It’s also a “shame” that these cops spend their time accosting 20-year-olds on the beach for the heinous crime of possessing beerhttps://twitter.com/phillydotcom/status/1000824302663499778 …
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Michael Tracey Retweeted The Philadelphia Inquirer
It’s also a “shame” that these cops spend their time accosting 20-year-olds on the beach for the heinous crime of possessing beerhttps://twitter.com/phillydotcom/status/1000824302663499778 …
Michael Tracey added,
After incidents like these there’s never enough emphasis on what caused the police encounter to begin in the first place. NJ shore towns hire absurd numbers of seasonal police to trawl for petty offenses, leading to unnecessary encounters, some % of which inevitably escalate
So this ridiculous event -- a police-initiated brawl on the beach over beer? Really? -- should be seen primarily as a failure of municipal policy, rather than as an individual behavioral failure by the parties involved
Of course the officer throwing punches needs to be held accountable, but the bigger question is why was he even there to begin with
So the police shouldn’t enforce laws about public drinking?
They should not disrupt people engaging in harmless recreational behavior. Possessing beer on a beach is generally not a grave enough problem to warrant armed intervention
Frisbee is harmless recreational behavior. Underage drinking in a public place where alcohol is forbidden isn’t.
Her possession of the beer was not a danger to anyone. The unnecessary armed state intervention caused the danger
I don’t know how the interaction actually took place; I’m guessing the police didn’t suddenly attack this person.
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