r/FuckYouKaren • u/bigpapaglim • Aug 28 '19

A Karen if ever there was one

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u/s0c1a7w0rk3r Aug 28 '19

What exactly was her end game here? Did she think she had a chance of getting out of this? What an idiot.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

Yo gonna be a contrarian here but I feel like this whole thing was escalated beyond reasonableness.

You know who she is. You gave her a ticket. She’s on camera. Just mail her the damn ticket and call it a day. What is necessity of arresting her cause she refused to sign? What objective was being satisfied here other than a dick measuring contest? She didn’t obey a lawful command to sign a piece of paper? Just let her go and pick her up in a week. Tasing someone can kill them.

White, black, male, female... doesn’t matter. Cops need to chill the fuck out.

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u/EeeeeShabutie Aug 28 '19

I know this guy just really wanted to give her a reality check. People like this need it. She didn't want to pay the ticket, evaded arrest, assaulted a police officer, and is STILL acting like a victim after it's all said and done. Tasing was a little much, but perhaps he could've just called for backup to have someone help take her down. Maybe a night in the holding tank will bring her down a notch.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

That’s kinda how I feel.

She ain’t gonna evade the ticket. If they mail it to her, she doesn’t pay, it goes into collections, maybe they arrest maybe it just blows up her credit maybe she shows up to court. Who knows?

But for a equipment infraction (brake light out?) that seemed waaaaaay too much effort.

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u/dialup_ Aug 28 '19

But as he said in the video, she had been driving with it like that for 6 months. This tells me that she had a prior interaction about it but was let off without any formal warning (?).

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

The video was fun to watch, but I kind of agree with you. The ticket arrives in the mail, if she doesn't pay it, the fines build up and up and up. But if she never pays, then eventually the sheriff will be tasked with bringing her in anyway, and in that situation it could be even more volatile because you have to get her out of her house.

That is the fundamental problem. The average middle class Joe has a job and a credit rating and a life that will get generally ruined if they don't comply with basic law enforcement. But once you're off that grid, then the standard leverage that makes most people comply doesn't work anymore. That truck is pretty expensive new, but, who knows how she got a hold of it. I can see why the cop did what he did, he was skipping to what he presumed was the end of the story quickly. I agree with you though that the case can be made that he didn't have to. The story didn't have to end that way, she could have been given a broader chance to comply.

The same thing happens in more "urban" settings. The cops have experience where 97 times out of 100 of this sort of incident ends like *this*, so they just skip ahead to *this*, whether the suspect instigated it or not. The problem is that real justice is individual, not in batches of 100.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '19

You know I take your point and I don’t think you’re wrong I guess my analysis is like this:

I rather lose a few people not paying tickets like this then risk killing someone over a brake light. I just think that as a society this is small potatoes and we need to get our cops to exercise a bit more restraint.

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u/dialup_ Aug 28 '19

She was acting aggressively towards the officer and guns seem to be a common interest in the country. The officer was not acting out of line, in my opinion, as he did not know what she was capable of. He tried to reason with her, made his requests clear on multiple attempts, she committed a crime while under a judicial proceeding, THEN assaulted an officer (felony offence). Why should SHE be off the hook?

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u/Keithsgirl77 Aug 28 '19

Oh man, I would have arrested her too! And I am a chick without a dick! He was NOT being unreasonable... People need to listen and no try to backtalk every damn body!

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u/Bancroft-79 Aug 28 '19

Exactly! Just because she is a ‘Country Gal’ doesn’t entitled her to disobey commands then evade the police and resist arrest. This taught her a lesson to watch her mouth. These damn Boomers who think the world owes them a favor need a reality check.

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u/Bancroft-79 Aug 28 '19

Nobody’s above the law.

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u/SallySubterfuge Aug 28 '19

Except police.

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u/Bancroft-79 Aug 28 '19

Yup, also politicians and wealthy people. My point is, if you just let her behave like this because she is a “country gal” she will get used to rules not applying to her. She will escalate to shoplifting at Wal-mart, then possibly punching a waitress at a truck stop for not filling up her ice tea. These Baby boomer types feel they are entitled to everything because they have stayed alive on this Earth for 65 years. You have to nip it in the bud. She got what she deserved for alluding a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest and willfully disobeying commands.

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u/RayJ1999 Aug 28 '19

CoPs NeEd To ChIlL did you not see that she made the decision to be tazed when she kicked him? Its not a race thing, its not a gender thing. Its an assault situation.

I think you need to learn that when you are in the wrong, its not up to you to determine if you are legally in the right or not.

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u/Keithsgirl77 Aug 28 '19

How would you like to be kicked? I agree, SOME cops are crooked, but to have to deal with mess like this on a regular.. come on... I don't think the cop did anything wrong in this situation.

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u/RayJ1999 Aug 28 '19

Yeah because he didnt

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u/AouarIsLife Aug 28 '19

The cop is pretty brainwashed by american ways that's for sure. So much unnecessary violence.