I dont agree. In today’s age, a lot of “he said, she said” goes on. Ignoring race issues in this video all together – pretend its 2 white people and replace every time she says n*gger with “scumbag” or “asshole”-- if someone was acting this crazy towards me and threatening me, I would record the entire thing and not leave the area-- just like this guy did.
What happens when you leave to “diffuse the situation” and go home. This crazy lady takes down your plate, calls the cops and says you tried to run her children over in the parking lot after an argument and then fled the scene when you heard the cops were called. Now YOU are the bad guy when the cops come knocking on your door. The cameras at dollar general probably don’t work, so you’re stuck defending yourself against this wacko.
Record the incident and now you have evidence of what happened and there is no way she can lie. It may cause her to lose her shit more, but its not MY responsibility to keep her acting like an adult. Sit there silently, close the window, and record.
While I partly agree with this I would say the police would want / need a little more to go on other than what someone “says” happened. If they went on statements and conjecture they’d be turning Ralph Stadium into a holding center.
Yeah…I just can’t side with you here. “What happens when you leave to “diffuse the situation” and go home.” -You. What happens? Nothing. Life moves one. This incident becomes nothing because it wouldn’t have envolved into anything more than a few cuss words. How different is this to someone cutting you off in traffic, yelling ‘asshole’, then proceeding with your commute?
I guess I just don’t get into the paranoia of today’s society. Life is too short, when shit like this comes up just say ‘fuck it’ and move on with your day. Everyone (not everyone) is so quick to take a vid, claim lawyer…it’s all bullshit. I used to care about stuff like this, but in my moments of zen now I find that by not dropping to these levels my stress is mucccccchhhhh less.
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Haha, true. But the point is that he was stripped of all of this over some mean words spoken in a private conversation. Is it now illegal to say mean things? I don’t agree that what he said was right, but I don’t think that he should have been removed of everything to the level that he has been.
If you believe that you are severely out of touch with the way things operate. Someone calls and reports that you stole something, assaulted someone, beat your wife etc you better believe they are coming to arrest you all based on what “someone says”. Will you be let free if they check out all the information and verify you didn’t? Sure but it’s not going to be a 15 minute process. The guy was right in recording the altercation for sure to cover his own ass. Especially that being the Cheektowaga/williamsville border. While I don’t agree that making it public was the best thing to do, he did it and now that lady’s life from that day forward will be super difficult for sure. Would you want to be known as a famous racist? It’s easy to sit back here and criticize the man who video taped but most people on this forum probably haven’t ever been discriminated against as it’s a predominately “Caucasian” group.
I agree that this needs to come out. This lady probably thinks she can be like this because nobody has told her otherwise or she hasn’t been called out for it. Now that people know who she is and what she thinks of a certain race, she might watch her back and watch what she says. I doubt that it will happen though…
I don’t even want my name in the newspaper as having been arrested-- even if not convicted. Potential employer googles your name and finds an arrest for menacing, now you need to explain that it was a big misunderstanding and you weren’t convicted. See how that goes. OJ wasn’t convicted either. It may sound like I wear a tinfoil hat, but this is the reality of what could happen.
Shit, look at the lady in this video. She hasnt even been charged with a crime and she will NEVER get a real job again if an employer googles her name.
I have no sympathy for this woman. Racist or not, you act that aggressive in public you deserve a shit storm. I don’t care if he did almost run over the kids. (although I doubt that ever happened) There’s still no excuse to act like that in a supposedly civil society. until viral videos there was really no recourse. Now everyone knows this c*nt. And honestly if she would have handled that better it never would have gone viral in the first place. You reap what you sow.