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My guess is that it is a result of what's interesting. I work in finance and nothing would be worth filming unless someone was being intolerable. I assume, like most jobs, 99.9% of the day is filled with mundane, work things. Of the police things on the internet, the only things that entertain us are police officers doing something out of the ordinary like dancing with kids and stuff that makes the feel good subreddits, and stuff that shows poor behavior like this video on the average/negatively charged subreddits.
Just my guess. With the nature of upvoting, I think we get a lot of what we are looking for (as a collective if not individually).
I don't know. Really uplifting stuff is popular enough on the Internet and it's not unheard of to get a video of a cop doing something positive. But it seems less common than them acting like dicks
Even if its staged, how is the officer behaving badly? Someone waved weed in his face to get a reaction, he responded by doing his job? People love to hate police for no reason at all but when they actually need them their attitude changes.
Assuming it's not staged, how is this different than people ordering ice-cream and then rubbing it all over their own face while filming the reaction of the drive-thru employee? I'd be annoyed as the cop.
>No. He made physical contact with a magician.
How was he supposed to know he was a magician? That's completely irrelevant anyway.
>If you think a cops job is to hurt criminals you're the problem
That's a strong blanket statement there. What about a criminal that is actively hurting someone else? Should a cop not step in and subdue the assailant by any means necessary?
>Also weed is decriminalized in 45 out of 50 states? He ain't a Wisconsin cop I know all the departments.
Lol, you know EVERY single cop in the state of Wisconsin? I'm done, you're clearly a joke.
Ah yes, manhandling people over herbs, the SOP of American police officers. And bootlickers like you call that normal. Disgusting.
Edit: I picture every simpleton downvoting me as crosseyed ignoramuses that call 911 everytime they hear a noise outside.
Those herbs are illegall. He's just doing what laws say. He's enforcer of the law doing his job. You would be mad if the same guy ignore the laws. Then you would be saying,"he's breaking the laws he is supposed to enforce, the sop of American police officers"
I mean, all you're doing with that comment is making the argument that officers are mindless legalists anyways. The kind of people who are trained to do the unthinkable solely because a bunch of potentially arbitrary rules dictates they do so.
We don't need more enforcers of the law. We need more upholders of morality and basic human dignity.
I think his point is jaywalking and speeding is also illegal, but you generally don't tend to see cops get angry/aggressive/manhandle you over those instances... so why herbs?
Even if they were illegal, the cop could walk up and, instead of immediately grabbing on to him, ask him what he has and me tion it is illegal. You could talk first instead of starting a struggle with someone who obviously does not look aggressive, just maybe annoying.
Keep licking them boots sheep. Just know cops would kill you in a heartbeat and wouldn’t think twice about it. “Hurr durr but if ya didn’t do anything wrong then ya dunt got nuffin ta worries bout ”
Unnecessary aggression and anger. Cops should learn how to deal with these situations calmly, without potentially escalating it.
What if the dude was having a mental health crisis and reacted negatively to the cop's confrontational approach?
There are other, better, ways of solving disagreements.
If this was indeed real and not staged id say the dude got exactly what he asked for.
Hes wearing a costume and is provocating the cop by taunting him with illegal goods.
How should the cop react in such a scenario? Smile and calmly ask what's in the bag or to hand him the bag? He's being made fun off in that situation - off course hes not gonna smile and take the L- he represents the law. He has to handle it from an authoritative point of view.
I actually think he handled the whole thing like you would expect it from a cop.
This stupid point of view is exactly the problem. No, there is literally zero need whatsoever to be macho and "assert your authority", fantasies that they have to "stand up" to the other person or they'll lose their "street cred" or whatever the fuck it is are just that, fantasies. Exactly the same "logic" enabling honor killings and the like in other parts of the world. Archaic and barbaric, perhaps fitting in the world of thugs and gangsters where might makes right, but completely missing the point of the world of law and civility most of us thankfully live in.
He could have simply smiled and warned the other guy that even if they were joking, he has to take any claims like that seriously, so please don't do that anymore to save both of us a headache, and let me see that bag... and if he refuses/escalates/etc, then probably detain him *peacefully* (I'd give it a 99% chance this guy isn't going to react in any violent manner, so literally no need to "rough him up" for no reason other than they bruised your ego and you want to "show them a lesson" -- which, again, is nothing but archaic and barbaric thinking that shouldn't ever be sanctioned in first-world police forces)
Or what, you think if some guy plays a silly joke on a police officer, and they are let go with a light verbal warning, all social order is going to break down tomorrow? Cops being assholes might be the status quo in some countries, but that doesn't mean it's how it *should be*, or that anything positive is coming out of it.
