If jaywalking was a sufficient cause for concern for that many cops to pull up, then that city has seriously overstaffed its police department.

Dude....when you just got harassed like that for a minor infraction, don't drive away while filming yourself, which is a serious dangerous crime akin to driving drunk.

I was stopped as a mohawked teenager in Palo Alto for being "suspicious" by taking two minutes to drop my girlfriend off at her house, and ten minutes later across town I was surrounded by 11-12 cop cars, lights on, and 18+- police who detained me for 45 minutes but had nothing to charge me with. Compared to that, this seemed benign (don't get me wrong, I see this as a blatant racist action, the message being "you don't belong here, boy", but I expected much worse).

I think it was the enhancement charge that caused the deployment. After all, this wasn't a simple jaywalking, it was jaywalking in Beverly Hills while black.

i mean, both experience are absolutely ridiculous and indicative of how broken policing in the US is. j-walking is one of those laws that's only enforced so as to fuck with people.

Here in Austin, when Covid isn't around, you can go downtown to the campus area and see almost everyone jaywalking. I've even come close to hitting a few idiots that had their face buried in their phone and stepped out almost in front of me while I was doing 30.

Like you said, it's never enforced unless the cops want to either send a message or want an excuse to do a 'stop and search'.

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