Hodgetwins dissect the La Mesa PD incident where an officer fired and charged with assault detained a Black man at a bus stop two days after George Floyd's death. Citing Penal Code 240, they argue the officer lacked reasonable suspicion for the stop and falsified reports claiming resistance that body cameras disproved. While the officer faces three years in jail for fabricated charges of assaulting an officer and resisting arrest, the innocent man risks lifelong consequences, suggesting racial profiling drove the pretextual warrant check. [Automatically generated summary]
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Wait, well, we're going to talk about this police officer in La Mesa, California.
He got fired.
That's what happens when you white and you run into a black dude.
White people, I don't even know why y'all stopping black people.
It's just too much going on.
I would just look the other way.
I mean, in this particular circumstance, definitely.
If I was a white police officer, I would have just looked the other way.
I would act like I didn't see him.
Yeah, this incident we about to discuss with y'all, this was two days after what happened to George Floyd.
Yeah, keep in mind, keep in context of the situation.
This police interaction was two days after the George Floyd incident.
We all know this entire country was on fire.
Yeah.
Right?
So, but.
But I want to say one thing.
Before we get in the details of this video, I just want to let everybody know, I've already went to Brandon Tatum and watched this video.
Hey, Brandon, if you're watching this video, we big fans.
We even donated to Tatum Report.
Right?
Yeah.
All right.
So I do respect his opinion, but, you know, I got my opinions too, you know.
Yeah, if y'all know who he is, he's a popular YouTuber.
He's an ex-police officer.
He did a video about the same incident.
Hey, big fans over here.
Both of us.
Big fans.
Yeah.
So no need to comment and tell us to go look at his video.
We already saw it.
Every time we do a police incident, y'all need to go watch Brandon Tatum's video.
That's the first.
Where do you think I got the idea from?
Yeah.
I got it from Brandon.
Yeah, yeah.
But anyway, before I even get to this video, there's only certain situations when a police officer can approach stop and frisk someone in California.
A cop just can't go up to anybody and just stop them and frisk them.
That's not, it's unconstitutional.
So I'm going to read to you the actual law in the state of California.
Yeah.
All right.
It's called California Stop and Frisk Law.
The law of stop and frisk, also known as Terry Stops in California, consists of two basic rules.
Some Terry Stops.
Yeah, I don't know what that is.
The hell is a Terry Stop.
Yeah, I guess.
Hey, this is Officer Hodge.
I'm fitting to do a Terry Stop.
Yeah, but anyway, here we go.
Police may temporarily detain you in a public place, even without a valid arrest warrant, if they have reasonable suspicion that you have been involved in criminal activity.
And two, police may conduct a pat-down search, also known as a frisk of your outer clothing to look for weapons if they have justifiable belief that you may be armed and dangerous.
You heard that?
They got to have a reasonable suspicion that you're involved in criminal activity.
Like in this incident, this guy's just sitting, I guess, at a bus stop.
Yeah.
And I mean, if the cop sees you sitting there and maybe he sees a weapon protruding from underneath your clothing, he can actually stop you, even if you have a concealed weapon permit.
He can, yeah, that's true.
I mean, he can stop and frisk somebody that he doesn't have a warrant if he sees a man at a bus stop.
Just a man sitting at the bus stop, you're not breaking any laws or anything like that.
But if he sees you masturbating with your mushroom tip in your hand, hey, I just seen you breaking the law in front of me.
I'm going to go ahead and do a terry stop on you.
I wouldn't do it.
I wouldn't stop him.
That dude probably got stuff all over his hand.
Lube and everything.
Right?
I mean, if you fit the description of somebody just broke the law, like there's a APB.
What is it called?
An APB?
APB.
Oh, they put an APB out.
Yeah, there's an APB.
All ports bulletin.
What?
Bulletin.
Right?
And you fit the description, somebody just committed a crime, a robbery, or some kind of crime, they can stop you.
Yeah.
Or if you walk around, you got a knife in your hand, it's blood all over.
Or you walk in and they see you in the parking lot.
You walk around with a jackhammer in your hand and you busting people's windows.
Yeah, of course.
He's got to seek criminal activity.
He just cannot, a police officer cannot approach you.
You just standing there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Okay.
So I had to lay that down first.
And another thing I need to read to y'all: this cop actually arrested a guy for assaulting the police officer.
So I need to read to you what the law is in California when it comes to assault.
