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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCop pulls gun on man pumping gas. SMDH. He thought the gas nozzle was a gun??
This makes no damn sense. Was he trying to rob the gas station from outside, standing by the pump?
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Cop pulls gun on man pumping gas. SMDH. He thought the gas nozzle was a gun?? (Original Post)
tulipsandroses
Oct 8
OP
I would have just kept repeating, to the cop, "Are you nuts?". But, then again, I'm not black.
FadedMullet
Oct 8
#2
Jeebus...the cops actually released that moronic video? How dumb does that make them look?
Totally Tunsie
Oct 8
#3
mercuryblues
(15,917 posts)1. WTF

FadedMullet
(537 posts)2. I would have just kept repeating, to the cop, "Are you nuts?". But, then again, I'm not black.
Totally Tunsie
(11,346 posts)3. Jeebus...the cops actually released that moronic video? How dumb does that make them look?
Hope the guy got the cop's badge number and any pertinent information.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,951 posts)4. How many of us knew the guy was Black
before we saw the video?
Wonder Why
(6,265 posts)5. What a maroon! "Man at gas pump pumping gas! I need backup! Worse, he's Black."
I guess he figured Black people can't afford gas so the guy was trying to demand that the pump hand it over.
Vinca
(52,844 posts)6. That cop is real ICE material.
HAB911
(9,963 posts)7. When you are an idiot hammer
everything looks like a nail