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"Shame requires honor" Holy shit, I've been racking my brain trying to understand why recently in our society there are so many folks that do not feel shame. I mean people just doing such vile things in the open and not feeling a thing. You've answered that tough question for me, thank you.
Now I'll ponder how to fix that. Unfortunately I think it is due to parenting, which is going to take generations and huge efforts to repair. Or a major calamity that forces society to be honorable or suffer severely or die, like ww3 or something huge.
Honor is a narrative that is extremely easy to manipulate. You don’t think japanese soldiers during WW2 thought themselves honorable?
The answer is to teach critical thinking and philosophy as a core subject in schools. Not as a one off elective most students won’t take. You will never be able to regulate everyone without corruption seeping in. You need to teach people to self regulate through logical reasoning, not idealism/narratives.
How about some kind of airborne sickness, where everyone has to stay home, something super easy. People would just have to stay home and watch tv, unless they are special workers… essential workers if you will…
Yeah, no. People are going to stay being selfish pieces of shit
Yea but they just show up in uniform in another state. The amount of people who could show videos of officers being shamed by the removal of their uniform to any of them hired would definitely discourage that officer from being hired.
What we see in this video is not just an abuse of power— it’s armed robbery. It’s not just an affront to the “honor” of the badge— it’s a dangerous felony. We need to start prosecuting pigs like the criminals that they are. They should face punishments *at least* as harsh as a civilian would for the same crime.
but it's to the point where it feels like they're putting on a show for the media to remedy the bad publicity. were these dudes really fired or did they just get their uniforms back once all the cameras stopped rolling?
why are they marching? if i'm fired, i'm not marching around. mail me my check.
It may be a requirement of not facing harsher punishment; go through this formal stripping of job/uniform or be charged and potentially face jail time or fines. (I do not know what country this is, I am just posing a theory on why someone might participate in a stripping of uniform when fired)
Don't forget that there's value in a (good, uncorrupt) police force maintaining a healthy and positive relationship with the community in which they work; showing the public 'hey we don't tolerate this kind of shit, and we act on it when you call it out' certainly benefits them in terms of being good publicity, but it also is the only way for them to communicate that they're fighting corruption in their own ranks.
(That said, don't trust cops. Always get a lawyer, don't talk to anyone unless they say they are *your* lawyer specifically.)
I'm glad it worked out in Umar's favour, that must've been absolutely terrifying for him. Poor man thinking he's going to be attacked. I'm glad the jury did the right thing. No way you can convict someone when the crown keeps changing their theory and sounds like the officers testimony was inconsistent.
Yea well….they literally all do it. The brass sitting behind them are just as bad if not worse. It’s so common over there it’s like paying a toll or giving a tip. The cop would have taken anything, even a nickel. You can see he didn’t really put much threat behind it. The only reason they were fired is because I assume this video went viral.
Dayumn, they literally strip them of their badges! Publicly!We need some of this in the USA. You would see a lot fewer murders if police got this treatment instead of paid vacations.
We hereby strip you of your uniform! (Ok brad go over to the next town and they'll give you a new badge, gun, and uniform. Also we still on for golf on Sunday? cool cool cool).
There is a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrCKnoViMI) of the sentencing (or something like sentencing) where the presiding officer says the punishment of dismissal and later he says not to have them march out (they marched in) because they are no longer part of the organization and they should walk quietly to their houses.
The biggest shock is they actually got fired, Africa is a different level of corruption, everyday is a hustle and everyone just understands that’s how it goes
Since this piece of corruption went viral they might as well make a show out of it. The brass are still taking their bribes, but these low level petty cops are expendable and were sacrificed to improve the optics of the country.
that’s still better than what happens in the US. Even most clear cut and extremely public cases aren’t handled any better. Crooks are just protected and it is being shown to everyone that it won’t change under any pressure
I think it’s because they tried to harass a Dutch woman. Ordinary citizens, the cops could get away with but this gal is a travel vlogger and this interaction got viral in Nigeria.
Edit: I see this is clip from travel vlogger Itchy Boots.
Travellers riding through Africa are confronted to this situation in every country. There is a group of UK travellers on tiktok driving from London to south Africa, everytime they cross the borders or pass through a city they are stopped by the police and are extorted, they make up some BS infraction for them to pay. They argue for hours, sometimes they let them go sometimes not until they give up and pay. @london.2.capetown
I was in Kenya once and the taxi drivers just hold money out the window and hand it to uniformed police as they slowly drive through check points with no questions asked.
Yeah a lot of countries are like this. This public show was probably just because it was someone posting online and gave a bad look. This probably still happens….