Yeah.
California law and penal code 240 PC defines the crime of assault as an unlawful attempt coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another.
The offenses of misdemeanor are punishable by six months.
So that's what assault is.
So that I'm going to break it down for you.
Assault is like, I swing any act of me on another person.
And under a reasonable person, you would think that that will cause serious bodily injury to that person or an injury.
Yeah.
I mean, pull up the definition again.
Sometimes you need a definition of the definition.
Sometimes you got to read things.
Yeah, the crime of assault as an unlawful attempt coupled with a present ability to commit a violent injury on the person of another.
Yeah.
The offenses of misdemeanor.
It's only assault if a reasonable person thinks if you would touch that person with that act that you just performed, that a serious injury would occur.
Like if I throw a punch at you and miss, that's assault.
Yeah.
Because if I would have connected with you, you're going to sleep.
Yeah.
Especially if I'm swinging, I miss this.
I'm going to jail for assault because they said, man, if he would have connected, you'd be sleep right now.
Yeah, that's, yeah, yeah.
I mean, it varies by state, but me just swinging at you, that's an assault.
Yeah.
But it's, it's like, but me doing this, that's that's a reasonable person would not believe this would cause a serious injury to you.
Yeah.
Unless you're 107 years old and you got a walker.
You push them, they fall over and die.
Yeah.
A reasonable person, me doing this to him, that's not assault because there was no intent to cause a serious injury to him.
See, it's not going to cause a serious injury.
I might hurt his feelings, but that's not assault in California.
See, would you think that's going to cause injury to you?
I mean, it's going to hurt your feelings, but.
Get the hell off me.
You see what I'm going with this, right?
Y'all understand?
Yeah.
I'm just going to hurt his feelings.
You can't write people tickets if they hurt your feelings.
That's what I'm trying to say.
Okay, so now that we got these definitions in place, we're on the same page.
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Reasonable Person Standard00:15:05
They know all that.
You saved in every all right.
So, we're going to show you this video.
Show them the video.
Okay, stop it right here.
What are you going to stop for?
You just cut the video.
I gotta, okay.
I gotta tell them what's going on.
Okay, this guy's just sitting.
I guess he's at a bus stop.
He's in front of an apartment complex.
There's a sign back there that says no smoking.
Yeah.
And also, the officer said there's some signs saying no loitering.
Yeah.
So you need to define what loitering is before we go into the.
Yeah, loitering is when you're sitting around somewhere in a public area and you ain't got no purpose for being there.
Yeah.
Right.
Like if I go into 7-Eleven and I buy me some Twinkies and a Dr. Pepper, and I come outside and I'm waiting on the rod, I have a reason to be there.
I was in that shopping and I'm just waiting on the rod to pick me up.
Yeah, it's not considered loading.
There's also in a lot of jurisdictions, there's some time constraints.
You can't be deemed loitering if you've been out there 30 seconds or a couple minutes.
It's not dame loitering.
Shut up.
Let me do some talking.
If you have an intended purpose of being somewhere, it's not considered loitering.
Yeah.
I cannot say that word.
Lautering.
It's too many of them short vowel sounds in that man.
That damn I net T in the middle.
Just throw me off.
I think it's that oath on you off.
Lautering.
Yeah, there you go.
Hey, say it.
No, you say it for me.
Lautering.
There you go.
You said to say it.
Lautering.
There you go.
Now, loading is like a homeless person out in front of your place in a sleeping bag.
He ain't got no reason to be there.
Yeah.
He's sleeping.
He's loitering.
Well, he got a well.
Okay, yeah.
Okay.
So, and there's a sign that says no smoking.
So the cops says in his initial report that he stopped him because he said he was smoking.
Let's just watch the video.
Yeah.
It's not going to be a sign at the beginning because he just turned on his camera.
Y'all can read.
I know.
Look, he's pointing at somebody.
Yeah.
Cops are where you going?
Sit, stick your ass.
He slaps the cop's hand away.
Yeah.
Right there.
That's the.
He just touched the camera.
What the hell is the audio?
Well, he just cut by camera.
I already told you niggas is coming straight.
You look goofy as hell, bro.
Stop touching me, bro.
Hey, hey, hey, what'd I tell you?
I told you I was waiting for somebody to come here.
They right here, bro.
Sit down.
Oh, oh, my God.
You're tough as guns.
Hey, you tough as far.
Stop.
