• Annoyed_🦀
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    7710 months ago

    Despite no sidewalk being available, Shawnee cop Anthony Starkey threatened Mrs. Jeanine with arrest and assault for failing to walk on a sidewalk

    Wtf is this nonsense, america?

    • @[email protected]
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      1810 months ago

      part of the reason why the country is so car-dependent is specifically to fuck over non-rich non-white people.

      If you can’t afford driving everywhere they’ve set it up so you have to break the law to get where you’re going, and of course the highways were built through poor black neighbourhoods downtown so now most people are forced to live in suburbs where it’s barely possible to walk in the first place.

  • @[email protected]
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    1110 months ago

    For not walking on the sidewalk? Really? This was in Shawnee, wasn’t it? Go ahead and pick a spot in Shawnee, OK on google satellite view, and find me a sidewalk. There are a couple but most of the town (and most of every town and city in Oklahoma) doesn’t have sidewalks.

  • @[email protected]
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    310 months ago

    is it bad that sometimes i feel glad to be a white male? this is shit i don’t have too experience first hand

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      810 months ago

      What’s bad is when you jump from “I don’t personally experience this” to “so it isn’t a real problem” instead of to “and nobody else should have to either”

    • @[email protected]
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      110 months ago

      I had to walk home 6 miles in the evening for a period of time and was harassed repeatedly and made to wait while they again “ran my information” to make sure I didn’t have a record since last time. Finally I said a bad word while walking away and they arrested me for bad language on the public roadway a charge that is obviously illegal.

      I made this argument to a fellow who became a judge when that state didn’t require judges to have a high school education who obviously didn’t care. Wrote a paper on why you can’t do that. They dropped the case for lack of action then re-raised it and denied my appeal after I had left the state. I’m a white dude and I was dressed decently but being on foot at night clearly marked me either as a troublemaker or at best as one of the poor.

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    110 months ago

    The thumbnail makes it look like his beard is his open mouth and he’s some kind of skeleton demon cop.