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I am just being pragmatic. If she had just done what was asked instead of angrily protesting she would have gotten a traffic ticket which could have been fought

• pwinnski 7y ago
  This is a reasonable belief, but incorrect. Philando Castile did everything he was asked to do, and was still murdered in front of his partner and child. There are many, many, many cases in which compliance gains nothing at all, and quite a few counter-cases in which protesting and waving a camera is likely (impossible to know for sure) the only reason people who are the subjects of police aggression are still alive. Many people are not aware of these things off the top of their heads, but most black people--who are statistically six times more likely per capita to be killed by cops--definitely are aware.
• mannykannot 7y ago
  You seem to have a naive idea of what 'fight it in court' means. When you enter the court system, especially as as a defendant, it is not as if you have been teleported into a domain where enlightened rationality rules, no matter what the constitutional theory says is supposed to happen. Even if the law is nominally on the defendant's side, there is a good chance that she will be threatened with charges carrying significant penalties, possibly backed up by nothing more than the testimony of the officer who violated her rights in the first place, and offered a plea deal. Accepting the plea deal forecloses on any chance of righting a wrong.
• 3hoss 7y ago
  you seem pretty confident in predicting that outcome - why?