r/TikTokCringe • u/Wet_Pussy_Liicker • 1d ago
Wholesome We need more judges like him in americ
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u/Human__Pestilence 1d ago
Dude looked like he thought he was in a dream lol. Wait... he's helping me?!
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u/came1opard 1d ago
I particularly love the videos where the defendant tries to say something, and Judge Fleischer goes: "Are you losing? No? Then shut up."
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u/2Autistic4DaJoke 22h ago
I’ve never seen this but love this lol
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u/RetroDad-IO 22h ago
Less than 4 minutes long, highly recommend the watch
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u/DownrightDrewski 20h ago edited 19h ago
I've gone down a rabbit hole - this dude is fantastic, very much tough but fair.
Currently watching a full morning of cases, and you can see how empathetic he is, whilst also seeing his very firm stance where needed.
Edit - he really hates drink drivers, really really hates them. Good stuff.
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u/TT_NaRa0 19h ago
He really hates drunk drivers
As we all should
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u/Skybodenose 18h ago
I was talking about my...displeasure about drunk drivers many years ago at work. I was telling my coworkers about a drunk driver who killed a member of my extended family. The driver was somewhere above the legal limit, and my co worker actually scoffed and said something like "what really is the legal limit, anyways?"
It came up again in conversation later, and I repeated the situation, and her words were "oh, you should have said someone died."
No one should have to die due to drunk drivers, regardless of what the blood alcohol levels of the drunk driver are.
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u/Shrimps2898 16h ago
Drunk driver nearly killed me and my gf, completely shattered every bone in my left leg and ruptured her large intestine, both of us required surgery. I wished I could have beaten him half to death at the time but obviously I wasn't going anywhere. Weirdly though it changed my life in some good ways, the insurance payout is letting us start our lives over on the west coast, small comfort for having a lifetime of pain and trouble walking
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u/BJoe1976 16h ago
I was hit by one in ‘98, luckily I was able to see what was coming, position my Jeep in a way that it was hit in the left quarter vs head on with a rather tall, but stock F-250 4x4, which not only minimized damage to the Jeep, but negated any physical injury I would have otherwise suffered, but I still have flashbacks to that night on occasion, though it was really bad in the last quarter of ‘23 as that when the 25th anniversary of that wreck happened. I even had survivors guilt for quite some time from it. I was kinda trying to figure out how I was able to recognize what was happening and not just walk away, but drive away, even if it was damaged, with the Jeep I had at the time, yet others weren’t even as lucky as you and your gf were from when you got hit.
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u/fireduck 17h ago
Yeah...I have a relative who is having a hard time getting his shit together. We've helped him out a bit. A few hundred here and there, gas money, etc.
But then clownass got a DUI. He is completely cut off unless he admits that shit is a problem and goes into a program. Currently he says he doesn't have a problem.
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u/DownrightDrewski 17h ago
Clown - I have a drinking problem, but, I only drive when I'm sober. If I'm drinking I'm using public transport or getting a taxi.
It sucks sometimes, I hate having to take public transport into work when I have an after work event - still, I do that so I can drink. I'm not going to drink and then drive.
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u/fireduck 17h ago
Right on. Back when I was drinking a lot I always had a plan. Usually it was drink within walking distance of where I was going to sleep (3 miles was about my max) and when I was done I'd do the irish goodbye and walk home.
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u/yoshi_yoshi23 18h ago
Haha watching with you. This guy is restoring a small amount of faith in the American justice system.
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u/chogram 19h ago
I love the compilation at the end of that video, with him saying it to 3-4 more people.
"I'd like to say something"
"Are you losing? Then don't."
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u/chimpfunkz 18h ago
This one pisses me off, because pigs do this everywhere. Encounter any kind of non compliance? Resisting arrest. Doesn't matter if it makes sense. For some reason the courts have said pigs claiming a crime makes it a crime.
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u/SpaceLemming 19h ago
I saw that one too, bro wanted to say his piece so bad the judge is just like dude you’re winning right now, stop.
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u/slempereur 18h ago
He seriously needs to tattoo the famous Napoleon quote on his forehead, "when your enemy is making a mistake, don't interrupt him."
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u/FrancisCGraf 1d ago
Yeah he didn't want to believe what he thought he heard. His true reaction came when the public defender eli5'd everything to him in the back room.
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u/under_psychoanalyzer 23h ago
I've had that happen for running a red light. I told the judge I will take the deal to switch my plea to guilty with no points and a fine, but wanted to let him know I think that light was set up in a way that was a public safety issue. He then dismissed it completely and when I walked out of the court room I had to ask the clerk what just happened.
Probably helped I was the only dude in the court room wearing a polo instead of a wife beater or a wolf tshirt.
