A Female Passenger on Benson's Boat Called for Help

[FuzzyLumpkins]

How are you coming to the conclusion that these were hick cops? Are you saying you know these cops?

Have you been to Lake Travis?

I have.

 

[Chief]

A minority as in she is one of the few that would marry you. I got to find me one of those.

:laugh2:

I found one too.

 

[heavyg]

however profiling is very common in the police business.

Its part of the job man.....If you get called out on an assault and the victim says it was a 6' tall black guy with a white t-shirt on driving a blue honda....Your gonna pull over everyone matching the description. Same goes for if the victim said it was 6' tall white guy with the same description. So yes you profile. But not in the way you are thinking.

 

[Vintage]

I take it back. Police do work harder than the average person on the street.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/07/police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

They were provoked.

That's what happens when you get between a cop and his Krispy Kreme.

 

[dfense]

I still have not heard what Benson's blood alcohol level was. IF it was like a 1.2, that would explain alot. Either way, it sounds like the River Patrol got a little overly aggressive.

 

[Vintage]

I still have not heard what Benson's blood alcohol level was. IF it was like a 1.2, that would explain alot. Either way, it sounds like the River Patrol got a little overly aggressive.

If it was 1.2, he'd be dead.

 

[Doomsday101]

Have you been to Lake Travis?

I have.

I have been on Lake Travis many times

 

[heavyg]

If it was 1.2, he'd be dead.

If he was arrested for DWI he would have had to submit to a Breathalyzer back at the station....Very rarely do the police use an actual blood test.

 

[FCBarca]

I take it back. Police do work harder than the average person on the street.


http://www.cnn.com/2008/CRIME/05/07/police.beating/index.html#cnnSTCVideo

Scary man, scary...If only Hillary had been in the car too

 

[Tobal]

Damn now I feel bad that I'm bald, never really bothered me until I read this thread.

Some people are just ignorant and stupid, it's not limited to race, education, profession or geography.

 

[Doomsday101]

I still have not heard what Benson's blood alcohol level was. IF it was like a 1.2, that would explain alot. Either way, it sounds like the River Patrol got a little overly aggressive.

Benson never submitted to any test even when he was brought to the station. At least according to the news reports in Austin

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Its part of the job man.....If you get called out on an assault and the victim says it was a 6' tall black guy with a white t-shirt on driving a blue honda....Your gonna pull over everyone matching the description. Same goes for if the victim said it was 6' tall white guy with the same description. So yes you profile. But not in the way you are thinking.

so what do you do when X amount of ppl in white T blue jeans and dreads are described?

 

[trickblue]

however profiling is very common in the police business.

Profiling is common in in ALL aspects of life, and it isn't racially negative by nature...

 

[GimmeTheBall!]

They were provoked.

That's what happens when you get between a cop and his Krispy Kreme.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

Profiling is common in in ALL aspects of life, and it isn't racially negative by nature...

yea i said that early however people disagreed with me

 

[heavyg]

so what do you do when X amount of ppl in white T blue jeans and dreads are described?

If that was the only description they gave me I would ask. Was the person white, black, indian? If they didnt know??? Then anyone in a white T, Blue jeans and dreads would be open to questioning.

 

[Vintage]

If that was the only description they gave me I would ask. Was the person white, black, indian? If they didnt know??? Then anyone in a white T, Blue jeans and dreads would be open to questioning.

Where's theo and his law knowledge?

Theo....in this situation, do I have the right to refuse questioning simply because I may or may not look like someone?

 

[Kangaroo]

Its part of the job man.....If you get called out on an assault and the victim says it was a 6' tall black guy with a white t-shirt on driving a blue honda....Your gonna pull over everyone matching the description. Same goes for if the victim said it was 6' tall white guy with the same description. So yes you profile. But not in the way you are thinking.

Yea when I was like 13 I was profiled by a cop. I was carrying a load of laundry from across the street (we did not have a Washer in the house and there was an apartment laundry mat right across from the house). I fit the description of kids that where in a carwash messing around a couple blocks away.

LOL cop ask me what I was doing I said the laundry what does it look like as I held a basket of dry clothes

 

[Hostile]

Where's theo and his law knowledge?

Theo....in this situation, do I have the right to refuse questioning simply because I may or may not look like someone?

You ALWAYS have the right to remain silent.

 

[DaBoys4Life]

If that was the only description they gave me I would ask. Was the person white, black, indian? If they didnt know??? Then anyone in a white T, Blue jeans and dreads would be open to questioning.

Lets see they were black and it was a group of them making noise and then you drive to and you see a car filled with a group of black people in the description. The person who made the call metioned nothing about them being in a car. Do you pull them over?