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Colts owner Jim Irsay blames arrest on police prejudice against white billionaires (www.theguardian.com)

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[–] JackDark@lemmy.world 73 points 2 years ago

I love the black man in the background of the thumbnail. "Is this motherfucker serious??"

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Congratulations Jim! You won a free submarine ride.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Whoa that’s deep

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 24 points 2 years ago (1 children)

i want to live in their invented universe

[–] jonne 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Imagine being a billionaire and still living with a the victim mentality they abuse the proletariat of having.

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

Objection, your honour. Irsay.

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 years ago

Must be because of all those billionaires supporting defund the police. 🤣

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The 64-year-old businessman also told Real Sports that he has gone to rehab for addiction 15 times

I believe him when he says his hip surgery is the reason he failed the sobriety test. After 15 rehabs, he surely never operated a vehicle while intoxicated. That would defy all odds.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 years ago

Also, jackass

[–] SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Police in the Indianapolis suburb of Carmel pulled Irsay over after observing a man in a Toyota Highlander driving slowly, stopping in the roadway and failing to use a turn signal.

Lol. Yeah police across the world are constantly pulling over Toyota Highlanders driving like a confused elderly lady merging on to an interstate, everyone knows that's the profile for a whiny jackass billionaire.

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 2 years ago

“I don’t care what it sounds like,” Irsay said. “It’s the truth ... I could give a damn what people think how anything sounds or sounds like. The truth is the truth, and I know the truth.”

This is the real problem with the billionaires. It doesn’t matter what they do or what anyone other than maybe other billionaires think.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 15 points 2 years ago

It can't be all that bad if he still chooses to be a wealthy old white man. He can choose to be just an old white man, most people with actual prejudice can't choose to change what they are targeted for.

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

March 2014

The arrest in question took place almost 10 years ago... Seems like someone got his feelings hurt big time

[–] Dradious@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

Just about every time I pass a car that got pulled over, the driver looks just like the monopoly guy

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

Hahahahahahahaha

[–] brothershamus@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Leave the white! Billionaires! Aloooooone! sob

FFS

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Fuck Jim Isray

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 4 points 2 years ago

Oh boo hoo.. poor bastard gonna have to get his chauffeur to drive for a few months

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

The dude in the background 🤣

[+] tygerprints@kbin.social -52 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Oh brother. First police are "prejudiced" against all minorities and the impoverished, now they are "prejudiced" against white billionaires. Why can't people be honest and mature enough to admit, police arrest or ticket them for one overall and important reason - because they have broken the law and / or because they are doing something potentially harmful. Just ONCE I'd like to hear an arresstee actually have the balls to admit, "yeah they were right to arrest me, I was breaking the law." How nice it would be if humans were capable of even a small scintilla of honesty.

[–] deadtom@lemmy.world 55 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Ah the naivete. Make sure you don't fall off that high horse you're liable to hurt yourself.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I'm sure if they fell and are injured they were breaking horse riding law.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's what the police report says anyway. The bodycams had a rather peculiarly timed malfunction during the event. But hey, the two policemen involved investigated each other and decided that it wasn't them, so it's all good... Foolish rider injured himself by not holding onto the saddle more. Funny how all the injuries are police baton shaped. That seems to happen a lot. I wonder if there is any law of nature that gives them that shape all by itself.

[–] ivanafterall@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago

Well, yeah, you're gonna get a police baton-shaped injury when you're riding your horse illegally and fall off the horse right onto the police baton.

[–] pm_me_your_quackers@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

90% of the time it's either a bot, or the suspect in a Criminal Minds episode.

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social -4 points 2 years ago

Yes there's nothing more naive than these deadbrained peaheads who think police are their enemy or just there to mistreat people. That's not mere naivete, it's sheer stupidity and lack of good upbringing.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The police are prejudiced against those without power. They're merely bullies, enabled by those in power.

That's why governments don't enforce stricter hiring practices for police. Last thing they want is a smart police force that might turn on them when the people inevitably do.

[+] tygerprints@kbin.social -8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

No they are not "merely bullies enabled by those in power." Only people who have criminal mentalities see police as "bullies." Yes of course you're going to hate the police if they keep pulling you over for speeding or doing other dangerous activities. God forbid we have any force around that polices people, because obviously people are so fucking saintly and never ever try to do anything criminal. Jesus you people deserve to live in a world where criminals run rampant if that's what you so obviously prefer.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only people who have criminal mentalities see police as “bullies.”

Source: tygerprints' asshole

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh I'm so deeply wounded by your comment. Your bigoted hate only makes me more sure of how right I am about people like you. And at least my opinions come from a place cleaner that your mom's butthole, where yours come from - you scumbag.

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

🚨🚨 Can someone come fetch their misplaced ChatGPT? It's gone rogue and is now attempting "yo momma" jokes.

[–] Kbin_space_program@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Robert Dziecanski was not a criminal, nor did anything illegal. He fell through the cracks at YVR and was stuck inside the secure area. Security guards called the police, thinking they'd come in, calm him down and get an interpreter and sort it out.

He was confronted by the officers, given conflicting orders about what to do, and then was murdered by four RCMP officers via tazer overuse and extended knee-to-the-neck for daring to interrupt their (extended) break at a Tim Hortons(shit coffee and donuts shop).

After which they conspired to confiscate all bystander cellphone footage of the event and then created a false narrative about him "picking up a weapon". The "weapon" was a stapler on a table that one of the officers literally pointed at, and in a lack of language, he picked up.

It only came to light because a judge listened to the people whose phone was taken and forced the police to release the phones and the footage.

For the record I've never even been ticketed for anything. Only time I was ever stopped was because I slowed down to ensure I wasn't interfering with a cop walking down the middle of a sidestreet, because I was wondering why a cop was slowly walking down the middle of a street. I'm not against cops, just against cops that have no oversight and resist getting adequate oversight.

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social -5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Me either, I'm nearly 70 and I've never had so much as a traffic citation or even pulled over for anything. I know it's quite possible and feels great to live a crime-free life and that the police do a fantastic and very necessary job. Of course there are people in every profession that are "bad actors," and those are the ones who make the news headlines, but it doesn't mean the whole profession is
wrong for existing.