Do NOT stop for protesters

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  1. TokyoJoe

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    Or a supersoaker connected to a ripe old pee jug!

    You could even connect it to a bottle of Cuervo, then the cops can round them all up and bust them for being drunk and disorderly.
     
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  3. Trucker Carlton

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    That was freaking crazy that I saw. But his supervisor should had update the driver that a protest was happening and take a detour.
    Like I said, that’s freaking crazy how these protesters were trying to damage the truck. But he did blow his air horn that he was coming. So this is kinda in a twist on who to blame.
     
  4. TokyoJoe

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    Remember in the walking dead when they drove the truck blowing the horn and then the zombies attacked the truck instead of going toward the town?

    Ironic that it's a truck and how the politicians and media use these zombies in similar fashion.

    I mean, who hired and trained the hated police officers anyway?

    This #### is straight out of Animal Farm.
     
  5. Snailexpress

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    You are liar sir! Road was blocked by black SUV as she(driver was lady) start making left turn on green light.
     
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  6. gentleroger

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    So the driver wasn't on the wrong side of the road?

    No matter how you want to slice it, the driver did not have the right of way. The van was on the proper side of the road and had the right of way. In Minnesota, turning traffic must yield to pedestrians.

    I, nor any one else here, knows all the details of this in incident. We only know what we can see. What I see is the driver creating confrontation. That doesn't make what happened after right, but as Agent J said "don't start nothin, ain't gonna be nothin".
     
  7. Magoo1968

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    No one was blocking van it obviously was part of the demonstration
     
  8. gentleroger

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    Doesn't matter.
     
  9. gentleroger

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    First of all, lawyers cost money. From arraignment to a first hearing will cost at least $1,500. If it goes to trial $5,000 minimum

    Second is the "opportunity cost" - simply being arrested can cost a person their job and housing. Even being exonerated doesn't mean there won't be consequences. The arrest report and any news articles can be found with a simple name search, but the dismissal with prejudice will only be found in the court records which require a login (at minimum) and have HORRIBLE search features.

    Then what happend when the police lie:
    5 cops caught in lies on witness stand, judge says

    Government corruption and negligence drive most wrongful convictions, report finds

    More than 100 convictions vacated:
    Six convictions tied to former Sgt. Ronald Watts thrown out | The Crusader Newspaper Group

    Accused Jackson County drug-planting deputy slapped with two dozen new charges
     
  10. TokyoJoe

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    So the answer to getting arrested is to resist arrest and get killed in the process.

    Gotcha!
     
  11. roundhouse

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    Oh I totally understand that getting arrested is a huge problem and that some cops will plant evidence.
    And that lawyers cost money.
    Being poor is expensive .

    I’ve been in that situation before. More than once.
    When the cops said turn around and put your hands behind your back, it never occurred to me that it might somehow work out better for me to fight the cop. That somehow if i got into a fight with someone who’s had days of training learning how to fight, that he would give up and tell me he was just kidding about arresting me and that I was now free to go.
    Why does someone think that ?




    what makes someone think that fighting with the cop will somehow work out better for them than a ride downtown?
     
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