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It's so jarring to read comments like this because shows me how wide the range of interactions with police really is.

Do you think the police care about your rights? They've certainly never given a shit about mine.




I'm 40 something. Never had a good interaction with police (Oakland, Berkeley, SF, Seattle, Portland).

I'm sure they don't care about our rights.


I've had a number of positive interactions with the police. Many, many times I've been let off, warned, been given advice, etc.

I bet I could film the police and it'd be fine.

I am, of course, a straight, white, wealthy male. So sad that's how it goes.


> I bet I could film the police and it'd be fine.

Here's a YouTube channel chock full of videos of straight white males (and others) getting arrested (or threatened with arrest) for video recording police (and other constitutionally-protected activities). [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbEPXqDvej-3mciZxwYmdew


...those people are doing a lot more than, "just video recording police."


I didn't say "just video recording". I said "video recording", which is where most of those videos come from: the public video recording police. There is some body cam footage (which are public records) on that channel, too.

And the "a lot more" they're doing is all constitutionally-protected activity.

For example, here's a recent video of a straight white male who is holding a protest sign on a public sidewalk getting arrested. [0]

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87opWHYxwh0


Okay? I did say "just video recording" (or at least nothing more than "video recording"). I was the one you replied to, I was the one saying what I think I could do.

This link isn't really relevant to what I said.

Honestly, this feels like a bout of violent agreement.




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