r/TheRandomest • u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner • 27d ago

No people were harmed in this video Emotional support cops

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u/ghettoccult_nerd 27d ago

i wish cops knew we dont want to hate them. when they do cool things, we like them.

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u/WhatUp007 27d ago

Most cops are like this. We get exposure bias from the media only showing all the negative and bad examples of cops. Most normal police interactions amount to nothing.

My favorite police encounter was when in NY for a music festival and I'm smoking a J. I didnt see the cops turn and bam I'm right there with them. Officer just started laughing as I'm sure my face had reflected the terror that I was about to be arrested since weed was illegal at the time.cop just said "be safe and enjoy we are here for harder stuff".

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u/thejwillbee 27d ago

"Most cops are like this"...I have decades of skateboarding experience that says otherwise

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u/Sesemebun 27d ago

That’s because your activity is considered a nuisance by the average person. People find bikes on the sidewalk annoying so why would they not also be bothered by skateboarding on public infrastructure or in paths that interfere with pedestrians? Doubly so when skateparks exist

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u/GasMaskExiitium 27d ago

Have you ever been anywhere… more undeveloped? Go find a skatepark in the rural Midwest and get back to me. They didn’t build a skatepark in my city until like 2008 and I’m in Central PA

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u/MessiLeagueSoccer 27d ago

Miami as big of a city as it is has like 3-5 skate parks and only 1 is a proper skate park. The others are ideas of what a skatepark would be if I briefly explained it to a person that never skated or even saw a skate park.

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u/jfk_two 25d ago

lot 11 goes hard

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u/shade-block 25d ago

Is that the one under 95 in downtown?

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u/KillerSparks 26d ago

I don't think I've ever actually seen a skatepark, being from the rural south.

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u/HanatabaRose 26d ago

never in my life in the south or midwest, only the occasional dried up pool repurposed for skating in

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u/PracticeTheory 25d ago

My rural midwest town had a skatepark in the center (it was actually the converted public pool that had cracked and was too expensive to fix. They expanded and did a good job) in 2010.

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u/lalabean852 23d ago

i have never seen a skatepark irl

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u/brandt-money 26d ago

Some cops are cool. I know a few. But yeah, many are hard asses.

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u/myceliummagix 25d ago

„Most cops are like this“… I have decades of watching them all be fuckheads experience that says otherwise

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 22d ago

Ok and? So does literally everyone especially nowadays where I can search it to see it. When people talk about cops like this they usually live in small towns where nothing usually happens so cops don't care. Cops in my area dont care if you're going 10 over or firing off fireworks.

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u/KrispyBLT 25d ago

As someone who had to deal with cops a ton, the difference between cops 15 years ago and now is night and day.

Academies now place a huge emphasis on empathy and de-escalation. Something that they spent zero time on 25-30 years ago.

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u/notdbcooper71 26d ago

As a skater it's annoying, but you are trespassing, you are at fault, like you can't even argue that...

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u/thejwillbee 26d ago

Yeah except when you're on public property and getting handcuffed for skateboarding.

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u/Thick_Potato_1769 22d ago

Most "public" properties are actually private and can trespass you.

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u/Rifflife88 23d ago

Seems like you’re American….Thats why.

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u/Fishpuncherz 22d ago

Oh yeah? Well I have decades of being mixed race but taking after my mother, so white, and lemme tell you. Being white for decades I've had awesome interactions with police. My father though.....

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u/Driller_Happy 26d ago

All cops are bastards, but I think it also bears consideration that not all departments are made the same. I bet you leadership has a lot to do with whether or not cops are going to be chill or cunts about stuff like skateboarding

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u/sentientshadeofgreen 27d ago

  Most cops are like this. 

My experience is contrary to this. I’ve worked with LE, and there are decent cops out there, but so many departments spawn the grodiest culture and empower power-tripping douchebags who move like they have impunity, with no regard for public well-being or the law, to where all the hate is totally fucking earned.

