Eating a hamburger in your parked car while black

[DetlefK]

http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/video-man-harrassed-police-eating-hamburger-his-car

Luis Sadly sat in his parked car in a parking-lot at 2 AM and ate a hamburger while waiting for a friend.

“Let’s see, it’s 2 o’clock in the morning. You’re parked here by yourself in a high crime, high drug area,” replies the officer.

The officer then forced Sadly out of his car, handcuffed him, turned off his phone and illegally searched the car without consent.

[Orrex]

1. To be fair, the cop didn't murder him and then plant a gun on his corpse

So there's that...

[DetlefK]

2. Ah, that makes him one of the "good cops" I keep hearing about.

But seriously, what are the cops thinking how many bad apples are acceptable on the police-force?

[Orrex]

6. Yeah, you'd think that we'd reach the breaking point somewhere along the line.

It seems either that cop culture accepts these bad apples, in which case the culture is bankrupt and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up, or else hte bad cops reign over the good ones, in which case the culture is bankrupt and needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

Not a lot of great options...

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Must Have Been One Dangerous Looking Burger

Oh you know, you've seen them. Burgers with an evil glint in the eye and shifting side to side. The cop must have encountered one of those dangerous burgers before.

[bemildred]

4. See, for a dumb cop, this is a lot easier than catching someone actually doing something wrong. nt

[thesquanderer]

5. Maybe they were looking for this guy...

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[morningfog]

7. Everything he does, it's Sadly.

Shame on the cop and not surprising.

However, I keep saying in my head "Luis Sadly ate his burger. Luis Sadly got dressed. Luis Sadly looked in the mirror."

[malthaussen]

8. Well, you see, the burger looked like a hoax bomb. n/t