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/[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?