Quick to pass one-sided judgment, I see. First and foremost, I consider Banks an ass for talking that way to cops. And I do so for two reasons.
1. Real cops (as opposed to biased and bigoted bullies with badges) should be respected. They have a hard job that in these days and times is, in fact, getting harder. The list is too long to indicate how the job is harder but here's just a tiny few.
a. More powerful illicit drug use resulting in greater savagely violent or reckless incidents.
b. Having to handle domestic and foreign terrorist events and face a variety of powerful weaponry.
c. People across the social spectrum increasingly distrustful and willing to target cops for an ambush.
2. Too many (no, it's not just a few) hate group members have infiltrated police departments and given cops, in general, a bad reputation. And cops getting demoted and fired when they report on colleagues who abuse their power and authority. This isn't how you weed out the bad ones. Consequently, Banks is literally inviting abuse once in custody and out of sight of cameras. These guys have done horrible things like subjecting a restrained suspect's genitals to taser shocks. Gang beatings, bone-breaking and more then lying about it.
Now, all that being said, those bad apples is why folks like Jeremy feel and say what they do. They face and witness the reality of bad cops so often, it will mark your attitude. You people who neither live in their skin, experience what they do for your just minding your own business. In this Banks video, far as I can see, they simply did their jobs though there might be pre-video issues. They don't act like the badged bullies I've seen in real life or on too many videos. So I'd be among the first to say Banks should have either been respectful or kept his mouth shut. I also know his reaction is not seated in just rudeness. Like me, he has seen thug cops which a lot of you want to believe don't exist, but some of us know from experience and observations they do. Prediction: It won't surprise me if he gets stopped as a favor to a thug cop, either around Knoxville or in Memphis and shot dead on some Trumped up excuse. Or via a cop-paid punk with a criminal background. This stuff happens. He really should have kept his mouth shut.
Let's hear it from those who insist all cops are celestial and holy never in the wrong advocates here.
