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post 1656579153 02-21-2022, 08:37 AM
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Seattle repeals ‘racist’ bicycle helmet law

source:https://www.rt.com/news/550120-seatt...cycle-helmets/

Officials in Seattle, Washington made it legal on Thursday to ride a bicycle without a helmet, insisting that non-white people and the homeless get disproportionally punished for the offense.

People of color, Native Americans, and the homeless have been “bearing the brunt of disproportionate enforcement, citations, and fees,” King County Board of Health Chair Joe McDermott said, explaining the reasoning behind the change. He urged everyone to wear helmets while riding even with the new rule in place.

Officials said they were motivated by a 2020 report by Crosscut, a local news outlet, that revealed Seattle police had issued 117 helmet citations since 2017, 40% of which went to homeless cyclists. A similar 2021 analysis from Central Seattle Greenways, a street safety group, found that black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for riding without a helmet as white cyclists, while Native American riders were just over twice as likely to receive one as white riders.

“Yes, we have to think about brain injury, and we also have to think about the impact on our criminal legal system,” Girmay Zahilay, a King County councilman said, as quoted by the New York Times.



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post 1656579253 02-21-2022, 08:38 AM
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Those damn white people and their...*shuffles cards*...wearing bicycle helmets according to the law!
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post 1656579313 02-21-2022, 08:39 AM
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post 1656579753 02-21-2022, 08:48 AM
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I'm all for body autonomy. Wear what you want. If you fall and die, it's on you. But I agree that the reasoning is just virtue signaling.
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
It shouldn't be a law, but their reasoning is retarded.
Agreed. There shouldn't be laws to protect people from their own stupidity. That's part of the reason we're where we are right now. Let Darwinism do the work. The entire west cost needs to break off into the ocean and sink really.
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post 1656580013 02-21-2022, 08:51 AM
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lol at the government making it look like regulations are implemented based on population convenience or disproportionate law enforcement. it’s a charade.
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post 1656580233 02-21-2022, 08:55 AM
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what if leftys push so hard they accidently start giving people freedom back!
post 1656580443 02-21-2022, 08:59 AM
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A citation given about once every two weeks. And very disproportionately to homeless. I guarantee it's a citation given while being belligerent and doing other illegal stuff, not given out by itself.
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Originally Posted By MFarrar74⏩
what if leftys push so hard they accidently start giving people freedom back!
we leftists now
post 1656581243 02-21-2022, 09:12 AM
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King County is the worst. The mask mandate in Washington finally gets lifted in March, but King County said they'll still enforce it. Lulz.
post 1656581283 02-21-2022, 09:13 AM
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lol at that even being a law
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post 1656581363 02-21-2022, 09:14 AM
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Originally Posted By MFarrar74⏩
what if leftys push so hard they accidently start giving people freedom back!
That would be awesome
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post 1656581583 02-21-2022, 09:17 AM
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West Coast virtue signaling.
post 1656582553 02-21-2022, 09:35 AM
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
It shouldn't be a law, but their reasoning is retarded.
This. You wanna fall and crack your noggin open be my friggin' guest srs.

Next up in seattle:

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Driving with seatbelt is fatphobic
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Study is pointless without having total numbers (by race) of those who ride with & without a helmet in comparison to who's getting ticketed.

But also, study is racist.....why even separate ticketing by race?
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I wonder if they'd do the same if the majority of offenders were white??????
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post 1656584473 02-21-2022, 10:13 AM
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I mean when you steal a bike most people don't leave the helmet out with it.
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Cops who ticket people for not wearing a helmet on a bicycle have tiny dics and just wanna fill their quota

Originally Posted By lightsarefallin⏩
This. You wanna fall and crack your noggin open be my friggin' guest srs.

Next up in seattle:

DUI is racist, no more breathalyzer
Driving with seatbelt is fatphobic
neither of these are analogous at all but sure mate
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
It shouldn't be a law, but their reasoning is retarded.
This. If someone wants to ride a bike with/without a helmet it should be their choice to make.

But JFL

I’m sure cops were sitting there counting through passing cyclist like

white,
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white..
a black one! Let’s go get em boys!

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Originally Posted By frankdtank20⏩
A citation given about once every two weeks. And very disproportionately to homeless. I guarantee it's a citation given while being belligerent and doing other illegal stuff, not given out by itself.
It's most likely just a citation. The homeless drug addicts don't go to court, and it becomes a warrant which gives law enforcement greater authority to search someone's personal belongings.
Originally Posted By EagleOfWar⏩
This. If someone wants to ride a bike with/without a helmet it should be their choice to make.

But JFL

I’m sure cops were sitting there counting through passing cyclist like

white,
white,
white..
a black one! Let’s go get em boys!

Flips sirens and spins out after them.
Yes, every white cop in seattle is just thirsting at the opportunity to become the next derek chauvin, "unjustly" targeting black guys. cops profile by a lot of things, but race isn't one of them. how a person dresses/presents themselves in public says way more about someone than their skin color.
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So it's disproportionate law enforcement and not disproportionate criminality?

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They should make murder legal since black and brown people commit and get punished for disproportionate amounts of murder.
Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
It shouldn't be a law, but their reasoning is retarded.
but also this
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Originally Posted By dabbmw2002⏩
It shouldn't be a law, but their reasoning is retarded.
This.
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Originally Posted By Kev1972⏩
I mean when you steal a bike most people don't leave the helmet out with it.
This and the cops just give them tickets to harass them cause they'll never pay. Also they don't even take the bikes away
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Well I saw a guy shooting heroin in his neck downtown, so Seattle has other problems they need to fix first lol.
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Originally Posted By monster0ultra⏩
The real bullchit is seatbelts. Newer cars, the alarm starts going of if it's not clicked in.
Yeah but lettuce be cereal, anyone who drives without a seatbelt is a fuking retard.
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