when the video starts, it's clear she has already been talking to those cops. sure enough, from her interview.
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The officers said they had an arrest warrant for Roben Edwards, owner of the property where Ruckman has lived for two-and-a-half years.
Ruckman believes the warrant was for delinquent property taxes because she has received mail addressed to Edwards sent from the Turtle Creek Tax Collector.
But Ruckman had already told the cops that Edwards, in fact, lives down the street in this one-square mile borough of just over 5,000 people outside of Pittsburgh.
“I started talking to them from my second-floor window,” she said in a telephone interview with Photography is Not a Crime Friday.
“They kept asking me if I was Roben Edwards and I said ‘no, she does not live her, I live here alone but she is my landlady and lives down that way.’
They told Ruckman they wanted to talk to Edwards about the length of her grass, which, she admits, needs cutting.
They had also rummaged through her mailbox and found mail addressed to Edwards as well as mail addressed to Ruckman.
But when they asked for her name, she replied with “citizen” and “resident” because “I didn’t feel I had to tell them my name.”
“They said, ‘come down here and show us your ID,’” she said. “One cop said if I didn’t come down there in 30 seconds, he would bust the door down.”
So she frantically put on some clothes, brushed her hair and grabbed a video camera before making her way downstairs and setting it up to record on the stairs.
“I didn’t even know where my ID was but I didn’t want him to break the door down,” she explained.
http://photographyisnotacrime.com/20...-police-power/
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so why couldn't the cops have popped down the street to get the landlord? this is a town of 5000 people. it's not la la
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Originally Posted by DWB
Jews willingly got on trains to be taken to camps and stood in line orderly and waiting to be shot dead while gunman reloaded their guns. That defies all logic, but they did it.
Point is, most people are obedient and never question authority in any manner. Many people stick up for those who abuse their power, making excuses for their behavior. Many more even stick up for those who abuse them directly, clearly having Stockholm Syndrome. People are crazy. It's always a hoot to watch people try to defend abusive power.
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i don't believe this is accurate.
i am very much interested in this behavior and did some snooping a while back. it's not a matter of obedience and not questioning authority. it's deer in the headlights syndrom.
what leads me to believe that is in looking into all of this i came across an interview of anders brevik. in it, he said the most suprising part of all of the killings was how people just stood there and waited for him to shoot them. often times they stood there right in front of him while he reloaded. no weapon at the ready.
they waited for him to reload and shoot them.
i don't see that as obedience. i see that as paralisis in a bizarre event. anyhoo, that's my take on it. fascinating aspect of human behavior though. very curious.