{"quotes":[{"text":"In the era of angry and aggressive policing, it is an honorable service to your fellow citizens to video record police officers interactions with the common people.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["aggressive","aggressive-behavior","aggressiveness","angry","angry-people","citizen","citizen-power","citizens","citizens-of-humanity","common","common-good","common-man","era","fellow","fellow-beings","fellow-humans","film","honorable","honorable-person","interact","interactions","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","policing","public","record","recording","service","service-to-mankind","service-to-others","video"],"id":5452,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"When I was twelve, my parents had two talks with me.One was the usual birds and bees. Well, I didn't really get the usual version. My mom, Lisa, is a registered nurse, and she told me what went where, and what didn't need to go here, there, or any damn where till I'm grown. Back then, I doubted anything was going anywhere anyway. While all the other girls sprouted breasts between sixth and seventh grade, my chest was as flat as my back.The other talk was about what to do if a cop stopped me.Momma fussed and told Daddy I was too young for that. He argued that I wasn't too young to get arrested or shot.'Starr-Starr, you do whatever they tell you to do,' he said. 'Keep your hands visible. Don't make any sudden moves. Only speak when they speak to you.'I knew it must've been serious. Daddy has the biggest mouth of anybody I know, and if he said to be quiet, I needed to be quiet.I hope somebody had the talk with Khalil.","author":"Angie Thomas","tags":["cops","police-brutality","racism"],"id":21348,"author_id":"Angie+Thomas"},{"text":"When it is a law abiding common person versus the police internal affairs regarding a corrupt or incompetent police officer, the statistics show that it is the common person that most frequently loses.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["abiding","affairs","common","corrupt","corruption","corruption","frequently","incompetent","internal","law","loses","most","officer","person","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","regarding","show","statistics","versus"],"id":26997,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.","author":"Benjamin Spock","tags":["class","police","police-brutality","racism"],"id":49490,"author_id":"Benjamin+Spock"},{"text":"People that have a police car behind them pulling them over should put on their hazard lights and continue slowly driving to the nearest densely populated public place, such as a supermarket or shopping center. Pull over outside the busy entrance and start your video camera. Inform the police officer that you are video recording and very slowly give the requested documentation. Exercise your legal right to silence while the many independent witnesses video record the unexpected stop that rudely interrupts your day. If you are given a ticket, choose to go to court. It will give you time to obtain independent legal advice about the allegation.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["about","advice","allegation","allegations","behind","busy","camera","car","center","choose","continue","court","day","dense","densely","documentation","driving","entrance","excercise","give","given","hazard","independent","inform","interrupts","legal","lights","mall","many","nearest","obtain","outside","people","place","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-state","policeman","policemen","populated","population","public","pull","pulling","record","recording","requested","right","rude","rudely","shopping","silence","slowly","start","stop","supermarket","ticket","time","unexpected","very","video","while","witnesses"],"id":59315,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Mr Judge, Jury \u0026 Executioner of Micah Xavier Johnson‬ needs to go to jail as soon as possible – he is a danger to civilized society.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["civilized-behavior","civilized-governance","civilized","civilized","civilized-society","danger","dangerous","dangerous-minds","dangerous-people","dangerous-world","execution","execution","execution","executioner","jail","judge","judgement","judgemental","jury","jury-trials","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","prison","society","usa"],"id":69492,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police officers are among the most corrupt people that I have encountered in life.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["among","amongst","corrupt","corrupted","corruptibility","corruption","corruption","encounter","encountered","life-experience","life-lessons","life-philosophy","life","most","officer","officers","people","people","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","sheriff"],"id":70654,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"Police not enforcing laws results in a high crime rate that is formally reported as a low crime rate in police statistics.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["crime","enforce","enforcement","enforcing","enforcing-laws","formally","high","law","laws","legal-system","low","not","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-procedural","police-reform","police-service","police-state","policeman","policemen","rate","report","reported","reporting","reports","result","results","results","statistical-analysis","statistics","statistics"],"id":72560,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"The best thing to do when someone is trying to argue with you is to repeatedly state 'Stay Away' and video record the entire event. You may need that video for the police afterwords when the aggressor starts fabricating fantasies about the event.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["argue","arguements","arguing","argument","argumentativem","event","events","fabricate","fabricated-evidence","fabricated-memory","fabricated","fantasy","fantasy-fiction","police","police-brutality","police-corruption","police-officer","police-state","policemen","record","recording","video"],"id":73532,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"She had wanted her son to stand for what he believed and to be respectful. And he had died for believing his friends had a right to play their music loud, to be American teenagers.","author":"Ta-Nehisi Coates","tags":["police-brutality","prejudice"],"id":76628,"author_id":"Ta-Nehisi+Coates"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":59,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}