EldritchCellar posted at 7:02PM Sat, 11 July 2020 - #4394354

I was beaten up plenty by cops when I was younger. Dragged down halls in cuffs. Pepper sprayed. Pushed down stone steps by a philly cop at the now dead spectrum music venue. But that was over 20 years ago, and I was a violent drunk then. I haven't had a single encounter with police in a long time, but I've met plenty that were just flat out not nice people. That's people for you.

The only reason I commented is because I do a lot of maintenance work in supermarkets; construction, roof repair, floor and ceiling tile, etc. None of the employees at the supermarkets, in the back at receiving and stuff, wear masks. So the irony of you suggesting you'd notify the police about someone not wearing a mask in front of a supermarket seemed hysterically weird. I just did a whole concrete sidewalk job in front of a supermarket, and not a damn one of us were wearing masks Lol.

So my comment actually had nothing to do with race.

Fair enough, although I haven't really had any BAD run ins with cops. But two people I know, both, ironically, worked for the local tv news station, did. One was shot and killed, basically, wrong place, wrong time, and one was shot by a cop, who didn't identify himself. The cop was sued and the family won in both cases. Both were black. Wasn't the first time the station was involved with the police though. One reporter, he was white, was arrested for trying to pick up prostitutes while doing a story. We teased him about it for days.

I also work in the back of the house, but I work in a cooler most of the time by myself. So it actually makes little to no sense for me to wear a mask. I do still wear the gloves though. 1) they keep my hands somewhat warm, and 2) I don't want anyone blaming me if they get sick for drinking something I touched while stocking shelves.