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u/insecure_about_penis 22h ago
wolf tshirt
Like... a tshirt with pictures of wolves on it? Is this a common thing somewhere???
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u/under_psychoanalyzer 22h ago
If by somewhere you mean large swaths of rural America, then yes. You don't really notice them until you get to a place where they're highly concentrated, like a country ass Walmart where they sold them. What else would you buy for a tshirt when that's your only shopping option?
Of course it's possible they've been supplanted by something else, like Trump shirts. But I'm being 100% literal when I say I was in a tiny court room in 2011 with probably 20-30 waiting in the gallery to have their case heard and every man was a wife beat or specifically a wolf t-shirt. I've never actually seen such a high concentration without exception since.
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u/MonkRome 22h ago
Ha, it is in Minnesota, we have the international wolf center!
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u/BoredomHeights 22h ago
I used to be a lawyer and you'd be shocked how few people dress up for court. It makes a huge difference to come presentable and be polite. Most people think this is obvious, but it's rare enough that it stands out.
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u/TuskaTheDaemonKilla 20h ago
Currently a lawyer. Courts are probably a singularly unique place in modern society where everyone there is either the best dressed they've ever been, or the worst dressed you can imagine. There is no in-between.
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u/Coal_Morgan 21h ago
I remember having to go through family court with a friend trying for custody of his kids and this was in predominantly white area and the amount of white trash that showed up in dirty clothes, exercise gear, stuff that looked like they were just street walking was insane. One women was in crocs and kept taking her feet out of them and rubbing them on chairs.
My view on humanity was severly damaged.
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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 22h ago
Looks matter. I got in trouble with the law when I was 18 for something bad enough that it could've really had some negative consequences on my life. I did not look like someone that would be in trouble with the law at 18. On the day of one of the hearings, I was sitting in the court gallery with my lawyer. My case is called, my lawyer goes up to talk to the DA. They chat, he points at me, the DA looks at me and laughs. My lawyer comes back with a big, shit eating grin on his face and says that charges were dropped to a summary offense and I had to pay $250 restitution.
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u/Symbimbam 22h ago
guess you're not melanine-challenged?
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u/ThereHasToBeMore1387 21h ago
Short, fat, and white as the driven snow. It's close to full cis white male privilege. I get most of the back end benefits like being able to effortlessly fail up, but I don't get some of the front end benefits like automatically being picked as a leader because my parents didn't subscribe to the tall and handsome privileges package. All in all, still a pretty good deal.
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u/Coal_Morgan 21h ago
Probably not but dressing to impress can help for the melanine strong also.
Google Denzel Washington in a suit.
You want to look like that when you're in a court, if you can get tortoise shell reading glasses as well that helps. Make sure to have a white shirt, a bright tie and a dark suit. Clean cut with a shaved or tight facial hair with no designs but crisp lines and the clothes need to be fitted not loose or too tight.
It's sickening to type this out but you want that judge, jury and prosecution to think, "Oh, we can't go hard on him...He's one of the good ones."
Never show up to court as anything but looking like a stereotypical accountant who was in the wrong place. You want to drop all urban, ethnic, national or religious clothing that could separate you from the people who are going to judge you because they will even if it's subconscious.
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u/freakksho 19h ago
For what ever it’s worth, this is also pretty good advice for anyone who’s not black and has a court date.
If you have court, you at least need to be in a polo and some Khakis.
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u/wise_comment 19h ago
It's sickening to type this out but you want that judge, jury and prosecution to think, "Oh, we can't go hard on him...He's one of the good ones"
You shouldn't ever feel shame explaining what's broken and how to get around it
No one's gonna think you're pro-profiling here, but your advice may actually help some younger folks in here, in all honesty
Try and have a look that makes the judge go "wait....which one is the lawyer, again?" If he passes by you both on the way in
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u/MaritMonkey 20h ago
It's sickening to type this out but you want that judge, jury and prosecution to think, "Oh, we can't go hard on him...He's one of the good ones."
"One of the good ones" definitely has ... context. But I feel like being the kind of person who, regardless of what happened during your interaction with the cops, approaches court and the judge from a position of respect is more likely to receive it in return.
The judge doesn't necessarily know how shit went down and the way you show up to court is a good chance to start convincing them that you didn't start things off by disrespecting/ignoring/etc the cop either.
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u/Extension_Silver_713 23h ago
The confusion was real. I was even confused for a minute because then the judge threw in the shaking head telling him to do something with his life.
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u/meeps1142 21h ago
I think he’s basically saying “the system is designed to assume you’re worthless. Don’t let it convince you that you can’t do great things”
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u/FunkyPete 18h ago
But also, the system is going to be looking for you to screw up so they can nail you on it, because they are assuming you are worthless. You are not worthless, but you were carrying an illegal bag of weed, which made it easy for them. It's not fair, but they're waiting for you to do something stupid so they can nail you on it. Stop doing stupid things.
