Starcastle
Well-Known Member
This is a video that had a major impact on me. It is a Frontline piece called "policing the police" and takes place in Newark NJ.
I'm not one to push the race narrative but we cannot deny that criminal activity and potential danger to cops is higher in certain neighborhoods and people for the most part are ignorant of their rights and or do not have the means to fight back when their rights are violated. This has allowed the cops to stomp all over due process and 4th amendment rights. They will stop and frisk and take an ID from anybody for any reason they feel is justified.
At the 29 minute mark of the video a skinny young man is simply walking down a sidewalk. A cop walks up aggressively and the guy says twice "Do not touch me" and then the cop grabs the guy and slams him down to the ground. The justification for using violence against this young man? He "pulled away" whatever that means.
He is cuffed, detained and illegally searched. They illegally obtain his ID. Nothing is found. He has no warrants. He was detained with violence first and then had to prove his innocence. That is not America!
In that one city there are hundreds of illegal stops a day where cops without due process put their hands on people, detain them. Force ID. And again it is allowed to happen because most of these people do not know their rights and do not have the means to hire a lawyer to get a remedy.