S.C. deputy filmed slamming teen girl out of desk, dragging her away

As re: the "smallest window" comment, if that's directed at me I must simply fart in your general direction.

As re: the if you're out walking hypothetical, the wise man would be even more circumspect in his dealings with the officer. What possible good could come from answering questions you're not required to answer? If I know there's a burglary being investigated, the last thing I want to do is inadvertently make myself a suspect. Even if I don't know of anything particular that's being investigated, I'd be wary of making some innocuous comment that would be misinterpreted.

Nope. Provide the information you're required to provide and that's it.

 

So you wouldn't just say "No," "Yes," "the Turkish bathhouse," and be done with it?

Your life is a complicated one.

 

Rags is right. And sometimes when the police ARE being nice to you, they are setting you up.

Remember watching video of Volusia County sheriffs pulling over drivers on I-95. If you were a black or Hispanic coming north, they would be as nice as possible and warn that you didn't signal a lane change or something.

Then as they were about to walk away from this friendly conversation, they would turn and ask if they could search your car.

They didn't do it to white people.

If they found money, they kept it.

 

In the case I'm thinking of, the question was, "Were you on (...) Street 15 minutes ago?"

The honest answer was "No."

Then another patrol car arrived. That guy had apparently seen me out walking and verified the answer. End of event.

I did look into it the next day, more out of curiosity than anything else.

Of course, I could have gone the Ragu route and refused to answer any questions, but I'd probably still be standing there. Funny how life is less complicated.

 

That happened to me in Tennessee.

 

That's a relative term.

My wife was surprised to learn that she could not buy nearsighted glasses, medicine for a sty or a simple syringe at the local pharmacy. She cannot buy milk straight from the cow, nor can she grow black currant in our back yard.

She could do all those things in her "police state" of a country.

 

She can always move back if she doesn't like it.

 

She gladly would, if I were employable over there. Instead, she "gets over it" that things aren't 100 percent exactly as she would like them to be. What a concept.

 

Getting over not being able to buy milk straight from a cow ≠ getting over being regularly harrased by the cops because of skin color.

 

Define "regularly harassed."

Then tell me exactly how many people you know who have been such.

I know of many people who can point to isolated incidences. I know of none to whom such incidences occur "regularly."

 

We're back to denying racial profiling exists?