Hey, we don't care.
Stop, bro.
Bro, you goofy as hell, bro.
Hey, Mr. Dadges, you're making a big deal out of nothing, bro.
You're making a big deal out of nothing, bro.
You're making a big deal of nothing.
You real big, though, huh?
You real big.
Hey, you real big.
Hey, you're real tough.
Thank you, bro.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Hey, where was I?
Where was I at?
Where was I at?
Right there.
I told you, brother, ride the cane, bro.
It's fine.
The people came.
I'm finna dip.
Okay.
I have no reason to be detained by you, bro.
Sit down.
Y'all look at yourself, bro.
What the f.
Hey, let me already see this.
Hey, fine, dude.
You've already put your hands on me.
Bro, I didn't put nothing on you, bro.
It's on camera, so you can check.
It's all good.
Hey, what are we doing?
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
Hey, look up my name.
What are we doing?
What are we doing?
Sit down.
Waiting for somebody to come.
All right, bro.
Tom, stop touching me, bro.
First of all, stop the camera.
Listen.
Now, back up out of here, bro.
Listen to me.
Bro, y'all hella goofy, bro.
I'm talking to you, and you smack me.
Bro, nobody smacks you, bro.
Where I smack you, you did it.
All right, look.
Now, cops can put their hands on you, but I have to control the scene.
I agree with you.
Cops can put their hands on you.
They should control the scene.
They can detain you.
But you better have the evidence to back it up because right now, you just took away that man's civil liberties.
Yeah.
You took away his rights right now.
So you better have the evidence.
All right, let me do some talking.
Under the stop and first law in California, he's got to be under reasonable suspicion that he's participating or he's done some criminal activity.
What is his criminal activity at this point?
He told you he was just sitting there.
He's not actually loading.
He's just sitting at somebody's come pick him up.
Simultaneously, while the cop interacts with him, his ride shows up.
He points to them.
So if I'm in the police officer at that point, and if I'm like approaching you to ask you what you're doing here, at this point, I mean, at some time, at some point, you got to back the off.
His ride's there.
Yeah.
What crime is he broken?
He wasn't loitering.
He had a specific reason to be there.
He's waiting on a ride.
He wasn't loitering.
Yeah.
I don't see a cigarette either.
Yeah.
He said he was smoking.
Yeah.
And but long story short, there's another angle to this, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, go ahead and show that.
Yeah, from the other angle, you can see the video.
I don't never see him throw a punch or anything, the black guy.
Well, they're up in each other's face.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I didn't see what happened before this.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I mean, I never see him swing or anything.
Well, he's upset that he's being detained.
I will be too.
I'm just sitting there waiting on the ride.
A cop all up in my face.
I'm like, man, get out of my face, man.
I mean, me and you would have definitely handled it a lot differently.
So, look, I'm just waiting on a ride.
I wouldn't have got aggressive.
Yeah.
You know, I wouldn't have got aggressive.
What are you talking about as the police officer?
No, as the guy.
If I was the guy, I wouldn't have got aggressive.
I would have like I've been a lot more calmer in the situation.
You know what I mean?
But you got to keep in mind he's black.
George Floyd just happened, and mainstream media is painting white cops out to be these evil demons just hunting down white men.
So, yeah, I mean, the political climate is not good right now.
I mean, and I want to say that as a white police officer, two days after George Floyd, you really want to interact with somebody who's just sitting down.
Maybe he's loading.
Maybe he's smoking a cigarette.
I'm not telling you not to do your job, but you got to learn how to pick your battles.
Yeah, I mean, pick your battles wisely.
I mean, is this worth your time, actually?
No, it's not.
You could be doing something much more constructive.
Now, there's another video.
The only time, this is the only time I see the black gentleman put hands on a police officer.
He's trying to walk away.
He pushes the police officer.
That's his ride.
Yeah.
You see it.
See his hand move out the way?
He pushed his hand out of the way.
Under the definition of assault, that's not assault.
Him pushing his hand away was never intended because any bolly entry.
Maybe it's going to hurt his feelings, but under California law, that's not assault.
If you think that's assault, that's just way too much power.
We're giving police officers.
Okay, so the cop was actually fired for falsifying the police report because the body cam footage, and there were several people out there recording this incident.
Nowhere did it show that he actually assaulted the police officer.
They take that very, very seriously.
Falsifying police report?
Yeah.
And he put in a police report that he was resisting arrest.