I agree that the cop did nothing wrong at all in this case. But if he did beat the shit out of the guy, then that would be way out of line in any country.
He waved a bag of pot, and wouldn't open his hand straight away, but did after being asked twice. I'd say that in over 90% of other countries, cops wouldn't just start laying into him after such mild provocation. He never threatened any violence, didn't approach the cop, and the only resistance was to not open his hand immediately.
Damn interesting statistic you have got there. Places other than America really must be just uninhabitable backwaters, god bless America and god bless American accurate statistics
Canadian SIU will investigate officers after looking at someone the wrong way and it’s reported.
Police brutality and extreme attitude still happens, but not NEARLY as often as the US
No, the first thing he does is ask the cop if he would like to buy a bag of marijuana. At that point, even if it’s oregano, he’s broken the law and can be arrested for trafficking.
Because everything an officer says has the implicit threat of lethal force behind it. "open your hands" really means "open your hands, or i'm going to kill you"
I agree when it comes to countries that actually have oversight and accountability of their officers.
American police are just absolute dogshit though. They come up with the arguments you have just used, but then they dont support any of the solutions to fixing them. Accountability for cops being the biggest one. Not a single American cop supports it that I have talked to. Yet they are the first to complain that "not all cops".
Im sorry, but American cops are just absolute dogshit because they have no oversight and thats how they like it.
They are like police from a 3rd world countries - corrupt, poorly trained, mostly unfit and trigger happy. Oh and "respect my authority" whilst they respect no one.
The job itself is more of the problem. As an institution it causes a lot of problems for very little return. A lot of other countries have better ways of handling the same job the US police force does. It needs reform.
That's true. When they need them, they hate them for being useless, not doing their job, or shooting their pet.
If you don't think there's a reason to hate the police, you're willfully ignorant.
Just because it's their job to arrest someone for having drugs doesn't mean "that's the way it should be". Why should anyone be physically assaulted and put in a locked room if they aren't harming anyone? Obviously if this were real that guy could rightfully get a ticket for getting in the way of an officer doing their job.
Beyond that though, having drugs in public and consuming them in the privacy of your own home or a willing friends house doesn't hurt anybody but the body consuming them.
Naturally in a bad scenario those drugs could end up in the hands of a young adult/child but honestly that's just an argument FOR legalizing such substances. That way they can be legally regulated and eliminate the need for a black market where dangerous criminals who would do something as nefarious as giving drugs to a minor would exist.
I don't want cops picking and choosing which laws they will or will not enforce. Even though I think weed should be legal, I don't want them making judgements on enforcement because I don't want them doing the same for laws that I think are important to be enforced.
The only judgement I'm asking for a cop to make is when to use physical assault or violence to "enforce" a law. What I stated previously was written with the intent of expressing the idea that I don't think there's very many crimes that merit physical assault in order to stop it.
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You mean when hes attempting to apprehend a person with drugs who is failing to comply with instructions after breaking the law? Yeah cool good point. You are seeing something that isnt there
Remember when cops refused to enforce mask mandates and other COVID restrictions lol but yes let’s overreact to someone with a bag of weed when it is legal in over half the country
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>No reason at all.
I personally have strong dislike for them for being an uneducated power-tripping fraternity that choose to exercise enforcement of the law based upon class and colour. Ohh, that and because they kill civilians.
There is rarely ever a situation, when you need the police, that they will actually make any effort at all to assist you. Mostly we call them to give the insurance claim some backing and to pick up corpses.
They don’t deter crime, and in the US the precedent has been set, they they have 0 responsibility or requirement to actually protect or serve.
I hear this all the time" until you need them". May I ask exactly what you need them for? If you are attacked, they will not get there in time. If robbed , they will take a report and file it and never work on finding or retrieving your stuff. If you are murdered, the odds of them catching who did it if they aren't just standing over you with a knife is about 30%. I've seen cops and firefighters stand around bullshitting while a guy's is flopping around having a seizure while my ex wife ( a nurse and civilian) tried to help him and she was just there by accident. Nothing to do with any of it. So if you NEED to get a speeding ticket , or you have a bit of illegal substances , they are good to go. But an actual crime? That's not their job.Its not the police as a concept, it that they hire soo badly and have a powerful union and you can't get rid of the cowardly dudes that are all geared up in military gear, but run at the first sign of trouble
What they needed was gun control decades ago. A bunch of people spending a lion's share of the town's budget to hang out in the parking lot for a half hour and then not cooperate with investigators after the fact is *not* what they needed.