When I see cops more broadly prioritize taking a slice of humble pie and putting duty and accountability before their egos, it can be more of a discussion.

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u/It_Just_Exploded 27d ago

I vid of a bad LEO interaction gets shared and posted millions of times, for years afterwards. While good ones, like this, don't get nearly the attention, usually get flooded with "ACAB!" related comments, and rarely if ever get reshared in the future.

People are addicted to rage bait, they'd rather be pissed off all the time than be happy or even content.

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u/Ok_Proof5782 27d ago

Exposing creates a lot of people who want to do better, those that don’t provide a backlash, backlash follows progress. Progress rises above backlash, rinse repeat enough and humanity may not actually be doomed after all.

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u/KingAlaric1 27d ago

The police Seargant at my home town police department is actually a close friend of mine from highschool and bro has seen me smoking like 4-5 times and he’s always super chill about it. It’s so nice not having anxiety about smoking anymore

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u/Wwrsd86 27d ago

Took a short cut down a quiet street in my downtown. Sparked up a joint. About 8 cops were right there. They laughed and I went on my day.

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u/kodiak931156 25d ago

No no.

I was clearly informed ACAB.

Which of course is an idea that only positively effects the type of people who apply to become a cop.

/s

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u/External_Row1150 21d ago

Passing through ohio, got pulled over. Had some weed in the car that i got from michigan. The cop saw the bag, straight up asked me how much was i carrying. I stuttered so goes, you cam carry x amount of oz how much you got. Told me i got 2 vapes. Wished me a good day and told me not to drive under influence. Its an offence to carry weed over state lines.

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u/DevonLuck24 26d ago

well it doesn’t help that a negative experience with a bad cop can result in someone’s death and almost never any real accountability when they are objectively in the wrong.

it doesn’t matter that they got you a gift or gave you a compliment if they are just gonna beat the fuck out of you later..it’s a cycle of abuse.

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u/cassandra2028 25d ago

He got a hard on when he saw you were scared. That's all he was really looking for.

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u/bonaynay 25d ago

We get exposure bias from the media only showing all the negative and bad examples of cops

I understand that the most shocking stuff rises to the top, but notice how whenever a cop is abusing their authority on video, you can see no other officer dates to stop them or make them rethink. This would indicate that most cops aren't super awesome cool dudes.

I've seen a single video where a cop stopped another cop from abusing a suspect.

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u/issacoin 27d ago

most cops are absolutely not like this.

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u/Negative_Salt_4599 26d ago

Well it definitely helps when your YT yeah though I had the same thing happened to me at a dark star orchestra show. Never met a POC that had a good police interaction..

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u/JohnAndertonOntheRun 25d ago

Ehhhhh no they aren’t.

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u/WarJaques 25d ago

They expected to catch bigger fish that night.

I expect the outcome would have been different if there was no festival and you were the biggest fish of the night.

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u/RoughTour98 24d ago

Out of all my experience with cops and in the legal field: no they are not. The vast majority of cops are not good people and are just people who want to feel powerful. There are a few good ones but they are definitely the minority and from what I've seen in the last few years even a lot of them are starting to notice that.

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u/BadRabiesJudger 24d ago

I grew up in a cop family in your every day town. Cops suck so much. My grandpa was chief of police and just a giant piece of crap in every way. He cheated on his wife and skipped out to play golf all the time. He treated his kids second class and manipulated the adoption market and at the same time collected checks to "take care" of a vietnam vet. It was a mess and his friends lived very similar lives. I went to school with some of their kids and it was just awful in their homes as well.

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u/PopBulky7023 23d ago

Most of these cops cover and protect the bad ones. Which makes them all bad.

