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LAPD Cracks Down on Street Takeovers with Zero Tolerance Policy

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0:00 thank you [Music] guys know about street takeovers right yeah yeah yeah getting pretty sick of them what do you think I'm not really around them but um Gilbert our friend Gilbert has them outside of his ████ house because he lives in that area where they like yeah yeah well they do takeovers a lot on this corner bro like he'll just look out of his window and then they're just like and it's like everyone has other people like yeah recording what do you think would happen if he starts throwing fireworks down there like you think they'll just go yeah yeah probably I've seen some crazy videos where this guy was standing on a light pole and with like a cement base and this charger or Challenger it's usually one of those Challengers or Chargers drives right into it looked like he was trying to hit him and crash right so I was like oh

0:50 this is like craziness does that happen all the time I take over dude there's worse ████ no there's a funny one do you see do you see the one where a car ran over a dude but all it did was rip off his pants yeah and ran over his legs and then the spinning tires took his pants and underwear off but people are getting bashed all the time whenever the cops arrive they just do it in circles around them the only thing this is probably the thing I hate the most about them is that it just blatantly exposes how unequipped our law enforcement is to even have a chance of dealing with it every single time the cops are just get they just get water throwing them laughed at they can't do nothing because mostly people under age too yeah I'm surprised that so like this would have never ████ happened in my teens when cops come through dude they're

1:40 ground accepted back then but now they're against it well yeah because back then it was like oh if you if you got beat up by a cop you probably ████ up somehow but I missed police brutality I think I just feel like it's not fair that I had to go through something completely different than these ████ because that looks really fun as a team yeah that's what I look my teen brain is like you're a bitter OG just like all the people I'm absolutely staring like because if that's our generation the cops would already falling in the like Riot people tear gas ████ bean bags like shotguns like the highest form of non-lethal force would have been used but then now they got like all these PR issues they have to deal with so they like immediately they would do it yeah I've seen cops get ████ taunted with like he's about to wrestleman he runs

2:31 off and another person I never would have saw that dude it's it's crazy because uh the laughable headline right now is that LAPD has decided to have a zero tolerance policy [Music] used to be crazy dude they really can't do and it's not I'm not like saying it's lapd's fault it's the state's fault for making their efforts nullify oh they cut off the ████ arms and hands and Dick if they arrested every single person at a takeover they would have to let him go right away like it's not gonna stick Plus on the other side of that they're now saying they're gonna start impounding all the cars even the spectators how they don't got enough tow trucks but I bet you all the Armenians right now are like oh buddy let's do it because the main the main reason with

3:21 these takeovers and anything of that nature is that when they try to disperse the crowd is more danger potentially happens because that's all everybody yeah there's been lots of situations where people fleeing takeovers have been killed there's been accidents or been all kinds of stuff and recently there was that takeover where all the people from the Takeover uh or a s███████ of them rush into a 7-Eleven and just looted the ████ oh yeah I saw that it's like they're seeing in Fast and the Furious remember when the cops come and then all the cars just ████ yeah exactly but look at how just like um and I'm just speaking out a turn here but can't they just ████ you know on the side just wait at the end of the day because they're not trying to like kill a bunch of people obviously it's not it shouldn't be acceptable all the time but can't they just like take notes write down all the ████ license plates or film everything and stuff like that and then instead of thinking like put them in

4:11 jail but then you can't hold him and just hit him you have to let them go can't they just put up some ridiculous fine for this type of crime but that's not the issue the half of the battle is the pr issue right so you have a cop showing up there he's writing notes the guys still continuing with donuts now everyone is going oh my God the police don't even care and that becomes this becomes a nightmare they should just like but that's how they don't show up so they just don't show up that's what I'm saying they just don't show up you take ████ photos of everything and everybody who's there everybody's got a photo when they find them later they give them like a three thousand dollar fine for being there this is what they do I figure it out because as a kid if you get fined like a thousand dollars that your life is ████ you know what I mean while they're doing the takeovers but our D.A likes this stuff the police needs to creep up and just throw those Rumble what are those called the strips oh yeah they just gonna surround the area with strips so when they drive off

5:05 the reason the reason they can't do that is because they they're not allowed to let these people even get hurt that's the thing if they get hurt because of a cop putting strips out here yeah because then they would just boost it's like so fast yeah Fast and Furious was like it's a movie right like but there were that came from our ████ generation right so like but when it happened in Our Generation all I ████ remember is when cops came someone was gonna get ████ because that was their ████ it's like one of us is gonna get ████ right and then they do ████ Corner box they take cars down they take any human being that they can take and then we all hear about it oh you heard about so-and-so they took his car they ████ did this to him who's gonna ████ have to deal with so much ████ and then little by little everyone got scared to go out and race I'm surprised no one's like bought

