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[–] [email protected] 179 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

Her water had broken, she said. “I’m leaking out,” she told him. She grabbed a blanket and a few personal effects as a bright orange city dump truck pulled up to remove the makeshift bed.

“Am I being detained?” she asked.
“Yes, you’re being detained,” he shouted. “You’re being detained because you’re unlawfully camping.”

Stewart walked back to his car to write the citation as city workers finished loading the mattress into the garbage truck.
Once in the police vehicle, Stewart narrated to himself as his body camera recorded his comments.
“So I don’t for a second believe that this woman is going into labor,” he said.

He returned to find the woman sitting on the ground, with legs askew and labored breathing, waiting for the ambulance. Stewart hands her a citation, and she balls it up and tosses it aside as the ambulance arrives to take her to the hospital.

This sounds like I am reading some dystopian book, not news.

[–] [email protected] 118 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Did you catch the part about this particular cop being the "top earner" for homeless camping tickets?

Small win for her, at least she balled up the fucking citation and threw it on the ground. What a prick.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 weeks ago

A friend who quit law enforcement (he was a sheriff's deputy, not police) explained that while the sheriff's office is publicly funded, most police agencies are funded by the general fund of a city, which is where the revenue of their tickets go, so it invariably evolves into rent seeking behavior as law enforcement.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago

I'm going to be sick 🤮

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 weeks ago

He was also already on suspension for covering up the excessive use of lethal force when they found this footage.

[–] TropicalDingdong 31 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] Cosmonauticus 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Depending on your color or sexual orientation you were always in one. It's just affecting WASPs now

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Let’s make sure to undermine any growing solidarity by taking shots at each other over race/culture war BS at every opportunity. It’d be a shame if we were all on the same side.

[–] Cosmonauticus -1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Last time I checked it was white ppl who have stopped in its tracks any class based solidarity because as LBJ put it

"If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

But I guess the rest of us are just suppose to forget getting fucked over in the past and hope it doesn't happen again

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Dude, I’m agreeing with you. Getting hung up on past wrongs that one group’s parents did to another group’s parents is totally more important than mending rifts in our society and working together for a better future for ourselves and our children. After all, it’s totally the other group’s fault anyway.

[–] Cosmonauticus -1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah because we all know everything that happened to black/brown ppls parents suddenly stopped after MLK and their kids aren't getting pipelined into prison or killed by police anymore.

And we should all definitely trust WASPs even though they were the largest voting block responsible for voting in a facist whos campaign ran on making everything harder for lgbtq, black and brown groups very existence. But hey they're happy a CEO got killed so let's just stick our heads in the sand

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001 2 points 2 weeks ago

I prefer this one

[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 weeks ago

This shit literally makes me sick. How can people be so disgusting assholes.

[–] Takumidesh 17 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Why would a police officer make a medical judgement like that?

[–] SpaceNoodle 19 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Because he won't face any consequences

[–] lepinkainen 7 points 2 weeks ago

At worst he’ll get a paid vacation

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

AMERICA! FUCK YEAH!