a NYS Police roadblock once for no front license plate. Having just moved back to NY from KS - a one plate state - I hade removed the front bracket and tossed it. The trooper informed me that it was a $150 fine if he ticketed me. I politely responded that i was willing to go to my local Ford dealer on my way home and purchase a new bracket and install the front plate. Now, like most NY State Troopers the guy was a bit of an asshole. So I let him revel in his assholery while schmoozing him just enough to let me pass with the promise of rectifying the situation that day.
That was 20 years ago and I lived to tell about it.
I have been pulled over for speeding several times. The only time I was asked to step out of the car was when the federal officer suspended me for driving under the influence of alcohol.
This happened near the Mount Rushmore monument, at about 8:00 PM.
The three or four other times, they never asked me to exit my car, because I'm a very while guy.
I know a lot of people of color, have been required to get out of the car.
The pattern is evident by the statistics.
The underlying problem is economic disparity, the Democrats are attempting to solve the underlying problems, the Republicans are scared of equally balanced economic recovery because it actually would devastate the Republican party
Yep Lil Schitty.....wright was guilty of all those major crimes and deserved to be shot because he was a 140 lb kid surrounded by at least 4 cops and was a threat to their lives!!!!!! BWAAAAAAAAA!!!!! You have turned into a raving lunatic Lil Schitty!!!!! Party and cops before everything else in your menial life.....!!!!! Must suck as you are spending more and more time here instead of working!!!!!
One time just after the national speed limit was 55mph. In Montana, the speed limit was reasonable and safety before the Iran hostage crisis.
I drove a mile or so to exit the freeway at a rest and toilet station.
The officer asked me for the $5.00 fine in cash. He never wrote a ticket and let me go.
If I had been a Native American, I suspect he would have required me to get a ticket and pay later.
the Republicans are scared of equally balanced economic recovery because it actually would devastate the Republican party
LOL.
Alky, you and your Robert 'Third' Reich bullshit is repetitive boring. Economic recovery is a wonderful thing for all who wish to participate in it.
For those addicted to suckling the tit of the nanny state? Not so much, and that's all you fucking cynical assholes EVER have to offer.
Those on welfare, EBT, and living in Section 8 have never hired anyone, never generated a penny of wealth for even themselves, let alone others, and worst of all - you've got them right where you want them. Shackled to Uncle Sugar, a slave to the democrat party. "Voting democrat for the next 200 years."
You don't care about them. You only care about their vote. You're THAT fucking EVIL.
The fake news wants to prove racism exists !
A white Army non-commissioned officer depicted in a viral video accosting and shoving a Black man in a South Carolina neighborhood has been charged with third-degree assault.
Jonathan Pentland, 42, was charged Wednesday and listed as detained in the Richland County jail and issued a personal recognizance bond, according to online jail records, which did not show him as having an attorney.
The video, posted Monday by a woman on Facebook and shared thousands of times, shows a man, identified as Pentland, demanding that a Black man leave the neighborhood before threatening him with physical violence.
“You’re in the wrong neighborhood,” Pentland, standing on the sidewalk, can be heard saying to the other man before using an expletive. “I ain’t playing with you. ... I’m about to show you what I can do.”
Welfare queen racist views idiot
So let's quit fucking around and submit to their demands. Red line the areas where these savages live and congregate. Designate them as "No Police" zones.
Calls to 911? Ignored.
Let these fucking geniuses kill each other. Roll an armed dump truck through the neighborhoods a couple times a month to retrieve the corpses. Basically let the bullshit burn itself out. Might take months, might take years. And when it's a fucking ghost town, gentrify it with the law-abiding.
Stop kissing their ass and leave them to their own devices.
Give them what they want.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 14, 2021
Does Trickle-Down Economics Actually Work?
To the extent the Republican Party has any economic platform at all, it’s trickle-down economics. Unfortunately for the GOP, it’s based on three giant myths. It’s time to debunk them once and for all.
Myth #1: Tax cuts for corporations and the rich create more and better jobs.
Wrong. Corporations used Trump’s giant tax cut to buy back shares of their own stock and boost share prices. From 2017 to 2018, stock buybacks increased by a staggering 50 percent. Lowe’s spent $10 billion on stock buybacks in 2018, and then fired thousands of workers with no notice or severance. Walmart and AT&T also laid off thousands of workers.
And contrary to the claim that the tax cut would boost wages by $4,000 a year, a recent analysis found that in the year after the Trump tax cut, wages increased by about the same as they did before it, and then slowed.
Tax cuts for rich individuals don’t trickle down, either. The rich simply get richer. Two years before Ronald Reagan’s first tax cut, the richest 1 percent of Americans owned less than 23 percent of the nation’s wealth. A decade later, after two rounds of tax cuts for the rich, they owned over 28 percent. By 2019, after more tax cuts for the rich by George W. Bush and Donald Trump, people at the top owned almost 35 percent of America’s wealth. Meanwhile, average wealth barely budged for the middle class, and went negative for the bottom 10 percent.
