How is this not bigger news?

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[–] 51 points 1 year ago (25 children)

He was dressed as a cop, driving a police car, wearing a blue uniform, and a bulletproof vest.

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  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago* (17 children)

    Is he a cop then? The cop car part is confusing otherwise. Uniform etc. not so much.

    Edit: I see elsewhere that the car was disguised too

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (15 children)

    “Disguised” we’ve willingly made police cars so obscure they don’t stand out anymore. Here in Maine every car could be a cop car.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    There's one in my town that is black. With black writing on it that says police. The only way to see the text is to see the difference in sheen between the paint and the writing.

    it should be very illegal

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Yeah, cops call this ghost marking. They do it to skirt around the laws regarding marked vs unmarked vehicles. Unmarked vehicles have stricter requirements, so cops ghost mark their vehicles and say “look, they’re technically not unmarked, so they don’t have to follow all of those stricter rules.”

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Yeah, every time they get a new upgrade over here it’s even harder to detect. But it’s part of the uniform. Should stand out and be hard to replicate.

    Start calling 911 when you get pulled over to confirm it’s a real officer and really just make it a headache for him and they’ll go back to normal.

    “Hi I’m just calling to verify this unmarked pulling me over is a real officer” they will get the picture after a couple of thousand of those

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    In Minnesota?

    Cop cars are very distinct. Big white and black SUVs with guard rails and big ass lights. They look like they're going to run you over fun. I call em intimidation transports.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    This isn't completely accurate. I live in South Saint Paul and some of our police have Ford Explorers with no visible light bars and dark blue lettering on black paint.

    I've seen state patrol make stops on 494 between the Wakota bridge and 35E in dark blue unmarked chargers.

    They're relatively new I think but that same trend of low-profile police cars has started here now too.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)

    I think I've seen an unmarked cop SUV in St Paul before, maybe it was one of yours, or maybe it was this fucker?

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    I'm in South Saint Paul so if you were in Saint Paul it was a different one since that's a different city.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah but I see other cities cops around once in a while, they've possibly got business at the county and state offices.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

    We have three different colors of Ford escapes with very discreet light bars. They look like every other fucking Ford escape on the road or whatever those stupid SUVs are. So every Karen looks like a cop and every cop looks like a Karen.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I've been looking at them since @LilBOkChoy said something. They must be newer. They are quite literally impossible to see.

    Seems appropriate for a police state though. China must be jelly of them

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    It’s just funny watching the citizens make their cars more like cop cars too. I shit my pants a little bit speeding and then notice it’s not a cop riding my ass it’s just granny trying to race to an early grave

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Qualified immunity coming in 3, 2, 1....

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

    Tell me you don't know what qualified immunity is without telling me you don't know that qualified immunity is.

    Edit: Seems like a lot of people don't know what qualified immunity is.

    Qualified immunity means a cop can't be personally liable in civil litigation for legal actions taken while doing their job.

    It has nothing to do criminal prosecution when they break the law. It basically just means you have to sue the police department, not the cop.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Tell me you didn't get the joke without telling me.

    Qualified immunity

    A significant amount of criticism contends that qualified immunity allows police brutality to go unpunished.[6] Legal researchers Amir H. Ali and Emily Clark, for instance, have argued that "qualified immunity permits law enforcement and other government officials to violate people's constitutional rights with virtual impunity".[45] Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has noted a "disturbing trend" of siding with police officers using excessive force with qualified immunity,[46] describing it as "sanctioning a 'shoot first, think later' approach to policing".

    The joke being that the suspect was an offer who showed up, claimed that their life was in danger, and shot everyone to death. The officer will then use qualified immunity as a defence to an extrajudicial killing.

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  • [–] -2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Right, but the joke is based on the misconception that qualified immunity means immunity from prosecution, which is false.

    Spreading misinformation is always bad.

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