Atlanta PD representin'

[Jaimecbr900]

I heard on the news this morning that Atlanta PD just repped really well for the city of Atlanta.

Seems there was a World Historian Convention here in Atlanta. One of the key people, a renowned historian from Britain, was crossing the road in downtown between the Marquis and Hilton. Problem was that an OFF-DUTY Atlanta PD officer was moonlighting at the Marquis as security and saw him JAYWALK. He proceeded to walk up to this guy, who has no clue he's done anything remotely wrong since there are NO jaywalking ordinances in GB, and started to question him. According to the complaint filed, the officer was only wearing a big poofy jacket which did NOT have any PD markings nor badges.

The Atlanta PD officer tells him that he was jaywalking to which the guy replied, "thanks for the advice..." and continued on his way. The officer then allegedly got mad because this guy was "disrespecting" him and told him that he HAD to OBEY his commands and asked the guy for ID. When the guy told him he didn't have any "ID", the policeman WRESTLED the guy to the ground, cuffed him, and ARRESTED the guy FOR JAYWALKING......

I'm big on taking up for police and understanding their job is a difficult one, but I'm sorry......JAYWALKING is NOT that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Besides, he was not causing anyone any problems.

So my question is this: What's the big deal about jaywalking? Why is it illegal anyway? Are we not allowed to cut across the street wherever we see fit? I can understand for children safety and the like, but for grown folks??? Why can't I walk across the street wherever I want? I'm grown enough to do lots of other far more potentially dangerous things....LEGALLY.....why not cross the street? I can understand if it impedes traffic, like crossing a highway or something.....but a regular street? What is this world coming to when the GOV'T thinks it has to "protect" people from stupid stuff like this?

How does Atlanta look to the rest of the world now?

Can someone please explain to me how this "law" helps ANYONE????

BTW, I'll come up with this guy's name in a minute. He wrote like 19 books and is like this big wig in the historian world. Which makes it look 10x's worse when he had to spend the night in an Atlanta jail only to have his charges dismissed after he wouldn't accept a plea bargain. So basically the officer wasted his entire time since charges got dismissed.

[Ran]

Yea, that was on the radio yesterday. F*cked up. The guy said he "Really didn't get the chance to experience the famous southern hospitality."

Jaywalking is a good law for congested cities like Atlanta and such. Keeps people safe if they have the sense to obey the law.

[The Yousef]

GOOOOOOO ATLANTA!!!

we look like tools again in front of the world.... (96 olympics)

[2.0civic]

DAMN That is retarded...cop should be suspended for being a dumbass

[Jaimecbr900]

Yea, that was on the radio yesterday. F*cked up. The guy said he "Really didn't get the chance to experience the famous southern hospitality."

This is an example of how people, especially in EUROPE, end up thinking we're a bunch of backward ass hillbillies.

Jaywalking is a good law for congested cities like Atlanta and such. Keeps people safe if they have the sense to obey the law.

How so? New York City, which is 100X's more congested than Atlanta is, has NO jaywalking ordinances. London, which again is far more crowded than we are, has no jaywalking laws. Why Atlanta? Are we too stupid to see when a car is coming?

I can't stand when the Gov't tries to protect people against themselves. I think that is the most retarded thing ever. It only helps to create wussified little cry baby people. Dang it, if you decide to cross the street and NOT look both ways, who's fault is it? How's a "law" gonna help YOU then? It's retarded IMO. I don't get it.

[Ran]

How so? New York City, which is 100X's more congested than Atlanta is, has NO jaywalking ordinances. London, which again is far more crowded than we are, has no jaywalking laws. Why Atlanta? Are we too stupid to see when a car is coming?

Yes, actually. In New York if you jaywalk, you get hit by that islamic taxi driver. Hell, ever been to Japan? Nobody jaywalks there. NOBODY. Everybody stands at the crosswalk, waits for the light the change, then they cross together. Jaywalk in Japan and see how f*cking stupid you look in front of everyone.

I can't stand when the Gov't tries to protect people against themselves. I think that is the most retarded thing ever. It only helps to create wussified little cry baby people. Dang it, if you decide to cross the street and NOT look both ways, who's fault is it? How's a "law" gonna help YOU then? It's retarded IMO. I don't get it.

