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I guess I could have accomplished the same results by running from the cops.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by Gator515151, Aug 15, 2023.

  1. QGator2414

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    I can get with you on the seat belt. But the cop did not know that one based on the story.

    The race thing is just bs agitation. If this happened in a bad spot of town things may have played out different. White/Black/Hispanic/Etc. But spare us the race bait crap…
     
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  2. QGator2414

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    The race baiters can’t control themselves!
     
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  3. exiledgator

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  4. G8tas

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    He's an old white man. The odds of him getting a traffic citation are slim to none. I'm not sure what the point was of his post
     
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  5. ValdostaGatorFan

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    Funny that you post that because I recommended that same video to someone at work today as we were discussing a similar topic. I told him that I haven't listened to it myself in years and I actually listened to it at my desk after lunch.
     
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  6. exiledgator

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    It's a good one and I will be sharing it with my kids as they start to drive and be in public alone more.
     
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  7. ValdostaGatorFan

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    It's hard to rule out race in traffic stop.

    A ‘veil of darkness’ reduces racial bias in traffic stops | Stanford News

    The largest-ever study of alleged racial profiling during traffic stops has found that blacks, who are pulled over more frequently than whites by day, are much less likely to be stopped after sunset, when “a veil of darkness” masks their race.

    That is one of several examples of systematic bias that emerged from a five-year study that analyzed 95 million traffic stop records, filed by officers with 21 state patrol agencies and 35 municipal police forces from 2011 to 2018.

    The Stanford-led study also found that when drivers were pulled over, officers searched the cars of blacks and Hispanics more often than whites. The researchers also examined a subset of data from Washington and Colorado, two states that legalized marijuana, and found that while this change resulted in fewer searches overall, and thus fewer searches of blacks and Hispanics, minorities were still more likely than whites to have their cars searched after a pull-over.

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    This dataset provided a statistically valid sample with two important variables – the race of the driver being stopped, and the darkness of the sky at around 7 p.m. The analysis left no doubt that the darker it got, the less likely it became that a black driver would be stopped. The reverse was true when the sky was lighter.
     
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  8. VAg8r1

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    According to the link in 2022 389 Whites were shot to death by police compared with 225 Blacks. If the numbers were in proportion to population percentages the number of Whites would be around 1,000. According to 2020 census data Blacks represented 12.4% of the US population compared with Whites at 61.6%.
    2020 Census Illuminates Racial and Ethnic Composition of the Country
     
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  9. QGator2414

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    I am not a scholar on the subject. But I suspect circumstance and location dictates how a stop ends the vast majority of the time. Regardless of race.
     
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  10. gator_lawyer

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    To demonstrate how terrible Florida drivers are?
     
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  11. orangeblue_coop

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    The contingent who is always crying about how tough it is being a straight white male in America are telling others to stop racebaiting LOL
     
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  12. flgator2

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    99.9% of the time it's usually the unhinged leftist
     
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    Yes he was very quick witted to think that fast, good for 51
     
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    If people were selected at random to be shot, then the numbers should reflect the proportions in the population. But people are not selected at random. These things happen based on circumstances.

    There might well be a racial component, but you can’t prove that merely by the artifact of proportion of population. You have to have some other evidence.
     
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    If I have nothing to hide, then it’s a waste of everyone’s time to search my car. No need to do it, especially just to satisfy the officer’s whim.
     
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    Actually, nobody thought you’d be able to figure it out.
    Next time you get pulled over. You should get out and start running.
     
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    Are you an old white man? If so then you have nothing to worry about
     
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    have we come to the point in our society where anyone starts a sentence with this ……?

    ughhh
     
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    Interesting. Now look up by race who commits violent crimes. Is there a correlation? Wonder why you didn't look into the why...

    Table 43
     
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    Unfortunately, that went over about as well as his "Tired of N******" bit. More unfortunately, he sold out and went with what he knew would sell in his last big show.