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Also, wouldn't those priors all show up when the trooper ran her ID?
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I haven't watched the entire traffic stop video, but I understand the cop walked away saying she was getting a warning, and came back gave her the written warning and
then started ratcheting up the situation. Everyone said, why is he ratcheting up the situation now, when it's basically over?
OK that's why. If he's a simple racist asshole cop he ratchets it up right away. This guy, ready to let her go until he finds she has this prior DUI and, with all these fines, almost certainly a warrant; and goes into asshole mode because at that point he is permitted.
We can say he should be more sensitive and not go into asshole mode even when permitted. But we have to hire a better level of cop in order to do that. Previously we have sometimes gone so far as to ban people from being cops if their IQ is too high.
This whole thing is absolutely representative of where we are now. It's "Yeah, but still" mode. They killed her in her jail cell. No it turns out they didn't.
Yeah, but still. Get out the hashtags, the rabble is roused and there is energy to be mined from this thing. Who can we get? What societal change can we focus this mob on? How do we get more meaning out of this increasingly meaningless event --
without focusing one iota on the underlying personal depression that likely actually caused it?
And it all ends the very first instant there is something more newsworthy.