Thin skinned, thick as shit police. From the description of the video:
Here’s the scene:
We were enjoying the nice spring weather from our balcony. A friend was visiting on his bike, and he rode up on the sidewalk from the street to our front door. In NYC this is illegal. You are supposed to stop in the street, get off the bike and walk it on the sidewalk. Although he was merely coming from the street up to our front door, those few second were illegal. NYPD rolls up, and I begin to film as they are issuing him a summons to appear in court.Meanwhile our neighbor walks by while this scene is unfolding. My neighbor and my friend on the bike exchange some banter. No one is offended. We all laughed. He keeps walking.
From there everything escalates… Seems completely unnecessary to me…
At the end of the day, my neighbor was charged with harassment, disorderly conduct and resisting arrest.
Welcome to an afternoon with the NYPD
There’s the reason why there’s never a cop when you need one. Dude jokes to his friend, didn’t say anything to the police and officer McRacist decides to make a case out of it — in the end three police cars and about a dozen officers are involved. Meanwhile one of the local neighbourhood drug dealers (judging from the commentary from the guys with the video) walks by…
That’s one reason I don’t want to visit the US anytime soon, because I’m not sure I could’ve stayed as calm as this guy did had this happened to me. I’ve been angry and done stupid things before, but nothing that could’ve gotten me tasered and I’m not in a hurry to try that.
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