- hegemonic-policing
- police-power-trip-id
- police-power-over (2)
- police-state
- police have a compusive need for ID to exercise power over (2)
- cameras are perceived as a threat to authority: police are called
- taser those who don’t give you the respect you think you deserve
- contempt of cop/retaliation (2) (3)
- power trip: you have a bad attitude, escalate: bow down to me (2) (3)
- escalate unnecessarily (Ego), if in doubt arrest and drop charges later
- Retaliate against those who prove them wrong (they are innocent) as a power trip
- Petty Power Over: harass for bogus littering fishing charge, refuse to investigate, littering charge disproved, but still insist on ID, retaliate, and secure gun “for my safety”, misrepresent as a traffic stop to coerce ID, copsplain and let him off on a warning to prevent a lawsuit. Never admit they were wrong.
- Massive Retaliation if told “No”
- threaten made-up charges to get ID feed to the system as punishment, trump up charges as retaliation (narcissism? ego. although auditors got caught in mimetic complaining)
- Police refuse to identify and give CAD number because they have a power trip – they must be the one in charge, with power over
- You know you’re being harrassed when you feel the need to invest in a dash camera.
- ego: driver laughed at the officer’s absurd and trumped up charges | start looking up violations when ego hurt
- want to ensnare you in the legal system and see you pay lawyers fees: the legal process is part of the punishment
- Abuser: blame victim for causing the problem.
- racial profiling: withdrawing cash from your own account using debit card and ID
- Photographic Impunity: High Ranking Police arrest photographer for photographing police building from sidewalk and use bogus interference charge to preserve immunity.
- Don’t want to extend the same rights to us as they reserve for themselves. (Travis)
- cascading (illegal) arrests: tape suppressed (arrest who Baltimore neighborhood)
- militarization of police
- Should not deal with people with mental illness. They are trained to escalate the use of force.
- Target those to protest their unlawful treatment
- Don’t know how to deescalate power trips, including power trips by private security guards
Police abuse loitering and prowling laws to bait and escalate an encounter by a harassing and bullying a Miami pedestrian.