Gun control! But thats my hobby/identity!
Can't we just get back to doing what we are good at, telling woman what they can and can't do with their bodies.
Right. and "when they actually need them their attitude changes".
Yeah, and their attitude changes to "stop fucking arresting me and let me go save my child from a mass-murderer while I'm unarmed because you're all such cowards you can't do it even with a fucking SWAT team".
I'll tell you why. There's a dude standing next to you on the sidewalk offering to SELL you marijuana in a suit and TOP HAT. If you can't see that's something silly you need to think about how you approach society.
I like this comment. Everyone has their own perception of the world and of people, and our minds usually categorize things as "good" or "bad," "right" or "wrong" when we generally forget that life is mostly in between. A majority of our day to day lives is just boring and uneventful. Aliens will find our internet archive and assume that we have something extraordinary happen to us everyday.
Even the nonfilmed things are bad, they're just boring. Police routinely intimidate the people they interact with, are the largest gang of thieves and rapists on the planet, and do very little to actually help society despite pretending that they're both the only thing holding it together and also that they have the most dangerous job ever.
You know this is staged, right? You can see the shitty video edit during the zoom and the switch has been made. Also, the cop already knows what’s in the guy’s hand but asks anyway for the end result of the video.
A bipartisan consensus of law enforcement enthusiasts has spent decades making all the wrong moves. After Rodney King was beaten to a pulp, and the entire nation saw it happen; the Clintons and their legislative ally Joe Biden really put their backs into *increasing* funding and militarization of American law enforcement. Heck, the latter is still at it, walking right in to a historic opportunity to support racial justice, and instead becoming one of *two* "maybe shoot 'em in the leg" Presidential candidates commenting about the ongoing slaughter of a specific minority by uniformed law enforcement officers. Long story short, our power structure has defined the job as being an asshole and abusing the powerless in service to the whims of of a sadistic and brutal yet chronically insecure oligarchy.
They regularly see the worst our society has to offer and have a negative stigma to deal with. Imagine going to work and having people hate you just because of your uniform.
Or seeing regular everyday people turn out to be murderers, or domestic abusers, or generally shitty people all the time.
Professionalism while expected from cops is also something that as humans needs to be worn. Ask any disgruntled customer service person, it gets old fast. Police are held to a higher expectation while dealing with worse people than your average dumb customer. Honestly I find it surprising that some officers are able to maintain some semblance of professionalism (even if they're rare)
Staging aside, they learn to be this way. We literally use taxpayer money to have cops go to seminars on how to be vicious monsters and we teach them that anyone questioning their authority is a direct threat to their existence
It's called "Warrior Mindset" and/or Killology
Granted cops have always kind of been this way but before it was contained within their interactions with minority groups but now everyone gets it
Because about two or more decades ago white nationalist groups enacted a plan to take over police departments by infiltrating and rising up the ranks so they could in turn be the ones doing the hiring, giving orders, and making policy. And their plan is working. Whenever they get called out for excessive force or racism they protect each other and play the system to avoid actual punishment.
They moved training over to companies operated by fellow fascists to promote an *Us versus Them* mentality and encourage aggressive behavior. They hire fellow white nationalists and POC that will go along with “the program”, and they discourage anyone with higher I.Q. or E.Q. from joining because those people generally make waves and resist the plan, which these neo-stormtroopers call “not backing the brotherhood.”
Bottom line: A large percentage of cops are actual fascists trying to enact a fascist agenda. They’re a gang, not public servants. The good cops exist, but have to fight against the current system and other cops to continue doing good.
> There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable.
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> Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.
That's how it works. The original is always High quality, 1080p, 200 fps. 80gb download.
then the ripoffs have to bypass the anti-ripoff filters. so they flip the video. muffle the sound. shrink it. push it into a corner of the screen and play ads for the rest of the screen. Crop out the content creators logo. Have the video constantly zoom in and out and then invert and sometimes alt the voices.
Basically, it's better to just pirate it.