I never saw him resist arrest.
Well, I mean, cops.
If you don't sit there and just get on your knees and do exactly what they say, they will call that resisting arrest because he's walking around.
Right.
That's why they called it resist arrest.
But, and you watch that body cam.
He never told him he was under arrest.
He said he was detained.
How can he be?
How can you write him a citation for resisting arrest when you never told him he was under arrest?
He was being detained.
Those two are not the same thing.
He never resisted or prevented anybody from putting handcuffs on him.
Yeah.
I mean, he just said he was detained.
Yeah.
He said he's the detainer.
I mean, they have the right to detain, but he didn't have the threshold to detain this person.
There's no evidence of that.
There's no evidence that he was loading.
He told him he had a specific reason why he was in the area.
So you have to throw laudering out.
He said he was smoking, or he appeared to be smoking.
He did not gather any evidence of a cigarette butt with his DNA.
Yeah, maybe swallowed it.
Cops here, can't be smoking out here.
You're taking me to jail for that shit.
Yeah.
I mean, but it's a slam-shut case.
I hate to see anybody lose their job.
I think I don't think he should lose his job.
He should have got additional training.
Say, look, this is how you should have handled this situation.
Maybe some sensitivity training, gave him some death work.
Say, hey, hey, man, we didn't find any evidence or he wasn't smoking.
You said he's loading.
He had a specific reason to be in the area.
It's just a perfect learning experience.
But the DA is not going, it's not taking this case lightly.
I mean, it's the political climate we're living in.
Yeah.
I mean, you got to know as a white police officer.
Yeah.
Is this worth my time stopping him for smoking and allegedly smoking a cigarette?
Yeah.
And loadering.
I mean, I didn't know you couldn't smoke outside.
Well, certain areas you can't.
I used to live in San Diego.
Yeah.
When I was in the Marine Corps, I don't know how many tickets I got for playing my music too loud.
Yeah.
I got a ticket for being at San Diego Beach playing my music too loud outside in my car at the beach.
I go to court in my uniform.
Yeah.
I was a Marine.
Judge said, what's going on?
I said, man, I was outside playing my music.
It's the weekend, Judge.
Had a hard week.
Had a hard week.
Staff songs on my ass every day.
I was like, just listen to my music.
I had it up.
It was loud, but I mean, there's a lot of loud stuff going on.
We're at the freaking beach.
Yeah, you had a couple six by nines, didn't you?
I had a Kinwood.
I had a couple six by nines, six by nines on the amp.
Yeah, man.
Whenever you came by my house, man, I could hear you a block that I was in my liberal days.
You know what's funny?
Some niggas stole all of it.
I said, where's your sister, man?
He's, man, some niggas got.
They took his six by nines.
They took his biggest smoes.
They took my two park, took everything.
That's the stupid.
Took everything.
Y'all know how I knew it was a bunch of niggas.
He lived in a black neighborhood.
Hey, man, let's get off.
It's the difference between being, well, I get off of it.
Yeah.
But y'all seen the evidence.
Y'all seen the video.
He never assaulted him.
Not on the California definition.
He was never smoking.
He had absolutely, if you ask me from what I saw, he had absolutely no right to even approach that man.
Yeah.
I mean, they actually ran him for warrants.
I think that was his goal.
This dude looked like he's good for something.
They checked him for warrants.
He was clean.
I think it more than likely this man saw him sitting there and he profiled him.
And that's, and one thing led to another.
Before you know it, you can't take it back.
Everybody's out there recording.
I mean, you have the right to approach somebody and detain them if they've broken a law, if you have reasonable suspicion.
But he just told you he's sitting there waiting on a ride.
So he's no longer shows up as you're like interrogating.
Figure out what's going on.
Which means he was not loadering.
Yeah.
And I don't see him smoking.
And you falsify and report that he assaulted you.
He never swung at you, not one time.
There's multiple cameras.
Yeah.
It's kind of funny.
Yeah.
The cop actually drove this dude to the police station.
Yeah.
Right.
Writes him a ticket in the car.
Yeah.
Right.
And then lets him go from the police station.
Doesn't take him into the police station.
He just drove him all the way to the police station and wrote him a ticket and said, hey, get the hell out of here.
I mean, the dude was waiting for a ride.
How the hell is he supposed to get on?
Y'all don't find that a little bit odd?
I will put it.
You could have written the ticket right there where he was at.
