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Originally Posted by W921
See race is a whole other angle that I wasn't thinking about. So if your on side with law enforcement in one case your with them in all cases or your racist? I never even gave that a thought. To me if someone is drinking and or on drugs then I can side more with law enforcement. I still dont like seeing them using force but it kind of depends on how big or the age of the person they are taking down. A known bad guy like George Floyd would be a perfect example.
Before I was looking at this more as a rural issue. Maybe my idea of rural is different than yours but all the rural people I know don't fear their neighbour. Not so long ago nobody locked anything. A neighbour might need to use the phone or borrow a wrench while I'm gone. Dont get me wrong, everybody is not a saint and there are people you wouldn't want to do business with. But I dont think the worst ones would come into your yard and steal. Every rural person I know thinks of rural crime as outside people coming in. When police pull over a local person in a bale truck to check hjim out it just seems crazy. This isn't entitlement but what most rural farmers would consider common sense.
Everybody looks out for each other even if its someone you might not like that much. People are concerned about suspicious strange vehicles depending on time of day and location. Making a tractor go through a check stop just seems crazy to a lot of people.
This isn't about wealthy people being above the law. Although the rural people I know generally feel there are to many laws.
As far as drinking and driving all the local people around here anyway slow down to about 10 mph when they meet anyone on the road because of the rocks and dust. Nobody local is hurting anybody.
Also those leudweeks or whatever their last name was. When you hear their version of what happened live on the radio it sounds different than when you read what happened say on here or on one of the links.
Again I'm not trying to say who is right and I'm sure everybody can pick a part everything I said. I'm just trying to show you how some people look at it.
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What you described is entitlement.
And ive known more than a few rural folks thay drink during the day hours, work or not.
No one is exempt and theyre doong their job. They arent mind readers so when you act like a resistance twit you are one.
And watch the video. Kid got some soft gloves given his behavior.