Imagine if the pigs had just, like, bought those kids shoes. You know, improve the lives of other people
Sincerely, not just a quote or a meme, fuck the police.
This just in! It wasn’t just the cops it was also NORFOLK FUCKING SOUTHERN!
The good news is that they dropped the burglary charges. The bad news is that they’ve instilled a distrust in police among the black community for at least another generation.
Good point. Did they buy a truckfull of Nikes just to fuck over some kids?
What did they do with them afterwards?
The police would have infinite times more trust if they weren’t so hell bent on incriminating innocent people. From lying and coercing to you to get a confession, trying to search your home and vehicle without warrants and setting up traps that innocent people may fall for like this. There is no trust in the police because trusting them is the worst thing you can do.
Obligatory reminder to never speak to the police without a lawyer, they will use anything you say to attempt to convict you.
That sounds a lot like entrapment, which I thought was illegal.
I think it’s only entrapment in a legal sense if the cop tells you take the sneakers. Simply presenting someone an opportunity to commit a crime isn’t entrapment.
If a cop went over to the kids and said “hey look, that truck is full of sneakers and no one is around, so you should go take them” that would be entrapment. But the sneakers just being there and the kids on their own accord deciding they should steal them isn’t entrapment.
It’s a really shitty thing to do to be sure, but doesn’t fit the legal definition of entrapment as far as I know.
It’s not entrapment. See https://thecriminallawyer.tumblr.com/post/19810672629/12-i-was-entrapped for a good explanation of what entrapment is and isn’t. It’s commonly misunderstood.
Though what it is is a very sketchy use of police resources.
It is. But if the police ask them without a lawyer “did you steal those shoes” they dont know any better and will say yes. Then they can take that to court and their parents and say “They admitted to the crime” and then more bullshit continues. Thats why if you ever get arrested DONT SAY SHIT until a lawyer is present.
Holy Fuck. I went to Snopes thinking that I would find that this was bullshit.
It was 2018, but it seems to be true.
“the truck was locked and required considerable effort to break into, and that perpetrators couldn’t have known the truck contained Nikes until after they broke in and began ransacking it.”
Fucking filthy pigs. Shit like that is why they have no trust left amongst the general population.
It’s just easy mode bullshit so they don’t have to do any real difficult police work.
Idk. The trailer was unmarked and locked. There were a lot of freight vehicles getting broken into, so they parked one and waited for another legit crime to happen.
Just seems smart tbh.
It just seems like an easy target to me. Anyone with even a passing knowledge of socioeconomics knows that crime, especially crimes of opportunity sky rockets in poor communities.
This is a case of “treating the symptom and not the cause”. Which is just easy mode bullshit policing. And another example of police prioritising property over people.
