bigmamapain

bigmamapain t1_is7otda wrote

I recently got pulled over riding crazy dirty (3 year expired tags, expired license), and actually had a positive experience - I even had a bag of knives in my passenger seat (coming home from a catering gig) that I disclosed. But I was in said neighborhood where the slushie thing occurred and can tell you with 1000% certainty that I was given grace because I am a middle aged white lady. I have a huge dent in my rear quarter panel from an LMPD cop speeding through a stop sign and hitting me to get as fast as he could to whatever action was happening in this neighborhood. I was chalked on my plated biker jacket for target during the protests after being shot with a rubber bullet and mouthing off for standing in defense of a photographer. I still refuse to believe they are ALL bad, but I was just being..charitable. I can tell the ones that are young and ashamed.

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bigmamapain t1_is6qn3o wrote

The slushy thing is beyond the pale as well. He and his partner were rolling up in their unmarked in one of the more distressed neighborhoods in Louisville and chucking full slushies at pedestrians. They even had cops trail them to film it and shared the videos widely within the department, and had a code word for when it was about to happen. There is a very specific rot within the LMPD that is so palpable that even perhaps decent cops can barely look citizens in the face when they are out in public/in uniform.

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