Because a black man refused to obey the law and was called on it, there will be mass protests in the Bay Area. By all accounts he is a decent law-abiding citizen. Which would explain this picture of him.
Train boss apologizes after a black man was handcuffed for eating a sandwich on a station platform – as mass McMuffin ‘eat-in’ protests are planned
A train boss has apologized after a black man was handcuffed for eating a sandwich on a station platform.
Typical. This IS the Bay Area. Home of rats, feces, and Nancy Peolosi.
And ‘eat-in’ protests are being scheduled for next weekend to show support for the man after he was detained.
Because yeah. Show support for a law breaker.
Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) general manager Robert Powers issued an apology yesterday after video footage of the arrest went viral.
Mr Powers told Buzzfeed: ‘Enforcement of infractions, such as eating and drinking inside our paid area, should not be used to prevent us from delivering on our mission to provide safe, reliable, and clean transportation.
‘I apologize to Mr. Foster, our riders, employees, and the public who have had an emotional reaction to the video.’
Fuckin’ virtue signaling coward. A law is a law, I don’t care how petty it might seem. Those who break it should be punished.
One Facebook event encouraging a ‘McMuffin eat-in’ is titled: ‘Eat a McMuffin on BART: They Can’t Stop Us All.’
So far 528 people have said they are going to participate and a further 1,600 have said they are interested.
So at least McDonald’s will make a small profit.
And Janice Li, who represents part of San Francisco on BART’s board of directors, said: ‘To see yet another young black man impacted by law enforcement like this is extremely troubling to me.
Yes. Another (not so young) black man who thinks he’s above the law and is held accountable for his actions. What a sham! Are you serious?
‘This is a question of what we are putting our BART police towards. We know how to make the system better and safer, and this ain’t it.’
“Ain’t?” How professional. I can only imagine you got on to the board of directors here because no one else would take your illiterate ass. Not surprisingly she’s “queer” and as such feels she has to stoop to the illiterate level of black law breakers to pander to her “community.”
Police in California are now being investigated after the three white officers were seen arresting the man, identified in the video as Steve Rogers, for eating on a train platform.
The incident happened at around 8am last Monday and a footage was posted on social media on Friday, sparking controversy.
An officer was seen in the video appearing to Mr Rogers while holding onto his rucksack as he pleaded to be let go.
The 31-year-old questioned why he was being detained and not any other passengers waiting at the Pleasant Hill Station in Walnut Creek, California.
He can be heard in the footage saying: ‘You came here and busted me. Why did you single me out, out of all these people?’
The officer replied by pointing to the sandwich and saying: ‘You’re eating. It’s against the law, it’s a violation of California law. I have the right to detain you.’
At the start of the video, Foster, who goes by the name Bill Gluckman on Facebook, waved his sandwich to the camera, adding, ‘I’m on BART’, before the person filming replied, ‘You’re not even on BART’.
The officer then said: ‘I just explained to you that you are detained. You’re detained and you are not free to go. I have a right to detain you.’
Foster replied: ‘No you don’t. I’ve done nothing wrong. Can you please let my s*** go. Let my backpack go.’
He can be heard calling for backup and demanding Foster show him some ID before threatening to jail him for resisting arrest.
Foster says: ‘I’m not going to jail for eating a f****** sandwich.’
‘No, you’re going to jail for resisting arrest’, the officer replied.
‘You’re going to end up going to jail today, my man’, he added as he held onto the strap of Foster’s bag.
The woman filming the exchange could be heard asking the officer why there were no signs telling customers they could not eat on the platform.
You must have missed them, bitch:
Foster then says, ‘I don’t feel detained, I feel harassed. I see people eating and drinking coffee every day and you single me out, why?
Looking at the camera, he added: ‘He [the officer] came all the way down the platform to single me out for eating a sandwich.’
After the officer and Foster continued to argue, another three BART officers arrived on the platform, made him turn around, and handcuffed him.
As Foster was led away he shouted: ‘Four cops for eating a sandwich. Ain’t nobody resisting. It’s against the law to eat?’
The officers led him to a bench and while there a newly arrived officer claimed someone matching his description had caused a ‘disturbance’ on the platform.
But in a separate video while speaking just to the woman with Foster, the first officer, identified as D. McCormick by his uniform, could be heard saying he was notified of a woman on the platform who was possibly ‘intoxicated’.
Writing on Facebook, alongside the two videos, Foster wrote: ‘Just out of curiosity.. has anybody ever got arrested and written a ticket for eating a breakfast sandwich on a Bart platform at 8:00 in the morning. Nobody? Just me? Okay.’
And still nobody has been arrested for eating on the BART Platform, dolt. You were issued a citation. Know the difference.
On Friday BART clarified the situation in a tweet and said that despite being handcuffed, Foster was only issued a citation.
The tweet read: ‘No matter how you feel about eating on BART, the officer saw someone eating and asked him to stop, when he didn’t he was given a citation.’
Rebecca Saltzman, BART Board Vice President, said the the incident was being investigated.
On Sunday, fellow passengers launched a ‘eat-in’ protest by eating their lunch on the platform, with around 30 people taking part.
The passenger told ABC7: ‘I’m definitely upset, mad, a little frustrated, angry about it. I was just up there eating my sandwich waiting for the train to come.
‘I think I was singled out because I was black, to be honest,’ said Foster.
Of course you do. And there’s nothing honest about your statement. You want to hit that big ghetto lotto payout. It had absolutely nothing to do with you breaking the law and acting like an asshole.
She told The San Francisco Examiner: ‘BART’s independent police auditor received a complaint about this and is reviewing. I and other BART directors are following up with management about this.’
The passenger faces a $250 fine and 48 hours of community service and said plans to fight the ticket.
And no doubt he’ll win in the libtarded Bay Area. An curiously, as he WAS resisting, why didn’t all those white cops shoot him? Things that make you go, “Hmmm.”