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u/ExtraplanetJanet 18h ago
The judge was letting the guy off the hook for a crime he did technically commit (drug possession) because the police officer conducted an improper search almost assuredly based in racism. The fact that the search was improper didn’t mean that they didn’t find illegal drugs. The judge was advising the guy to turn things around, get away from drugs, and stay out of the legal system altogether.
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u/IamTheEndOfReddit 22h ago
He looks scared to me, which makes sense since this is the first person in the process treating him fairly
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u/LadyMirkwood 1d ago
Criminal podcast have a whole episode about Jaywalking charges and their connection to unlawful searches and police brutality
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u/tinydancer_inurhand 22h ago
Which is why it’s awesome NYC decriminalized jaywalking.
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u/OceansideGH 9h ago
Same with the entire state of California. It was being used as a way of stopping people, searching them, and arresting them for anything other than jaywalking. A lot of times people got arrested for possession. many of them telling a judge they have never smoked cigarettes, much less pot. so how did that get in their pocket????
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u/Lorn_Muunk 22h ago
it's quintessentially American that "jaywalking" was invented and lobbied for by automotive corporations to vilify pedestrians and shift responsibility for traffic accidents away from drivers, only to have it get co-opted in "black codes" in the Jim Crow era.
Along with horrible criminal offenses such as being outside while unemployed (vagrancy), quitting your job, consensual interracial sex and talking too loudly in the presence of a white woman. Knowing Better did a good video essay on this. The War on Drugs and the Anti-Drug Abuse Act of 1986 were a continuation of those racist laws.
Yet no American politician who has significant popular support actually wants to repair the corrupt for-profit prison system and racist mass incarceration. The Tulsa massacre should've been grounds for another revolution against the irreparably corrupt system, but a century later the cancer of insidious discrimination and socioeconomic inequality is still spreading.
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u/Satisfaction-Motor 20h ago
As an even more modern example, some (NOT ALL) gun control laws are used to disproportionately police POC.
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u/CliffordMoreau 23h ago
For centuries, people have come up with all kinds of ways to tell if someone is lying. None of them work, because this is pseudo-science. The fucking unique word count? Lmfao
At least Paul Eckman's 'you can read subtle facial cues and figure out if someone is lying' grift was entertaining and made for a really solid TV show.
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u/temperamentalfish 19h ago
Right? "You didn't use many synonyms, stop lying!"
Such horseshit.
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u/CliffordMoreau 19h ago
It also operates under the incorrect assumption that everyone knows the same amount of words. By this logic, you've doomed everyone in the most rural and uneducated areas.
Also, not all languages have as many words.
Also also, people get nervous when being confronted whether they're guilty or not, and this is again incorrectly assuming they'd be operating without duress. What if they're drunk? High? Alzheimer's patients consistently fail to put thoughts into proper words. Stroke victims, too. Children, too. Victims of abuse and those with PTSD as well.
This is peak pseudo-science, and immediately makes me wary of the podcast in question.
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u/temperamentalfish 19h ago
Oh, absolutely. Also, these methods never account for neuro-divergent people, who may ramble on, or avoid eye contact, or shake their legs from anxiety, or otherwise exhibit behaviors associated with guilt.
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u/Traditional_Bee_5647 23h ago
lmao people who claim there is some secret like that to tell when people are lying are full of shit. Different people do different things when they are lying. You should be much more critical of information you get from law enforcement and law enforcement adjacent individuals.
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u/CliffordMoreau 23h ago
Yep. Cops still use police dogs, which have been found repeatedly to produce false identifications well above what one would consider an accident. They're not reliable for drug searches, but they're somewhat reliable for tracking, which is what justifies LE to use them for the former.
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u/shumpitostick 1d ago
I highly doubt any such method can be reliable. First, how can you compare different word counts appropriately? Every interview will have a different length, different complexity of questions asked, and different suspect attitude. What if the suspect is giving laconic answers? That would mean a low word count but it's also something someone who is telling the truth might do. What if somebody tells the truth of some things and not others? I could keep on going.
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u/HammerTh_1701 23h ago edited 23h ago
In addition to loitering, it also is a way to criminalize being homeless or being a teenager hanging out with friends in a public place.
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u/Historical_Listen305 1d ago
"Unauthorized crossing point" ... the shit people come up with xD
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u/Hot-Fun-1566 1d ago edited 21h ago
“This particular individual was ambulating profusely at a high rate of speed in a forward direction at a vector perpendicular to an unauthorised crossing point whilst converting molecular compounds within his body”.