It gets worse. During this pandemic alone, America’s 664 billionaires have added $1.3 trillion to their collective wealth and now own over $4 trillion. That’s almost double the wealth of the bottom half — 165 million Americans.
But nothing has trickled down. Even before the pandemic, wages stagnated.
He's not a racist rodent bastard
Drew Holden
THREAD: https://mobile.twitter.com/DrewHolden360/status/1382477293797400581
Today, President Biden announced his intention to end the war in Afghanistan, to great media fanfare.
You may remember, way back in 2019 & 2020, President Trump said the same thing.
Let me know if you can spot the difference in coverage then vs. now
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When Trump said we were leaving, @CNN quoted the NATO Sec Gen with a “stark warning” about how “dangerous” the move would be.
But Biden’s decision? Well, on that one, we just get to hear from his people.
[examples shown]
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One of the things I’ve discussed before is how outlets can frame the narrative they want by focusing on people who support or oppose a certain policy. It’s misleading, but also a calling card of @CNN.
[CNN praise shown]
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Starting to see it?
[more examples]
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Once upon a time, @nytimes told us that Trump’s decision was a capitulation to the Taliban where we would get nothing in return - as if blood not shed and treasure not spent means nothing.
But Biden’s call? Well, for some reason these concerns seem to have evaporated.
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For Trump, we hear about the “fears” of Afghan officials from
@nytimes
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Biden, on the other hand, gets a sympathetic write up despite being the second most powerful man in the country during the height of US forces. Just incredible memoryholing here.
[proof]
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This one from @TIME might be the most egregious of them all. I mean. Cmon.
[OUTRAGEOUS proof]
Goes on with a bunch more including other topics
FAKE NEWS
enemy of the people
Great thread
Officer Chauvin has invoked his 5th amendment rights and refused to testify in the trial now
Perspectives
Police shouldn’t have any role in traffic enforcement
“Cities should transfer traffic enforcement to non-police. Those responsible for making sure traffic rules are followed should be unarmed and separate from criminal law enforcement and investigations.” — Anna Kurien, Appeal
Pretextual stops should be banned
“If state legislatures and police departments nationwide were to prohibit pretextual vehicle stops … police officers would be blocked from acting on some of their worst instincts. Banning pretextual stops would free officers to focus their attention on serious traffic safety violations or on stops based on more than a hunch of criminality — a better use of police resources.” — Neil Gros, New York Times
Ending enforcement of low-level traffic violations would be good for police-community relations
“It will have a big impact on poor people. It will have big impact on people who drive older cars, and it will have a very big impact on black and Hispanic drivers, because if they knew that they were only going to get pulled over for running through a stop sign or excessive speeding, they will feel much more confident that they could be treated fairly by their police.” — Political scientist Frank Baumgartner to North State Journal
Ending police traffic stops would leave dangerous criminals on the street
“Somewhere along the way to righteous demands for police reform, we have elected to toss the baby out with the bathwater. Proactive policing strategies, which were adopted more than three decades ago, have come under knee-jerk assault, though studies have provided evidence they can prevent or reduce crime.” — James Gagliano, CNN
There’s no reason for armed police officers to enforce minor traffic violations
“The fact that stops over minor motor vehicle infractions do sometimes lead to violence — against police officers and the people they pull over — presents yet another reason to resist putting police and drivers in direct contact over non-risky matters like expired licenses, a broken taillight, or an illegally hung air freshener.” — Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Reason
Police treat every traffic stop as a life-or-death situation
“It’s drilled into police that traffic stop ambushes are routine. They aren’t. They happen, but they’re vanishingly rare. … Those cases are of course tragic and awful. But drumming it into cops to see every stop as his or her potential last has real world consequences.” — Radley Balko, Washington Post
Unarmed traffic enforcers would face enormous danger
“Unarmed traffic officers work well in many other nations, where the people they stop likewise are unarmed. Here, though, there are more deadly weapons than there are people. That unfortunate fact is what puts so many armed police in the position of handling what ought to be administrative, social or health problems.” — Editorial, Los Angeles Times
Public safety stopped being the purpose behind traffic stops a long time ago
“We have cities and towns across the country using traffic stops in place of taxes, extracting money from people of color and from the poor, and using these stops to terrorize and kill black people. Is there some positive impact that could possibly outweigh this? Are our traffic stops saving lives that would otherwise be lost? Of course they’re not!” — Raphael Orlove, Jalopnik
Fewer police interactions means fewer police shootings
“The simplest way to reduce bad interactions between the police and the public is to reduce the number of interactions.” — Jeremy Pratt, Bangor Daily News
Cameras should handle the majority of traffic enforcement duties
Stop stealing from the statist dwarf, alky.
https://www.eurasiareview.com/15042021-robert-reich-does-trickle-down-economics-actually-work-oped/
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