Maybe so, but if the government doesn't do it, then people will blame the government and b*tch to such an extent that a law will be made anyway. People are f*cking stupid.

[2.0civic]

Yes, actually. In New York if you jaywalk, you get hit by that islamic taxi driver. Hell, ever been to Japan? Nobody jaywalks there. NOBODY. Everybody stands at the crosswalk, waits for the light the change, then they cross together. Jaywalk in Japan and see how f*cking stupid you look in front of everyone.

Maybe so, but if the government doesn't do it, then people will blame the government and b*tch to such an extent that a law will be made anyway. People are f*cking stupid.

this is true

[TeeJay]

welcome to atlanta where the players play, and the police wear puffy coats like every day

[RacingmySi]

The funniest thing about this is that all week the Hilton/Marriot have had uniformed police there holding traffic to let people cross the street. They must have been on lunch hour or something???

There are hundreds of people that cross the street there everyday "between" the cross walks and I have done it 50 times at least. I work down here

[Jaimecbr900]

Hell, ever been to Japan? Nobody jaywalks there. NOBODY. Everybody stands at the crosswalk, waits for the light the change, then they cross together. Jaywalk in Japan and see how f*cking stupid you look in front of everyone.

Yeah, but what's the purpose in ATLANTA? Especially when you are talking about 1 grown man crossing the road and NOT causing any problems.

I can understand if the off duty officer saw this guy cause an accident or was drunk crossing the road, but a regular joe that didn't bother anyone????

Tell me how this guy HELPED anyone? Instead, now Atlanta looks to the rest of the world (most of which already hate Americans for one stupid reason or another) like we are a bunch of idiots. The guy spend the night in jail, his charges dismissed (as they should've been in the first place), and he got to beat up in the process of getting arrested. What purpose did it serve? They didn't take a hardened criminal off the street. Hell, he wasn't even a drunk nuisance. He was just crossing the street to get to where he wanted to go. What's the crime? Police are there to PROTECT and SERVE. Which of the two apply here?

[Killer]

Yea, that was on the radio yesterday. F*cked up. The guy said he "Really didn't get the chance to experience the famous southern hospitality."

Jaywalking is a good law for congested cities like Atlanta and such. Keeps people safe if they have the sense to obey the law.

u don't find good southern hospitality in atlanta.... half of atl is from out of state or out of country...

[Ran]

u don't find good southern hospitality in atlanta.... half of atl is from out of state or out of country...

Sex Traffic Capital of the South

[PhAtBoYMr2]

**** THE POLICE STUPID PIGS

[Killer]

welcome to atlanta where the players play, and the police wear puffy coats like every day

i'm dieing! LOLOLOLOLOLOL


reps if i can man!

[Greddypacked]

Lol, obviously the jaywalking law is passed, because their are to many pedestrians getting hit like stray animals in a busy city. The walk signals are there for a reason, i admit i like to do the 40 yrd dash while going to the clubs in buckhead coming from the busy side of the road, feels like football practice in nice clothes.

[Greddypacked]

The cop did wrong by not showing his badge, and by arresting him. If anything he should have wrote him a ticket.

[carito1]

welcome to atlanta where the players play, and the police wear puffy coats like every day

lol i like da lol...

[StupidBikerBoy]

Cops that can't get past thier own pride make them all look bad.

[R.Kelly]

Cops that can't get past thier own pride make them all look bad.

true dat +1

[Jaimecbr900]

I read in the AJC that the officer is not trying to tell a different story.

Turns out that according to him, he was wearing his uniform and told the guy to not cross the street at that spot BEFORE he crossed....the guy told him "thanks for the advice" (because according to the guy he didn't know the guy was a policeman) and walked across anyway....the cop then grabbed him and started questioning him....the guy still didn't believe he was a cop.....so the cop tells him he's under arrest and he throws the guy to the ground and calls for backup.....when back up arrives, the guy says (and is quoted as such even in the cop's own report) "now I believe you're a cop..."

Now the part that I don't get is this: IF the cop was in fact wearing his uniform, why would the guy say what he said? The cop even quoted him saying that, which is not too good for him IMO.

It's crazy. I still think he over did it. A ticket maybe. An arrest though??? That's crazy.

[Hulud]

I read in the AJC that the officer is not trying to tell a different story.

