50-70 over the speed limit and failing to stop for a cop is going to get you arrested and your bike impounded 99 out of 100 times, no matter what color you are.

 

while speeding can, in extreme cases, cause the deaths of others, murder ALWAYS causes death to others. now you tell me where their priorities should be.

another question for you: how much money is there in preventing murder? if cities could find a way to capitalize on protecting the public from murder, you can bet your *** theyd be a little more proactive. however, protecting the public on highways is ridiculously profitable, as we've just seen. now you tell me if they are really here to protect, or if they are just a monopoly generating revenue for their respective cities under the clever guise of serving and protecting the public...

oh, and you're right about the drinking law - the officer cited that speeding and open container were the two things for which you couldn't go to jail. the other one just didn't seem relevant :P and as for the 50-70 over, 99/100, i guess I would be the 1/100. and so would a lot of my friends. but not the black guy. you can see where i'm going with this.. by the way, he didn't pull the race card - i did.

 

Being black first hand experiencehas taughtme You win A FEW and Lose ALOT!!!! For da most part cops hate bikes and bikers not like I had to repeat this.I've been pulled over for doin some REAL stupid **** in cars and on bikes. No racin or stuntin just drivin/ridin fast. I pull over and I'm very respectful as long as I'm respected. It's earned not just givin. There's been times I could've been arrested and times where why am I gettin pulled over. Da way I look at it now it's all a game and how U play it. Some cops look at me like they just wanna shot me and others are just sayin get lost and don't let me catch U again. Whatcha gonna do?????

 

Minority Report was a good movie.
Race card..............................I need to find this deck U guy's keep playin wit.I like to think that this is America in da year 2K7 but sometimes I can't butfeel it might closer to 1907.[]

 

well hows this for a rebuttle...if your buddy didn't speed like a douchebag, then there'd be no problems. If your buddy did MURDER someone by driving like a douche bag, ( driving way fast and running into some one) then what's the problem..besides the death and carnage. Point is, drive like a douche, get treated like a douche. Profit in preventing murder?? I think they got it by handing out speeding tickets, and keeping donkeys who think they can ride like there Makoto Tamada off the streets. I don't understand ( change of topic btw) how there's no ticket or whatever for open booze container..like, so you can have an open beer in your car, cop says have atter, but if you drive fast, get caught..go to jail ( whatever) everyone seems to have a hissy fit?? Im not trying to start a spam hate on war, just sayin.

 

hahhaa i don't want to vote, but will give a response:

I would say (in favor for the cop), that the cop might have had a bad day before that, and your friend was just the unlucky one to recieve the burden, but (in favor of your friend), there are racist cops out there, just as there are non-racist police officers out there... humans are fallible.

 

Being in the Law Enforcement field myself & Black, its hard to say... I hope the cops were just doing their job correctly. If a person is pulled over & acts humble I usually am more forgiving than if they have a attitude, I act accordingly... If it took them a while to get him pulled over, they may have assumed he was trying to get away from them, which would probablly give them a attitude. Here in the DC, MD & VA area, there are alot of bikes that run, so its a issue around here. I do think race is a factor alot of times, which you think in 2008 we'd be beyond that. I hope your buddy slows down & hope he doesn't have to experience something like that again.

 

If you don't want to look like a douchebag, you should probably learn to read, and you should definitely screen your thoughts before you post them. Had you read my whole post rather than just scrolling past all the dialogue because a thought popped into your head and you didn't want to lose it before it was published on the forum, you would have noticed that I described what he did as something that I and lots of people do all the time (and when there's no traffic, I don't see a problem with it), and, when pulled over, we are all treated better than him. The cop couldn't have been chasing him long, because he lives less than a mile from the intersection where he got pulled over.

Now let's think about what you're trying to argue. We were talking about preventing murder (profit = $0) and "preventing" accidental death on the highway (profit = $$$$$), so that's where they spend their time. That's all I was saying, and if I could explain it more clearly for you, I would.

And now, to your open container comment - i remember saying that you can't be arrested for driving with an open container, not that you can't get a ticket for drinking and driving.

 

Ok not for all to harp on me but I'm a cop and if I see some totally disregard for others safety and there own (Especially Bikers) I have to give them some grief. I Would Not take them to jail though, but thats Wa. Law. I believe your buddy got what was coming but was over extended the laws power of imprisonment.

 

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