Say Anything Blog

"You say to yourself, ‘don’t be silly, it’s a police car. It has nothing to do with you.’”

Two problems with that.

1. He’s a young man. This already puts him on the police radar. Young men commit the vast majority of crimes.

2. He’s a young black man.

I’d like to agree with Lawson, but as a young man who has delt with his own fair share of police with attitudes interactions, “what’s your name”, “you better answer me boy” crap, I know better.

Plus he was driving. Unless you’re an illegal immigrant, you have no rights to be left alone. It’s a license to drive the public streets, not a right.

As for walking, forget about it. We live in America. The police should be awarded a first name and a bit of politeness. Anything more than that is to your own descretion. It’s certainly not their right to know who we are, what we are doing, or where the hell we are going.

PS - fuck those floodlights. Reminds me of Germany. The police shine a bright light into your face, you squint and squirm because it is uncomfortable and you’ll probably look down (which doesn’t exactly look innocent), you can’t see their faces, and it makes an uncomfortable situation that much worse.

All hail the police state. Slowly but surely we’re getting there. Slowly but surely the police are going from respected community men to people that everybody fears. Nice job America! You have freedom and you piss it away.

And thank goodness for digital technology and YouTube! I only wish that the digital revolution came a few years earlier. I could have shown so many videos of the police and SWAT acting like ridiculous gestapo. Police and SWAT that should not exist doing actions that they should have no business doing in a “free country”.

*sigh*...at least the technology is here today.

Are bad haircuts illegal in California.  That could explain a lot of things.

What’s going to happen to US industry when the global warming extremists like John McCain double the price of electricity?  I would think all these factories will close and set up in countries where they aren’t scared of technology.

All things aside, this guy shouldn’t have been wearing his hoodie up in the hood. When you drive/walk through the ghettos, you don’t wear red, blue or all black. You don’t put your hoodie up, especially if you’re riding in a new car. It’s a prime gangster and cop magnet. If you’re in certain neighborhoods and you have your hat turned backwards sideways like so, put it bill forward. Police see that and think, “what’s he doing? Lets go talk to him. He looks suspicious.”

Just simple common sense tips. Young guys will always get undue police attention by simple virtue of the fact that they fall into the category that commits the most crimes.