For just one second, try NOT to look at this through the eyes of a white male. Of course it would have been your fault. Take a look at Buck's video above. Using Sandra Bland's standard, that cat should have been shot on the spot. But guess what? He got to go home to his family. What do you think the cops would do to me if I tried to pull that shit in the video above? Serious question.
Hey hey a thought provoking response instead of just being called a dumbass, I appreciate that.
Honest answer: idk wtf to even think of that video because that dude is like off his rocker. He is lucky the cop didnt make him do a sobriety test or some shit to make sure he wasnt under the influence.
I would expect us to be treated the same in either situation regardless of our skin color (assuming you are a black male from your reply) but obviously it is naive for me to assume 100/100 times that will be the case. Because the unfortunate reality is there are racist assholes out there, some of whom have a badge. But it isnt a job requirement for cops to be racists or assholes because I have met my share of reasonable cops and also had the assholes.
Here is the flip side to your question, if sandra bland wasnt black but instead a white woman what would your reaction to this be. I know you could say the stop wouldnt have happened in the first place because she is white and wouldnt have been stopped for a failure to signal. But just humor me and think if she was white and acts the way she does is she till in a jail cell to hang herself (regardless of whether the stop was legal or not I am not convinced she was murdered) or is she on her way. My take, she is still there because I have seen first hand a women give a cop hella attitude, she started pointing her finger an inch from his face and he took her skinny ass by the wrist and put her to the ground in a second. Was it right, not in the strictest sense of the law but there were plenty of bystanders and no one was crying police brutality. A few clapped, because man or woman, black or white there is a proper way to conduct yourself.
And I would say that the cop broke that conduct as well as bland but has being an asshole to an asshole every gotten anything done for you?
P.s. the cop in bucks vid gets hella condescending when he starts explaining the ticket, so had that situation gone south you could try to make an argument that he escalated it as well with his demeanor but scemantics and all...