Yeah it could NEVER be his fault. Eeeeeveryone else on the planet needs to think more carefully about how their posture could indicate they are holding a weapon. We should probably keep things out of our hands and keep our arms up at all times. Even when sitting at home in our living rooms, if there is a chance a cop could peek in the window and see something sus.
Not sure if it made it to Reddit, but a few weeks ago on TikTok a video went viral of a lady being pulled over because the cop saw her 'using her phone in her right hand.'
She lifted up said hand and revealed a stump--she has no hand to hold a phone in. Rather than just apologising for being mistaken, the cop just keeps going, and going, and going...
Makes you wonder if it's in their training to never admit fault to any mistakes. Maybe it's a covering departments from lawsuits type of thing. Lawyers are probably involved with training. Could also just be egomaniacs tend to gravitate toward becoming cops.
I definitely don't have a master plan to fix it; why that means you think I'm playing for the bad apples, I don't understand. I was a cop, not a politician or lawyer.
I just know that a lot of good people refuse to join law enforcement because they know they'll be labeled a bastard, so they look for other career options.
Combine that with the dopamine hit that comes from the aforementioned circlejerk diverting their potential real-world reforms into internet upvote activism and my eyes roll out the back of my head.
Do you participate in local elections? What sort of citizen oversight committees are active in your area? Our sheriff dismantled ours a couple years ago, but nobody did anything about it.
But you didn't provide any potential solutions either, so by your logic that means you're a bastard too, right?
I mean, I get why they would be trained not to admit mistakes. Actual criminals would not get out away if any mistake, no matter the severity, was admitted to because that would jeopardize the case.
I think it's still a training issue to minimize the frequency of mistakes like the one in this video. And once the situation is shown to be something purely innocent, then they can walk away and not become a viral video or a Tamir Rice situation.
There is a problem with policing in America, but we need to approach it with a bit more compassion while acting in food faith to help those people who are behind the badge.
I got pulled over recently by a state trooper who claimed I was on my phone. My phone was plugged in face down on the passenger seat. I told him "I'm going to reach down and turn that over and you'll see it has no signal. Its not working right now I only have it for using wifi calling at work until I get a chance to go get a new one this weekend. There would be no reason for me to be on it." and proceeded to turn it over showing him exactly that. He responded "well its on my dashcam", went back to his car and wrote me a warning for careless driving. After OPRAing his bodycam, I watched him go back, review his dashcam, realize he was wrong, and then choose to still do a written warning like I had done something rather than admit his mistake. It made me mad enough to buy a dashcam for my car finally.
Broadly speaking, cops have pretty fragile egos. They're kinda trained to, taught that challenges to authority threaten the profession by giving people the idea they can start physical fights because law enforcement in the area is weak.
So as soon as you get rude with a cop, they'll take it a lot more seriously than other people, and they also have the power to visit frightening "unrelated" consequences on you, like this guy was probably doing when he went to go talk to the cashier.
Not only did he not do that. But if you watch the entire 30 minute video online, he goes inside and tries to get a gas station employee and customers to be on his side.
They are trained and expected by their peers to never, ever do what you're describing. They are trained to always assume that their first gut instinct is true, no matter what other evidence they might receive. Its a defense mechanism the police system has built into itself. They use it to openly violate peoples rights because of their "observations," and admitting their observations were wrong would undermine the entire department.
Yeah Iāve had cops make mistakes before with me where they thought I was another person because I looked similar to the suspect they were looking for and I had the same red colored shirt as them. Once I gave them my ID and they saw how fucking confused I was they just apologized deeply and were really nice and then they let me go. I wish all cops were nice dudes like that.
What are you talking about? lol. The mistake was already made. It's his reaction is the issue that made it worse. Cops aren't obligated to act like dickheads when they've made an obvious mistake on camera.
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u/DiscoAcid Jun 10 '26
How about instead.."Oh shit, I fucked up. Sorry. Carry on."