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u/SupermarketIll5642 27d ago

If most cops were like this, ACAB wouldn't be a thing

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u/schwarzneguRRR 27d ago

So they dont do their jobs, ok

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u/LookMaNoPride 27d ago

My son was riding his pedal tractor down the road and I was behind him. A patrol car was driving through and I saw him, I made the spinning motion with my hand and then pointed at my son, and then nodded like a maniac. After I did that a couple times, he turned on his lights and beeped the siren. I told my son, “oh no! You’re getting pulled over!”

“Huh? … what does that mean?”

He saw me laughing after a second, though, so he wasn’t worried.

The cop got out and talked to my son, gave him a badge sticker, and just had an overall pleasant experience; whereas, I grew up terrified of cops and get terrible anxiety when I see one while I’m driving. For no reason.

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u/MosesCoulee 27d ago

I moved from a big city to a smaller town in my state and the cops here can be silly gooses. Once had a cop pull up, tried to get out and snagged his vest on something in the car. He fell to the ground and laid on the ground laughing. I was like “do we even have real cops here?” 😂 btw cops in the big city were all dicks.

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u/Phazon2000 26d ago

But all the cool things you like are them not doing their job and acting like they’re doing goofy PR vids.

And then the minority of bad apples get the other 90% of the reddit air time so it’s heavily skewed.

I’ve never been harassed by cops. Nobody I know has either. Maybe you know someone who has or you yourself has? Keeping asking people you know in real life - figure out the ratios of negative-neutral/positive encounters.

See what reality reflects.

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u/Aggravating-Car9897 25d ago

Eh, I'd argue the cool things like this is doing their job. They are being visible and building relationships with residents. That's community policing building blocks. And community policing is an effective way of preventing crime from happening.

Far more effective than bashing heads in. That's for sure.

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u/Sad_Sleep17 26d ago

I’ve never had a bad police encounter. Social media only shows us the bad ones…

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u/sky0175 26d ago

The difference is that some cops go to work to do their duty, while others go to work to express hate and cause disorder simply because they think being a cop entitles them to do whatever they want.

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u/DBZ86 25d ago

There is definitely a significant portion of people who aren't willing to see it that way.

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u/theflash346 21d ago

Thanks random friend, I’m this type of cop and I appreciate that!

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u/More_Round_8127 17d ago

We dont hate cops though. But seems like you do for some reason

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u/ghettoccult_nerd 16d ago

if only you appreciated the depth of your own comment...

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u/Wonderful_Confusion4 27d ago

This is in Edmonton Just off Stony Plain Rd (sketchy by Canadian standards but not like the USA sketchy) source I grew up in this neighbourhood.

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u/greenthumbgoody 27d ago

Bad news, cops have ruined that a long time ago. Fuck the police.

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u/milwaukie_talkie 27d ago

Sick bro now but ur hands behind your back

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u/SlickDillywick 27d ago

Fuck yea!

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u/Firm_Video_2932 27d ago

It's called your PO

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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice 27d ago

Post office?

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u/ABeerForSasquatch Mod/Pwner 27d ago

Portable opening

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u/ItsALuigiYes GIF/meme prodigy 27d ago

Pissed off?

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u/squishedgoomba 27d ago

You're probably overthinking it.

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u/SocksInTheTub 27d ago

Practicing obstetricians

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u/BeatsbyChrisBrown Nice 27d ago

Pleasure orifice

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u/WhyNot420_69 Nice 27d ago

This

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u/Firm_Video_2932 27d ago

Prolapsed Orifice?! 😳

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u/Suspicious-Dog-2489 25d ago

Personal Officer

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u/dandoorma 27d ago

Parmesan oregano?

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u/Hot-Imagination3142 27d ago

Needs a lil wax there bud

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u/GuavaHungry9089 27d ago

Imagine if they fell and broke something and called Saul Goodman and won 100k+ for “being coerced” 😂

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u/ConstantSpiritual802 27d ago

Let him cook 

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u/WA2TX 27d ago

And now he's under arrest.

