When did it be necessary for a cop to know when your anniversary is?

A friend of mine was pulled over yesterday for having a headlight out. He belittled the cop, so he was arrested. Of course, his drivers license had his birthday on it, and when the were at the station, he asked to call his wife and let her know what had happened. He wasn't allowed to until he told them when his anniversary is. WTF?

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bijouxbroussard · F

At that point they were trying to verify the truth of what he was saying. Belittling the cop was a stupid move, since even on a traffic stop they can legally murder you on the premise that they felt under threat.

Mamapolo2016 · F

Is it possible to legally murder?@bijouxbroussard

bijouxbroussard · F

@Mamapolo2016 Yes, and the police have been doing it for decades, especially in the South. Just because [b]they[/b] don’t see it as murder doesn’t mean it [b]isn’t[/b].

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard Only a total of 987 people were fatally shot and killed by police officers in 2017. There are around 750,000 to 850,000 sworn police officers in the U.S. So with that in mind only 0.001316% (That's with the lowest amount of sworn officers dividing the number of police shootings) of the force shot and killed people. Police shootings aren't even close to as wide-spread as people tend to believe. Plus, I'm sure most of those shootings have a good reason, as unfortunate as that may be. The problem is that the media focuses on the negative stories on police officers and rarely ever any of the positives.

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User Sigh. You go on believing that, because it’s likely out of your privileged realm of experience. I’m talking about a history that goes back to the days of the lynchings back South when most law enforcement had members in the KKK. Incidentally, the Rodney King beating in 1991 was unique not because it was so violent, but because 1) he survived and 2) it was recorded so that others could witness it. To those who experienced that sort of treatment it wasn’t unusual. My own brother once had the experience of being pulled from his car and thrown over the hood, guns drawn, not because of his driving or anything he was doing, but because he was in a neighborhood where he was unknown (visiting a family member). Guess why he didn’t go to jail ?
They ran his license and discovered he was an off-duty police officer.

SW-User

@bijouxbroussard Eh, if we're gonna talk about personal experiences, an officer saved my family and I from an extremely abusive step-father who always used what money we had to get drunk and high.

There's also the time the police helped protect the trailer park from the Neo-Nazis that ran a meth lab in the trailer across the street from me.

Or how about the time they helped my family catch the tweaker next door who killed our dog with rat poison.

Oh yeah, there's also the time this mentally handicapped adult attempted to rape kids in the trailer park that police came and stopped.

All my friends from my childhood were drug addicts with parents who didn't care about them. I don't know what having a real father is like. But yeah, I guess that's just only my privileged realm of experience, huh?

bijouxbroussard · F

@SW-User Sorry, I didn’t realise that you were black. It is very admirable that police were kind and helpful to you.