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Um, what? I read the story of his SF arrest. That's... not what happened. He was arrested because the police resented that he did not immediately 'respect my authoritah'. He was not interfering with paramedics. He was a safe distance away. He got put on psychiatric hold by the police as retribution for insisting it is reasonable for him to have the right to see a doctor for medical treatment. Medical treatment which…
In the time it took you to make that throwaway account you could have read this: http://sfist.com/2014/02/18/young_tech_worker_who_called_911... or this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/779439/police_report_ann... LOL, he stated he was a medic and tried to push his way past the police.
The idea that it is right for police to violently enforce their every whim if one does not immediately obey all commands is a serious problem.
For one, only a small subset of all possible commands a police officer could make are commands which one is legally obligated to follow.
Secondly, I think we want a society where police choose constructive dialog over violence.
Nothing about this incident was necessary or proportionate.
Unnecessary violence has made policing dangerous lately. A few years ago it was more dangerous to supervise lawncare, be a taxi driver, collect garbage, or be a handyman than it was to be a police officer.
I wonder if this year's escalations will lead to policing actually becoming a dangerous profession. :(
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Hopefully any higher up officials can recognize this just gave what is probably on average a fairly affluent tech class on HN a more positive outlook on Kazakhstan. Its positive advertising for the country to hear that you don't end up in a gulag for having your passport lapse.
Higher up officials in Kazakhstan have never heard of HN.
Great read. I've never been in a situation where a bribe might have helped and so it's good to get some idea of "how bribes work" for possible future reference. I have noticed that it seems valuable to project being "poorer" rather than "richer" when traveling. Naively it might seem like throwing money around would grease all sorts of wheels but the opposite has been my experience (although probably I just don't have…
When I was younger and traveling in China alone, I fell for one of the "tea house" scams common in the bigger cities. The leader of the heavies sent to intimidate me was somewhat nicer when he figured out that I didn't have much money or a credit card and wasn't lying about it.
He gave me some life advice: "don't go anywhere with a stranger" then took ¥10,000 (about 300 in Chinese money) and sent me on my way. It was pretty surreal.
This dude just grassed on all the people who bent the rules to be nice to him. With pictures. For a moment of blog fame. Very uncool.
This dude just grassed on all the people who bent the rules to be nice to him. With pictures. For a moment of blog fame. Very uncool.
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In the time it took you to make that throwaway account you could have read this: http://sfist.com/2014/02/18/young_tech_worker_who_called_911... or this: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/779439/police_report_ann... LOL, he stated he was a medic and tried to push his way past the police.
That's a... selective reading of that police report. The idea that it is right for police to violently enforce their every whim if one does not immediately obey all commands is a serious problem. For one, only a small subset of all possible commands a police officer could make are commands which one is legally obligated to follow. Secondly, I think we want a society where police choose constructive dialog over violen…
seeing how deep the police got addicted to violence one can only wonder whether it is possible for them to get sober at all.
I mean you can't make that up - https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/2... . Just make sure to watch the video. The police tried to shoot the autistic patient even after the therapist clearly explained to them everything, and there were absolutely no danger to anybody. The police screwed the shot [fortunately] and instead of killing the autistic patient they hit the therapist in the leg.