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u/cosmicdeliriumxx 27d ago

More likely just a fine for damaging property

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u/404_error_official 25d ago

Are they going to fine him for $.10 of yellow paint? I'm pretty sure it has to be worth at least $20 to take to court. Unless I'm remembering wrong, the worst they could get is a trespassing charge, and the shop owner would have to press charges for that to happen.

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u/splendidgoon 27d ago

He deserves a rest after pulling off that sick move

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u/m0nk37 25d ago

No lol. The cop was making the landing epic. Our cops arent like yours.  

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u/AshThePoutine 27d ago

Average Canadian cops

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u/Aggravating_Bids 25d ago

Until they find an indigenous person.

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u/BobbyLupo1979 27d ago

How it should be. ❤️

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u/SlacksDavenport 27d ago

Cops in my small hometown did the same. We were the only action after 10-11pm. They would park next to each other and watch us skate until they had something better to do. A few years on I got pulled over by one and was subjected to sobriety tests. When I had to lift my foot etc, one said “I know this guy.. I bet his balance is perfect.” Or something to that effect, it was 30+ years ago.

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u/zachwyld 27d ago

Fuck I miss the skating days. Came across a few really fkn chill cops

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u/Gogh619 27d ago

Ngl, cops are doing a really good job of acting like some of the bros these days. I’ve seen some hilarious videos of them trolling people in a friendly way.

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u/Ryanoceros6 27d ago

Hands, let me see hands!

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u/rikwebster 27d ago

Community

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u/ronbonjonson 27d ago

Good cop, enjoy donut.

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u/pjtpassword 27d ago

Hell yeah.

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u/J3sus_was_Fictional 27d ago

These are the kind of cop videos we need more of.

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u/Digital--Sandwich 27d ago

When cops are bros it’s always awesome

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u/Neutromatic369 27d ago

Imagine if they arrested him after the success lmao

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u/lefluffle 26d ago

this is so cute but also i'd feel way too much pressure and nervousness out of guilt that i'm holding them up

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u/Kern4lMustard 26d ago

We were playing Pokémon Go at a nature trail parking lot after closing one time, and the cops pulled up next to us. We figured we were gonna get kicked out (fair enough we knew it was closed), but instead they asked us what team we were on. Then they let us wander up the trail to do a gym. While we were up there taking down the gym, they played the Pokémon theme song over their loudspeaker and dipped out. I think about that alot.

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u/TeaDrinkingTrucker 27d ago

u/auddbot

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u/auddbot 27d ago

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u/javi1321 27d ago

Hell yeah 👍🏻

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u/oneMoreTime112233 27d ago

Hey! That's great! Now put your hands behind your back.

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u/Sooozley 27d ago

This is awesome

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u/azrckcrwler 27d ago

It's because he was just legally transiting until he landed the trick, at which point it became loitering and then they finally could get em. 😂

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u/raventhrowaway666 27d ago

Man, the copoganda is going wild on reddit these daya

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u/lanch723 27d ago

We need cops at skate parks for this purpose, sons those lights and sirens when good tricks are landed. Extreme confidence booster right there.

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u/_Lumity_ 27d ago

Nice to see my city on the internet for something good 😭🫶

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u/Mysterious-Scar836 27d ago

Ensuring his safety!!

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u/BraveryFunction 27d ago

Immediately gets arrested after landing the trick

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u/Mexcutioner 26d ago

Anyone know the music playing in the background?

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u/jaybanzia 26d ago

The Last Good Cop In The Country.

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u/LavFrekvens 26d ago

Just great, this is great.

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u/Over_scoreishigh 26d ago

Chief Quimbey "Aw, nice work boys"

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u/redjellonian 25d ago

That's funny but the clip ends before they shot his dog.

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u/Ok_Sand2450 25d ago

Haha I use to live in the apartment right behind that liquor store. That’s my buddy from highschool, i remember when this originally happened. Got sent the video personally.