5:57 up like a bunch of land and just like put Road in there and then like they made it a designated spot Oh Come dude they tried to help ████ they try to help that situation by opening up some of the Speedways to straight up take over style me it's but it's not the same so it's not to say because it's not illegal the illegal thing is the fun part this so here you guys know what Bots dots are Bots and Knots Bots dots no no I know it is the dumbest ████ solution they came up with to try to to fix this so they put this in the popular intersections in Compton where people were doing uh street takeovers it's pretty much just those bumps in the road you know those little yellow like turtle shells so they put a bunch of those ████ cars up I hate like at the gas station I don't realize how fast let's see how Bots Dodge did in this Zero Tolerance it's called why do they call

6:47 that but dots aren't stopping Street takeovers in Compton they just use the best this is what it looked like overnight at Central and Alondra the drivers getting in circles to a crowd of Spectators they did this for more than an hour and later the same thing happened at Bots dots intersection at Wilmington and college it's another only doing it just stopped the tires from spinning Compton has spent more than four thousand dollars installing them on four different intersections good job guys I thought they were like you know at the gas station where the floors like all misleveled and it's like big things that's what I thought those were I didn't realize those little yellow things ████ you gotta you gotta earn their respect you know when you got like skaters and ████ right and the cops

7:38 come hey you can't skate here whatever when the cop goes let me let me see this skateboard let me see let me get this game oh the cop gotta get it he's got to join in dude it wasn't all respect dude if you can't beat him you gotta join them bro oh ████ and then and then if the cop beats you they get your pink slip yeah yeah yeah bring up the ████ the cops doing it the prison bus yeah you gotta earn the respect I think Bart's onto something they gotta try that out because the Bots dots whatever those ████ names are ridiculous Name by the way or what if we just totally embrace the culture like

8:29 like police brutality culture we had guns pulled on us out of nowhere I was about to go home do you feel like that helped you be a better person here honestly it gave me a respect for authority but do you think fear for Authority not respect I ████ hated cops Where's the Line Where's the Line how much is too much police brutality well the the videos that we see those are no good oh yeah if there's like four dudes jumping a dude I don't like that yeah I don't like that we just gotta figure out the line you know what I mean put too much police brutality would be like the tragic cases that we see we're like like people die and ████ and all that it's like a little like but to be honest though as a former ████

9:20 dumbass like the general organ if the cops were too easy I would ████ go even harder and that's why we see this happening no I agree I agree it seems like it's such a futile thing especially if they're saying zero tolerance means we're gonna impound everyone's cars it's like dude these guys are driving their beaters that they're crashing into each other it's not gonna kill them that you're taking a competition does not even registered or plated It came it just doesn't seem like there's real fear or Consequences that's the main thing is that like if you get caught nothing's really going to happen to you and I think that's where the ████ problem lies so what do you think would be the solution they can't just find these people like a good amount of money they'll just never pay it well the da isn't pressing charges on anything so they're they're not even going to find anybody because I mean if they're letting violent like Crooks go this is

10:10 the least of their problem yeah if they're out there doing ████ Asian hate ████ beating up grandmas all day and then they're like you could keep going out and beat up more like come on dude like takeovers is the least of their problem we had a cop come into the store that I that I work with sometimes and he told us that in in a span of three weeks he had arrested the same guy three times but he just keeps getting out like they'll take him in and then he'll immediately get out yeah I've heard this by so many like officers not just in California but the more blue States there's a policy going on that's more about trying to be reformed right so so they'll catch people and they're doing their job catching people yeah but the prosecutor isn't putting them in and and like and like putting them to court they're not they're not Prosecuting they're they're not doing their job

11:02 because they feel like oh no we need to reform but then they're like well then create a reforming program don't just say they don't need to go to jail because we need a reform that is a reforming program yeah that's the thing that sucks is that now it's like La has this reputation of total lawlessness in a way and uh it feels like Gotham yeah it kind of does cool Gotham but that's that's the funny that's the funny joke and kind of the sadness about hearing La say we're taking Zero Tolerance policy it's like okay nice bumps on the road by the way okay Commissioner Gordon I'm down if the police tag team the ████ fire department and they come and they just blast them with the hose that'll be tight and they're just like hit the guy that's swinging out oh ████ they get their cars all wet especially after they like just wash their car

11:53 and then they have Mike Tyson come through with like a thousand pigeons and they just ████ everywhere that's good that's really good [Music]

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