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Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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tbqh i'm more worried about being gunned down by the police than being arrested or being searched at this point.

exhibit A: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530

(warning to system-believers: the link contains video of police executing a prone, face down, unarmed, nonviolent, nonresisting, white male; the officer was acquitted)

Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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post #4

tbqh i'm more worried about being gunned down by the police than being arrested or being searched at this point. exhibit A: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530 (warning to system-believers: the link contains video of police executing a prone, face down, unarmed, nonviolent, nonresisting, white male; the officer was acquitted)

I don't think I can watch this video, but I would like to know what happened. Can someone perhaps provide a "transcript"?

Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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How far do you take this?

For example, suppose you hear someone down the street yell, "My baby!", look up, and see a man shove a woman to the ground, take a baby from a stroller, get into a car with the baby, and drive quickly up the street, leaving behind the woman screaming "He took my baby! Help!". They pass you, and a block farther up turn left onto a freeway on ramp.

30 seconds later a police officer drives by, stops, and asks if you saw the baby snatcher suspect, and if so which way they went.

Do you say "it looked like he turned left a block up"? Or do you say "I will not answer without a lawyer"? I've run into a lot of people who go with the latter, citing that video.

Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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post #7

How far do you take this? For example, suppose you hear someone down the street yell, "My baby!", look up, and see a man shove a woman to the ground, take a baby from a stroller, get into a car with the baby, and drive quickly up the street, leaving behind the woman screaming "He took my baby! Help!". They pass you, and a block farther up turn left onto a freeway on ramp. 30 seconds later a police officer drives by,…

If it looks like you're the suspect, then don't talk and get a lawyer.

Otherwise, you should probably avoid doing anything that makes you a suspect, including demanding a lawyer prematurely.

Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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post #4

tbqh i'm more worried about being gunned down by the police than being arrested or being searched at this point. exhibit A: https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/939014159726870530 (warning to system-believers: the link contains video of police executing a prone, face down, unarmed, nonviolent, nonresisting, white male; the officer was acquitted)

I don't think I can watch this video, but I would like to know what happened. Can someone perhaps provide a "transcript"?

imagine a man face down on the ground with his hands behind his head and his legs crossed in a narrow hallway. the man is sobbing in terror, and drunk. two cops are pointing assault weapons at the man and screaming at him from 20 feet down the hallway. eventually, they shoot him.

Re: Don't Talk to the Police (2012)

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So don’t talk to the police. Yet the same people promoting that are against concealed carry and the castle doctrine.

So how does one defend themselves and their property if we assume we aren’t supposed to cooperate with police.

It’s a serious question — we are supposed to be opposed to self defense because ostensibly police exist to protect us, but then we aren’t supposed to actually talk to police? How does that work? Taken to a logical extreme, we aren’t even supposed to call the police right?

We are supposed to trust big government with health care but we aren’t supposed to trust government in protecting fundamental rights to life, liberty and property?

This position makes zero logical sense.

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