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I saw this video popping like crazy on my X feed today. Seems to be another instance of a controversial arrest of a black man (here Tyreek Hill) in America and as expected, everybody picked a side. I watched the whole video, but I have to say, I'm a bit confused. A few thoughts: -The officers looked short tempered and agressive, but not at first. -Hill kept calling the officers "bro" 🙄 -Hill rolled up his tainted window while interacting with the officer 🚩 -Refused to sit down after being asked to. Said it's because he just had knee surgery, but also, played football later that day? 🤔 -The guy in the other car not showing his Driver's licence after being asked 10 times. I mean, I know there's history of police violence, even police killing citizens in the US. But in this case, there's none of that (there's been rough handling of Hill for sure, but Hill didnt show his best behavior either), so I'm really curious as to why it seems to have become such a controversial arrest? 😳
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What's wrong with calling someone "bro"? Why the nitpicking?
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Is this a serious question? You're being pulled over by the police, and you think calling the officer "bro" is going to get you the best outcome? If you seriously think so, I can't do anything for you...
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“bro” is much more of a cultural thing than disrespecting someone, it’s like saying “man” but even so, talking how you want to an officer shouldn’t provoke any reaction on their part, otherwise they shouldn’t be on the force not being able to talk how you want is called “compelled speech”, and i’m pretty sure people who historically depend the police hate it
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I have nothing against you Youssef, but I'm sorry, defending "bro" as an acceptable term to use when addressing a law officer is straight up bad faith argument. This is like, 101 basic social interactions practices. Here, I'm not saying calling someone bro justifies for any retaliation, but when you interact with another human, the way you talk, behave, etc...Does influence the other person's response. It's just delusional to think that because he's a cop, he's gonna have a robotic answer that's not gonna take into account any context element 🤷‍♂️
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You are talking about something you genuinely don’t know and are being overly confident about it. I know that because if you think that something is “bad faith” while the vast majority of reasonable Americans (incl. officers) would agree with it, then you just don’t know about it, and that’s fine. I personally don’t consider your POV to be in bad faith, I just think you’re off base on this aspect of American culture, and probably more off base with American police culture. “Bro” is simply not the word you think it is. And yes, it might be stupid for someone to talk a certain way to an officier (even if “bro” isn’t an insult), but re-read this thread, it started because you put “bro” at the same level as the other bullet points.
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Also btw, the social skills that you implicitly ask citizens to have (of being mindful of what a random cop might think of a word, and again “bro” is nothing) applies both ways, officiers also. Do you see the slippery slope?
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It's not a slippery slope, it's literally expected from law enforcement to address people politely. I'm sorry but bro is not polite, it's casual. There's a difference between casual and polite.
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