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msanthrope

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20. Exactly. nt

Reply to randome (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 3, 2014, 12:32 PM

Dec 2014

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More On the Incident With the Black Man Stopped With Hands in Pockets [View all] TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 OP

How did they respond? What's your take on how they responded? Scuba Dec 2014 #1

Seeing the whole clip and not just a partial clip TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #5

How would a Texas LEO have handled that? JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #2

Have no idea TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #10

how about LAPD? or Portland LEO? snooper2 Dec 2014 #22

n/t JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #25

By stopping by, engaging the citizen in conversation, then moving on. randome Dec 2014 #3

Exactly. nt msanthrope Dec 2014 #20

I think get what you are saying. Kingofalldems Dec 2014 #4

I am not beating around the bush TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #7

A good start would be forcing police officers JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #11

Agree with that. TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #14

As you said upthread - you aren't black JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #28

Exactly. HappyMe Dec 2014 #21

I'm white and was questioned for about 20 minutes by cops for a similar issue mythology Dec 2014 #38

I don't understand what she is saying . . . JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #8

even then marym625 Dec 2014 #17

Having watched the guy walking home marym625 Dec 2014 #6

No, I don't have a "kink" TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #9

That's too bad marym625 Dec 2014 #13

See link in post 6 TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #16

"Kink is using a feather: perversion is using the entire chicken." riqster Dec 2014 #35

Match.com is a more appropriate venue for that question! msanthrope Dec 2014 #19

hehe TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #23

I won't comment marym625 Dec 2014 #26

You mean JustAnotherGen Dec 2014 #27

You know me so well marym625 Dec 2014 #31

The deputy did exactly what he should've done. TexasProgresive Dec 2014 #12

No 911 recording marym625 Dec 2014 #33

The recording was on CNN. TexasMommaWithAHat Dec 2014 #36

I found it marym625 Dec 2014 #37

I've been known to do the exact same thing myself... MrScorpio Dec 2014 #15

except he said marym625 Dec 2014 #18

Add it to the List of Innocent Things. HappyMe Dec 2014 #24

OMFD that's hilarious! marym625 Dec 2014 #30

Almost sounds like the movie Minority Report, except there was no crime that was being still_one Dec 2014 #29

There must be more to the story. I bet he had a bag of Skittles. yellowcanine Dec 2014 #32

Since the issue is that the police hassled this guy for no reason, maybe the proper hughee99 Dec 2014 #34

Probably 20-30% of the calls for service when I was a deputy were that kind of BS Lee-Lee Dec 2014 #39

An interview with the Black man is a bit different than what the 911 caller Malraiders Dec 2014 #40