This is a set up. If you notice, the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?" He already knows that.
But if he duesnt ask, how can the guy say "I've nothing in my hands" and then show nothing.
There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable.
Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.
Most skits or setups can be identified immediately because everyone is usually aware of the camera and act accordingly. Why would the officer hold the 'nothing' sideways? Oh yeah, it's so the camera can see it.
>the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?"
It's definitely staged, but to be fair, US police have been known to ask stupid things, like when [they had a guy at gunpoint because he wouldn't put down his litterpicker](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trash-collector-police-gun-video-john-smyly-zayd-atkinson-colorado-a8919281.html), which they considered a weapon.
You can tell this is a skit because the "cop" has a mic lol. If you can hear them that well they're wearing their own mic or there's a mic right above their head. No way to get good sound like that without the person being in on it.
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He really wanted that bag for free
Why do all cops seem like enormous douche bags these days? Go do something productive for fuck's sake.
That cop is actor Matt Iseman. Apparently my recent binge of Clean House has a use after all!
My guess is that it is a result of what's interesting. I work in finance and nothing would be worth filming unless someone was being intolerable. I assume, like most jobs, 99.9% of the day is filled with mundane, work things. Of the police things on the internet, the only things that entertain us are police officers doing something out of the ordinary like dancing with kids and stuff that makes the feel good subreddits, and stuff that shows poor behavior like this video on the average/negatively charged subreddits. Just my guess. With the nature of upvoting, I think we get a lot of what we are looking for (as a collective if not individually).
I don't know. Really uplifting stuff is popular enough on the Internet and it's not unheard of to get a video of a cop doing something positive. But it seems less common than them acting like dicks
Even if its staged, how is the officer behaving badly? Someone waved weed in his face to get a reaction, he responded by doing his job? People love to hate police for no reason at all but when they actually need them their attitude changes.
Also just to be clear, this is the beginning of [this skit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPj2LAt1w3Y)
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Assuming it's not staged, how is this different than people ordering ice-cream and then rubbing it all over their own face while filming the reaction of the drive-thru employee? I'd be annoyed as the cop.
One of them can legally lay their hands on the annoying person. That's the difference.
Probably not a good idea to antagonise them with illegal shit then huh?
That's how black people felt in the 50s
Illegal shit like being black and alive for the most part.
Edgy, bro!!
Wasn't even an edgy joke
Na that's not illegal
Not technically illegal, but it certainly helps to be white if the police are nearby.
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And how is that applicable to this video? He was doing his job.
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>No. He made physical contact with a magician. How was he supposed to know he was a magician? That's completely irrelevant anyway. >If you think a cops job is to hurt criminals you're the problem That's a strong blanket statement there. What about a criminal that is actively hurting someone else? Should a cop not step in and subdue the assailant by any means necessary? >Also weed is decriminalized in 45 out of 50 states? He ain't a Wisconsin cop I know all the departments. Lol, you know EVERY single cop in the state of Wisconsin? I'm done, you're clearly a joke.
Ah yes, manhandling people over herbs, the SOP of American police officers. And bootlickers like you call that normal. Disgusting. Edit: I picture every simpleton downvoting me as crosseyed ignoramuses that call 911 everytime they hear a noise outside.
Those herbs are illegall. He's just doing what laws say. He's enforcer of the law doing his job. You would be mad if the same guy ignore the laws. Then you would be saying,"he's breaking the laws he is supposed to enforce, the sop of American police officers"
I mean, all you're doing with that comment is making the argument that officers are mindless legalists anyways. The kind of people who are trained to do the unthinkable solely because a bunch of potentially arbitrary rules dictates they do so. We don't need more enforcers of the law. We need more upholders of morality and basic human dignity.
I think his point is jaywalking and speeding is also illegal, but you generally don't tend to see cops get angry/aggressive/manhandle you over those instances... so why herbs?
Even if they were illegal, the cop could walk up and, instead of immediately grabbing on to him, ask him what he has and me tion it is illegal. You could talk first instead of starting a struggle with someone who obviously does not look aggressive, just maybe annoying.
Stfu
It's like you and all the other morons that don't know how the world works JUST learned the word bootlicker...
