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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 77 points 1 year ago

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

[–] BroBot9000@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Congratulations Jim! You won a free submarine ride.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 2 points 11 months ago

Whoa that’s deep

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 11 months ago (1 children)

i want to live in their invented universe

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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

[–] Vinny_93@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Objection, your honour. Irsay.

[–] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year 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 8 points 1 year ago

Also, jackass

[–] zbyte64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He thinks being part of the 1% makes him technically a minority

[–] vanquesse@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 11 months ago

He just chose to never learn the difference between "minority" and "marginalized"

[–] PrincessLeiasCat@sh.itjust.works 17 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Won’t someone think of the white male billionaires?!?!?!

[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 16 points 11 months ago

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

[–] SquigglyEmpire@lemmy.world 16 points 11 months 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 8 points 11 months 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 16 points 11 months 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.

[–] TSG_Asmodeus@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

Hahahahahahahaha

[–] brothershamus@kbin.social 9 points 11 months ago

Leave the white! Billionaires! Aloooooone! sob

FFS

[–] alienanimals@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

Fuck Jim Isray

[–] kowcop@aussie.zone 4 points 11 months ago

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

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

The dude in the background 🤣

[+] tygerprints@kbin.social -60 points 1 year ago (3 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 60 points 1 year 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 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 18 points 1 year 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 9 points 1 year 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 11 points 1 year ago

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

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social -4 points 11 months 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 12 points 1 year 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 11 months 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 11 months ago (1 children)

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

Source: tygerprints' asshole

[–] tygerprints@kbin.social -5 points 11 months 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 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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 11 months 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 11 months 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.