His ride was there.
Y'all don't think the cop's flexing on him just a little bit?
I mean, I understand this guy's a he came off like a total asshole to the cop.
Yeah, I'm not condoning his behavior.
Yeah.
I'm not condoning his language.
Yeah, I wouldn't have never handled that.
I would have handled it totally differently.
And I guarantee you, the cop would have treated me different than him because I would have handled the situation a lot.
I'd remain calm and said, Look, I'm just waiting for my friends.
Look, there he go.
Yeah.
Can I go now?
Yeah.
Things would have gone a lot smoother if the suspect was a lot calmer, but you got to keep in mind, people don't like cops.
And you approaching him just by sitting there is proving that cops are there's bad cops out there.
He's just sitting there.
He's not bothering anybody.
Yeah.
And when you approached him, y'all got all up in each other's face.
Yeah.
He has every right to be upset with you.
Yeah, he does.
Every right.
Yeah, actually, he does.
I mean, I would have been upset.
I would have just been remaining more calm.
And if he would have sat me down and said, well, I need to do this and that.
I said, you're going to check me for what?
Like warrants?
What?
I'm just sitting here waiting for a ride.
You don't have, I would have looked at the cop.
Look, you actually do not have the legal requirement to detain me.
I've done nothing wrong.
Yeah.
And if you ask me, did he falsify a report?
He falsified his report sometimes.
He said he was loitering.
Through the investigation, from what I saw, he had a specific reason to be there.
He said he was smoking.
I don't see any evidence.
Well, he didn't say he was laudering.
He said there was in the official police report, it says there's signs for no laudering and no smoking.
Right.
So that's why he even approached the guy for smoking outside.
Hey, but you can't smoke there.
It's a sign right there.
Look, you either believe in freedom or you don't.
I mean, I would have never approached him.
I wouldn't.
I mean, you just got to realize the political climate we're in.
He's black, you're white.
Yeah.
And if I stop a black person, I'm going to have damn good reasons.
I'm going to have a damn risk for my job or my career over a black guy sitting at a bus stop smoking a cigarette.
Why?
It's just stupid.
You can only lose in this type of situation.
Yeah.
Why would you even approach that?
You have nothing to gain by stopping a black guy smoking a cigarette.
That you say, but there's no evidence of him smoking.
Maybe he was.
Maybe he swallowed.
I don't know.
But why even approach this dude?
Yeah.
Now look at what's going on.
And this cop is actually, this cop is actually, I think, looking at three years in jail for falsifying the police report.
Was this worth it?
Yeah.
One thing led to another.
Your feelings might have got hurt or whatever, but you said on a report that man assaulted you.
He never did assault you.
He never did swing at you.
He didn't throw any punches.
He didn't resist arrest.
You lied.
You just basically lied.
And everything's on video.
Everything.
You even wrote it.
You signed your report.
They got you dead to rights.
I'm going to show the video of him.
This is the video of the cop taking him to the police station and writing him a ticket at the police station.
And look what he says to the guy outside the police station.
Police Pretext for Arrest00:05:02
All right.
Is there any other statements that you want to add to put on the report?
Well, not if you're going to let me go, bro.
Just go ahead and unlock this right here.
So I just want to confirm.
Was there a reason that you put your hands on me?
Is there a reason that you put your hands on me?
Yeah, because you were detained and you were walking away.
Okay.
All right.
Are you going to let me out now?
No, I'm asking.
I had to ask you.
Okay.
Is this a part of the detaining process?
Is this part of the detainment?
Could I be like, am I free to be Lego now?
No.
Am I free to go?
No.
Am I free to go?
Okay.
Well, I don't have anything to say to you.
Okay, great.
You've already said it.
I mean, I'll pass the report.
I'll put in the allowed to step foot out the car?
Yep.
Okay, thank you.
Face over here.
All right, come over to the front of the car.
All right, so here's what's gonna happen.
You're gonna be getting two citations today.
So you are being placed under arrest.
They're both misdemeanors.
One's for assault on a police officer, and the other one is for resisting or delaying.
It's 148 PC.
On the bottom there, I put a court date for September 23rd.
So once the courts reopen, you can go ahead and check back in on that.
Uh-huh.
Go ahead and face over here.
Cool.
Well, stop touching me.
Okay, how are you talking about?
Stop touching me.
All right, that's awesome.
Stop touching me.
Come touch me.
