>> So did the professor, who acted like an arrogant jerk.
This statement, of course, brought about the anticipated remark from Z (and probably others) that it isn't a crime to be an arrogant jerk.
Of course, this is also not why the man was arrested. He was arrested because the officer could not establish whether he posed a threat to anyone due to his behavior.
When he was 18, my son decided to throw a bash for about 250 of his closest friends in our front yard while we were out of town. The neighbors didn't like that and called the cops, who promptly arrested my son for "public intoxication". The problem was that he was not intoxicated, and there was no evidence that he was. The arresting officer failed to run a breathalyzer exam. After the fact, I talked to the officer about it. He said, "You know, we had a problem. We had to clear these kids out of there before it became a problem, and the best way to do that was to bring your kid in. We had no interest in causing him trouble; we just needed to end it. So call the prosecutor, and you'll be fine." I did, and the prosecutor immediately dropped the charges, all was well -- and I was grateful to both the officer and the prosecutor as they did the right thing.
People, even black ones, have to understand that police officers have an awfully difficult job to do and instead of creating problems they need to appreciate what they do. This guy doesn't. It is totally lost on his that the officer was there protecting HIS interests. This is arrogance.
As previously pointed out, anyone who has watched an episode of Cops has seen this drill play out in real life. Some belligerent asshole gets himself locked up because the cops cannot count on him to behave rationally. This is quite obviously what happened here. The cop wasn't at fault. The black man was behaving irrationally, and precisely the same thing would have happened had he been white.
If anything, the question ought to be whether the charges were dropped due to affirmative action. |
