Pick up that can
Omega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Okay, so smiling is bad. What the fuck is the solution to not look suspicious to cops at this point? Making eye contact is suspicious, but not making eye contact is also suspicious. So what, are we supposed to Sneak 100 past them when we see them from afar now? Is that it?
At which point does a society realizes that maybe we have an issue when people are actively trying to avoid cops even though they are not doing anything that is against the laws? How many people need to be detained over nothing? How many people need to be brutalized with no consequences to their blue aggressors? How many people need to be killed by the “finest”?
I treat cops like a rogue militia. I avoid them when I can, and otherwise, I feel the need to watch my every step because they are completely unpredictable. And for fuck’s sake, I’m white! Needless to say, cops are much less on the lookout for me. When I hear the stories of people from different ethnicities, it’s fucking terrifying.
But hey, gotta protect the rich somehow, I guess.
Agent641@lemmy.world 10 months ago
RubberElectrons@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Ep3 wen
Omega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Urgh… yes
honeyofficer…
destructdisc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
As it turns out, avoiding the cops – or even looking like you’re avoiding the cops – will also land you in hot water
Omega@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 months ago
Okay, so do not exist at all in the presence of cops. Somehow. Got it.
aesthelete@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oops there’s cops everywhere, guess the winning play is to not exist in the first place
painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
If they kill you, technically you don’t exist anymore.
Honestly, how fragile and weak you have to be to be triggered by being looked at. If they are that scared, they should remove their eyeballs.
Objection@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
There’s an episode from the Twilight Zone reboot (S1E3, “Replay”) that plays with this idea in an interesting way. A black mother and son are at a diner with a police officer, and things happen and her son gets shot. But then she discovers that she has this magic camcorder that can rewind time, so she goes back to the diner and tries again, doing things differently. And this time he gets shot for a different reason. So she goes back, again and again, trying different approaches.
It really captures the feeling of insecurity, of being damned if you do, damned if you don’t. And it’s sort of a metaphor for the different scenarios playing out in one’s head, of trying to think of how each action might be misinterpreted or go wrong.