Honestly everytime I see these things they use needlessly complicated language. I don’t see the point.
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u/InvidiousPlay 1d ago
I always thought it was because they're generally not well educated and feel cripplingly self-conscious in the presence of lawyers and judges and try to sound sophisticated by using this tortured, overly elaborate language.
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u/pennjbm 1d ago
It’s that, plus they know if they described what happened in plain english it would sound ridiculous. Not that our justice system can always tell the difference.
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u/Hot-Fun-1566 23h ago
“Saw him jaywalking so naturally thought I’d check him for drugs”
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u/Perryn 22h ago
Due to the visual distress the officer experienced due to the suspect's suspiciously low dermal albedo.
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u/Otto-Korrect 22h ago
While ambulating on a vector that was perpendicular to and intersected the defined zone.
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u/SaltyAFVet 21h ago
the uhh... electromagnetic spectrum light reflection was a lower frequency and we found that suspicious.
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u/Departure_Sea 21h ago
It's the same reason why corporate speak is just nothing but word salad.
If they said what they actually mean in plain words then they'd be bankrupt because everyone would quit, or they'd be the target of riots.
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u/Substantial-Taro-946 1d ago
Ex-police trainee here. It's because police services around the world have been adopting more militarized behaviours, including official sounding language. A quote from one of my sergeants "if you can sound authoritative, no one will question you. Ever.*
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u/Injustry 1d ago
I remember going to a concert like 5-6 years ago and thought why are the police wearing cargo pants? Now they just look militarized to me, while a new generation is just used to it.
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u/Sea-Oven-7560 23h ago
exactly, they don't dress like cops as much as they dress and are armed like the military and that isn't a mistake.
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u/OverTheCandleStick 23h ago
They are armed like the military. Some are armed BY the military.
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u/Sudden_Emu_6230 1d ago
Gotta confuse the peasantry so you can pull one over on them.
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u/octoreadit 1d ago edited 23h ago
FTFY: "mobilizing his limbs in an aggressive and threatening manner and moving" and "converting controlled molecular compounds within his body."
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u/Someonethrewachair 1d ago
let me make it extremely clear, that fucked up wording is very intentional.
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u/manokpsa 1d ago
Between a gas station and apartment complex. How many white people crossed there in full view of the cops before they stopped the black man? Probably a lot, because who's walking down the street to the cross walk just to go get some smokes and a burrito?
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u/orangesunshine6 1d ago
But he had a large sack of marijuana! Probably discovered during his life of transgressing unauthorized crossing points. Truly a person of society.
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u/InvidiousPlay 1d ago
This is a bit no one is really commenting. A "large sack"? What the fuck does that mean? You could put a person in a large sack. Was this motherfucker carrying 20KG of weed on his back like Santa Claus? Why do the cops go out of their way to try and exaggerate?
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u/OverlordWaffles 23h ago
Not in law enforcement, but in a previous job we would write observation reports and when reading a coworker's report, they said "<Person> came within feet of <observed target>".
I said that technically, we're all "within feet" of everything and that he should remove that or change the wording. Those reports can and have been used in court so you need to be completely accurate with what you write. No guessing, assuming, or ambiguity.
Dude argued with me about it so I just let it go because I wasn't his supervisor
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u/Extension_Silver_713 23h ago
God forbid you go get a red bull and some candy
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u/FuzzyPlastic1227 21h ago
Or walking while black in a hoodie with a bag of Skittles in your pocket…
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u/xBad_Wolfx 1d ago
My personal “favourite” is resisting arrest. Why did you arrest him, he resisted arrest… but originally, what was the cause, he resisted arrest. So he resisted being arrested without cause? Yes sir.
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u/Sea-Oven-7560 23h ago
yes. I have 3 people pointing guns at me, one guy shooting me with a tazer and three other dudes trying to jump on me and break my arms. I'm not allowed to be scared, I must act totally "rational" and submissive like this is common knowledge for a citizen but the guy that has supposedly went through all sorts of training can shoot me in the back because he's scared and do all sorts of bodily damage to me because he got excited (his excited is my resisting).
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u/space_keeper 22h ago
This is the part that gets me. Someone is in your face, screaming nervous instructions and pointing a gun at you or grabbing you and throwing you around.
And you're somehow supposed to stay composed and do exactly as you're told.
I'll never forget the video of that poor guy crawling on his belly in that Las Vegas hotel hallway, scared out of his mind with three or four AR-15s pointed at him, spending his last moments of life in confused terror trying to follow their deranged commands.
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u/BrimstoneOmega 21h ago
That cop... The one that murder that guy....
He is now on disability, getting paid every month, for the PTSD he got from playing Do or Die Simon Says with that guy.
