Taharqa in Spartanburg

[Mvp2014]

Cops suck. Cam owns. Keep the reports coming!

[bleys]

Someone riding in the car with their wife and infant child apparently.

When other Americans complain about their rights being violated or harrassed it doesnt make me angry at them (especially since it has 0 effect on me). I surely dont think im above them to the point i can be an authority to what they went thru. But then again im not a racist and love and respect everybody.

I feel ya. I go through the same thing with the black community.. be great when one day racism ceases to exist..

[DevilCat]

King, sorry about the cops. You would think that a state that has a minority female for a Gov. would try to step out of the past. I really hope your time at camp somehow made up for that ugliness. BTW the ones that are saying "F" the cops...grow up. Not all cops are racist....although all cowboy fans I've met are idiots.

[MadHatter]

That sucks, KT. At least you eventually got there though. I would have done it like I did when I got my ticket for driving with an expired tag. I was doing 70 in a 70 (because I KNEW my tag was out and didn't want to give the cops reason) on I-40 heading back from a State Championship game. A cop rolls up on me and turns on his lights. He gets to my window and says "license and registration." While looking for my registration, I ask "what caused you to pull me?" He said my tags. I said, "So, you were bored and decided to look for a reason to pull somebody, so you ride around at damn near midnight, looking at people's tags? All the while, some a-hole is driving drunk somewhere? Nice."

He just smiled and went back to his car. Came back with a ticket. Probably could have tried to kiss-ass my way out of it, but I was irritated (my old high school lost the SC game). Made my point though.

so basically you are pissed because he gave you a ticket when you were breaking the law....got it.

If you knew your tags were out and still drove, you were asking to get pulled.

I got a ticket for my inspection being past due. Was a pain, but I don't blame the cop....I blamed myself for not getting it renewed.

Now back to TC

[MadHatter]

Don't really know if the SC patrol is racist, but they are dickheads.

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago in SC. Got pulled over and they wanted to search my car for drugs.

[Snake]

My friends a cop and while he has even said they can do whatever that want, he told me to ask why they want to search your car. If they have no real reason then say no because they can basically arrest you for anything they find. Whither its a visine bottle, rolling papers, or anything they can try to say is drug parafinalia. You would be surprised at what some dumbass cops will try to arrest you for. Tell them they need a warrant and be nice and they can do a thing to you. You will also be very surprised at how understanding magistrates are about dumbass cops as well.

[MadHatter]

I have been told the same thing. However, I am a middle aged accountant with nothing in my car. Figured it woudl be much quicker to just get it over with and then get on my way. Took about 15 min of my life...but then I left.

[monstercat]

Don't really know if the SC patrol is racist, but they are dickheads.

Similar thing happened to me a few years ago in SC. Got pulled over and they wanted to search my car for drugs.

They have been dickheads for years. Believe me, plenty of white guys have been harassed by these guys.

[carolinarolls]

SCHP creates a lot of revenue for the state. They always have. I lived in Charleston in the early 90's and they had two 5 series Bimmers all over 17 all day. Back then they also put whatever they impounded on the road. Many people that I knew got their tix issued from Ford Rangers and Minivans..all unmarked.

They do not profile anyone. Only a person with a strong sense of entitlement who projects racism onto others only to make himself feel better would call the SCHP racist. They want all of our time and money.

[TheRealDeal]

Someone riding in the car with their wife and infant child apparently.

When other Americans complain about their rights being violated or harrassed it doesnt make me angry at them (especially since it has 0 effect on me). I surely dont think im above them to the point i can be an authority to what they went thru. But then again im not a racist and love and respect everybody.

Everyone knows criminals don't have kids.

[ncmonzta]

Back on topic!

[TheRealDeal]

The whole topic is SC police

[Proudiddy]

Didn't want to get into it here, but since everyone has shared their stories...

I used to work in a small rural town, Dunn, right outside of Fayetteville off 95 when I was like 19. To get there and drive back home I'd go through an even smaller town, Erwin... Anyway, one night, one of the cops was outside talking to my manager when me and my friends were getting off work. So, anyway, this John Wayne wannabe mf'er gets in his car and apparently left right behind me.

At the time, I didn't notice it, but I remembered his face, and thought he was still standing there talking to my manager when I went to leave. So, I was driving, and I get down this small road, the speed limit was like 35, and I turn on the road and slam my foot on the accelerator... I may have gotten up to 45 or 50... Can't remember now, it's been awhile.

Well, there was a car in front me already driving on this road and they were going faster than I was, but what do you know? I look up and see bright lights in the rearview and then the blues and reds...

It was the same cop that was standing outside talking to my manager... He walks up and asks for my license and registration. I give it to him and he says they pulled me over for "gunning it" when I turned onto that road. In my mind, I was just getting up to speed (and then over it lol), but I was just moving with the flow of traffic being that the car in front of me was doing the same speed... Yet, I got pulled over.

So, as I'm talking to the officer, he asks if I've been drinking. Umm, NO. He just saw me leave work 5 minutes before. I told him no, I hadn't drunk anything, and I've never had a drink in my life - truth. He's all like "Naaahh, I smell alcohol. I'm gonna need you to step out of the car." So, by this time, this mf'er has the entire Erwin police force on the side of the road with him - 4 cars! 4 cars! All around me. And IIRC, they reached in my car window and started going through my stuff in my passenger seat as I was still in the car... I step out and they ask to pat me down, and I'm like, okay...

They start searching the car, and one cop comes over and tells me I need to go sit in the car and take a breathalyzer test b/c e smells alcohol on me. So, I'm like calm and cooperating, but I'm starting to get irritated. I go sit in the car, I do the test, and of course he's looking like a jackass and is like "I could've sworn I smelt alcohol on you! You sure you haven't drunk anything tonight? Anything in your car?"

Meanwhile, they kept searching my car... Of course, found nothing (I've never tried drugs or alcohol, just as an aside)... I get back out of the car and the 3 or 4 other officers who've been standing around watching with their cars walk up, and one asks "mind if I search you again?" At this point, I'm thinking "WTF is going on? But, just be cooperative, they'll feel like douches in the end..." So, I tell him "sure, whatever, I don't have anything on me, and I've already been patted down, but if you have to..."

So, he pats me down again... Meanwhile, another one of the cops, not the first one that searched the car, walks up and asks to search the car again, so I tell him yeah... So the cop that just patted me down for the second time while the wothers watched with their arms folded, asks "So, how are you doing tonight?" I reply, "I was doing great until this..."

Only thing they asked me about was a black bandana I had folded up in my passenger seat (I used to wear bandanas with almost everything in my late teens, early twenties - and no I wasn't into gangs... and I now question how smart it was, but whatever, it was my style lol). But, anyway, one of the guys I worked with told me that Erwin only had 4 patrol cars at the time...

Looking back, I wonder if they were trying to bait me into popping off at the mouth so they could beat the sh*t out of me. So, I'm glad I played it the way I did. I also acknowledge that I KNOW the way I dressed had something to do with them pulling me over, if not outright stalking me. If I would've known my rights at the time, I would've told them they couldn't search my car and refused the breathalyzer just to make them waste more of their time.

And I had something similar happen 2 to 3 other times around this same period.

Anyway, just thought I would share... :lol:

[carolinarolls]

Back on topic!

what is the topic? those lame ass pics of he crowd that were preceded by a story of how the contributor was profiled by law enforcement?

Gimme a break. This thread is worthless if you are not flaming on cops, flaming on the douchebag OP, or gladhanding some other poster who you agree with.