As a fan of the classics I much prefer the original douchebag manual:

Teenagers are fucking liars.

Exactly. Even if you’re very calm when you reiterate your rights, they can be so quick to anger that it doesn’t even matter how you say it/comport yourself. It’s a losing game. If one more person posts some dumb “If you don’t want to get arrested/harassed by cops, don’t do anything illegal” shit on fb, I think I might…

This kind of shit has to be instant termination for the cop involved. It’s the only way we are ever going to get progress. Because currently, we as citizens are paying for the legal defense and salary of a cop that 1) unconstitutionally seized a phone being used to record potential misconduct; 2) unconstitutionally…

You can’t just go around touching people if you think they have something. You can legally search them if it’s a situation where you can legally search them, or you can back the fuck away.

Knowing your rights doesn’t really help if they still seem to be able to arrest you regardless.

Recently there was a situation with a drunk person at a nearby park. Pretty much everyone whipped out their phones and started filming it...and a cop got on a megaphone and said he’d arrest anyone who recorded it. He said they were interfering with his job. From 10 feet away. Just standing there.

That’s what you get for believing in the cops these days.

And yet that dumb dumb is filmed on three different cameras. I have to laugh at these cops that freak at cell phone video. Cameras are ALL OVER!!!

Gender identity is not a ploy to get laid and/or see naked women.

I am not a person of color, but I can tell the story of when I discovered that the media is complicit.

This is not my story, but it does need to be told.

Right? After the Ferguson verdict I was like, how can anyone NOT understand the protesters? I feel like burning everything down right now, and I’m white and live in Europe.

Cops know how to touch people in ways that will likely make someone reflexively pull away in order to justify force. If you’re alone with the police, you’re completely at their mercy.

Never mind moving the wrong way, they can claim you’re “resisting” if you talk—calmly try to explain yourself, or ask why you’re being detained/arrested, or alert them to medical conditions (like if you need an asthma inhaler, or can’t kneel down because of an injury), or pretty much anything else. The thought is…

RIGHT? Sorry but if I am about to hop in my car after eating dinner and a large man with a metal stick starts charging at me and goes to hit me, my first reaction is going to be “NAH DUDE” and try and block them from hurting me. Which is exactly what my friend did.

This is one thing that infuriates me about the cop apologists in these stories - the person getting beaten, or grabbed, instinctively moves away from the person swinging at them and they’re “resisting” or “fighting back.”

How can you be a black person in this country and remain sane? I hear stories like this (I’m white) and cry, shake with anger, and get nauseated with fury. How do you live like that? How you not snap? How do you not take it out on everyone in your life that doesn’t have to put up with shit like this?

This is what can be so frustrating when trying to explain to someone how the police treat certain people differently. So many times, people assume that just because xyz hasn’t happened to them, then the only time it ever happens to someone of a different race/gender/sexuality is because that person did something…

I feel that I need to post this repeatedly, just so people can get the point.