• cmnybo
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    1 year ago

    There’s no law saying you can’t curse at a cop, but the cop decided to charge they guy for breaking some old, obscure law from the 1950’s that would not normally have been enforced.

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      You do know that there is literally nothing a black person in South Carolina can do to stop a cop from arresting or attacking them if they feel like it, right? They can be sitting on a park bench reading a book and a cop will find a reason to abuse them because the South is filled with racist cops.

      There’s a reason why “driving while black” is a phrase all over the country, but in the South it’s especially true.