Jaywalking Into Oblivion has been added as a related post - related requested by chingalera.

Give that pastor a cell phone and let him jaywalk in Korea!

Aaagh. Those complacent derpy jaywalkers causing accidents and almost getting themselves killed make me so angry

Putting someone in prison isn't harsh enough. There should be a zero tolerance policy with automatic death penalty, which would need to be carried out efficiently. No more prisoners sitting on death row for years. No more ridiculously expensive lethal injections. If someone commits a crime and there's sufficient evidence of their guilt, they are killed quickly (broken neck, slit throat, cattle spike into the head, etc) and cremated. Boom, no more overpopulated prisons and no more wasted taxpayer money on feeding and sheltering criminals who will likely break the law again as soon as they are released.

Enforcing the law is always the trickiest part, since we don't have constant surveillance of every citizen. Therefore, in the absence of surveillance, we have to rely on fear. There's a reason why people don't think twice about speeding, jaywalking or littering. Not only are they very unlikely to get caught, the penalty when they do get caught is negligible. If you gave the death penalty for the above crimes, I guarantee people would think twice before committing them.

As for Norway, they certainly do have a comfortable prison system. If I were to go on a shooting rampage, I would definitely do it in Norway because their prisons don't seem that bad. In fact, their prisons are probably nicer than the living conditions of most criminals. The point of punishment is to deter people from breaking the law in the first place, not make them happier and less likely to do so after the fact.

Now show the video of all the people who didn't go for it. This is like Leno's jaywalking. You only see edited results.

Hey Harry,
Next time you take a walk, try to cross Montana Ave at the intersection you goofy bastard! You're constantly jaywalking in the neighborhood!

Let's see them do this to jaywalkers.

This wasn't a close call. He meant to hit that guy on the ass for jaywalking. Stunt man vigilante.

Here's the original video of the jail assault:
http://videosift.com/video/CCTV-King-County-sheriff-s-deputy-assaulting-15-yr-old-girl

and a link to the jaywalking punch:
http://videosift.com/video/Seattle-officer-punches-girl-in-face-during-jaywalking-stop

I'd say this is a dupe...

There are multiple videos of the second girl in this video around VideoSift as well. If a video contains footage from two different videos already posted, it's still a dupe. I don't know if the RTN's voice over is enough to distinguish this from the others.

I don't want to invoke dupeof and risk a rubber-stamp isdupe without some *discussion.

(cricket - if this stays, I'll promote it for the lost time in sifttalk)

>> ^Boise_Lib:

>> ^Porksandwich:
Kind of a dupe of the below...since it focuses on it.
Dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Seattle-officer-punches-girl-in-face-during-jaywalking-stop
Embed on original has been disabled, but you can see it's pretty much the same footage.

I fixed the other video, and it is a longer version of the first girl being punched--but because this video has commentary and a clip of another girl being assaulted I'm not going to call dupe on this one.

Yeah... Being arrested for jaywalking is retarded, but you have to understand the nigga moment. But I digress. If I were being arrested for that the most resistance I'd put up is a casual "Mk, sue ya later."

These girls, on the other hand:

I'm with darkhand on this one. Jaywalking is a really minor violation to get arrested for or get a ticker over, but they were both clearly being physical and confrontational.

Is the officer a douche stopping someone for Jaywalking?
Yes

But could someone explain to me why these two women are fighting this cop so hard? I'm not saying punching someone in the face is the best solution but it's not like he was pounding the crap out of her.

The video they break too where they are beating the crap out of someone in the jail cell THAT IS BAD. But this? I dunno unless he broke her nose or whatever I think she earned it fighting back and pushing him like that.

>> ^Porksandwich:

Kind of a dupe of the below...since it focuses on it.
Dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Seattle-officer-punches-girl-in-face-during-jaywalking-stop
Embed on original has been disabled, but you can see it's pretty much the same footage.


I fixed the other video, and it is a longer version of the first girl being punched--but because this video has commentary and a clip of another girl being assaulted I'm not going to call dupe on this one.

Kind of a dupe of the below...since it focuses on it.

*Dupeof=http://videosift.com/video/Seattle-officer-punches-girl-in-face-during-jaywalking-stop

Embed on original has been disabled, but you can see it's pretty much the same footage.