• mommykink
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    -232 months ago

    Everyone agrees to follow traffic law when they ask the state to grant them permission to drive. In every state, “stay calm and obey police orders during a traffic stop” is one of those laws. Yes, he was allowed to roll his window up after giving his ID, but the second he was asked to roll it back down and refused, he entered a whole different level of traffic violation, hence the escalation.

    You don’t get to pick and choose which rules you to follow because you think you’re a hotshot celebrity who’s embarrassed of being seen getting a ticket.

    • @dhork
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      112 months ago

      but the second he was asked to roll it back down and refused, he entered a whole different level of traffic violation, hence the escalation.

      Really? The cop gets to escalate that to shoving someone to the ground literally 1 second later? It seems to me the cop was itching for a fight, and wanted to make an example of someone. Hill wasn’t acting as angelic as he claimed to, but that in no way justified the cop’s behavior.

      That cop is lucky he didn’t injure Tyreek in the process. I don’t think he wants to go to the barracks and be known as the guy whose temper tantrum tanked the Dolphin’s season.

      • Semi-Hemi-Lemmygod
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        132 months ago

        Bodycam videos are one of my guilty pleasures and in almost all that I’ve seen the cops will give people a ton of chances to comply even if they’re being assholes.

        But in this one the cops went from 0-100 almost instantly, and IMHO behaved really unprofessionally.

      • mommykink
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        22 months ago

        Never said that the cop acted properly or that the same thing would’ve happened even if Hill did everything right, but JFC he did nothing for himself in that traffic stop.

        Cops are bastards. Getting pulled over sucks. But everyone with a brain knows that when it happens you keep your hands on the steering wheel, say “yes/no, officer,” and follow any reasonable request they make for you to get things done as smoothly and stress-free as possible, and then you take the ticket straight to an attorney and fight it in court.