Come touch me.
Okay.
All right.
Stop touching me.
Okay, so you understand that?
Stop touching me?
No, stop touching me.
You're all right.
Is that me touching you again?
Is that me assaulting you?
It's like he's trying to.
What I gather from this, the cop's trying to gather evidence, trying to gather evidence, get him to admit to assaulting him, which never happened.
Yeah.
It's like he's trying to convince the dude, hey man, you assaulted me.
And the guy's like, I didn't assault you.
Yeah.
And there's actually a video of this, of him driving to the police station where they're going back and forth for like 30 minutes.
It's funny as hell.
They're talking shit to one another.
They're talking shit to each other.
And the cop's trying to coax, trying to convince him that he actually assaulted him when he never did.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's just a shame, really.
Just a real shame.
I mean, I think it's a shame because this guy, I mean, I realize he was rude to the police officer and he needs to learn respect.
Yeah.
But you're going to write him a ticket, assault for a police officer.
What if there's no body cam footage?
What if there's no cell phone footage?
This guy has an assault on a police officer on his record the rest of his life at the age of 23.
Do y'all think that's cool?
Yeah.
That's going to ruin his life.
He's going to lose a lot of opportunities.
Like, oh, this guy's a violent thug.
They do criminal searches.
You're going to actually hire somebody who assaulted a police officer?
Yeah.
Him having a fulfilling life after this with that type of charge, it's going to be very difficult.
That's very hard.
That's why they're going after that police officer because you could have ruined a young man's life.
Now, if you're going up to him and he starts swinging on you, even though you don't have the right to detain him, yeah, that's assault on a police officer.
Right.
Yeah.
But that never happened.
What got you in trouble?
You should have never approached me.
You don't have the, you didn't have the legal requirement to detain him.
And then once you saw his ride pull up, you should have just let it just backed off.
Yeah.
You had nothing.
You check him for once, think you're going to get something.
You got nothing.
In short, more than likely what happened is you saw him sitting there.
You thought he might have been a gang member.
You pretty basically just profiled the man.
It didn't turn out that he didn't turn out.
I think it was a pretext for him to check it.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I mean, that's happened to me plenty of times.
And it happens, man.
People are profiled all the time.
Black people have been complaining this, and you have it right here on video.
A man is just sitting in the trolley at the bus stop minding his own business, waiting for a ride.
And how many police officers show up?
Five, six?
For a guy sitting at a bus stop?
That's just stupid.
Yeah, I got that happened to me a lot in San Diego.
Yeah.
It was just years ago when I was at the Marinco.
But I used to, yeah, the cops is, I guess I just look like a criminal.
Yeah.
I mean, I defend the blue, but you can't defend this young man's actions, this police officer.
You just can't.
I mean, some of y'all are going to because you defend the blue, but you got to remain objective.
He had no legal requirement.
He had no legal right to actually detain him.
And we just spelled out the legal requirement, the threshold in California that a person must meet before they determine that you've actually assaulted someone.
Pushing a hand away, that's not assault.
Might hurt your feelings.
Might hurt your feelings.
I mean, but he did that because he kept putting his hands on.
Hey, hey, what you doing here?
What's going on?
Hey, get your hands off me.
What your ride got here?
No, I ain't done yet.
What's going on?
This is criminal behavior.
You're sitting at a bus stop.
What are you doing?
Selling drugs?
I mean, you can't do that.
You can't.
I mean, as a police officer.
Yeah, as a police officer, right after you go, why the hell are you even screwing with this dude?
Yeah.
He's just sitting there waiting.
He's just sitting down.
He's not breaking cause.
Not doing anything, and I'm not gonna risk your career.
Yeah, I'm not gonna even play the race card or nothing, but you gotta know the political climate we're in.
Yeah, I would have said, Hey, if I was a cop and I was white, my name is Officer John Smith.
Hey, how's it going?
Uh, what's going on?
Oh, I'm just waiting for a ride.
Okay, cool.
Would you smoke a cigarette?
You can't smoke.
Oh, fuck me.
Okay, well, have a good day.
I'm gonna go down here.
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I don't care.
Yeah, I'm gonna go down here.
I'm gonna look for some real criminals.
That's the way you should have handled it.
That's the way you should have.
Screw me?
Okay.
I'm just looking out for your well-being.
You should have kept it moving.
Yeah.
It's not worth it.
He didn't do anything.
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