- “A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you’re looking down, you can’t see something that’s above you.” ~ C.S. Lewis (read more – PDF)
Police brutality right in the beginning of the video? LOL… I was swatted with a wood pattle at private school. That was more “brutal” than wrestling!
Leftists and Black Lives Matter types are saying this is “police brutality.” Anything could be further from the truth.
…According to a report provided to TheBlaze by the Fresno Police Department, the incident in question began Monday around 7:30 a.m. near Hoover High School when a traffic cop observed “a student beginning to run westbound across First Street.”
“The student was not in the crosswalk and the pedestrian crossing light was blinking red,” the report continued. “The officer told the student to go back onto the sidewalk and cross the intersection in the crosswalk when the signal changed.”
Rather than simply obey what appeared to be the most banal order on Earth, the young punk of course had to act like a brat by reportedly running behind the officer to the crosswalk and entering “into the intersection within the crosswalk but against the red signal.”
“The officer told the student to return to the sidewalk until the signal changed,” the report continued. “The student smiled at him and continued to walk westbound against the red signal.”
Finally, when the signal turned green, the young punk crossed the street, upon which time the officer approached him to issue a citation for “pedestrian walking against the red signal.”…
Issue a citation!? That is R-A-C-I-S-T! How dare he! Just joking.
The reason why the officers around schools ask at first and if repeatedly ignored, issue citations for jaywalking is to protect drivers from hitting kids and especially to protect kids from being maimed, injured, or killed by cars. While this person was a high school student, some stats that show the importance of this, especially if you are a parent of a child, are these:
- One-fifth (21%) of children 14 and younger killed in traffic crashes were pedestrians.
- An estimated 9 percent of children 10 to 14 years old (6,000 of 66,000 after rounding) were injured pedestrians – the highest among the age categories.
- Five percent of all pedestrian fatalities (236 of 4,735) and an estimated 15 percent of all pedestrians injured (10,000 of 66,000 after rounding) were children 14 and younger.
Which is why the schools, the parents, the community, and the drivers wish such things be enforced. The Black Lives Matter movement will heap on bad thinking into more situations like this. Here are more examples of citations for jaywalking in another state:
Police in Charlotte hope they’ve made a point with pedestrians who violate crosswalk laws.
Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers handed out 100 warning tickets in 90 minutes Thursday at a single intersection downtown where 12 people have been hit in the past five years, The Charlotte Observer reported.
Police said they ticketed people who crossed in the middle of a block or crossed against crosswalk signals. Others were ticketed for entering a crosswalk when the flashing walk sign was counting down. It’s illegal to start crossing when the “no walk” sign in counting down.
Those crossing the street were not the only ones targeted.
Three drivers were given warning tickets for failing to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk. About two dozen drivers were cited for various violations. One driver was arrested on an outstanding warrant….
So the prideful disregard to authority brought on by misplaced pride fueled by such hate groups like Black Lives Matter, will [again], make these confrontations even for very minor issuance of citations more common. This hatred for anything authority related will make law enforcement job more complicated. The IRONY is this… these same people who cannot stand authority vote in a party that wants bigger government. Which in turn will create more militarized policing to enforce state mandates on minor things (think of the man who died of heart failure resisting arrest selling “loosies” in New York).
Here is a meme to further this point:
PIVOT
The Bible talks A LOT about pride… and before a fall (or in this case a take down by a police officer) comes pride (Prov 16:18). If the kid had cooperated, no arrest or need to call dad would be necessary.
When I posted the above in a comment section, someone responded with this:
- I am a born again Christian. I live at church. This cop needs to be arrested. Not the kid. Don’t bring the bible into this. Cops are out of control.
To which I responded to my born-again commentator:
For what? The camera starting rolling late. Do you have evidence that the kid was just jay walking and that he humbly was going to allow the officer to reprimand him? I do not know the kid was just jaywalking. What I see is a confrontation that did not need to happen BECAUSE of the kids actions. When I got a ticket for a seat-belt violation (the top strap was under my armpit because it would bother my neck — so I had it on technically), I didn’t rip the ticket up… I didn’t get out and argue with the officer. I didn’t yell “white lives matter!”
I humbly submitted to what I thought was a bad choice on the officers part, and argued (and won) my case in front of the judge.
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This kid was most likely going to — at the most — get a written warning. Satan was cast out of heaven because of pride (Isaiah 14:12-15). He had the selfish audacity to attempt to replace God Himself as the rightful ruler of the universe. Today, people try to replace the justice in the authority God instituted (Romans 13:1) with their own versions of what the law is. This pride will lead the world to a pinnacle. When Jesus was speaking about “nation rising against nation” (Mark 13:8) he was saying in Greek, “ethnicity will rise against ethnicity.” And we know the pride and secular positions in Black Lives Matter (anti-God/anti-God pride). I have posted many times on the movement and it is a black nationalist cult driven often times by the works of Elijah Muhammad through the current head Louise Farrakhan (NOI) or the Nation Gods & Earths (Five-Percenters).
This kid may not have a grip on the above… but he is being led by the nose (Isaiah 37:29) to the Battle on that final day (Ezekiel 38:4).
The FRESNO BEE has this commentary on the matter:
The 16-year-old Hoover High student who failed to comply with a Fresno police officer’s commands, as well as the bystander who videoed the incident, did the Black Lives Matter movement no favors.
All the student had to do was follow orders and the likely outcome would have been an explanation of the bad things that can happen when you jaywalk at a busy intersection. No harm, no foul. Instead the result was a wrestling match that could have – but thankfully didn’t – end in injury or death for the student or the officer.
If you believe the officer singled out the student because he was black, or if you have jaywalked when a patrol car was nearby without being warned or ticketed, allow me to explain something. Patrol officers in Fresno are continually responding to calls: burglaries, robberies, domestic violence, assaults and more. They aren’t going to stop for a jaywalker.
The officer in the Hoover incident is part of the motorcycle division; his job is traffic enforcement. And early in the school year, traffic officers focus on the areas near schools with the goal of keeping everyone safe.
Imagine if this student had caused an accident by running into traffic. Everyone would be wanting to know why the cop didn’t prevent it.
Police critics are always suggesting that officers “engage in a conversation with the community.” That’s hard to do when some members of the community have no interest in talking to cops, much less following their instructions.
Full disclosure: I am the father and the brother of law enforcement officers, neither of whom works for the Fresno Police Department. I think about them often – their service to their communities, their love of the profession, and their love of family. Every morning, I pray that they return home safe and sound.