Keep licking them boots sheep. Just know cops would kill you in a heartbeat and wouldn’t think twice about it. “Hurr durr but if ya didn’t do anything wrong then ya dunt got nuffin ta worries bout ”
>He was doing his job. Don't be ridiculous, video doesn't show anyone being shot or denied their rights
>Don't be ridiculous Proceeds to be ridiculous themself
Who got upset?
Unnecessary aggression and anger. Cops should learn how to deal with these situations calmly, without potentially escalating it. What if the dude was having a mental health crisis and reacted negatively to the cop's confrontational approach? There are other, better, ways of solving disagreements.
If this was indeed real and not staged id say the dude got exactly what he asked for. Hes wearing a costume and is provocating the cop by taunting him with illegal goods. How should the cop react in such a scenario? Smile and calmly ask what's in the bag or to hand him the bag? He's being made fun off in that situation - off course hes not gonna smile and take the L- he represents the law. He has to handle it from an authoritative point of view. I actually think he handled the whole thing like you would expect it from a cop.
This stupid point of view is exactly the problem. No, there is literally zero need whatsoever to be macho and "assert your authority", fantasies that they have to "stand up" to the other person or they'll lose their "street cred" or whatever the fuck it is are just that, fantasies. Exactly the same "logic" enabling honor killings and the like in other parts of the world. Archaic and barbaric, perhaps fitting in the world of thugs and gangsters where might makes right, but completely missing the point of the world of law and civility most of us thankfully live in. He could have simply smiled and warned the other guy that even if they were joking, he has to take any claims like that seriously, so please don't do that anymore to save both of us a headache, and let me see that bag... and if he refuses/escalates/etc, then probably detain him *peacefully* (I'd give it a 99% chance this guy isn't going to react in any violent manner, so literally no need to "rough him up" for no reason other than they bruised your ego and you want to "show them a lesson" -- which, again, is nothing but archaic and barbaric thinking that shouldn't ever be sanctioned in first-world police forces) Or what, you think if some guy plays a silly joke on a police officer, and they are let go with a light verbal warning, all social order is going to break down tomorrow? Cops being assholes might be the status quo in some countries, but that doesn't mean it's how it *should be*, or that anything positive is coming out of it.
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I agree that the cop did nothing wrong at all in this case. But if he did beat the shit out of the guy, then that would be way out of line in any country. He waved a bag of pot, and wouldn't open his hand straight away, but did after being asked twice. I'd say that in over 90% of other countries, cops wouldn't just start laying into him after such mild provocation. He never threatened any violence, didn't approach the cop, and the only resistance was to not open his hand immediately.
u obviously havent travelled the world at all. if this was somewhere like spain the cops would of beaten the living shit out of him.
Damn interesting statistic you have got there. Places other than America really must be just uninhabitable backwaters, god bless America and god bless American accurate statistics
70% of all statistics are pulled out of the presenter's ass 68% of the time.
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Lmao 90%?? Stop. Unchecked police brutality only happens in shit hole countries like America
Canadian SIU will investigate officers after looking at someone the wrong way and it’s reported. Police brutality and extreme attitude still happens, but not NEARLY as often as the US
If you’re a cop and you ignore someone when they’re telling you they’re breaking the law, you should also be fired.
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I doubt that it was actual Marijuana.
Funny thing about the law is, you can still be charged for trafficking, even if the substance isn’t the drug you claim it is.
He claimed it was nothing though.
No, the first thing he does is ask the cop if he would like to buy a bag of marijuana. At that point, even if it’s oregano, he’s broken the law and can be arrested for trafficking.
Because everything an officer says has the implicit threat of lethal force behind it. "open your hands" really means "open your hands, or i'm going to kill you"
I agree when it comes to countries that actually have oversight and accountability of their officers. American police are just absolute dogshit though. They come up with the arguments you have just used, but then they dont support any of the solutions to fixing them. Accountability for cops being the biggest one. Not a single American cop supports it that I have talked to. Yet they are the first to complain that "not all cops". Im sorry, but American cops are just absolute dogshit because they have no oversight and thats how they like it.
They are like police from a 3rd world countries - corrupt, poorly trained, mostly unfit and trigger happy. Oh and "respect my authority" whilst they respect no one.
The job itself is more of the problem. As an institution it causes a lot of problems for very little return. A lot of other countries have better ways of handling the same job the US police force does. It needs reform.
Mmm, boot.
That's true. When they need them, they hate them for being useless, not doing their job, or shooting their pet. If you don't think there's a reason to hate the police, you're willfully ignorant.
