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Jul. 29th, 2006 10:06 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingFrom Michael Paladin:
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I often wonder why so many Americans are terrified of cops. Then I see things like this and I remember that police in the USA really aren't anything like Canadian cops - there's a deep cultural difference in how they're perceived, how they're treated, and the type of people who get into grunt-level copdom.
It doesn't help that she's ignorant and combative, but he's not supposed to be. It's his JOB to act with more sanity and self-restraint than a fast food clerk.
A fast food restaurant cashier in Dayton, Ohio, found that it doesn’t help to be right when you’re dealing with police thugs. The cashier took an order from a cop at the drive-thru window. She gave him change for a ten, but the cop claimed he gave her a twenty. The manager confirmed that there wasn’t even a twenty in the register, but the cop came in behind the counter, pepper sprayed the cashier, and arrested her. Analysis of the tape confirms that the cashier was right, and the cop was wrong. Naturally, the cop was cleared of any wrongdoing, but the cashier was paid $60,000 in damages.
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I often wonder why so many Americans are terrified of cops. Then I see things like this and I remember that police in the USA really aren't anything like Canadian cops - there's a deep cultural difference in how they're perceived, how they're treated, and the type of people who get into grunt-level copdom.
It doesn't help that she's ignorant and combative, but he's not supposed to be. It's his JOB to act with more sanity and self-restraint than a fast food clerk.