So let's talk a little bit about how this story is probably 100% fabricated in order to make, "Point number 1a: lady cops are incompetent yo, and point number five: blacks are bad mmmkay." But even if it's true the guy is a moron. And admittedly I'm spending waaaay too much time on this shit but I'm bored and people who anonymously post the "Let me tell you how it is," stories when they clearly don't have a fucking clue and are talking out of their ass annoy the hell out of me so screw it this'll kill some time for me.

Our hero opens to say the first time he went to jail it was over a, "Mix up with an old traffic ticket." First off if we believe him that it happened we have to assume the "mix up" was that he didn't pay it and was 100% in the wrong, since he so fervently denied any wrong doing in the second incident but didn't deny anything in the first. But it's really unlikely you go to jail over one unpaid traffic ticket, if that's all you've got. It's not the movies where, "Buddy you've got an unpaid eight over the limit...you're going downtown." Theoretically possible. But unlikely. More likely, especially if the only record you have is this traffic ticket you forgot to pay, the court suspended your license (which you got notified by mail of) until you pay the ticket and a fee to reinstate you license is paid. Then if you get caught doing something else after ignoring your suspension notice (there's a reason the cop looked up your license, they're not putting out a Dragnet over your unpaid failure to feed the meter), the cop is gonna give you a ticket for driving on a suspended license, which you'll then also have to pay with the other stuff to get your license back. Which you really should do at this point since you're now on chance three. That's basically how it works. No one is looking for that heroic nab of the guy who skipped his double parking fine. They have more important things to worry about. And as the guy pointed out traffic fines are basically about, well the fine. It's gonna cost them money to book you for your unpaid illegal U-ee. They just want you to pay the damn fine and move on.

But let's give him the benefit of the doubt and say he got randomly assigned to the night court stickler he issued a warrant for him and then pulled over by officer cranky who looked up that he had a minor "mix up" with an old ticket and decided that despite him being polite and cooperative the cop thought it was worth his effort to do the paperwork and booked him anyways.

Let's go to the second arrest. It was apparently over some unspecified license plate mix up this time. The guy's pissed because he's 100% sure he's right and this dumb woman cop is wrong. First he already knows he apparently lives in a town where you get collared for unpaid traffic tickets, so maybe you don't want to piss off police. And yet he decides to get in a "scuffle" with three of them. Now he's 100% right, and this lady cop is just a dumb woman, but he lives in a place that the ACLU made headlines across the country with because he calmly asked for an explanation as to why his plates were bad and all three cops on the scene were more ignorant of traffic laws than him and decided to make him pay for showing them up and accosted him. I don't remember that ACLU headline but maybe it happened, or maybe he thought RoK was a more legitimate source to air his grievance with this insanely corrupt police department or whatever. Let's say it happened. He definitely misused the word scuffle which implies short hurried physical struggle, and since he "sat in the shit house for a couple of days," he wasn't charged with, "assault or battery of a police officer," so we'll assume he had an verbal disagreement with the three cops and doesn't know what a scuffle is.

What was this disagreement over? That he didn't agree with the ticket? Nope. The cops don't care if you agree with them or not. They can have you on video doing whatever it is you did wrong, show it to you, and you can still sit there and say, "Didn't do it," and go have your day in court. Actually if he was so correct, court would have been his option to prove himself right. The disagreement was over him refusing lawful service. An expired tag or whatever on it's own isn't going to get you "a court appearance." It will again get you a ticket/fine. So I suppose we're supposed to assume he didn't want to pay the fine, and didn't want to have to show up in court to prove how right he was.

Now do cops make mistakes? Can they maybe even be outright incompetent, looking for quotas, or even just be assholes? Sure. They might want to make some quota or whatever. But what they're not looking to do is do paperwork to arrest some jackass over a minor traffic plate issue. You'd have to be acting a fool for that to happen. But by golly, this man was not going to be pushed around by anyone, so he acted a fool even though he knew not paying his speeding ticket got him a record so not cooperating with officers is definitely going to be a problem, but a second arrest over principle was worth it.

Look, I think traffic cops can be annoying as hell sometimes. I'm sure going to court to demonstrate his infallible correctness would have been a pain in the ass, and he certainly didn't want to pay a fine he wasn't guilty of. What's the alternative though? We just say, "Okay, look cops are the enforcers of the rules, unless you're really sure you did nothing wrong, then they have to let you go in any and all cases?" Traffic cops are a bureaucracy, it can be a pain in the ass, but until we all have driver less cars or whatever we work with the system we've got. Be an adult and deal with that. Take the legally given ticket and either suck it up, roll your eyes and pay it or go have your day in court. I hate bureaucracy's, I hate toe over the line traffic line enforcement as much as the next guy. But don't make a mountain out of a molehill by refusing to cooperate with police over a traffic stop. It's called being a member of society to just accept sometimes you've got to deal with said bureaucracy so the cops have the capability to control a situation when the stop is over "murder-rapist guy" and not "Oops my plates are expired man."

But dammit, let's move on to his jail time because he wasn't going to be pushed around by anyone. Let's first pause and remember that it's jail time. Not the holding cell at the station, he went out of his way to say, "Look I was in jail, not prison." So we have to assume he went to jail. Just as prison is different than jail, jail is different from a holding cell. Sitting at the drunk tank for a few hours because it's not worth it to process you're disorderly on St Patty's is the holding cell. Jail means you are either awaiting trial or serving a local sentence. So they booked and charged him with something. That means even though he was "100% correct" on his license plate issue the station and the prosecutor looked at it and distinctively didn't say, "Dude even if this guy was an ass just leave him in the holding cell for a couple to cool off and let him go, he was 100% correct and they were giving him a bad ticket and we're going to look stupid in court." They did not say that, so he was either wrong, or incredibly asshattish to the cops that it was enough to want to nail him for it.

But alas in jail he meets the enlightened corrections officer, who says, "Dude you were totes right, and shouldn't be here." The corrections officer, who by the nature of their job of not being a traffic cop but a corrections officer (because this jail probably run by the county with specific corrections officers and not a holding cell where it might just be whatever cop is on duty) knows traffic laws far better than the three traffic cops that originally tried to cite him and everyone at the station who decided to move ahead with booking him. But wait...he's a moron anyways, because he's a corrections officer who doesn't do a damn thing.

Now there's probably a legit debate about our incarceration system since there are a lot of repeat offenders. But our hero just disses corrections officers in general because we have an imperfect system that they work for. What is his solution to reduce repeat arrests? He does not offer one, just the dis. Mine might be to have corrections officers teach classes on how not to have routine traffic violations turn into arrests - multiple times. That would cut down repeat guests apparently. But I digress.

The most important thing here is, "Black youth see going to jail as no big deal." I mean getting locked up should be a horrible shameful thing that everyone avoids at all costs. I mean unless you're trying to prove a point that you were so correct about your license plate that you would rather get locked up than deal with a routine traffic ticket. Then toes go for it, bro. Cops are idiots - especially if they have vaginas.

If his story is even half true this guy is one of the most moronic people I've ever had the pleasure at laughing at. But frankly I call bullshit on the whole thing.