The "thin blue line" on a blackened flag
stands for a police mafia.
Do the research.
My comments on FOX comments on Atlanta event:
Anytime that there is a "moving violation" such as speeding, running a stop light, or
driving a vehicle without working brake lights - it is legal for a police officer to pull the vehicle off of the road, request ID and insurance verification, and issue a "ticket" for the violation OR to warn the driver of the violation. Another option is to arrest the driver. Any violation of law is arrestable, however, most often a driver is given a "ticket" that needs to be paid. Tickets can get pretty hefty, even hundreds of dollars.
Some tickets cite "failure to devote full time and attention to driving."
And so we need to look at drivers who are driving "under the influence."
If they are stopped for recklessness and the officer observes that the person is highly inebriated, the officer needs to do an official test to prove that observation. Thus the "walking for 10 steps" or "taking a breathylizer test" to confirm what the officer has observed. This should take no longer than a few minutes.
Logically, the options should exist - if they don't already - of taking the keys away
from the driver and calling a taxi, or some other low impact resolution of the violation to remove the driver from the road. How it stands now is, the driver receives a pricey ticket, the car is towed (hundreds of dollars), bond has to be posted (hundreds of dollars), friends or family might have to become involved. Meanwhile, while a driver is being held in jail with other violent offenders – and possibly at their mercy (ever hear of getting beaten up in jail? it happens).
So, what started out possibly as a wedding or celebration of some kind by an otherwise respectable citizen ends up as a horrific and life-changing event that will NEVER be forgotten. If a driver is severely drunk, blind drunk, maybe this works out as "justice." But if a driver just forgot to turn on his turn signal before turning and the officer needed someone to pick on late into the night - why does it end in going to jail.
Ray Brooks was straight with the police officers. Some friend was ordering him drinks and encouraging him to drink them. He didn't even want to finish the second one. He wanted to get food and go home. As he was only at .10% on the breath test, he was barely over the limit, and over it because he needed food - which he set out to get. He had had a long day. It had been a special day for him, and he likely would have been tired without having a "special drink" pushed at him. Thus, he fell asleep waiting in line at Wendy's.
This is not considering the possibility that he had been set up by the "friend" who was pushing a "top shelf" drinkie poo on him.
In other words, in Brooks' mind, he had done all the right things. Nothing to hide.
Then the police show up. First, the officer gets him disoriented by lying to him about where he thought he was. No bridge. No Dixie Highway. No Clayton County. Then, after disorienting Brooks and confusing his mind about reality, he begins the sobriety tests. First test: raising the finger above his head and moving it back and forth repeatedly and repeatedly, so much so that the other officer started looking at this like "what the hell are you doing?"
Well, first test didn't make Brooks dizzy and so we see Test 2:
precise instructions about how to take 9 steps toe-to-toe.
"Are you comfortable in your shoes?"
"These are new shoes."
"Are you comfortable in them?"
"Well, they are new shoes."
Oops. Brooks sways just a bit to make sure he is doing toe-to-toe correctly.
Officer notes this little sway. But Brooks finishes without a problem.
Test 2 fails.
Maybe Test 3 will work.
Lift one leg in the air and count to ten
"one Mississppi, two Mississippi, three Mississippi, just like that, OK?"
(anyone know the history of Mississippi, by any chance?)
So Brooks, being a nice guy, does Test #3. And passes it, too.
OK. Now comes Test #4. The breathylizer.
And there we see Brooks cooperating fully, thinking he wasn't really drunk.
After all, he had only had one real drink and turned down the second one.
Nevertheless, the meter reads .10% - and Georgia law is .8%
If Brooks was allowed to eat something and take a taxi home, he would have been fairly sobered up by the time he got back to the vehicle. After all, THAT is what he was trying to do, eat and go home.
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Arresting Brooks just seems WAY too much punishment under the circumstances.
The only real impediment was that one slight swaying doing a tricky move.
In fact, I can see how Brooks might have been OUTRAGED at being arrested.
I can see how ANYONE might feel that "hey I walked the line and passed so leave me the hell alone."
But Brooks had endured the pushing of the officer for 30 minutes already.
He had politely submitted to every test and PASSED.
He hadn't fallen asleep from drunkenness, he had had a full day and was tired.
I can see how he might have thought that this was an ILLEGAL ARREST.
The officer was not in fear of his life when he killed Brooks.
He was chasing Brooks and it was Brooks who was in fear of his life.
When he shot the taser at the officer, it was after the officer was drawing his gun.
Brooks was defending himself against a dangerous cop.
You simply cannot show part of the encounter and draw conclusions.
You have to see it from the beginning.
You have to see the humiliation and harassment in a Wendy's crowded parking lot.
You have to see how respectful and cooperative Brooks had been.
You have to hear the officer confusing him and giving orders and testing him.
You have to see how the officer very much stalked Brooks like a wolf.
You have to see the look on the other officer's face.
Something wasn't right. Something was very much NOT right.
And Brooks ran for his life.
And you can't compare this to other situations where an officer was being actively attacked and needed to defend his life.
This officer WAS THE PURSUANT and the aggressor.
I would suggest websites about "filming the police"
or YT channels that film or "audit" police behavior
and you will discover that there are different kinds of police officers
some are simply badly trained
some are power trippers
some do not know what the laws are especially what is allowed by the Constitution
for instance, it is legal to film anything you can see from a public space – it is legal to film police in the conducting of their duties
you will hear stories of how GROUPS of cops back each other up only to be discovered LYING and SUBMITTING FALSE EVIDENCE
how is this discovered?
because of live-streaming of their audits
and because the auditors back each other up with multiple cameras
First Amendment Auditors have learned the law.
Try: News Now Houston; high desert community watch; Tom Zebra; SAEXTAZYPREZ; and hundreds of others
The thin blue line defaces the flag.
The blackened flag is a negative.
The act as a law unto themselves and back each other up.
They may think they are "patriots" but they are activists.