I made this point before that trying to arrest somebody can and likely will get messy. What if a person decides that they don’t agree with a particular law and does not want to be arrested? Should police try to forcibly and or physically enforce laws? Are altercations like this worth it? What if while trying to arrest this person he fell and hit his head on the ground and died? Good thing that his friend was there to help him. (Note: The video contains much inappropriate language.)
PS - I think we can all appreciate the commentary by the gentleman taking the video.
MOD NOTE: The video at this link contains very strong language.
It’s good to see people rally in support of the police officers. Blue Lives Matter is picking up steam…and that’s a good thing. All over the country, police officers are calling in sick, retiring, quitting and filing for disability.
If this is the liberal agenda, it’s working but the ramifications of it are murder and violence getting even more out of control. I find it so puzzling, how when cities get destroyed due to the poor choices being made by political leaders, these same leaders have the audacity to then ask for financial assistance? The assistance I’d like to give is verbal and it’s, “vote these people out of office and start again”.
All I could think of while watching that video was that you couldn’t pay me enough to be a cop in certain towns/cities. I have to believe it’s the rookies and low seniority that get the ratholes.
I hope they make a lot of money. When I got my job at NJ Bell in 1987 it was located in the city of Irvington. Obviously with zero seniority a transfer was not possible. But a transfer to a lower paying job to a town that didn’t have a guard tower at our building is what I did. Yes, our building had a guard tower and someone with a rifle atop it. It was that bad. Not only was it dangerous, but depressing. I wasn’t working there. I can’t wrap my mind around actually being a cop there.
You could have had a similar experience in Philly. I made a wrong turn in the city once. They stopped my car in the middle of the street. Told me that if I didn’t turn around they would turn me around. “They”. Yeah. “They”.
But I know SE DC too…scary back then and even later.
It’s best to avoid Newark or Irvington day or night. Just drive around or use major highways to pass by them. I lived in the area for many years. I was born in Newark. There is nothing positive than can from being anywhere near those two cities.
