re: Cop assaults and arrests CVS employee for sitting on a bench

It's the frickface on the right. Apparently he's been doing a lot of these false "resisting arrest" arrests. Scumbag

I don’t think this is correct. I’ve looked up the law on this and I think Louisiana is one of the few states where you have to produce I’d on command if ordered. I’ll look it up again and post it here later..

It shouldn’t be like that but I believe it is.

This is my understanding.

I don’t understand why “suspicion is not a crime” is so hard for these folks to understand.


Affectionately enough the edgewater police department has turned off comments on their Facebook. fricking pussies.

frick a cop.

I think Louisiana just passed a law not long ago though making stop and id okay.

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I think Louisiana just passed a law not long ago though making stop and id okay.

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Louisiana's law is sometimes mischaracterized as "stop and ID", but only provides that a law enforcement officer may stop a person in a public place whom he reasonably suspects is committing, has committed, or is about to commit an offense and may demand of him his name, address, and an explanation of his actions.

No one is required to produce a drivers license, other ID, or documents per the US Supreme Court. If there are no facts supporting a "reasonable suspicion" of crime, the person is entitled to ignore the officer, or actually even to respond "F you".

Yo, Dre. I got sumpin to say...

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how difficult is it to give the cop your ID when he asks for it? I do this and I have never been assaulted by a cop. seems pretty easy?

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There are a bunch of "auditors" and cop haters on this thread. They all will be the ones crying first when they are a victim of a crime.

Obviously the cop was overzealous and should have backed down at some point. But the kid is a dick and entitled. He's loitering in front of a closed business with a hoodie on and the cop said he tried to hide behind a pole initially so he approached him. He has to document the interaction so he asked for ID, which seems reasonable. The kid says he works there which doesn't mean anything. How does the cop know who works there? He's not wearing a uniform or show a work ID. He just says I'm leaving, which escalated to the arrest.

It went too far and the cop should be disciplined. But he didn't commit a crime. Being a cop is hard and there are tons of these interactions every day. Our society is to blame for these escalations and people not having common courtesy. This could have been resolved so easily. Being a sullen dick to a cop is probably not the smartest thing to do and shouldn't be rewarded. His retired Police Captain Grandfather isn't going to be proud of him..

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Some people should not be cops. This guy is a perfect example of a Barney with too many bullets.

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Really sums up all that needs to be said about this whole situation.

Now I’ll let everyone get back to their e-fight over who does or does not licks boots.

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I don’t know why the cop treated the kid like that, but the primary reason for this lack of knowledge is the artful editing of the body cam footage.

The same technique that anti-cop crusaders love to cite, edited video, is employed in this outrage porn.

Maybe the truth is exactly what is being presented in this narrative, that the cop randomly saw a guy on a bench and went to harass him because he’s power tripping. But if so, why present it with such an embarrassing amount of jump edits in the footage?

It’s not like the anti-cop youtuber with a channel dedicated to anti-cop video outrage porn has any incentive to present a jaded version of the truth.

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The cop thing has just turned into a great example of tribalism where neither side is willing to consider any nuance whatsoever and only approach things from their own preconceived perspective.

Take OP for example; He has posted more anti-cop threads than pretty much anyone else by a long shot. He hates cops and will ONLY post what makes them look negative. If you offer ANY nuance or difference of opinion, they'll plug their ears and just shout bootlicker at you over and over again like a child throwing a tantrum. Conveniently, these guys NEVER show up in the threads where a cop does something heroic or otherwise noble.


Let's look at the other side. Many people ALWAYS take the cops side no matter what the situation is. They will defend them and argue in their favor pretty much no matter what and they're just as hard headed as the first group I mentioned. Even when the cop is clearly wrong, they'll typically always try to work an angle to explain the officers actions away.


In all honesty, both parties are stubborn and wrong. I've seen cops do some absurdly tyrannical things and I've seen them do some incredibly brave things. I try to judge every interaction on the merits of the interaction and try to limit my bias and presuppositions when forming an opinion as we all should. None of this particularly matters though because the people entrenched on both sides will refuse to even consider the opinion of the other side.




ETA: Just in case someone throws out the bootlicker line after reading this, it's crystal clear that the cop is 100% in the wrong here and should absolutely face repercussions. He didn't just have a conversation with the worker and if he would've instead of immediately becoming combative, he would've known that he was harassing someone for no good reason.

Cop; "Hey man, I see you on this bench out here. The store is closed and there's no loitering."

Guy; "Oh yes sir, I work here and just closed up, I'm just waiting on my Lyft ride."


Cop; "Gotcha, can you check and see how close the driver is?"

Guy; "Yes sir, he's about 7 minutes away."

Cop; "Alright, have a good night."

Could've been that easy.