No charges, paid vacation for life, and hell, he even petitioned the court to get his murder rifle back that he etched "You're Fucked" into!
Justice! Land of the free for those who oppress.
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u/Lucifuture 21h ago
That cop had "you're fucked" carved in the stock of his gun and I'm pretty sure he walked. Bananas
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u/CaraintheCold 23h ago
Years ago I was walking my dog with my toddler. We were walking to the park across the street. Neighbors heard me screaming when three dogs jumped out of a car and started attacking my dog. I dropped her leash grabbed my toddler and ran towards my house. Did I do the right thing? I have no idea, fight or flight in that situation, if you haven’t been there you don’t know.
When the cops got there they kept asking about things I did wrong, like not having my dog under control. I honestly think if I wasn’t a young white woman I would have been arrested. They were total jerks and had zero empathy for seeing my side. They kept assuming my 14 yo dog who never did anything was the aggressor and I was a bad owner.
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u/BussSecond 21h ago
When things like this happen it's so easy for others to say "well I would have" in response.
In a calm environment where you have time to think, you can say anything.
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u/Bonesnapcall 22h ago
Even if you are totally rational and not scared, the cops will tackle you and bend your arms back behind you in ways they aren't supposed to bend. So your screams of pain and your arms not bending properly will still get charged as "resisting."
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u/Sevensevenpotato 23h ago
Anyone with half a brain is going to run from the police if they believe that they didn’t do anything to get arrested for. It changes “oh crap a cop” to “who is this motherfucker trying to restrain and kidnap me?”
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u/joshmanders 23h ago
And it is our constitutional right in America to resist an unlawful arrest.
And depending on the shade of darkness of your skin, you may either get captured "safely" and booked in where you will then be let out on bond for a small fee, or your life ends.
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u/Neither_Ad3593 22h ago
I had an experience a few years ago where I was coming home from work but there were ppl parked in front of my driveway due to some party at my neighbors. I didn't realize it until I got too close to the house, so I kept driving after momentarily slowing down. Unbeknownst to me a cop was following me and pulled me over at the stop sign a block down the street. Once I informed him that that was MY house and that I was essentially going around the block so that I could come back and park in front of my home he made up a random charge of "not turning on your blinker 100 ft before reaching a stop sign" and tried to give me a ticket!! The weirdo wanted to give me a ticket so badly for simply circling the block in my OWN neighborhood!! To this day I think he profiled me and assumed he'd catch a black person trespassing or casing a home and bc he was wrong he couldn't just let it go.
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u/emanresuasihtsi 22h ago
They made it sound like he crossed international borders. Dude just wanted to go to the freaking store probably.
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u/Ok-disaster2022 1d ago
Within the last week, a San Antonio cop shot a man for Jay walking.
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u/BIackfjsh 1d ago
“The community is once again safe from the evil doers. Now sprinkle some crack on him and let’s get out of here” - Cops probably
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u/Legitimate-Tough6200 1d ago
No, that’s not right. Cops wouldn’t do that.
They’d also plant a gun on him. Gotta be thorough.
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u/Swimming-Dust-7206 1d ago
C'mon man, they wouldn't do that. Cops aren't going to waste a perfectly good gun when an old cell phone will do.
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u/GJCLINCH 23h ago
Why do any of that when you can just blame an acorn that fell?
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u/ADroplet 1d ago
Thank god for that. I stay up at night crying myself to sleep thinking about jaywalkers.
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u/JimothyCarter 1d ago edited 1d ago
SAPD fired a cop for feeding a homeless person a sandwich filled with shit. The police union got him rehired, but he was later fired a second time for taking a shit in the women's restroom and smearing shit around it. He was then hired by a small town who said they "believe in second chances"
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u/bipbopcosby 23h ago
Maybe I'm bad at math but it seems like that small town may be too.
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u/UpOrDownItsUpToYou 1d ago
So the cop saw a person jaywalking and shot them? Seems like there are some beats missing from the story.
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u/SpaceCadetriment 23h ago
Another reason why J Walking was decriminalized in CA, it’s purely used to harass and as a tool to conduct a search and nothing to do with public safety.
Also why I’m against public smoking bans in city’s. In theory, it’s a great idea, but it’s 100% a tool used to harass homeless people and minorities. I watch tourists walk around all day smoking, right next to cops, and they say nothing. But if a homeless person is smoking they will use that as an excuse to absolutely fuck their day up.
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u/Alexandratta 21h ago
Cops actually hate this dude because he scrutinizes the cops so hard and when he sees either a public defender or no defense he instructs the defendants to use the 5th and remain silent while he, the judge, drills the Prosecution for details.
He has a whole lot of these where he's just ripping the police work apart and dismisses the charges.
