The NYPD is skulking through the L train demanding IDs from Black and Latino men, again with zero justified cause or explanation as to why.

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  • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
    54·
    16 days ago

    Well played by these two bros.

    Making them waste time and resources with nothing to show for it, plus standing up for those who can’t. Respect.

      • JargonWagon@lemmy.world
        9·
        15 days ago

        Hard disagree. My wife was stopped due to expired registration on our car - My fault, long story. The cop gave her a fix it ticket. Nothing else happened. They’re a good cop, or at least they were in that moment.

        You know what would have happened if they were a bad cop in that moment? She would have been deported for having brown skin.

        Good cops don’t make headlines, but they exist, and I’m grateful for the good ones we’ve encountered.

        That being said, bad cops can fuck right off.

        • destructdisc@lemmy.worldOP
          5·
          14 days ago

          There are no good cops.

          There are outright bad cops, and there are cops that are somewhat competent at following procedure – but that doesn’t make them good cops. A lot of the time it’s the doing of the job itself that makes them bad cops.

        • wulrus@lemmy.world
          3·
          14 days ago

          Bad cops, even the worst of the worst, do a normal job 99% of the time. It’s the other 1 % of their actions that have such a negative impact.

        • h6a@lemmy.world
          2·
          14 days ago

          “Good” cops become automatically bad just by failing to police their own. One single openly bad cop is enough to make ALL of them bad. They have way too much power to be allowed one single abuse, let alone a systematic persecution of poor people.

          • aesthelete@lemmy.world
            3·
            14 days ago

            They always say “we have a few bad apples” and never acknowledge the complete expression “bad apples” comes from, which is “a few bad apples spoil the bunch”. I think the full expression makes the analogy correct.

  • lmdnw@lemmy.world
    13·
    15 days ago

    ACAB. They’ll never change if our only resistance is peaceful. No significant swing in power between a people and its government has occurred absent of violence.

  • Sjotroll@lemmy.world
    5·
    15 days ago

    Would someone care to explain why would they not show their ID? Is it better to get detained than showing your ID, unless you have something to hide?
    Anyway, in my country we are required by law to show police officers our IDs when asked.

        • Psythik@lemmy.world
          4·
          15 days ago

          Because of the bootlicking statement you made.

          Cops in America are not your friend. They have no duty protect nor serve the American people. Their job is to write tickets and make arrests, to help fuel the for-profit prison system and keep the money flowing. (Empty prisons don’t generate profit.)

          Their second duty is to constantly harass people of color to make them feel unwelcome in the country. It starts with approaching brown people who have committed no crime and asking for ID. The goal is to be escalate things in hopes that the person they’re harassing will fight back, that way they have an excuse to charge them with assaulting an officer or interfering with police duties.

          It’s sick, twisted, and fucked up, and the worst part about is is that over a 3rd of the United States voting population supports this behavior.

    • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
      5·
      15 days ago

      As others have said we are not required to provide ID unless there is a cause. Stopping 2 people without stating why means no cause and they have the right to say no and it should end with ok have a nice day, but our rights are tested more and more. Some good news is its generally an easy case for a lawyer to pickup and win meaning they could get a payout from the city. The sad news is generally nothing will be done about the cops who abuse their job and cause the tax payers more money in lawsuits that should never happen.

    • BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
      5·
      15 days ago

      …it soon became evident that this net was cast too wide for any private agency. Not merely was my own mail opened, but the mail of all my relatives and friends—people residing in places as far apart as California and Florida. I recall the bland smile of a government official to whom I complained about this matter: “If you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear.”

      • Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world
        3·
        15 days ago

        For example, I know someone on lemmy who was viewing this sublemmy, didn’t do anything, got banned, and was so upset he actually died.

        I smell BS.

        1. Didn’t do anything, but got banned? Possible, but improbable.

        2. Got so upset by a ban on Lemmy that the person died? So close to impossible that I would call it impossible.