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"My brother had his seat belt on and everything and I was like, 'This cop is following me, I don't know why he's following me I'm going to make sure I don't do anything to make him pull me over.'
"Your turn signal, your turn signal was on but you didn't turn it on 100 feet prior,"
"You made direct eye contact with me and held onto it when I was passing you," the officer responded.
Felton: What! I didn't even see you."
Officer: "I am not going to argue with you, sir. I'll just scan your license and give you a citation for the violation and you could take it to court."
they especially don't like anyone who questions the status quo or challenges their authority.
originally posted by: theyknowwhoyouare
What does his race have to do with it?
I am white and have been pulled over for looking directly at a cop. He said it was suspicious.
I think the problem is that police find all poor people suspicious. Wouldn't have pulled him if he was riding in a limo I bet.
originally posted by: theyknowwhoyouare
What does his race have to do with it?
I am white and have been pulled over for looking directly at a cop. He said it was suspicious.
I think the problem is that police find all poor people suspicious. Wouldn't have pulled him if he was riding in a limo I bet.
originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
They don't like anyone who is different, they especially don't like anyone who questions the status quo or challenges their authority.
originally posted by: Woodcarver
a reply to: FraggleRock
Well, the cop says it plain as day. He tailed him for making direct eye contact, and then pulls the driver over for not turning his signal on 100ft before he made a turn. He literally followed the driver for several miles and waited on him to make any mistake to pull him over. When the driver doesn't make any mistakes, the cop gets frustrated and just makes some # up.
I hope the cop gets fired. But he won't. Business as usual.
I think a lot of people are scared to death when they are in the proximity of a black person.
originally posted by: Bedlam
originally posted by: Kangaruex4Ewe
They don't like anyone who is different, they especially don't like anyone who questions the status quo or challenges their authority.
They're expecting you to drop your eyes, cringe, kowtow, show your subservience with body language.
Cops constantly receive body language from people that indicates they acknowledge the officer's higher status. The subservience is to the office, not the person, but the LEO's subconscious interprets it as acknowledging that THEY are of higher 'pack status'. You hear LEOs externalize this expectation as 'paying respect' but what they really mean is they want that kowtow at a gut level. Because it makes you feel good. Jacks your mood. Gives you that "I'm really important" feeling to see another person do that, even if you don't consciously notice it on either side of the exchange.
When you don't get it, it provokes a different gut level reaction. Suspicion. Animus. Anger. This guy is a bad guy. I need to force him to do what I want because he's up to something. But what it really is is the old limbic system saying 'I am an alpha and this beta/gamma pack member did not roll his belly to me'.
NOT meeting that expectation is a mammalian status challenge. Eye to eye contact without a secondary submission indication such as a smile or body posture that indicates subservience will often trigger hostility. You see this in most carnivorous or omnivorous pack mammals. Dogs are a good example.
You REALLY want to toggle a cop off, walk past a group of them (the more the bigger the reaction you will get), look to see who the top dog in the group is, look them in the eye and then laugh. You'll send every signal in the book.