@JohnDMacari@TheFinestCast You’re asking for evidence rather than word of mouth. Dickhead cops far outweigh the so called “good” cops. I’m sure you remember you remember the stop and frisk days in NYC. A time you can be searched just off “suspicion” alone while being berated at the same time calm or not.
Let’s have “the talk”
I grew up in New York City, Bensonhurst, then Dongan Hills on Staten Island.
My teenage years lined up with Rudy Giuliani coming into office and the NYPD leaning into Broken Windows policing.
I wasn’t a fan of the police. Neither were any of the male influences in my life, my friends, my family and even my father included.
At 11 years old, I got arrested. That started a stretch of me hanging out in the streets, having more and more run ins with the NYPD.
When my father picked me up from the station, he didn’t give me a speech he gave me a beating, and then he told me something more important:
“Don’t ever be a wise guy with the cops.”
As I got older, and bigger he kept repeating it, not because he loved the police, but because he understood the reality of those encounters.
One summer night, I was 15, sitting on my stoop waiting for an older girl I was dating to pick me up.
Two cops and a sergeant in plainclothes pulled up in an unmarked car and started asking me questions.
I immediately started acting irate and began mouthing off. They threw me against the car, searched me, and eventually let me go.
After the sergeant actually tried to give me advice how to handle a police encounter and how to keep it calm.
I ignored him and kept running my mouth.
What I didn’t know was my father saw and heard the whole thing.
He came flying out of the house:
“Are you fing stupid? You’re gonna get yourself locked up or killed for no reason”
He told me It doesn’t matter if you broke the law or not, stay calm, If they tell you to put your hands behind your back, do it.
“keep your mouth shut and we’ll deal with it later in court.
Then he said something I’ll never forget
“You’re a man now. Start acting like one.”
That night didn’t change me instantly but it stayed with me.
From that point on, I never mouthed off to the police again. I never refused an order in the streets, from the NYPD again.
The encounters, kept happening growing up in NYC, it was a part of life, but those encounters never turned into major problems because I was able through my demeanor to deescalate the situation.
A few years later, leaving a bar on Staten Island, unmarked cars boxed me and my friends in. Plainclothes officers jumped out guns drawn shouting commands.
We followed their directions, they questioned us and frantically left us, it appeared to me that they were looking for armed suspects.
What If I was still that same kid on the stoop? That situation would’ve gone very differently for all of us.
Are cops perfect? No
Do they make mistakes? Yes
Are some of them Dicks? Yes
It’s a tough, dangerous job, every encounter has the potential to go sideways fast, why make it worse?
My father didn’t give me “the talk” most people would expect but he gave me the one that keeps you alive:
I was arrested 2x’s in my youth, I was stopped by the NYPD countless times, the incident that occurred in the liquor store in Brooklyn would have been a non issue if it was me who was mistakenly stopped because I would have followed my fathers advice.
Take my father’s advice, it works, I know, it kept me alive and out of jail.
Rest In Peace John D. Macari Sr
🚨 Cop Smashes Drunk Man's Head into the Ground for No Reason, Knocking Him Out
Yes he was drunk, yes he could barely stand. But does mean he should receive state sponsored brain damage and headache that lasts a week? 🤬🤬
📍Huntington, WV
@AmericaPapaBear What you didn’t mention was they said he fit a description.m of a drug dealer. Once they had him in cuffs they found no drugs on him. I hope this shit happens to you or anyone you have love for.
This is the arrest video that NYC Mayor Mamdani claims is disturbing and unacceptable.
NYPD detectives struggle to handcuff a man at a Brooklyn liquor store.
Bystanders and critics claim officers used excessive force.
In my opinion, what is disturbing and unacceptable is the level of criminality that has consumed major cities like New York.
THAT is the real story here!
@2000STOCKMASTER@ManigoRicky Did you read the article you white disgusting devil the dude had no drugs on him. They based that shit off a description you piece of shit
@goneers@ericmmatheny I wanna know when we see real important people starting to get arrested. This should look like a scene out of Stalin’s playbook thousands of people trying to destroy the United States and take it over.. FACT !! arrest them all