The newly released footage shows a Boulder, Colorado, police officer investigating Zayd Atkinson for trespassing as the college student picked up trash.
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Cant ask for ID, but can ask for Proof of Vaccination. Makes sense.
Wow must nice to be white. And always be right correct? And yet you give him a servant pay after taxes of $80.000 which mount out two $69.000 for a year right! Wow unbelievable and here' this young man could have lost his life due to poor professionalism and misconduct on this officer behavior.
Man achieved a 5 star status just by cleaning up the community, legend.
Not racially profiled? Bullshit. Racism at its worst right there.
"We decided that we're going to leave this alone." Especially after we just spoke with your white neighborhood who just confirmed that you actually live here. 😳
He almost died for sitting on his porch and cleaning his property
👮♂️🚔🗑 The story forgot an important fact… After the cops confirmed he live there, the original cop continued to demand to have more of this man’s information like date of birth. So the cop says he wants to confirm that he really lives there, but once the property manager confirms that then he doesn’t immediately pack up and leave. It’s very possible the reason that the cop didn’t immediately leave was because the cop’s heels were already dug in on wanting to interrogate this man. The man did give the cop his ID but the address wasn’t on his ID.
But to the cop’s credit, he didn’t fight with the man so he resisted using any force against him. So that’s very good that the cop did that. But I think best practice would be for the cop to have put up his gun once he had so much additional back up. If the guy was holding a knife, that would be one thing. But he was holding a flimsy pole with multiple other cops around.
I don’t know that this cop was acting on racial bias or anything like that, it’s just how cops are. When they see you doing anything they’re suspicious of, they believe they have a right to get your ID and question you. There’s definitely some good that comes out of that, because the more contact police have with people the more likely they are to catch people with outstanding warrants. But it’s also not a great feeling for law abiding citizens to be detained and bothered by police. Racial bias may have played a role but there’s no way to tell in the situation.
I did think the cop’s reason for stopping him was flimsy. The cop said he saw him with the tool banging on the ground so he went to investigate, but once he saw that the guy was actually picking up trash he should’ve just kept on moving. This is how police are, they believe they have a right to detain people for basically nothing. He claims he was detaining him from trespass, but he’s picking up trash.
If he was white it would be totally different scenario
Good for the police firing the crooked cop. Disgusting.
4 trained cops each with their own gun and taser are threatened by a guy with a trash grabber
Not racial profiling in a all white town , lmffo, take them to court and let all those white citizens including the cops pay for your vacation
Clearly racism
Let the police pay the settlement from their own pockets not from the tax payers. They're not afraid because the system protects them and the city will pay for the damages the created.
I hope he will not get a job as a police. They need to take his badge for good.. I thus go after his personal assets including his house retirement….
Put the goddamn bucket away. I feel threatened by it…
Things can go south real quick and easy in AMERIKA.
Sir do you have any idea how black you were going?
Cant wait for the war against pigs to start
'Slow day. Let me see if I can find a black man existing freely, start a deadly confrontation for no reason.'
yet a other racist pig
Gross absolutely gross behaviour the police officer needs to be sacked
worryingly – an official police report said the man further aroused suspicion by looking at his dwelling when pointing at it to say where he lived (as if not knowing it and looking to read the address off the sign on the wall) – think about that and what you do in that situation – even if you are right outside your house and someone asks you where you live you'd point at the house yet still look at it too? right? a weird thing to do of course (no real reason to look at it and point too) but everyone does it – therefore alarming that police find it a suspicious thing outright to do.
Fake news for fake people
A colored person cleaning up his around his home keep his community clean.
Cop enter and I think that's illegal and you don't belong here.
Defund the Police. They serve no purpose in my community but to harm me.
Me: Imagine being afraid of a trash picker.
Officer for the fifth time: "WAAH I SAID I FELT THREATENED" proceeds to sob into napkin*
We had a guy here in Phoenix who was casing homes while picking up trash. Burglarized over 8 homes before the caught him.
And this is why we have that dumb ass BLM group doing all that dirt around the country. Cuz the pigs think they have all the power in the world. FTP!!!
Wow, that's sad. The cop retired after this, a 14 year veteran of the boulder, co police department, thank God he didn't taze or kill Mr.Atkinson
Damn US police really don’t have many crimes to investigate if they have time to chase down people who are picking up rubbish. Must be a very safe country lol.
Sitting on a patio is against the law?
I live in a apartment but ID and license address to my parents house.
I'm now afraid to go to USA. I mean, what are the odds of possibly getting shot for picking up trash? Scary.
The officer has every right to feel threathened by a TRASH CLAMP 😂🤣😂🤣
I remember this and now he's $125k richer.
student picking up trash
racist cop picking up $70k for quitting.
He should’ve did what he was told, the cop was well in his rights to taser him after the trash clown was showing signs of aggression, considering he had an object in each hand that can be used lethally against the cop, in that case the cop should’ve shot him.
cop needs to get his eyes checked
or he needs to stop smoking the weed he took from pot heads
"How am I supposed to kill someone with this?"
Me- Exactly
Cop- 🤔 Well, I can walk within reach of the trash stick to claim im in fear for my life
Me-😒