Street Takeovers 06 08 2026

So what I heard on the news this AM was that they gave those who participated in street takeovers a ticket AS WELL AS THOSE WHO WERE JUST STANDING AROUND WATCHING.

Okay I suppose that I shouldn't take issue with that second part?  

1.  Is the person cheering it on?  Hence really a participant?

2.  Or are they really an innocent bystander that believes that they have a right to be there too and might serve as a witness?  A witness to a Police Brutality based killing?

I believe that in number two there is a Constitutional Right!

So if you give a ticket to person number 2 above, what have you set the stage for?  Something like this "Go in your house and hide, I am about to commit genocide?"

The issue here is that leadership has to flow from the top down.  You want to be the good example you want other people to be.  Does it reach a breaking point?  More so if leadership is not really legitimate, right?

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Now the other day on Port Road and Hampton there were 20 squad cars pulled over a car.  And I was driving Northbound on 43.  Did I pull over to the side of the highway to watch?  No.  Why not? Because that could be very dangerous.  But about 5 cars did and more cars slowed down to watch.  Could they be given a ticket?  And that is another reason I didn't pull over, you could be given a ticket.

But perhaps if you are a person who lives in a bad neighborhood and you see bad leadership abusing citizens you might dam well pull over and look.  And if that is the scenario, maybe that means something more?  Right?  Get it?

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So you had black men doing circular burnouts on motorcycles or those golf cart like things?  Can I tell you something?  Out in the country somewhere you wouldn't think a G/D twice about that.  That is just boys will be boys.

So I don't know what you do for fun if you live in one of those tiny brewery worker Polish houses in the city?

Perhaps what I am getting at is creating semi safe places for such activity?

I mean my entire life I believe that if you wanted to you ought to be able to find a long race track somewhere take your car on it to see how fast it could go.  And when it starts to wobble at high speeds you dam well learned a lesson didn't you!  And also when you try and stop and your brakes are glazed over you dam well learned a lesson there too!

Got an old parking lot?  Why not dig up that concrete and plant trees or something?  Perhaps a path through it?

And how many of those 3 card monty finance buildings in your city have very little occupancy?  I would ban the construction of that or multifamily apartment buildings completely in the U.S.  Who needs Junior Johnson banging on the wall the moment you fall asleep?

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