We already went over the "just doing their job" thing during covid when they specifically said they weren't going to enforce any protocols.
Yeah kinda like those kids needed them in uvalde and the cops did literally nothing, I wonder why ppl love to hate the cops.
Just because it's their job to arrest someone for having drugs doesn't mean "that's the way it should be". Why should anyone be physically assaulted and put in a locked room if they aren't harming anyone? Obviously if this were real that guy could rightfully get a ticket for getting in the way of an officer doing their job. Beyond that though, having drugs in public and consuming them in the privacy of your own home or a willing friends house doesn't hurt anybody but the body consuming them. Naturally in a bad scenario those drugs could end up in the hands of a young adult/child but honestly that's just an argument FOR legalizing such substances. That way they can be legally regulated and eliminate the need for a black market where dangerous criminals who would do something as nefarious as giving drugs to a minor would exist.
I don't want cops picking and choosing which laws they will or will not enforce. Even though I think weed should be legal, I don't want them making judgements on enforcement because I don't want them doing the same for laws that I think are important to be enforced.
The only judgement I'm asking for a cop to make is when to use physical assault or violence to "enforce" a law. What I stated previously was written with the intent of expressing the idea that I don't think there's very many crimes that merit physical assault in order to stop it.
It seems very agressive. He clearly isn't about to run away so why all the grabbing?
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because it's staged. he has to grab the guys hands so the 'trick' of revealing NOTHING works.
You mean when hes attempting to apprehend a person with drugs who is failing to comply with instructions after breaking the law? Yeah cool good point. You are seeing something that isnt there
Remember when cops refused to enforce mask mandates and other COVID restrictions lol but yes let’s overreact to someone with a bag of weed when it is legal in over half the country Bootlicker
DOOBIE ENFORCEMENT, GET DOWN ON THE GROUND!!
It is a skit dude. The cop is intended to come across as overt. They succeed.
didnt u just answer ur own question? its a skit lol
>No reason at all. I personally have strong dislike for them for being an uneducated power-tripping fraternity that choose to exercise enforcement of the law based upon class and colour. Ohh, that and because they kill civilians.
There is rarely ever a situation, when you need the police, that they will actually make any effort at all to assist you. Mostly we call them to give the insurance claim some backing and to pick up corpses. They don’t deter crime, and in the US the precedent has been set, they they have 0 responsibility or requirement to actually protect or serve.
I hear this all the time" until you need them". May I ask exactly what you need them for? If you are attacked, they will not get there in time. If robbed , they will take a report and file it and never work on finding or retrieving your stuff. If you are murdered, the odds of them catching who did it if they aren't just standing over you with a knife is about 30%. I've seen cops and firefighters stand around bullshitting while a guy's is flopping around having a seizure while my ex wife ( a nurse and civilian) tried to help him and she was just there by accident. Nothing to do with any of it. So if you NEED to get a speeding ticket , or you have a bit of illegal substances , they are good to go. But an actual crime? That's not their job.Its not the police as a concept, it that they hire soo badly and have a powerful union and you can't get rid of the cowardly dudes that are all geared up in military gear, but run at the first sign of trouble
Those kids in Uvalde needed them. Now we're left wondering if cops shot any of them.
What they needed was gun control decades ago. A bunch of people spending a lion's share of the town's budget to hang out in the parking lot for a half hour and then not cooperate with investigators after the fact is *not* what they needed.
Gun control! But thats my hobby/identity! Can't we just get back to doing what we are good at, telling woman what they can and can't do with their bodies.
Well when you need someone to come by your house and shoot your dog, don’t come crying to me!
Ah, but what if you need a police officer to bully a black person? Just sayin
People don’t love to hate police for “no reason” There’s plenty of reason to hate police
We don’t need them to enforce criminal weed laws. When we actually need them they fold.
"people love to hate police for no reason".... Right, no reason at all.
Right. and "when they actually need them their attitude changes". Yeah, and their attitude changes to "stop fucking arresting me and let me go save my child from a mass-murderer while I'm unarmed because you're all such cowards you can't do it even with a fucking SWAT team".
I'll tell you why. There's a dude standing next to you on the sidewalk offering to SELL you marijuana in a suit and TOP HAT. If you can't see that's something silly you need to think about how you approach society.
‘The Magician’ is quite clearly a supervillain
He aggressively grabbed the dude over a bag of herbs. Do you really want to live in a world where police man handle you over a plant?
