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California Has Decriminalized Jaywalking in Safe Circumstances

#jaywalking#bikecop#disproportionatelygiven#streetsweeping#semitruck
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0:00 thank you [Music] this article is dedicated to Nick Don let's hear it none all right Nick did you hear the latest news it's gonna be underwhelming um no what's the latest news California has officially legalized or decriminalized I should say jaywalking if this doesn't does that mean that like uh I get that off my record no no it isn't no it's a moving forward thing forward thing so what does this even mean you still can't fly here's what it means if the street was safe to cross and there really was no traffic that could have hit you you won't get a ticket for jaywalking you can cross where there's no crosswalk as long as it was safe to do it why was

0:51 this such a big deal before I'm okay with that I didn't know that's what the actual stipulation was I'm a big fan of that because I think you should be able to so so clarifying one more time for the idiot in the room uh literally as long as I deem it safe I just run across the street as long as it's reasonably safe for a reasonable person to have thought oh it nobody was coming it was fine Define reasonable person in America does that also mean no matter what though like what happens what happens runs out and then like I I bump him with my car and it's not enough that's on them yeah so you could still you could still get in trouble for jaywalking like let's say well if you hit them that's a total different situation but let's say that you were just crossing and you made everybody have to stop and yeah you should get arrested you will get a

1:41 jaywalking ticket you will still get a jaywalk but in a way they just legalized murder that's true because if if I get to hit you that means you ████ up but I get to hit you but they have to be fast enough to not get hit exactly so then it's all good because if you are jaywalking and you stop oncoming traffic in any way you should be hit by car that's that's like New York rules yeah like in New York yeah if ████ are in the crosswalk already and it's not it's not time for them to go like cab drivers will bump you yeah like hey get back on the ████ curve yeah I like that because when I was in El Salvador one of the main things I loved about El Salvador was how yeah exactly and all the pedestrians their heads on a ████ swivel they know exactly where every car is that they're paying attention they're you know crossing the street because there's no like not that many crosswalks at least in the area that I was in yeah but they're all

2:31 paying attention they're all aware all the drivers are paying attention all the pedestrians too so it's all good so that's what we what about that person who's like slightly anxious right who's at the crosswalk already yeah next listen to me buddy you got a ticket okay you're the only guy he's the only jaywalker like seven in the morning you need these examples you need to run through everything technically what I did was legal you know what I mean because I didn't stop traffic recap what you even did I crossed the street at like seven in the morning okay there's nobody nothing right he walked on the crosswalk lines actually and there was no cars I didn't stop any traffic and I got a ticket while I was ordering coffee like a ████ ████ piece of ████ little ████ boy went into the coffee dude I was so confident that

3:21 it had nothing to do with my jaywalking he tapped on my shoulder while I was like oh should I get the Americano should I get a latte right that's what I'm thinking in my ████ head he tasks me in the shoulder he goes can I see you outside and I was like oh for sure officer what's the deal like I thought it was they gonna help him catch a crook yeah I was like yeah like you know I was like yeah I'm a blue belt Jiu Jitsu what can I help you with and he goes I'm gonna give you a ████ ticket for jaywalking and I got did you really say ████ no yeah man that's ████ but sorry what was your scenario again it's not important anymore it should be you said he was Chinese he was some Chinese dude wow I think the bigger the car they should have the right-of-way the bigger the car so a semi truck yeah stay the ████ away true because that guy can't even see he can't even see your ass if he smashes into you it's your fault get the ████ away right you're

4:11 like how can you not see it yeah pedestrians get ran over us the pedestrians you're using a semi truck as an example but he's pleading a case for his car because he's still in the top 95 semi semi trucks away from a ████ semi dude I might get a semi truck here's the interesting uh a very interesting motivation as to why they did this um they're saying that uh jaywalking tickets are disproportionately given out to low-income uh citizens or minorities who can't really afford to pay these tickets dude at the time that ████ 400 ticket was ████ low-income minority in Pasadena one of them sir thank you bro for Hondo it was like yeah it was like four hundo and it was ████ it was total ████ because I think I've ████ driven like 150 and it's not even before dude I gotta take

5:01 it the other day and it's not even ████ I was driving and I crossed the double lines it's not even close to 400 wait 400 yeah you're talking about foreign I'm gonna get that ████ dude that's what he said maybe he's seen you do it every morning bro but that's a thing was that morning that was like the day I decided okay I'm gonna be a little wild you know why because it was the day after my birthday so I was a little confident I was like it's a good day post birthday conference yeah post birthday confidence thank you it sucks that you must have been so pissed the rest of the day now I don't even jaywalk anymore well now you can it's job now I can now I feel like I'm gonna ████ jaywalk because I got the eyes for it but this this doesn't apply to Pasadena though

5:51 you feel like you should do it more to get your 400 worth yeah I'm gonna get my money's back okay that's fine that's good we take luck every day I still feel nervous in the middle of the street yeah we are jaywalking all over the goddamn place oh I feel like we obey the laws we also horizontally jaywalk for some reason like so all you have to you know you're supposed to go you're supposed to go across the street we like walk with the street but we're in the street so it's like wow oh yeah sometimes we walk like ████ sometimes yeah most of the time are we jaywalking or are we marching and protesting see I think that's the line though yeah because what happens to the people that are on the ████ highways that are stopping on the street dude yeah like people that go on the 110 Highway and they start no that's fine protesting the road no ice they don't get they don't get tickets bro they just keep putting the paper up over and over Dude they should get something so so back to an actual scenario though

