Q: How many cops does it take to arrest a jaywalker?
A: 12. Six to arrest the kid, Six to form a human wall to prevent anyone from recording.
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Stockton news and reactions, in the wake of the jaywalker beatdown.
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Where do you get the notion that the “pedestrian is king” and that, without laws, they’d win any suit?
From imaginary premises you can prove anything you like.
The US is a car culture (by deliberate design from the 20s on, through a concerted effort by car manufacturers and lawmakers who wanted to encourage people to move to the suburbs), and both the laws and the people who enforce the law reflect this. People or bikes in the road are seen as infringing upon the car’s terrain, and almost always end up on the wrong side of the law. But note that it’s as much due to American’s beliefs about a car’s ownership of the road. Even when laws protect bikes, for instance, police see them as interlopers.
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Actually, among the loudest critics of the police are ex-military, who are significantly better trained to de-escalate and avoid violence whenever possible.
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So I went through the Stockton Police twitter account to see if they were reacting to the story, and saw this retweeted by them:
Imagine my surprise when it turned out they were not talking about that incident, but another incident where they arrested a black woman for resisting arrest over jaywalking.
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and who don’t bargain collectively, and whose ethical framework is not shaped by courtroom experiences that reward them for lying, and who don’t elect their own leaders to tell them they’re always right no matter what they did …
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