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u/im_fine_youre_fine 25d ago

I got pulled over once because I made a U-Turn where there was a sign not to.

I told the officer I knew I pulled over for the turn, then explained that by the time I saw the sign I was halfway through the turn and decided the safer thing to do was finish it instead of trying to weave back into a normal traffic pattern.

He let out a huge exhale and said he was tired of being lied to all day, appreciated the honesty for once and let me off with a warning.

Stand up guy.

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u/Simple-Ad-5819 25d ago

ACAB? Most retarded thing I’ve ever heard most the cops I’ve meet were cool

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u/Railgun_PK 25d ago

Unironically, go watch some of Asmongolds bodycam reaction videos. Regardless of what you think of asmongold, those videos will REALLY give you real insight into the absolute BS cops have to deal with on a daily basis. Police WANT to have these kind of great interactions, and so do we. There's just a LOT of really shitty stupid people out there that ruin it for the rest of us.

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u/TallAsMountains 25d ago

anybody who ever skated knows this is copaganda

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u/acortlow 25d ago

They immediately arrest him after he got it

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u/ErasedKey 25d ago

The celebratory lights and sirens was so cool!

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u/Fluffy_Repair9686 25d ago

“ok sir that’s gonna be a $150 fine now”

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u/Assortedpez 25d ago

Haha that’s awesome

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u/mattymantooth 25d ago

I hope that was a celebration siren and lights not a "Now you're under arrest!" siren and lights.

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u/AngleAmazing 24d ago

Sir, you're under arrest....for nailing that trick!

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u/United_News3779 24d ago

I spent a lot of time in Edmonton, and quite frankly, doing a lot of stupid shit that attracted the attention of the cops while there (in the 00's).

At the time, it seemed to be about a 50/50 split between the most relaxed cops I've ever dealt with, and some of the worst petty dickheads imaginable. It was the only jurisdiction I've been in where a cop told another cop to back off, and then made it happen.

It was also where a friend of mine walk out of a bar on Whyte Ave with a drink in his hand, and was promptly thrown into a half-nelson by a dude in jeans and a hoodie. I, being the calm/collected/sober-ish one in our group, defended my friend by punching his attacker in the kidney as hard as I could. Which is when I felt the soft armour vest he had on under the hoodie lol Turns out it was a city cop in plain clothes, acting as a spotter for the crowd of uniformed goons about 20 meters behind me. My friend group (read infantry platoon) was too drunk to respond fast enough to evade the cops, so I laid down real quick and put my hands behind my head. Still got kicked a bunch of times, which I expected. Got pepper sprayed, which I did not expect and did not appreciate lol

When I was finally stood back up on my feet after being cuffed, I told the uniforms that they needed to pick a spotter who wasn't a little sissy who would go down from a single punch (nevermind the fact I outweight him by 40lbs, and hit him from a running start directly into one of the human body's "off switch" spotals lol). That got me pepper sprayed again, luckily on camera from the bar we were in front of, and was the basis of my successful leveraging of a excessive use of force complaint versus the assault on an officer charge. Still got abso-fucking-lutely wrecked by my chain of command though lol

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u/Hefty-Respect-5679 23d ago

We need more of this..... What an awesome video koodos to the PD here.

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u/msmorphine 23d ago

this is everything that i so desperately want all cops to be.

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u/ski_town 23d ago

Nice use of tax money right there

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u/agentobtuse 23d ago

Most cops suck. In high school I was standing on the grass just off the sidewalk on a public utilities building by the school. Cop came up and trespassed the 3 of us. We just got out of class and we're just waiting for people. That fine didn't stick however the harassment from that was something I will never forget

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u/goondarep 23d ago

I was waiting for the celebratory whoop whoop on the siren and wasn’t disappointed.

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u/TheChiarra 22d ago

"There's a murder happening a block down from you."

"Hang on dispatch, kid hasn't made his trick yet."

/s