Comments by "Crazy Eyes" (@CrizzyEyes) on "Officer Pulls Gun on Student Picking Up Trash Outside of Dorm Building | NowThis" video.

@Thee_Woker The problem is that in many departments cops like this proliferate, enabled by awful leadership and corrupt prosecutors and judges. In reality the good cops can't really do much to stop them because they aren't in these departments. Arizona has some major problems with corruption in their justice and enforcement for example.
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@wyatt5532 That's not a valid analogy. This is more like you're outside YOUR OWN HOME doing yard work and a cop just walks up to you and says "Hello sir, can you prove that you live here? What's your name, address, date of birth? Some random clown called in that you look suspicious." "Well, I have the key here so I can just unlock the door--" "That's not good enough. Have a seat and answer all of my questions."
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@thybehollowedname The key here is suspicion. You're breaking the rule of Occam's Razor (The simplest answer is most likely to be correct) by assuming that this is a guy who just so happens to be college aged, has a college ID, has tools that show that he is performing a task legitimately, but fabricated all of that for... some yet unstated and unproven purpose. Is it possible? Yes. Is it likely, given no further information? Absolutely not. If we are to assume this level of scrutiny is warranted, then every person would be randomly stopped and questioned, Gestapo-style.
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Wow. At least he won't have any student debt.
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@beavischrist5 Exactly. My point is anyone with any integrity left or was deliberately made to leave (because they meddled with the corruption infesting the system).
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@8MoneyIzmyMission8 The rural conservatives -- the ones who actually live outside of the city and suburbs, not neocon soccer moms and boomer dads -- actually do hate cops turning up on their property. Sometimes violently. Personally I feel that Trump talking about prosecution immunity for cops was a mistake and rather tone deaf. More conservatives are waking up to the fact that police are largely incompetent. I hope he reverses course on that. The left and right in this country have more in common than they realize, but our media talking heads are really good at convincing us that we should never be in the same room together.
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@AbroadOkra33 the problem is if you have a "no trespassing" sign on your yard, and you're outside doing yard work then by your logic I could call the cops on you, as your neighbor, and you'd have to sit there and play 20 questions with the cop, and apparently you think this is completely reasonable. that is definitely not the principles this nation was founded on
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@narutolikestoes9028 You're in for a rude awakening some day if you worship cops like these just because you aren't black.
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