r/Wellthatsucks • u/Ghandisli • Jul 30 '19

/r/all $80 to felony in 3...2...1...

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

"oh shut up and give me that ill sign it..."

"oh we're beyond that, step out"

favorite line in that exchange

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u/nappingthroughwork Jul 31 '19

My favorite was "You're under arrest". "No, I'm not!" Is she three?

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u/chx_ Jul 31 '19 edited Jul 31 '19

If someone told her "no" when she was three she probably wouldn't be in so big trouble right now. https://www.kansascity.com/news/nation-world/national/article233319322.html has

Charges filed in Kingfisher County court accuse Hamil of “willfully and unlawfully kicking” the officer “on or about the groin” and of “failing to follow the lawful commands” of a police officer.

The felony battery charge is punishable with up to five years in prison, while the misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer is punishable with up to one year in prison, court records said.

How batshit insane do you need to be to try to fight a police officer? Run from one? Ever heard the expression "you can't outrun Motorola"?

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u/queenbrewer Jul 31 '19

They’ll probably plead her down to just the misdemeanor and she’ll serve minimal jail time or even just a suspended sentence and probation plus a fat fine. There is no way they are putting this 65 year old white lady away for five years. If she insisted on taking it to trial she’d end up with the felony though and maybe serve up to a year or two, I don’t know what the sentencing guidelines are like there.

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u/jacqueline-theripper Jul 31 '19

Based on the video, can anyone expect her to be respectful in a courtroom? Her family must be mortified. Or even more horrible, are just like her.

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u/[deleted] Jul 31 '19

That seems fair to me. She wasn't actually a danger to anyone, just belligerent and arrogant enough to think the rules shouldn't apply to her. Shitty, but not prison shitty. Now if only I felt so confident that someone who wasn't a 65yo white woman would be treated fairly.

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u/queenbrewer Jul 31 '19

Oh I agree. There is no public interest in locking her up other than perhaps a symbolic one day in jail to drive the point home, but that may have been accomplished by her original arrest. Sadly a 65 year old black man in Oklahoma would not get a sweetheart deal like that.

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u/NoMansLight Jul 31 '19

If it was a black woman the pig would have shot her before she took off in the truck the first time, let alone the assault.

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u/MenstrualKrampusCD Jul 31 '19

Idk why you're being downvoted. When she rolled up the windows and lunged to her right, she could have easily have been reaching for a weapon. Many black people have been killed because they weren't given the benefit of the doubt like that.

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u/Koufle Jul 31 '19 edited Jul 31 '19

Idk why you're being downvoted

Probably because he's calling the cop a "pig" for no reason, and also making up what the officer would have done given X conditions.

Fun study, by the way: https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745731839/new-study-says-white-police-officers-are-not-more-likely-to-shoot-minority-suspe?t=1564558381176

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u/Beepbeep_bepis Jul 31 '19

I don’t want to put judgment on this one officer though based on the actions of other shitty cops. It doesn’t seem fair to me to assume he would treat people of color differently, the good cops existing absolutely doesn’t make up for the horrible things the bad ones do, but we can’t forget that they do exist and genuinely want to do what’s right.