Walking While White

I read an account of some fella that said he was stopped and questioned by police because he was black. The police were investigating an attempted break in and were looking for a black guy wearing a puffy jacket and a knit hat. He fit the description well he didn't really because his jacket wasn't puffy and he says his hat was knitted for him especially ..... I have no idea what that has to do with anything. He was a professor and had his ID on a lanyard.

Sure there is a thing calling driving while black but not every case is that. This guy told of his fear and how he thought he was going to be killed because he was going to refuse to get into the car to be taken to a witness. Aye, very dramatic, I reckon he spends too much time on social media. If you refuse basic commands from the police then you will escalate the situation ya moron.

Witnesses aren't great with details and cops know this which is why he was stopped. We just had 3 white men in tactical gear kill 14 people in San Bernardino, that turned out to be a brown male and female. In this case the police were doing their job but this guy thought he was about to be beaten and shot 16 times or something.
Quick, something finally happened to me so I can relate to all my brothers and sisters, I must over react and post to social media.

The police brought the witness to him and he was dismissed as a suspect with no drama at all, no beatings and no shots fired.

I wonder if he called after them, "aren't you supposed to at least pistol whip me or something?"

 

If the police were looking for a white bloke and stopped him then there might have been a problem. Neighbours of the San Bernardino couple say they suspected them of suspicious activity but didn't want to call the cops for fear of racial profiling. If yer neighbours are tweakers you could get reported for all sorts of things so I wonder what these neighbours thought they had seen. 

Racial profiling if done correct is a no brainer. If the terrorists are mostly of Middle East descent then don't pay so much attention to yon Asians, if yer looking for white supremacists then don't stop black dudes. Black, white, brown and yellow all commit crimes and if the neighbourhood is mostly black then figure it out for fucks sake, our neighbourhoods are mostly white so guess what the criminals would be .... is that racist?

If the San Bernardino shooting has taught us anything it's that we don't really know who our neighbours and co-workers are, those people you smile and say hello to but don't engage them too much because they are quiet or reserved people.  That couple were well educated, he had a well paying county job, they had a young child and he was an American citizen, it seems they were also religious fanatics who wanted to kill people in the name of religion .... not wanted to but decided to. 

Back in the day when Old Knudsen wasn't doing foot patrols himself sometimes along side the police he'd find himself as a civvie walking the streets of Belfast at 4 am after doing some shift work. Walking would wind me down so I could sleep. Old Knudsen was once stopped and taken to a witness to see if he was the one that was attempting a break in, at no time did he feel victimised for being white and didn't fear for his life and that was when the police in Northern Ireland were the tough RUC rather than the wussy PSNI that we have today.
Yes, our police have guns, they don't use them very often though, even if they fear for their lives as a guy with a knife can be taken alive nearly 10 out of 10 times. 

After being dismissed by the witness the police gave me a ride home, they even trusted me to be in the backseat with their precious hats.

Another time I was stopped by an army patrol with English soldier asking for identification and what was in my bag. I didn't feel victimised for being white or even for being Irish which most these Sassenach soldiers despised, even the ones they served along side. They were doing their job. A male of fighting age walking around at night .... what kind of profiling? 

A third time a police car stopped me and we did the search, as they drove off they stopped and asked if I wanted a lift, I declined, not for the sake of my safety but because I preferred to walk. The protective embrace of the dark with no one around was something I liked, it honed my mojo by using my other senses. 

People doing their jobs. Sure some put the reputation of all in jeopardy but most are just following procedure and it isn't personal. 

Maybe Old Knudsen and the bloke who felt threatened should stop looking like such shady fuckers and there wouldn't be a problem.

   

PSNI Issued With Chinese Guns

PSNI ghetto bird has lovely plumage.

Coming up to the weekend and Old Knudsen expects to hear the sound of  the PSNI (Police Service of Northern Ireland) Eurocopter or Eurotrash as Old Knudsen calls it flying around giving air support to police on the ground as they raid hooses for criminals who thought they got away with shit. 

An arresting sight, sorry what, my sandwich is over there? Yer legs aren't broken, go and fetch it then.

An annoying thing that the PSNI do is not to arrest people at the scene of the crime if it's a riot or something. If they do arrest anyone it's because the criminal either threw themselves at their handcuffs or begged for it. 

They take video of everyone and try to figure out who these people are later, everyone knows each other in Northern Ireland as it's just like living in a small town, same attitudes too. 

So you'll get people being arrested maybe up to 3 months later if they think it's a highly volatile situation that could upset the peace process or upset the criminals as being rude to them is a violation of their human rights.... well that's what it seems like. 

 The porn mustache has been popular for decades in Northern Ireland, seen here in 1996. 

Back in the day pre 1998 peace agreement which got the majority of British troops out of Northern Ireland and disbanded the then police force the RUC (Royal Ulster Constabulary) in favour of the now PSNI we had a police force that did not take any shit. 

The RUC were mostly Protestant and many of them were bias against Catholics which is why we got rid of them. The PSNI still gets a lot of the shit the RUC got which shows you can't please everyone. Back then the weemen didn't have firearms as they only recruited big beefy leezer types. There weren't very many weemen in the police .... no shit, maybe it was a lack of guns and an environment of sexism. 

If you called the RUC out to a disturbance, anyone thinking about causing trouble found somewhere else to be, the police would grab troublemakers and take them in just so they could slap them about to deter their criminal ways. 

Now the PSNI ask people politely to behave. With the bigotry also went the balls. The modern day police farce is young men and weemen with too much sensitivity training and very little police training.     

Look, they threw a patrol bomb at Tom, how rude, someone should do something.

Every time there is some civil unrest (every other week) the news reports how 3 or so officers were hurt during violence, never if any criminals were hurt. I suspect they feel the need to justify arresting people as destroying property and attacking the police is normal Northern Ireland behaviour. Even arresting people isn't what it seems. 

It sounds good but in Northern Ireland arresting people means they have just brought them in for questioning they are not actually charged with anything. They'll probably release them after a few hours. 

Old Knudsen found out something else. The reason they never use their sidearms is because they have been issued with toy guns. The LAPD will shoot you for jay-walking for fucks sake but the PSNI never shoot anyone, they won't even fire a warning shot when surrounded by an armed angry mob, well the bullet might hit a bird or something which would upset the environmentalists. 

Using a taser or pepper spray will more likely get the officer into trouble than the criminal.

Some of the officers are cunning enough to remove the orange tip or use a sharpie on it to colour it black but there are other ways in telling if they are using a fake gun or not. 

So next time you see a police officer and you ask them if you can handle their guns and they say no ... now you know why.