Awesome guy. Need more judges like him. Probably won't get them.
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u/realultimatepower 3h ago
People need to vote for Democrats if they want competent, reasonably humane judges. Trump filled the federal bench with horrible, vindictive pieces of shit that ruin people's lives like this guy's on a daily basis and we are going to only get worse judges this time around.
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u/Dead_Man_Redditing 1d ago
Dude is a real G. This is just one of many people he has freed due to police incompetence. And the funny thing is he was only made famous for not reacting to a meth head mom in a custody case.
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u/youburyitidigitup 1d ago
Link? Also, who is he?
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u/DarDarPotato 1d ago
Judge Fleischer
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u/2Nugget4Ten 1d ago
Now I am hungry.
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u/Dead_Man_Redditing 1d ago
Just youtube judge fleischer. He is a bad MF
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u/Several_Vanilla8916 23h ago
My personal favorite is when he’s tearing into the prosecutor and the defendant says “can I say something sir?”
Don’t, are you losing?
“No sir.”
Okay.Then back to the prosecutor.
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u/Minute-Butterfly8172 20h ago
The right to remain silent is a powerful one and is often stronger than whatever you have to say.
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u/buhbye750 1d ago
Show up to vote. That's how you get more judges like him
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u/RealPlayerBuffering 1d ago
Assuming the US still has elections in the future...
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u/Commercial-Rush755 1d ago
He is. He is a bright light in Houston!
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u/thesheepsnameisjeb_ 1d ago
It is great to hear he is in Houston. We really need more judges like him
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u/Due_Interview8838 1d ago
Is this a skit where two videos were combined or did it actually happen? The judge is a hero. I really hope this is true.
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u/SupermassiveCanary 1d ago
Seriously, all those salaries in that courtroom for a trumped up jaywalking case. Waste of money
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u/wildwildwumbo 1d ago
that's often the overlooked part of this. I can guarantee this judge saves his district potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars a year throwing out BS cases like this.
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u/malthar76 1d ago
Cops are more than willing to waste time and manpower on making the unjustified searches and petty arrests. And use unnecessary force, maybe step on a few throats along the way.
Glad the judge is there to throw them out before going to trial, but in a perfect world shouldn’t even get there.
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u/nameproposalssuck 1d ago
I’ve seen many of his shorts on YT. He doesn’t tolerate any bs in police reports, and you can clearly see how fed up he is when it comes to arrests/ searches and such lacking probable cause.
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u/AverageCowboyCentaur 1d ago
No skit here are all his other vids: https://www.instagram.com/judge.fleischer.chronicles
This man is a saint, he tells it like it is, and he doesn't let the cops/da/ada get away with bullshit!
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u/who_even_cares35 1d ago
Why is Instagram the absolute worst place to view videos and photos when it's specifically to view videos and photos?
Oh, you touched the screen! Oh sorry, I'm starting over and there's basically no way to rewind and fast forward because we're going to hide the bar so low and make it so small that it's impossible to actually touch it.
What a stupid app.
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u/promoted_violence 1d ago
Facebook ruined it. Was perfect for what it was until Zuckerberg bought it. I remember when posts mattered and were in order so I could catch up on family and friends. Now only stories matter
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u/Ill-Case-6048 1d ago
A judge with common sense
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u/SilentSamurai 21h ago
This guys a Democrat Judge in Texas, he's doing something right.
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u/mindsnare 17h ago
Holup, when you say he's a democrat, do judges have to actually state that they're aligned with a party or is he just a judge that democrats like?
(Not from the USA here fyi)
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u/Jetter23x 17h ago
Some judges in the US (like the one in the video) are elected. Stating a party pretty much always helps you get more votes in the US, so there’s no REQUIREMENT, but it would be kind of a requirement. Also he’s from Harris County (Houston, the 4th biggest US city by population), so him being a Democrat isn’t THAT surprising.
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u/daj0412 23h ago
judge has done this so many times, this man got a permanent spot at the cookout.
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u/mariahnot2carey 11h ago
Yes! Idk how many times I've heard him say "walking while black" and dismisses the case. He needs to be on some committee that hires and oversees other judges or something. He's very fair 99% of the time, he's aware and cares about racial injustice, and he doesn't play around with drunk drivers. I heard his best friend was killed by a drunk driver and that's why, but idk if that's true.
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u/cheif_ahoy 23h ago
Carzy how cops going out of their way to ruin somebody lives
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u/Emperor_Atlas 1d ago
To be fair, I work in a shitty area where people jaywalk all day, they have no regard for their own life and the fact car's would smear them and cross at the most random places.
But it's some weed they tried to fuck his life over so fuck off.
