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What is your opinion of this police officer pulling over young black guys?

 
 
 

What is your opinion?

  • Police officer acted out of line.

    Votes: 9 90.0%

  • Young black man acted out of line.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • No opinion.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Everything happened approximately as it should.

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Magic brownies.

    Votes: 1 10.0%
  • Total voters
    10
Did I miss the reason the car was pulled over?

It doesn't matter who was in the car. Could have been a couple little old ladies. The cop was an asshole and should be disciplined.
 
Who knows what the law is in this fucked up nation but that should be an illegal search and the police that did it should be charged with a crime.
 
Two black guys in the car. Two cops...one good, one not so good.

The cops (and we don't have the footage from the other one's body cam) handled the situation completely differently.

Cop A cuffs the driver and accuses him of being high. Then puts him into the patrol car and tries to get him to confess to possession.

Cop B handles the passenger - whom cop A suspects of having a gun - completely differently. No cuffs, no sitting in the patrol car...instead it looks like they just had a conversation.

In addition, Cop A seemingly refuses to accept that the car is a rental despite being told repeatedly that it is. Like a black man can't rent a car?

Cop A seems like a grade-A asshole. Racial profiling? Seems like it. A couple guys driving around in a car and fastidiously following traffic laws shouldn't be suspicious at all, but yet these guys got pulled over, one of them was cuffed, put in the patrol car, threatened with arrest, and accused - without a shred of evidence - of having weed on him. Did Cop A have super smell sense that he could detect the alleged weed from a distance and that's why he pulled them over? Did he have x-ray vision that allowed him to see the outline of a possible firearm in the car? No.

Seems more like a case of "I saw a couple black guys driving around and you know how the blacks are with their weed..."
 
I am white and have been pulled over. When I was younger in the 70s I was picked up off the street on suspicion and taken to somebody who had been assaulted for identification.

I was in a grocery in the 70s store and was stopped and frisked by an off duty cop working security. He said it looked like I was carrying a weapon.

In the 70s in the Navy I drove from Jacksonville Fl to Yorktown Va with somebody changing duty stations. We were pulled over by a cop on a secondary road in Georgia, It was a bogus speed trap. The driver got out. When I stred to get out the cop unholted his gun and said 'get back in that car boy'. He took our money bail bond leaving us with gas money to get to Va.

I can go on. It is not just blacks, although stats show blacks are more likely to be stopped and more likely to end up being injured.
 
The percentage of the population in Iowa that is white is one of the highest in the USA. I believe Iowa is 4th or 5th. So, it is not surprising that Iowa police officers may view blacks with undue suspicion.
 
1. Police pull over car for no driving violation.-- What It Means To Me: abuse of power.
2. Police manufacture probable cause by lying about evidence indicating contraband substances.-- WIMTM: Officer lies compulsively to citizens.
3. Police officer asks and is answered repeatedly if the car belongs to the citizen but refuses to respond to citizen's question of why the citizen is being handcuffed and detained.-- WIMTM: Officer is mentally deficient and can't process new information and is so accustomed to lying that they can't remember or think of a good reason to handcuff the citizen. Or the Officer is an asshole.
3. Police handcuff and detain citizen in the back of a police car who is not under arrest and has shown no aggressive tendencies. -- WIMTM: False imprisonment.

4. Citizen had an open container of alcohol within reach of the driver in a moving vehicle which was discovered after a search which was likely illegal.

Conclusion: Asshole police officer breaking the law should be fired or retrained.
 
Ford said:
Two black guys in the car. Two cops...one good, one not so good.

The cops (and we don't have the footage from the other one's body cam) handled the situation completely differently.

Cop A cuffs the driver and accuses him of being high. Then puts him into the patrol car and tries to get him to confess to possession.

Cop B handles the passenger - whom cop A suspects of having a gun - completely differently. No cuffs, no sitting in the patrol car...instead it looks like they just had a conversation.

In addition, Cop A seemingly refuses to accept that the car is a rental despite being told repeatedly that it is. Like a black man can't rent a car?

Cop A seems like a grade-A asshole. Racial profiling? Seems like it. A couple guys driving around in a car and fastidiously following traffic laws shouldn't be suspicious at all, but yet these guys got pulled over, one of them was cuffed, put in the patrol car, threatened with arrest, and accused - without a shred of evidence - of having weed on him. Did Cop A have super smell sense that he could detect the alleged weed from a distance and that's why he pulled them over? Did he have x-ray vision that allowed him to see the outline of a possible firearm in the car? No.

Seems more like a case of "I saw a couple black guys driving around and you know how the blacks are with their weed..."
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^yup!

I'm a white guy and I've had 3 interactions with cops (lights weren't on & I was 17 with a girl in the car with me; near Mexican border; and a speeding ticket). First and last they were assholes, though they didn't go searching the car or make me get out. The Mexican border one, I think they were initially concerned it was something to do with drugs, but quickly figured out that we (23ish wife and I) were just clueless and getting a soda out of the back at 1AM while traveling. They were professional, polite, and did a good job.
 
Unless there is information not shown in the video (speeding), I see no legitimate reason to have pulled him over in the first place. Absent reason to pull the guy over; I think the cops are out of line. Whichever made the decision to stop the driver was wrong. AFAIK having a car with junk in it isn't an offense.
 
I don't think you heard.

The cop said: "You were sitting the way people with guns sit".

Paranoid cops = dead people.
 
The question to ask is why a cop in the middle of Iowa who may never have known a black person is suspicious of black people and not Italians or Chinese?
 
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