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Cop yells at pedestrian upset at motorist who nearly flattened him in a crosswalk

Mike Ball, these days hobbling around with several broken ribs and his arm in a sling, recounts what happened when he dared yell at a driver who almost took him out at a crosswalk on River Street in Hyde Park today: A cop came out of nowhere and started yelling at him:

Unbelievably, he told me:

  • He would have gotten to it and handled it, if only I had not turned and pointed at the driver
  • I had no right to point at her
  • My actions, inexplicably by geometry and time, caused him not to apprehend the driver for the crimes he had witnessed
  • Even though my walking through the crosswalk had slowed the aggressive driver, his not bothering to take two or three strides toward her and stop her was somehow my fault and not that of his indolence
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Earlier today I had to figure out whether the masshole being held up at a crosswalk was honking at the person pushing the baby carriage, or the blind person heading in the opposite direction..... i was really wishing a cop was watching, but maybe it would have only ended up costing the blind person a $20 ticket.

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