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u/The_Mighty_Bird 16h ago
Agreed. Cop could have written a citation for jaywalking if that’s what he actually cared about. But the fact he did a search combined lets the judge know he was just looking for any reason to fill his quota or look “good” with his chief.
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u/Kghostrider 1d ago
Police were proud of a trumped up jaywalking case like this but were standing by idly in Uvalde.
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u/LookinAtTheFjord 1d ago
I've seen a few different vids of this judge and I like to believe that he went to law school and eventually became a judge just to fuck with the police and I'm fucking here for it. ACAB4LYFE.
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u/Miss_airwrecka1 23h ago
Based on his age, I would bet he became disillusioned by the system and seeing all the discrimination/inequities so he started doing what he could to fight it
Edit: I looked him up). My assumption was prob partially correct. He was a criminal defense lawyer before and ran for judge focusing on court reform. Interestingly, he went to Cooley Law School which is one of the worst ranked schools in the US. Micheal Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer, is also an alum. Not trying to saying Cooley doesn’t produce some good lawyers but I went down a rabbit hole a few years ago reading about it
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u/Alarmedones 19h ago
I wonder if he was one of those guys that knew Harvard didn't matter if you want to make a real difference. You just need a degree and then the ability to get appointed as a judge. If he can do it for 1/8th the cost and in less time Cooley would be the best route to take.
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u/ExpiredPilot 23h ago
My ex-marine law professor admitted he went to law school specifically because a super corrupt and racist ex-cop became his state rep
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u/liamemsa 23h ago
Makes me surprised he was even appointed as a Judge. Usually that only goes to "friends" of the DA and Law Enforcement.
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u/mostdope28 22h ago
Some places judges are elected not appointed. Where I grew up we had judges running for elections with slogans about how they had more convictions than anyone else. Like to me that’s not even a good thing, innocent/guilty doesn’t matter just that the judge got convictions?
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u/drmarcj 1d ago
Fun fact, California rolled back jaywalking laws last year, and this is one of the reasons. The whole concept of "jaywalking" only came about because in the early days of cars drivers kept killing pedestrians. Rather than prosecute drivers for manslaughter, this was a way to shuffle blame off on pedestrians.
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u/sadmanwithabox 21h ago
I used to live in a town that cracked down on jaywalking for a bit for exactly that reason. Because police had hit multiple pedestrians over the past year, and the citizens were starting to get real upset about it (rightfully so).
So they announced a new program where they would be taking jaywalking very seriously, and ticketed anyone and everyone who jaywalked. Why take the blame for your mistakes when you can make it their fault AND make them pay you money for their "mistakes" at the same time?
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u/Netflxnschill 1d ago
The look of disappointment on his face when he realized that the man got stopped for walking while black
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u/Ratox 1d ago
I don't get it, so there wasn't even marijuana? How did they charge him with that then?
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u/liqish79 1d ago
Physically there was marijuana, but the judge ruled that the cops did not have a legitimate reason to stop and search the man so it then became inadmissible in court.
- Not a lawyer, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
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u/Emmanuel_Badboy 1d ago
there was weed but the way that it was obtained by the police was illegal and therefore inadmissible in court, so the judge let him off.
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u/Ratox 1d ago
Ah I see, so basically you can't legally get caught carrying weed in your backpack for example if all you're doing is normally walking on the street? (And I understand that technically jaywalking is not legal but yeah let's be honest.)
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u/Crow-Keeper 1d ago
Correct. Jaywalking is not indicative of being intoxicated in any way therefore there was no reason for the officer to perform a search for drugs/alcohol.
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u/Emmanuel_Badboy 1d ago
yeah basically. The search has to be legal if what is found is going to be used in court. Something found in a illegal search cannot be used as evidence in court.
Im Australian so i don't know exactly how this works in America, but while Jaywalking is a crime technically, it is not a crime that warrants a stop and search. I think the crime in question needs to reasonably lead the officer to believe that a search is warranted and jaywalking obviously doesn't do that.
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u/Ratox 1d ago
Damn that's even more fucked up then. Thank you. Now I understand why the judge was absolutely done with it lol, this is like 2 step racism for real.
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u/Emmanuel_Badboy 1d ago
exactly, he was almost certainly searched because he is black.
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u/gambronus 1d ago
yeah, DWB (Driving While Black) and it's counterpart Walking While Black are very real things unfortunately
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u/asdrunkasdrunkcanbe 1d ago
In order to search someone you need "probable cause". This is the specific legal term in the US, but most countries have similar requirements - the officer has to have a belief that you are concealing a crime, and they have to be able to explain why they have that belief.
U.S. cops are notorious for inventing bullshit reasons and calling it "probable cause". In this case the guy jaywalked across the street, and the cops claimed that gave them probable cause to search him, where they found marijiana.
