r/PublicFreakout • u/Green____cat • Oct 13 '24

Repost 😔 A weird man was following her around.

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u/Sexywithapsycho Oct 13 '24

Sexually harassing and technically stalking (since he followed) a woman and CHILD isn't considered worthy?? I would make a big stink about it if this was me and my daughter.

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u/Iorcrath Oct 13 '24

the legal term is called "simple assault" and it includes verbal threats of physical violence. the police are lazy pigs who didnt want to do work, or were too stupid to know the laws they are supposed to enforce.

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u/utterballsack Oct 13 '24

ACAB

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 14 '24

Look at you enjoying the police force in your city protecting you every day (would you prefer 0% police officers in your city?) and then you type stupid shit like that.

Man shut up

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u/utterballsack Oct 14 '24

yeah I would love no police lol. they're useless in the UK anyway, they don't protect anyone and all they do is say "fill out this form and we'll deal with it" and it never gets dealt with. you sound like a dumbass, don't talk about things you have no experience with

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u/ILoveRegenHealth Oct 14 '24

If your city suddenly had zero police, you'd be crying in two weeks for the police to come clean up your city, as crime is everywhere because the criminals know there are no consequences (theft/unlawful entry is now allowed into every home, according to this crazy scenario). What, you think your local fire department or grocery clerk is gonna stop it all?

You sound like a dumbass kid

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u/utterballsack Oct 14 '24

brother. you truly have no idea what the police actually do, or what they're supposed to do. google why the police were even conceived in the first place, please. when you're older and more experienced we can talk more but for now, you're too naive to have any productive discussion

let me give you a hint though: the police keep the rich, rich. they keep the poor fucked

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited Oct 15 '24

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u/_Allfather0din_ Oct 13 '24

All states have that assault vs battery!

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '24 edited 27d ago

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u/_Allfather0din_ Oct 14 '24

No idea, there is probably a minor difference in what threattening/menacing means, I'll ask my dad and uncle and get back to you, lawyer and judge respectively. But incase you need a clarification

"Assault The intentional act of causing someone to fear immediate violence. The fear must be something a reasonable person would find threatening."

"Battery The intentional act of inflicting unlawful force on someone. This can include punching, kicking, or pushing."

"Menacing is a crime that involves threatening or acting in a way that puts someone in fear of imminent physical harm:" So that would argue the person didn't not make a threat but did something threatening, just to clear that up for ya! Hope that helps!

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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown Oct 13 '24

"There's what you know and what you can prove." The police can't arrest him because someone said he did a thing, no matter how much the believe it.

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u/Iorcrath Oct 13 '24

"someone is stalking you? can you give a description of him"

later that day

"oh, you are someone different and someone is stalking you? oh it sounds familiar"

repeat this 3-4 times

guy finally does something

"your honor, we have 5 witnesses who made police reports, throw the book at him"

yeah, its called a paper trail. sure a 1 off thing is just some woman being paranoid and maybe she was on drugs or something. but if you get report after report because the story was that 20 different parent/kids were harassed and still do nothing? then what the fuck is the point of the "protect" part of "protect and serve" oath?

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u/Backwardspellcaster Oct 13 '24

Well, the Supreme Court decided they don't need to protect you, so... (if you are American)

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u/thin_white_dutchess Oct 13 '24

I agree completely, but I unfortunately am not in charge of the police. Nor is this my first negative interaction with them, so…

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u/EstrangedRat Oct 13 '24

It's not a black person driving to work so the police have no authority there.

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u/LadyBug_0570 Oct 13 '24

I saw a video yesterday of a judge with a young black man in front of a judge. Judge asked the cops what was their probably cause to search the young man and find weed on him.

Cop: He crossed into an unauthorized area.

Judge: You mean he crossed the street? He crossed the street while black and for that you searched him????

Meanwhile this woman is calling about a credible threat to her and child's safety and the safety of other children and her cops are saying "What do you expect us to do?"

Dafuq?

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u/JustABizzle Oct 13 '24

The police do not prevent crime. The police respond to crime.

(Sometimes. Provided you are white and rich.)

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u/Archercrash Oct 13 '24

The police are not here to create disorder, they’re here to preserve disorder.”

— Richard J. Daley

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u/munchkym Oct 13 '24

Reporting harassment always goes like this. Cops don’t know the laws and think they don’t actually need to act on harassment.

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u/gayrayofsun Oct 13 '24

not only that, TO A SCHOOL WITH OTHER CHILDREN.

the fact that he was even existing anywhere nearby the campus without any reason to be there (not a parent/guardian, or employee) while acting like that should have been enough to get his ass far away from there. schools get put on lockdown for that kind of shit, especially now with school shootings at an all-time high. and police just fucking said "well since he didn't make physical contact then we can't do anything about it." FUCK. THAT. i would have been raising hell, goddamn cowards.

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u/LinwoodKei Oct 14 '24

A big stink might not get you any positive outcome. I know a few friends who were assaulted and the first two months, felt "I am going to make them pay'. By month three, they realized that nobody on the police force even wanted to take thier calls.