Innocent man confronts a police officer who put him in jail for “believing” he was selling weed

Many people have become statistics in the war on drugs. Some of them because they’re just in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A recent viral video epitomizes one such case when a man sent to jail for allegedly selling weed (according to police) confronted the arresting officer. In the video, the man explains that he had legal cannabis in his possession, but police tried to force him to confess that he was selling weed.

What followed was a monologue that got a lot of people talking about how the police are using anti-cannabis laws to target people and meet their “quotas”. Others praised the man for confronting the person who, in his own words, “almost destroyed his life”.

INT. SOME CONVENIENCE STORE DAY

CUT TO:

A policeman stands there stunned when a citizen filming him gets angry with him. The man begins to explain how the officer wronged him while the officer tries to bypass the conversation altogether.

Man: “… you sent me to jail for trying to say I was selling weed in my car, I had a cannabis card, I had two … you were still trying to get me to say that I sell weed tonight … don’t you remember?

The officer responds with a visual shake of his head and tries to explain to the young man that he is doing something about which the young man simply says: “I don’t care …”

The officer tries to point out that he is in the middle of something to which the man is responding;

“You shagged me back then, now I’m fucking with you … you sent me to jail for a night and a day and I slept in my car when I woke up … there were three of you …”

The officer throws in “I don’t remember”, while the man quickly interrupts him: “I don’t care, you will hear my story!”

The officer replies and says: “Sure, I hear your story”.

“Yeah, because I went to jail for no reason … and had to pay a thousand dollars fine, not $ 2,000 to get out that night, and another fine just for sleeping in my car. I go to work and I pay taxes … I go to work and I go to school and take care of my son – every day and I went to jail because you sat there and said that it felt like I was Sell ​​weed out of my car while I slept. “

The officer begins to look uncomfortable – maybe he remembers something?

“I’ve been waiting to find you and see you so you can see my face and see my son because you really screwed up a chapter of my life. I had a license, registration and license plate – there was no reason for me to go to jail that night, but you took me to jail anyway.

So I’m telling you the next time you try to send someone to jail, really listen to their fucking story … because that was fucking bullshit! “

End scene …

Well, not quite, there’s a little more of the incident that you can see in the video. Highly recommended!

Police officers and their quotas

We could say it was a minority targeted for weed, but that would be a wrong conclusion. One factor that definitely played a role was the fact that most police officers have arrest rates. In other words, the police are often incentivized to arrest people in order to meet certain quotas. If they do, they will receive monies and other goodies such as “First Selection of Former Military Equipment”

The man who, in my opinion, rightly confronted his assailant in order to wrap up an event that marked his life fell victim to a greater evil. Incentives for Law Enforcement!

The war on drugs has often been used to justify police action. If they could arrest drug dealers or drug users, it would mean technically “solving crimes”. While Joe Biden wishes to distance himself from his 1994 Crimes Act, the fact was that the measures enacted in that act had a significant impact on the work of law enforcement agencies.

As a result, we saw massive prisoner inflation, and the war on drugs was often the scapegoat to justify the “hard crime” ethos of the time.

This dynamic creates a split between the police and the people. In fact, people become “brands” and, as a rule, minorities are much easier to use than someone who may be well connected. Try arresting the child of a high paid attorney and the police will have a bad time litigation.

However, a minority or impoverished person would be obviously disadvantaged and much more likely to accept a deal if faced with excessive fees. This created a perfect recipe for abuse of power and essentially turned any potential citizen into a pocket of money.

In making amends for cannabis, victims should be confronted with their abuse police officers

Some people talk all the time about repairing the damage the drug war wreaked, but no matter how many minority or marginalized community licenses you divide, you can’t get the stress or time lost in a jail cell on weed restore.

However, confronting the police officers who are putting people in jail would be a very therapeutic experience. This man affirmed his power, he went and found the degree he needed. That was why I wrote about it because I think we live in a time when people feel small compared to the BIG government.

For those negatively affected by the war on drugs, you may never have the opportunity to face the arresting officer like the man in the video – but doing a mental experiment yourself can give you some degree of closure to help overcome yourself the aggression of the state against your sovereign person.

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