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Showing Original Post only (View all)YouTube: Man Schools A Cop That Detained Him For Parking On A Public Street [View all]
My (Progree) short description of what I saw -- He's sitting in a car parked across the street from a house in North Branch, Minnesota. A woman in that house called 911 about a suspicious person taking pictures, and so this cop showed up. The driver simply refused to show his license and registration or answer any questions because the cop didn't have a valid reason to detain him. All the cop could say about that is that they got this suspicious person call and he was finding out what was going on. The driver (he self-describes as a "colored person" at 2:30. ) said he has a legal right to sit on the street and take pictures 24/7 (though he said he wasn't taking pictures, he merely had a cellphone on a dashboard mount). And he asked the cop to identify himself which the cop finally did. The driver told him this is going to be on Facebook, YouTube and I forget what else. The cop did start to sound like he was about to cry when he left.
Oh, at 6:50 the cop said "I'm smelling an odor coming from your car", Driver said: get your puppy then. (more than once).
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An earlier GD thread about it: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215390073
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YouTube: Man Schools A Cop That Detained Him For Parking On A Public Street [View all]
progree
May 2021
OP
Lets face it, the cop was not a bad guy, another cop would have pulled him out of the car
Escurumbele
May 2021
#4
"The cop did start to sound like he was about to cry when he left" ???
left-of-center2012
May 2021
#7
Start at about 8:10. At about 8:14-8:15. There's are several comments about that too in the
progree
May 2021
#10
what ever happened to mind your own business ? and why is it almost always a white woman
AllaN01Bear
May 2021
#8
"Nothing to see here but a clown saying he's not taking photos as you plainly see him doing it."
progree
May 2021
#17
There is no evidence he was taking photos of her house before the video started
progree
May 2021
#19
I'm OK with it even if he did set this up. I think one has a right to sit in a car parked on a
progree
May 2021
#21