r/woahthatsinteresting • u/kudukobapav37888 • 2d ago

Police officer gets into guy's face and then does this

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u/MeepMeeps88 2d ago

They fired him. Learn to read

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u/EagleOfMay 2d ago

True but without a name there is a good chance he was rehired by another police department. There is no comprehensive systems in the US that tracks the behavior of police that would prevent the worst from just getting rehired elsewhere.

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u/BeenisHat 2d ago

Sounds like a good concept for a business Like Lexis Nexis but for bad cops

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u/rdcisneros3 2d ago

The guy acted like an idiot so they fired him as a result. We should all be satisfied with that consequence. That’s not enough for you?

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u/Paraffin0il 2d ago

That guy abused a position of social authority to punish another American because his freedom of speech offended him. The only reason what he did wasn’t illegal is because police can detain a suspect for their safety, and anyone with half a brain can see that isn’t what happened and the detention was purely a punishment for the words used.

It is reasonable in a free and just society to expect that person to never be allowed to hold a position of authority at that level again without provable education and rehabilitation.

Ironically that guy really needs go take some classes, the exact statement he lost his job overreacting to.

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u/rdcisneros3 2d ago

Maybe, but that’s not enforceable. In the world we live in, losing his job is the most proportionate consequence for the offense.

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u/soul_motor 2d ago

Not at all. He should never be a police officer anywhere, ever. Chances are, he won't disclose why he left, and the new hiring department won't find out thanks to Peace Officers Bill of Rights (POBAR) cited in the story. He gets to continue to be a shitty cop and ruin lives with reckless abandon.

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u/rdcisneros3 2d ago

Yeah but that’s not enforceable. We have to operate in reality, and in reality him getting fired is a proportionate consequence for the offense.

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u/slowbaja 2d ago

Technically we don't know if he wss fired or he was "encouraged to resign".

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u/ApolloScud 2d ago

The issue isn’t so much that people on social media can’t ‘read’ as it is that the police should not be acting like that in the first place never mind with the impunity this officer feels he has though there’s a camera right in his face It’s literally a text book case of entitlement, terrorism, possibly racism, white male privilege, ignorant fuckery from someone who doesn’t know their job, police brutality, intimidation, abuse of power, assault under the color of law - pick any of the latter and you won’t be too far off what has actually happened if not right on ‘the money’.

It’s both outrageous and absurd that he could even hold the idea that this behaviour is in any way, time or planet justified Whether or not he was fired is truly missing the point because they are many, too many who do the same thing yet hold onto their jobs

If you can’t walk down the street and stare a dog in the eyes because it’s going to attack you then that dog needs to be put down The same holds true for a dog carrying a badge and gun There’s a larger issue here like someone has already pointed out of whether these ‘thin blue line’ coptards continue to dictate when and whether we have constitutional rights and whether we live and breath based upon their whims