6:42 the crosswalks you know when the crosswalks got a red hand yeah but it's safe for you to go yeah it's very confusing for something because that's your situation technically that's considered jaywalking if you don't follow the hand now you can go if it's safe but now you can go now you can go even if it's there's a red like there's something that says stop absolutely there's even a car when there's a red light has to stop even if there's not nobody there well it's the same as if you were crossing where there wasn't a lot at all okay I just want to be clear because it's gonna happen just ████ run just just run it's good exercise dude just don't stop traffic DJ run it also looks like you're a little Mischief but then if you walk and you just do a little little small little shimmy looks like you're running do you think do you think that this change is going to result in just a s███████ of people in your way when you're like driving down Hollywood or something in Hollywood

7:32 probably yeah because people are gonna take advantage out there I think you could parallel park now ████ Jack your seat back and then you wait for someone to be doing this ████ [Laughter] I'm telling you and you just made it legal that's the ████ that's the ████ Purge dude that's the purge in our street so you think it's bad for I think that some psychopath people are going to be doing all kinds of ████ maybe God dresses himself up like a ████ car seat so he looks like the seat looks like this seat these guys just upholster his ████ self opens his eyes the whites of his eyes yeah yeah oh ████ yeah well that was a chair and he's like and then he hits you boom you just ████ go up the windshield and then anyone wants you to be like we can't get

8:22 them it's completely legal nobody was driving can't get him no one's driving you guy attitude you guys it was an automated car do you sue Elon Nick do you think you're in that category because the senior staff attorney says that for too long jaywalking laws were used as a pretext to stop and harass people Loki if Colleen thinks I got harassed yeah I got arrested if she gives me the pass too oh saying like if she was kind of everyone else in this room except for Colleen was like well you're a ████ idiot Nick Colleen was actually like empathetic and saying like hey I think this is a problem I think you got targeted so I appreciate you yeah yeah rest you guys don't have my ████ back I'd love her back but like at elac East Salt Lake Community College they targeted students so there's a specific crosswalk that

9:13 would be really slow you know what I'm talking about no I'm just saying I do have your back but at least I'm like baby baby just shouldn't be jaywalking and there was like there's a bike cop was this guy a bike damn it it was a bike cop and you would hide so it's one of those where like here's the uh the the like ████ thrifties or Rite Aid or whatever and then where the loading docks it kind of goes down like this okay and then so the bike cop he can go down here I know that bike cop it is eye level is the ground so no one's a gopher yeah so no one's looking at him and then as soon as people like kids are just like oh ████ I'm gonna be late for class because kids are always late for class they'd run across the street what a ████ always wow on students at a community college yeah jeez that's ████ man it's worse right

10:03 there ████ dude do you feel like these tickets were disproportionately given out to low-income people do you think like if you went to a high income neighborhood and someone was like tickets are always disproportionately given out like look at the ████ street sweeping ████ you think rich people have to give a ████ about that no they're all parking in their garage dude it's all it's a Target ████ poor people well that's disproportionate in both directions the really rich people don't have to worry about it and so do the homeless ████ trailers that have been there for eight months that's true yeah that's very true but really rich people don't have to sweat it you know what we should do everyone in the middle next time we get more rich people like Bobby hundreds that sits here we need to ask them these questions hey you ever got a jaywalking ticket before we need to add that to the gym he's like yeah dude hundreds of times it's like man and then you ask him how much was it he's like I don't know like 20 bucks wait wait what the ████ hey whoa ride

10:53 the guy I I think I'm too I'm too like uh I'd rather just be like I ████ complain about it later I should try though I should try to like haggle with these ████ I don't know if I would recommend that I think it's a try bro I'm gonna try try bribing them yeah walking ticket just escalated further he's just like can I buy you a coffee officer hey can I buy you an Americano thank you for your service my friend yeah I'm gonna find these ████ cops dude so new JK question is have you dealt with Jay Watkins have you ever got a jaywalker and then sweeping street sweeping who doesn't get a street sweeping ticket in La once every ████ dude I didn't even know you could get double did you know that like you ████ I didn't know that I was like sometimes I'm like oh ████ I got one already well I'm just gonna leave my

11:43 car here and then there's another one on top of it the next week yeah and the next week no I used it because I was like I'm like okay I have it on my car already right and then so I'm like give this to me so I'm ████ driving around the whole week and I'm like oh I can't find a parking space I know I'll use the ticket from last week so I'll park dude I used to do that and then and then they'll ████ slap another one on I'm like I got one last week you son of a ████ they might be checking that ████ they'd be like looking at the date yeah they'll just look at this look at the street address it's not the same ████ street that is so ████ nosy for yeah or it's like that one person who like knows that's that's the portion that they are in control over so they're like I need to do this you're on his Beats yeah yeah I like I'm the God of this block dude [Music]

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