If I'm driving those streets, it'll be the #1 reason why people die.
Cop in America doing a bad job, again
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If I'm driving those streets, it'll be the #1 reason why people die.
whose streets? I grew up and learned to drive in LA and Atlanta is a whole different beast.
In most fields they pay double, in medicine and computer science they pay up to quadruple. USA is bad for people in working class jobs, it is great for other jobs.
People in upper middle class don't have any contact with the police.
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if his statement is based upon the drivers I could kinda understand, but it seemed it was police related and that even having 0 contact made it to the top 5 which is baffling.
Speaking in absolutes is never accurate.
Relieved to hear he survived.
But that cop, "I'm sorry, I thought you were a bad guy".
I mean he didn't give a rats ass, saw gun and just fired, not if it was drawn out or even aimed, just "gun!!" not seconds later and the shooting starts, no attempt to even ask for the gun to be lowered if was raised, or dropped or whatever. Just start shooting at the first site of seeing a gun.
I imagine it takes balls to see a gun and keep your cool, just get the feeling a lot of these cops are cowards, they get scared and they overreact.
But yeah, any job where they can refuse to hire you because you score too high on an IQ test...
I have obviously lived a very sheltered life. I'm sure others have had different experiences. But other than the gun pointed at my head, a knife crime, having a plane take off but have an emergency crash landing back on to the run way at 200mph, the threat of being pulled up (but not actually being pulled up) by a Texan officer is still bad enough to make it top 5. Enough that I will never be driving in America if I ever decide to go there again.
American cops truly are nuts. But it also amazes me how often they have these wrestling matches with suspects. Where I live I don't recall cops constantly fighting suspects on the ground at all.
MMA dorks.
Fair point. I really need to stop doing that and add generally.
Not trying to downplay your situation. I know we’re looking at it from different perspectives and experiences, it just struck me that even something that didn’t happen ended up making your list.
Forget the cops. Just come to South Carolina and drive up I-85 border to border. It changes people.
....I85 and I26 has some mighty swingsgreenville, charleston,parts of Columbia....are massively different from say Moncks Corner, Anderson, Easley, Aiken
When we used to do the B'Ham to RDU drive (which yes, encompasses 85 from border to border) we always made sure we we topped off ourside of Atlanta so as not to stop in SC for gas. Just saying.
greenville, charleston,parts of Columbia....are massively different from say Moncks Corner, Anderson, Easley, Aiken
That being said, Charleston is one of our favorite cities. I was there a few weeks ago for work and was reminded how amazing the food is.
Greenville is probably the only place between Bham and Raleigh that if you had to stop, especially at night, where you would feel relatively safe. Anywhere else, hell no. Did that drive from G'ville to RDU a lot b/c of family living in Raleigh.
Charleston, IMO, is the nicest place on the east coast to live or visit. As you said, food is incredible and the people are usually extremely polite and nice. Beaches are great and some nice bars and nightlife
Greenville is great.
Avoid Anderson and Spartanburg at all costs.
Avoid Anderson and Spartanburg at all costs.
. i can tell you this though, Greenville used to be like Spartanburg before the BMW plant arrived and completely changed the landscape of that city. You NEVER went to downtown Greenville unless you wanted to get shot, buy drugs or pick up a hooker
Facts. That’s actually almost word for word what I tell my students about old downtown Greenville… I use it as an example when I have to teach about “urban revitalization”.
That's known as an inner city trifecta in some places.
moved away from the area for about 10 years and hadn't been back until about 4 years ago....i couldn't believe the downtown area transformation. They completely revitalized and upgraded downtown to make it not only safe but a place where people actually would eat dinner, rent a hotel or Hell even walk around as it was safe to do so. The waterfall area was really impressive.
. being a transplated NewYorker that's every day normProbably will be listed as ‘young black man’ in right wing circles & the police report.
”Black citizen to be tried as an adult in felony theft case”
Not if the GOP gets its way, or maybe just add the fraction in front of citizen.
Geez, unbelievable the lengths they will go. The fact that they do it clearly means they know they may do some shady shite so want to find a way to cover themselves, but I suspect that something like that would be lifted if the crime is clearly caught on camera.
Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all.
@Skizzo , remember this being my top 5 closeness to death despite never bring stopped? 600 people, Sheesh.
but those people WERE stopped. Your fear falls into the millions of people driving who didn’t get pulled over. Then you’d be in a huge group of people who get pulled over and nothing happens to.
but yes I get what you’re saying.
Yeah but think of how many traffic stops there must have been. The ratio isn't bad at all.
I clicked on two of the links in the Twitter thread and one had a passenger shot when he was pulling a gun out of his waistband, and another had someone with PCP in their system flee from a traffic stop, including driving wrong way, and then wrestle with an officer, bite him, and get control of his taser.
So it’s not that 600 traffic stops resulted in someone randomly being shot after the officer walked up to the car and decided to kill someone instead of giving a ticket.
Edit: Since it probably needs saying to avoid assumptions to the contrary, but no I don’t think anyone driving along minding their own business deserves to be shot and killed. Whenever numbers are used in terms of police shootings, killings etc, uses of force etc, it just groups everything into one, ignoring justified uses of force etc.
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