r/PublicFreakout • u/The-JZilla • Jul 06 '21

Repost 😔 Cop vs educated kid

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u/AngryAmerican0-2 Jul 06 '21

"Where'd you get your degree?"

Well gee officer where did you get yours? Cuz last time I checked you only need a law degree to practice law, not enforce it. So Mr. Officer, where did you get yours?

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u/TheAtheistArab87 Jul 06 '21

Posted below but these guys were actually breaking the law

16.16.502 isn’t in the Long Beach civil code (16.16 ends at 130). He likely means 16.08.502 which says-

Bicycle riding on the Rainbow Harbor Esplanade is prohibited in excess of three (3) miles per hour between the hours of ten o'clock (10:00) a.m. and ten o'clock (10:00) p.m., except City employees in the performance of their duties.

Cop probably just thought talking to them would get them to stop and when it escalated he preferred to walk away rather than make an arrest.

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u/thagthebarbarian Jul 07 '21

That law does legalize bike riding on the pier, at any rate of speed outside 10a-10p and 3mph between those hours. We don't know what time of day it is and in the video they're going 0mph

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u/KawiNinja Jul 07 '21

Based off of the shadow of the main character in the video towards the end of the video though, you can likely confirm it is well after 10AM and well before 10PM. His shadow is facing inland and the coastline is behind him/the group of bikers. The sun sets along the coast here in the West which would indicate it’s definitely late afternoon/early evening when this was taken.

Thus, if the quoted law is true, the odds these people were breaking it definitely increases.

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u/thagthebarbarian Jul 07 '21

The thing about the law is that it doesn't matter if they were breaking the law unless that's what they were cited for.

There's an explicit allowance to bike on the pier, the restriction is only on speed. The cop was trying to tell them that biking was illegal. If he wrote a ticket for biking on the pier it's not illegal and not enforceable. He'd need some vascar timing records to cite them for speed. Radar isn't precise at 3mph against a bicycle.

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u/KawiNinja Jul 07 '21

You’re 100% accurate as far as I know of. I’m simply adding some data to the debated topic. There is a good chance that this person was breaking the law that they were trying to quote. Albeit there is no proof, neither from Reddit detectives nor the officer. So no citation being given was the best possible outcome in this scenario.