Turns out that according to him, he was wearing his uniform and told the guy to not cross the street at that spot BEFORE he crossed....the guy told him "thanks for the advice" (because according to the guy he didn't know the guy was a policeman) and walked across anyway....the cop then grabbed him and started questioning him....the guy still didn't believe he was a cop.....so the cop tells him he's under arrest and he throws the guy to the ground and calls for backup.....when back up arrives, the guy says (and is quoted as such even in the cop's own report) "now I believe you're a cop..."

Now the part that I don't get is this: IF the cop was in fact wearing his uniform, why would the guy say what he said? The cop even quoted him saying that, which is not too good for him IMO.

It's crazy. I still think he over did it. A ticket maybe. An arrest though??? That's crazy.

overdoing it? this is waay past over doing it lol

but yea the cop was out of line if he wasnt wearing an ATL police uniform

[Jaimecbr900]

Here's the story from the AJC:

http://www.ajc.com/search/content/me...twalk0110.html

[Jaimecbr900]

overdoing it? this is waay past over doing it lol

but yea the cop was out of line if he wasnt wearing an ATL police uniform

It's kind of double talking in the article because one says he was but all the actions of the guy say he wasn't.

[Hulud]

It's kind of double talking in the article because one says he was but all the actions of the guy say he wasn't.

yea, who knows

[Hektik]

i agree on the jaywalking thing i mean im a grown ass man i dont need little signs and symbols to let me know when its safe to cross the street shit if ur dumb enough to get by a car cause u didnt look then u just might have deserved it... now the cop situation the cop probably felt all mighty and shit cause hes wearing a badge i hate when cops feel like u have to talk to them like theyre some divine force i hope they suspend him for abuse of his powers.

[1SICKLEX]

I heard on the news this morning that Atlanta PD just repped really well for the city of Atlanta.

Seems there was a World Historian Convention here in Atlanta. One of the key people, a renowned historian from Britain, was crossing the road in downtown between the Marquis and Hilton. Problem was that an OFF-DUTY Atlanta PD officer was moonlighting at the Marquis as security and saw him JAYWALK. He proceeded to walk up to this guy, who has no clue he's done anything remotely wrong since there are NO jaywalking ordinances in GB, and started to question him. According to the complaint filed, the officer was only wearing a big poofy jacket which did NOT have any PD markings nor badges.

The Atlanta PD officer tells him that he was jaywalking to which the guy replied, "thanks for the advice..." and continued on his way. The officer then allegedly got mad because this guy was "disrespecting" him and told him that he HAD to OBEY his commands and asked the guy for ID. When the guy told him he didn't have any "ID", the policeman WRESTLED the guy to the ground, cuffed him, and ARRESTED the guy FOR JAYWALKING......

I'm big on taking up for police and understanding their job is a difficult one, but I'm sorry......JAYWALKING is NOT that big a deal in the grand scheme of things. Besides, he was not causing anyone any problems.

So my question is this: What's the big deal about jaywalking? Why is it illegal anyway? Are we not allowed to cut across the street wherever we see fit? I can understand for children safety and the like, but for grown folks??? Why can't I walk across the street wherever I want? I'm grown enough to do lots of other far more potentially dangerous things....LEGALLY.....why not cross the street? I can understand if it impedes traffic, like crossing a highway or something.....but a regular street? What is this world coming to when the GOV'T thinks it has to "protect" people from stupid stuff like this?

How does Atlanta look to the rest of the world now?

Can someone please explain to me how this "law" helps ANYONE????

BTW, I'll come up with this guy's name in a minute. He wrote like 19 books and is like this big wig in the historian world. Which makes it look 10x's worse when he had to spend the night in an Atlanta jail only to have his charges dismissed after he wouldn't accept a plea bargain. So basically the officer wasted his entire time since charges got dismissed.

When they were shutting down freaknik, 1/2 the jails had people in there for JAYWALKING...

Atlanta is NOT a world city, they SAY they want it, but do dumb shit like this.

[unkn0wndj]

I admit if some guy in a coat tells me where I can cross i'd tell him the same damn thing. The officer should have charges filed against him considering no intent of harm was there and he pretty much assaulted the pedestrian. God, no telling what people oversees are saying about this one.

[00CelicaGT]

"He was just doing his job"<------- Favorite phrase used by IA Members. Thats why i say all of them.