- hegemonic-policing
- police-power-trip-id
- police-power-over (2)
- police-state
- cascading (illegal) arrests: tape suppressed (arrest who Baltimore neighborhood)
- militarization of police
- 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
- contempt of cop/retaliation (2)
- ego: driver laughed at the officer’s absurd and trumped up charges
- want to ensnare you in the legal system and see you pay lawyers fees: the legal process is part of the punishment
- Don’t want to extend the same rights to us as they reserve for themselves. (Travis)
Police abuse loitering and prowling laws to bait and escalate an encounter by a harassing and bullying a Miami pedestrian.