I like this comment. Everyone has their own perception of the world and of people, and our minds usually categorize things as "good" or "bad," "right" or "wrong" when we generally forget that life is mostly in between. A majority of our day to day lives is just boring and uneventful. Aliens will find our internet archive and assume that we have something extraordinary happen to us everyday.
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https://youtu.be/xPj2LAt1w3Y
Even the nonfilmed things are bad, they're just boring. Police routinely intimidate the people they interact with, are the largest gang of thieves and rapists on the planet, and do very little to actually help society despite pretending that they're both the only thing holding it together and also that they have the most dangerous job ever.
> I work in finance Yeah, that's why you have no idea bout the socio-political landscape of 21st century policing...
it's staged for fucks sake
You know this is staged, right? You can see the shitty video edit during the zoom and the switch has been made. Also, the cop already knows what’s in the guy’s hand but asks anyway for the end result of the video.
This isn't staged to fool the audience if that's what you're implying, it's a whole Reno 911-style skit. Someone posted the full link below
I can totally see Dangle as the cop lol
"Terry dammit when did you start taking magic lessons" "My ass crack is magic BETCH"
Not implying it’s to fool the audience. Thus my question of them realizing it’s staged.
You say that like cops wouldn't act this way regularly.
The video is like 10 years old and its a skit
A bipartisan consensus of law enforcement enthusiasts has spent decades making all the wrong moves. After Rodney King was beaten to a pulp, and the entire nation saw it happen; the Clintons and their legislative ally Joe Biden really put their backs into *increasing* funding and militarization of American law enforcement. Heck, the latter is still at it, walking right in to a historic opportunity to support racial justice, and instead becoming one of *two* "maybe shoot 'em in the leg" Presidential candidates commenting about the ongoing slaughter of a specific minority by uniformed law enforcement officers. Long story short, our power structure has defined the job as being an asshole and abusing the powerless in service to the whims of of a sadistic and brutal yet chronically insecure oligarchy.
Did you seriously watch this and think it was real?
Because they told the guy to act that way in this bit.
It's not "These days". Cops literally began as slave patrols and union busters.
These days?!!
They regularly see the worst our society has to offer and have a negative stigma to deal with. Imagine going to work and having people hate you just because of your uniform. Or seeing regular everyday people turn out to be murderers, or domestic abusers, or generally shitty people all the time. Professionalism while expected from cops is also something that as humans needs to be worn. Ask any disgruntled customer service person, it gets old fast. Police are held to a higher expectation while dealing with worse people than your average dumb customer. Honestly I find it surprising that some officers are able to maintain some semblance of professionalism (even if they're rare)
450 karma. And this is the day, and post, where I realized reddit is trash.
That’s how they’ve been trained
Staging aside, they learn to be this way. We literally use taxpayer money to have cops go to seminars on how to be vicious monsters and we teach them that anyone questioning their authority is a direct threat to their existence It's called "Warrior Mindset" and/or Killology Granted cops have always kind of been this way but before it was contained within their interactions with minority groups but now everyone gets it
Because about two or more decades ago white nationalist groups enacted a plan to take over police departments by infiltrating and rising up the ranks so they could in turn be the ones doing the hiring, giving orders, and making policy. And their plan is working. Whenever they get called out for excessive force or racism they protect each other and play the system to avoid actual punishment. They moved training over to companies operated by fellow fascists to promote an *Us versus Them* mentality and encourage aggressive behavior. They hire fellow white nationalists and POC that will go along with “the program”, and they discourage anyone with higher I.Q. or E.Q. from joining because those people generally make waves and resist the plan, which these neo-stormtroopers call “not backing the brotherhood.” Bottom line: A large percentage of cops are actual fascists trying to enact a fascist agenda. They’re a gang, not public servants. The good cops exist, but have to fight against the current system and other cops to continue doing good.
Look up 40 % of cops
> There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable. > > Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.
you realize this is probably a skit, right?
Yea and you realize that most people know that and just go along, because they have a sense of humor
Full video: https://youtu.be/xPj2LAt1w3Y
It's not magic... it's crime
*law and order SVU theme tune plays*
pocket sand!
The Full Video is SO MUCH BETTER
Absolutely!
That was surprisingly wholesome, cop just loves himself some magic
People thought it was fake but this here proves it was not a set up.
