As Miguel has mentioned several times, the Democrats have swung hard anti-cop.
Joe Biden had to push the anti-cop message when asked a question by an audience member.
Black student to Democrat Joe Biden: “If I were your daughter, what advice would you give me the next time I am stopped by the police?”
Biden response: “If you were my daughter, you’d be a Caucasian girl and you wouldn't be pulled over” pic.twitter.com/z9qEsB2QvJ
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) October 26, 2019
The proper answer is:
“Be polite and be respectful. Follow all of the officer’s instructions. Do not argue or try to talk your way out of whatever you have been accused of doing. If you feel you have been treated unfairly, politely ask for the officer’s name and badge number. File a report later. Arguing or getting belligerent is the fastest way to end up in handcuffs or dead. There is a very good chance your interaction will be captured on dash-cam or body-cam or both. You want that footage to be on your side by being calm and polite as possible.”
That advice is universal, it transcends race, ethnicity, skin color, sex, gender, or anything else.
The Joe Biden Progressive approved answer is to assume all the police are racist and only pull over black people and not white people.
As a white person, I can assure you that the police do pull over white people. I have been pulled over a couple of times before.
I can guarantee that every cop who sees this and who is not high-ranking brass in a Blue city (Sheriffs and Police Chiefs are politicians) and/or hard-line union members are turned off by this Democrat anti-cop attitude.
The other answer that Joe Biden could have given, that would be more honest and less pandering to the Progressive crowd is:
“If you were my daughter, every cop in Delaware would know what your license plate number is, and wouldn’t have pulled you over because you are a Biden, because that cop would know I would have had his Chief fire him as a political favor to me.”
My parents didn’t teach this to me explicitly, it is what they taught me implicitly, by watching how they interacted with the police when they were pulled over while driving.
I remember an incident when I was coming home LATE from work. Back street of our small town. Cop passes me going the other direction. I see his break lights come on. Pull over to the side, put the car in park, put my hands on the wheel and wait for the officer to come back around.
“Why did you pull over?”
“You were going to pull me over.”
“How did you know?”
“Your break lights came on and I didn’t want us out on US40 in traffic.”
“oh. You and your car matches the description of a car involved in a robbery at (local store). Thank you, have a nice day.”
“Thank you officer.”
He went his way, I went my way. Never showed ID, plates might have been recorded but not the wait while cop runs plates and such. My politeness and making his life a little easier and safer made it easy for him to say “have a good night” and send me on my way.
You don’t argue with the cops, they don’t care and they aren’t going to change their mind in a positive way.
I’ve almost talked my way into a ticket, but the MP decided to explain why it was a good idea to shut up:
“Sir, I was going to give you a verbal warning, do you want to continue arguing about how fast you were going?”
“No Sargent.”
“The speed limit here is 35. You were doing 42. Keep it down sir.”
“Thank you Sargent.”
I had a similar experience, over a failed headlight one night. I pulled off the state highway, wallet on dash, hands on wheel. I had worked 13 hours, and was NOT at my quickest, so, dumbly, I failed to announce the required Liturgically correct antiphon-and-responsorial of “Officer, I have a CPL, and my sidearm is on my hip…” at the start of the encounter.
He grinned, once I organized myself to announce the fact, and proffer my CPL. “Yeah, I know. So, how come you are working nearly 100 miles from your home?”
AND, we had a nice little conversation about healthcare employment trends, and evolution in the healthcare marketplace. And, no ticket, simply a “So, you are NOT going to forget your headlight tomorrow, right?”
“Nope! Got an appointment at 0900!”
So, my not acting as if I were a dumbass worked out alright!
Considering that self-destructive hubris is a constant throughout human history, it’s no real surprise that those who want to institute a totalitarian police state are simultaneously insulting and cutting down those they expect to bring the police state around.
Which is not surprising- the American Left is absolutely fundamentally wrong on pretty much everything else. That they could fundamentally f-up a hostile takeover is pretty much par for the course.
DemonKKKrats hating LEO’s for no reason. Shocker. /sarc
Surprised no one linked to Chris Rock! It’s like I don’t even know you guys anymore!
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OEvMc-K8XHY
Funny story I got pulled over once for riding up the breakdown lane in my motorcycle because it is air-cooled and I had already sat in road work traffic for 30 minutes on a 90 degree summer day and I was too wide to lane split being all loaded down for the trip I was taking.
I got motioned over and yelled at. He actually had the gaul to tell me it was safer for me to sit in the side of the highway to let the bike cool than to crawl up the breakdown lane at 5mph…. Told the cop to just give me a ticketor let me go for all the reasons stated above. He let me go. I think he thought I was just trying to skip traffic and wanted to make me wait; he let me go once the car that was in front of me eventually passed…
Biggest thing I’ve noticed though. Once I started to look older I stopped getting pulled over. There were a few times I was pulled over because I was a young guy out late or who might be up to no good or was from out of state and thus an easy target; even on the times I behaving. I even got followed basically the entire way from the VT border through MA once at like 2am because again young guy who might be up to no good. Got older looking and haven’t experienced that since… Knock on wood lol.
Oh yea and guess what, I’m close to as white as they come. Age and sex had more to do with it than anything. Young men, regardless of color, provide far more oppurtunities to ticket than women or the middle aged experienced person who might be/have a lawyer.
A college roommate of mine was fucked with constantly in the same vein, pulled over when actually doing nothing, asked absurd questions like do you have any bazookas or grenades in the car, and ticketed while sitting in his car in a parking lot he could park in. Also a young white male at the time…