I’ve been approached by police at 11pm after closing the store for matching the description of some random excuse while waiting for the store manager to finish setting the alarm.
I answered his questions until she came out and verified what I had already told him. I guess all white people look the same when they’re sitting down smoking a cigarette.
When I was younger I was a real Star Trek nerd…not only the shows and movies, but I would read up the books that came out like clockwork from Pocket Books.
There was one book there about an up and coming officer who became Kirk’s protege.
Part of the plot required her to command a small vessel, but when she took command, she found out Spock had automatically set the navigation controls to go to a certain planet, and it couldn’t be overridden.
She made the crew spend hours figuring out how to override or bypass Spock’s programming before finally figuring out how to do it with the computer’s help.
When she had free rein over navigations, what did she do?
Ordered the ship to go to the planet Spock’s programming had been taking them to all along.
But it was on her order.
True conservatism in a nutshell courtesy of Star Trek.
I expect more of police officers. I expect them to be perceptive and also to understand most crooks are actually kind of dumb, and if the cops show up, they are going to run away.
Of course I also expect police officers to know the neighborhoods they patrol.
I’m sorry you don’t expect more out of police officers.
A tiny bit off topic, but this is a big issue especially in predominate black and latino communities. Know the neighborhood and establish a relationship with the people.
Store owner brought it upon himself. Says so right in the article. Police saw something out of place, and asked the guy multiple times if he was the owner and the owner refused to answer. the store owner is an idiot.
The community meeting comes after the city released body cam video showing the back and forth between both sides. In it, you can hear officers questioning Khalif multiple times: “Do one of you own the store?”
Khalif didn’t answer the question, saying what people didn’t see in the body cam video are the officers who had circled the business multiple times beforehand and had been watching them.
Hilarious. Why would I be confrontational when a public servant is trying to do the job we pay them to do. It costs me nothing to be polite and cooperative and I am happy to do so. And I would further argue anyone and everyone has a moral obligation to do likewise. Someone observed probable cause my home was being broken into, they came to my door, knocked, told me they had a report someone broke in and could I show I lived there. What earthly reason is there for me to be angry or uncooperative?
You’re right, however in addition, in most jurisdictions, you are “required” to cooperate with reasonable requests from authorities. Asking for ID in this instance was reasonable.
