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"Innocent people do not run from the police."

Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:53 pm
Posted by BiggerBear
Redbone Country
Member since Sep 2011
3164 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:53 pm
Title is a quote from Derrick Stafford's attorney in opening arguments from his trial as reported by the Town Talk.

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It is interesting to see this quote coming from a criminal defense attorney. I don't think that I've ever heard one say that before.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
91089 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:56 pm to
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Innocent people do not run from the police


well he's not really wrong.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:57 pm to
Sure they do. Some people have been conditioned to fear the cops
Posted by LucasP
Member since Apr 2012
21618 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 6:59 pm to
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well he's not really wrong.



In the philosophical sense that none of us are innocent, I suppose you're correct.
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
70469 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:02 pm to
run from police = guilty

Innocent = not run

Guilty = may or may not run

Posted by rmnldr
Member since Oct 2013
40398 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:03 pm to
It isn't an admission of guilt but technically it's evading arrest or whatever
Posted by Bmath
LA
Member since Aug 2010
18919 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:04 pm to
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Sure they do. Some people have been conditioned to fear the cops


Not to mention that in some circumstances people get involved with something not realizing that legally they are not at fault. Yet they take off out of fear of something bad happening to them.
Posted by kywildcatfanone
Wildcat Country!
Member since Oct 2012
141104 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:05 pm to
Innocent people have no reason to run from police
Posted by shotcaller1
Member since Oct 2014
7501 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:07 pm to
As soon as you run, you've automatically committed a crime. So if you were innocent before, you're not anymore
Posted by OceanTiger
Checking out Paradise
Member since Mar 2017
314 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:07 pm to
How do you know?
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
91089 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:08 pm to
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Some people have been conditioned to fear the cops


that's a lame copout, no pun intended. If you have done nothing wrong, you engage in conversation and go about your way. In fact, the very act of running from the cops makes you not-innocent anymore, seeing as how that act in itself is a crime.

So no, innocent people do not run from the cops.
Posted by BiggerBear
Redbone Country
Member since Sep 2011
3164 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:15 pm to
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It isn't an admission of guilt but technically it's evading arrest or whatever


Well, it's not really evading arrest if they are not trying to arrest you. I don't think that running from the police is always going to be a criminal act. In some instances it certainly is.
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
299716 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:16 pm to
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that's a lame copout, no pun intended. If you have done nothing wrong, you engage in conversation and go about your way


You must have been a boring teenager.
Posted by tiger1014
Member since Jan 2011
12731 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:18 pm to
I wouldn't trust a cop to arrest me

Regardless they're going to be rough when they do it at least. Usually obnoxiously so
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
91089 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:18 pm to
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You must have been a boring teenager.


I did plenty of normal teenage "getting into mischief". Guess what, multiple times I actually did run from the cops! Guess what? I wasn't innocent in any of those situations!

Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
33956 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:22 pm to
I'm not running, I'm just trying to get far enough away to throw out my weed.
Posted by ksayetiger
Centenary Gents
Member since Jul 2007
70469 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:25 pm to
quote:

Regardless they're going to be rough when they do it at least. Usually obnoxiously so




I have been cuffed twice in my life. Never was the cop rough. You know why? Because I did exactly what he said.
Posted by TJGator1215
FL/TN
Member since Sep 2011
14174 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:29 pm to
Innocent people run from cops because they don't want to risk being killed.
Posted by BRgetthenet
Member since Oct 2011
118270 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:32 pm to
Then they'll just die tired.
Posted by WG_Dawg
Member since Jun 2004
91089 posts
Posted on 3/20/17 at 7:33 pm to
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Innocent people run from cops because they don't want to risk being killed.




Let me get this straight.

-Person is innocent and knows that they're innocent.
-Person gets scared that the cop might kill them, for no apparent reason.
-Solution in this case is to....run from said power-abusing cop.

Man you can't make some of this up.
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