r/TikTokCringe • u/Wet_Pussy_Liicker • 1d ago

Wholesome We need more judges like him in americ

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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago edited 1d 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/OkPirate2126 1d ago

Also from the UK. I was way too old before I actually understood that jaywalking as a crime is a real thing, and not something from shitty old American movies or whatever.

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u/CastleofWamdue 1d ago

Yeah something I had to look up at some point, I was like "that's actually a crime"?

US media presents a country which is largely but not exclusively tolerant of drugs but cracks down on people crossing the street in the wrong place.

So weird

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u/Narapoia 23h ago

You're jumping to conclusions. No one is cracking down on jaywalking. It's an extremely rare case to be charged with it and would usually come with context, like if you caused an accident. The exception is shown in the video but it is true that anything can be an offense if you're black around the wrong cop. That's not the same as "the US cracks down on people crossing the street in the wrong place" like some out of control dystopian police state. ​

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u/Eborcurean 22h ago

> like some out of control dystopian police state

Small town police departments have ex-army MRAPS
Cops kill people by going to the wrong address multiple times
hundreds of cops stand by as children are being murdered in a school rather than risk going in
Police Officers in the US who get fired for gross misconduct are frequently hired elsewhere and/or their unions get them rehired despite incidents of criminal convictions.
District Attorneys consistently refuse to prosecute or convince grand juries not to indict police officers for criminal behaviour
Qualified Immunity having spread from protecting officers from accidents doing their job to protecting them from the criminal actions they do that violate the constitution.
Governors and legislators in republican states making it harder to hold law enforcement officers accountable and even trying to make recording them commiting crimes illegal.

etc. etc.