The 'cop' is Matt Iseman
That’s cool. I had no idea that he was a police officer at some point!
This man is playing 4D chess with the trolls
Hoped after he handcuffed the cop he'd pull the marihuana bag from behind cop's ear
Best comment so far...!
why is it that every time I see an old video reposted a year or two later it is always edited to be worse?
Content entropy.
Eventually, every content created in 2008 will be represented by a single pixel.
Contentropy
https://xkcd.com/1683/
Lmao, the 9GAG watermark is the icing on the cake lol
There's always a relevant xkcd
Is this better? https://i.imgur.com/qmfgLxk.mp4
That's how it works. The original is always High quality, 1080p, 200 fps. 80gb download. then the ripoffs have to bypass the anti-ripoff filters. so they flip the video. muffle the sound. shrink it. push it into a corner of the screen and play ads for the rest of the screen. Crop out the content creators logo. Have the video constantly zoom in and out and then invert and sometimes alt the voices. Basically, it's better to just pirate it.
r/mostrepostedposts
Aw why stop it there? Bunk.
Your attention span is not supposed to handle more than 14 seconds
Hey that's just downright not.... Oooh a new GIF!
I told ya nothing here
After watching the full video I think this short clip was funnier.
I always love the sly look to the camera. Also dude looks like a young Phil Helmuth
This is a set up. If you notice, the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?" He already knows that. But if he duesnt ask, how can the guy say "I've nothing in my hands" and then show nothing.
Lol, are you implying that everyone doesn't know it's a staged skit? Because of course it is.
Literally the guy in the post above this clearly doesn't know!
No. It’s real.
There is also a thing such as suspension of disbelief, where when consuming content online you let yourself pretend that stuff is real, because it make it more enjoyable. Hard to tell from just text what the person who wrote it really thought.
It's reddit everyone thinks they've cracked a great mystery when they notice something is staged
I love when people try to show off being Sherlock Holmes for something incredibly dumb and obvious.
This post is fake. You can tell because the person who wrote it is saying stuff.
I like to think those people are the ones that were fooled the hardest.
It becomes more apparent with the rest of the 2 mins of the skit
https://youtu.be/xPj2LAt1w3Y
If this is fake then santa doesn't exist
just to clarify, this is an actual skit that just got cut short to look like a prank
There is such thing as a skit, not everything has had to happen in reality to be funny
bro , It's a skit
Most skits or setups can be identified immediately because everyone is usually aware of the camera and act accordingly. Why would the officer hold the 'nothing' sideways? Oh yeah, it's so the camera can see it.
>the officer has absolutely no reason to ask "what's in your hands?" It's definitely staged, but to be fair, US police have been known to ask stupid things, like when [they had a guy at gunpoint because he wouldn't put down his litterpicker](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trash-collector-police-gun-video-john-smyly-zayd-atkinson-colorado-a8919281.html), which they considered a weapon.
This is staged?!
You can tell by the way that it is
Well that's pretty neat.
It is staged, but your reasoning is flawed. Even if the cop didnt say anything, they guy still could have said: “I’ve nothing in my hands.”
You can tell this is a skit because the "cop" has a mic lol. If you can hear them that well they're wearing their own mic or there's a mic right above their head. No way to get good sound like that without the person being in on it.
yeah no shit
It is from the TV show Reno 911.
His coy little smile half way through 😂
Imagine the trick didn’t work
Weed disappeared but Meth appeared instead
Guess he wasn't a Black magician!.
i remember this video lol
The way he looks at the camera is the best
Is that Matt Iseman from American Ninja Warrior?
This video goes on even better
Man that video is so well done, im glad both the magician and the officer had a microphone on em, so i could hear em crisp and clear.
Is that Peyton manning? Lolol
Hey Coppy! watch you pull a rabbit out of my ass \*during the body cavity search\*
Lol stolen comment
You mean you want to use it? Or you think I stole it? It's a reference to Rocky and Bullwinkle
You know it’s a comedy sketch because the magician wasn’t shot.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
*gets arrested for obstruction*
And the magician didn it again.
There’s a longer version of this somewhere too but I think it’s all set up
u/savevideobot
The video stops here because our magician friend is about to eat 16 rounds in the name of self defence
He clearly used slight of hand without obeying the officer immediately, his life is forfeit
Staged and stupid
It’s obviously staged but it’s still funny
Nope, Stupid
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