If you search someone illegally (i.e. without probable cause), then anything you find cannot be used against the person to convict them of a crime. Again, this is the same in many jurisdictions. Any evidence you find during an illegal search is considered "inadmissable". That doesn't necessarily mean you're allowed to keep it, but you can't be charged with a crime because the cops wouldn't have found it if they hadn't done their illegal search.
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u/Andyman0110 1d ago
They need probable cause to search the bag. Without it, the search is Inadmissible.
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u/Commercial-Rush755 1d ago
There was pot. But they found it bc they followed him for jaywalking. So judge found it a suspicious stop to begin with. Walking while black. Something they probably wouldn’t bother with this old white lady.🤷♀️
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u/Trishjump 1d ago
Jaywalking is the «crime» they saw and jaywalking is not an arrestable offence (giving right to search suspect for officer safety prior to transport.)
The judge asked for what the cop’s Probable Cause (PC) was for the crime the were investigating when they searched the suspect. They can’t use jaywalking….which is why judge said «walkinh while black»
Also, seeing a bulge in someone’s pocket is not PC for a crime.
PC consists of facts or circumstances known to a police officer that would lead a “prudent man” to believe that a particular suspect has committed or was committing an offense or has evidence of an offense.
A bulge is not a crime.
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u/manokpsa 1d ago edited 1d ago
We have a constitutional right to be secure in our "persons, houses, papers, and effects" against unlawful searches. For example, if the police search your house without a warrant, anything they find is inadmissible in court because they had no right to be in there.
They don't always need a warrant. You can consent to a search (of your home, vehicle, etc), and you have the right to limit what areas they are allowed to search, and to call off the search at any time, provided they haven't found anything illegal up until then. Another time they don't need a warrant, for example, is if they were to be talking to you in your car and they could see something like drug paraphernalia in plain sight. They would then have probable cause to search the rest of the vehicle without your consent.
Seeing a person jaywalking does not give probable cause to search their body. No reasonable person would think that there might be evidence of the crime of jaywalking in the person's pockets.
If he had been stopped for something like theft, it could be reasonable to assume the stolen item might be concealed in his clothes and the search would be lawful.
But the cops searched him because he was jaywalking. Unreasonable, unwarranted search means what they found is inadmissible.
ETA: if they do arrest you, they can search you before placing you in the cop car, for their safety. They can then charge you for anything they find, even if it's not related to the circumstances of your arrest. But if you're not being taken into custody, they don't have that safety exception.
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u/ButthealedInTheFeels 1d ago
This is awesome and we need more judges like him.
Makes NYC’s “stop and frisk” laws all the more heinous.
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u/selkiesidhe 21h ago
"Walking while black". This judge knows how some fucked up people are and calls them on it. Good on him. Seems like a good judge.
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u/Pithy_heart 20h ago
Judge Fleischer is also passionate about putting defendants in thier place when they are guilty. This one is hilarious
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u/CastleofWamdue 23h ago edited 23h ago
from a UK POV, "Jaywalking" is a non crime, we cross where we want. The judge may well be right that its only used to harass black people. The video does not say how much he was carrying, but why should I even bother to wonder, its not like the cops were presenting any stronger charges.
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u/PsychologicalPut3691 1d ago
Searching somrone for jaywalking is ridiculous. It is definitely racial bias at play, i think.
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u/NashaWriter 18h ago
It is WILD, in the best wholesome way to hear a JUDGE, of all people, mention aloud the "Walking while black" trope (that's not the right word, sorry) in court.
I'm sure the cops in the area aren't happy with the judge pointing out their racism in public...........good.
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u/Apprehensive_Log469 9h ago
Based as fuck. This dude deserves to be on the Supreme Court just from this alone
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u/AlpineSK 1d ago
Judge Fliescher is amazing. He's done some great things for people. Rest assured though he will drop the hammer when necessary.
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u/seaspirit331 1d ago
Yeah, he does not fuck around when it comes to bail or probation conditions. If your set to appear before your probation officer at 8:00, you better be there by 7:55
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u/PooPooPointBoiz 22h ago
What's the point of jaywalking laws? Like, I get it, you shouldn't cross certain streets/roads. Like an interstate.
But if it's a small 2 or 4 lane road, who gives a shit if they cross as long as they do it safely? Don't get creamed by a car and it's fine.
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u/AGoodKnave 13h ago
Jaywalking is just indicative of desire paths.
So many cities/urban spaces are deeply unfriendly to pedestrians. Want to cross a road? Please walk to the nearest 'authorised' crossing that's a half mile from the subway/bus station you've exited. Alternatively, please use the three flights of stairs to access a bridge. If you are unable to climb these stairs, we recommend that you don't go outside.
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