I would say false. Being treated with disrespect doesn't allow an authority to just rage on people. People are conflating all of their cop hate and righteous anger at misdeeds onto every single cop story ever. This guy was calm, he was collected, he repeatedly stated what she needed to produce in order to keep things…

She wasn't "assaulted", she was arrested. Don't try to debate with police, i don't give a fuck who you think you are, or how smart you think you are, you will lose, always. If you honestly know your rights, do the minimum speaking you need to, the minimum actions you need to. Don't get upset you feel singled out,…

Sure. But once he has done that, there's no turning back. Once he goes "show me some ID" and she says "no"... well, there just isn't a scenario where he goes "oh, well, I tried, I guess" and goes away.

She was not assaulted. She refused to cooperate multiple times. If you don't put your hand behind your back and you keep fighting back you should except that some sort of force will be used on you to put the handcuffs on. They will not let you talk your way out of that. She should know better.

My brother (who is white) was arrested because he refused to produce ID and then refused to give his SSN. Are they just supposed to assume that my brother had no criminal record/warrants and send him on his merry way? No, they hauled his ass to jail until he would tell him his information. After that, he bailed…

Hm.

Sorry, but this is her fault. You don't try to argue with a cop for 20 minutes. You'd have to be an idiot to do that.

For an Assistant Professor of Rhetoric, she's got very little sense of when to stop talking. Might be time to review her Cicero a little more closely. ("Silence is one of the great arts...")

You're wrong. You can be held for ID if you don't have legal photo identification on you. You don't have to do anything else, refusal or inability to provide ID is enough. Been like this since the late 90's.

As she continuously struggled with him... you leave that part out. They weren't just talking and he threw out 'I'm going to hurt you now!'. She had not only resisted his orders which he recited clearly, multiple times, she was fighting with him and ended up not only kicking him but damaging a police car.

It's the law in AZ that cops can, when engaged in a Terry stop, demand ID and you are legally mandated to comply. The "jaywalking" thing was totally pre textual, like when a cop pulls you over for failing to signal for a lane change or failing to come to a complete stop at a stop sign. BUT, as bullshit as this stop…

Depends on the state, Arizona has a "stop and identify" statute. And even without that the fact that she broke a law, no matter how trivial, may have placed her into a category where asking for ID is okay because of other laws.
I'm not pro this statute, I'm just a fan of my rights so I've looked into it before.

How else are officers supposed to deal with uncooperative people? Keep on asking them politely to stop?

She was right to be annoyed by being singled out for walking while black, but honestly, I would never ever talk to a cop that way.

Let's be honest here.

That doesn't even look like HDR which is HOW HDR should be used 95 percent of the time. Gorgeous shot. If I hadn't been told it was HDR and then was told you did use some HDR for it I woulda said, "No fucking way." Bravo.

The thing is, its not what your eye sees. Film manages to do a good job of capturing more dynamic range than digital typically captures, though still not as much as the human eye. Poor HDR tone mapping is distorting the relative brightness of a scene to try to imitate that. There are no halos around things in real…

and when you can see halos(ruined parts of high contrast edges) from Tonemapping, then it's done wrong. it'll also happen with over sharpening and certain other ways to "bring out detail".

So you miss any number of possible houses because of the realtors' photo choices? I pity the agent you eventually work with. There is a dumb ass here, but it's not the realtor.

Rant time. Fuck this shit. You know what's more fucking annoying than yuppie stockbroker entitled assholes? Cornball fucking hipsters that don't get that they're just as annoying. I get that because you live in Brooklyn and you, like totally made small talk with a black guy in an elevator once, you think you're…