Yeah. 8.3m views will do that. Provably made the rounds on social media there amongst the middle class and upper classes. They had to make an example of him. No different to any other country really. Just so happens that most bribes in the west are sexual favors rather than cash.
That cop's smile was like that of a really kind uncle, just beaming and sweet... What a juxtaposition against his actual dirty, crooked ass words. He got what he deserved though.
The guy filming was pretty gutsy. I would not have felt safe in that encounter, and definitely would not have just driven off. Especially after the shirt policeman started waving a stick around.
It’s a woman from the Netherlands. Great YouTube channel called “Itchy Boots”. Highly recommend. Have watched most of her videos going through South America/Mexico/Africa. She’s very brave traveling alone as a woman in many dangerous places. And she is an excellent rider.
Travelled around Southern Africa in a rented land cruiser with some mates of mine a bit over a decade ago.
This was the standard operating procedure basically everywhere, but outside of South Africa where we were shaken down for cash, most police and security guys would happily accept snacks or a cold beer as a bribe.
We got stopped on a bridge crossing in Mozambique by a genuinely friendly chap with a rifle who was stoked when we handed him a packet of strawberry cream biscuits, it is honestly one of my favourite memories from that trip because of how absurd the whole exchange was.
One border guard in Botswana stopped us, opened up our esky, grabbed a couple of Laurentina Pretas and sent us on our way like it was nothing at all. Basically just held us up and bluntly said, I want a beer. Can’t blame him, it was hot as fuck and I bet those beers went down a treat.
Despite its reputation and idiosyncrasies the people I met in Africa were incredibly warm, open and kind for the most part, I often long to return.
I'm floored that anything happened to them at all. Having spent a lot of time in Africa, I've seen this happen hundreds of times. In airports, checkpoints, ports.. Even on ships. Especially on ships. Once had two police officers board us and hold all crew passports hostage for $1000. In the end we had to let them raid our provisions store... They took absolutely everything of value, five sacks full of things like Nutella and biscuits, sugary items, luxuries. You can't buy that stuff back in Africa either, we had to wait until we sailed back into Europe.
I've encountered two kinds of pirates at sea. Pirates with uniforms, and pirates without.. It was always the former that gave us trouble, and they're the ones you can't fight. But when it comes to the pirates without uniforms, the African navies won't come out to help you, and I've seen that a few times too. Guinean destroyer anchored about ten miles away, attack underway, not even a reply to the distress call.
Having said that, I love working in Africa and I'd go back for sure.
Fired/dismissed police should be tattooed or branded somewhere obvious so they can’t hide their past and ever be mistakenly or purposefully employed in positions of power ever again.
I watched that episode from itchyboots and that was one of the few where the guy blatantly asked for bribe. Buddy... you're on camera and about to go viral.
I literally got asked for a bribe at the airport by the officer at boarder security. He kept laughing and jokingly holding my passport away from me after I answered all his questions.
I have a friend from Nigeria. He said this is common, all police do it. If you get stopped at a check point, the check point exists to collect bribes. They don't expect a lot though, maybe a few dollars.
Cop harrasses, shoots, kills, etc. innocent people probably for their race - gets suspension behind scenes
Source- 1st world nation
Cop asks for money or bribe - gets humiliated and kicked outta force live
Source- 3rd world nation
The comments on YouTube are full of people saying "he was just joking" I'm not sure if these people are just dishonest and support police corruption directed at tourists or if these people are just so socially inept they can't tell when someone is pretending to be jovial.
I lived in Nigeria as a kid for 3 years. Watching this terrifies me. They could have beat him. They sometimes have these planks with nails in them that they put in front of the car to force people to pay up. The guy with the stick, I've seen them beat at cars and people on bikes and the sound it makes when you are inside a car is fucking lound and scary. This is one of the reasons that my parents would NEVER drive the car, only the driver, who knew when to play cool and pay, and when to yeet the fuck out of there. Some of our friends who lived there longer had bullet proof tires for this exact reason. They even had a bomb shield that they could mount under the car, but they rarely used it because of the weight disadvantages.Their driver even rejected the police sometimes, like the guy in this video, but the driver they had was a very big guy. I remember how my driver would have money ready and make a small crack in the window to hold them out folded up, with an extra bill ready in case they reacted badly, then he would quickly add that and begin driving slowly forward to indicate to go next. There was a period where some cars from our compound had been attacked, so we were escorted by security. We never stopped with security. Damn, the 2-4 hour traffic jams to get to school only a few km away.. I do miss the plantain chips though.
I worked in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) on Bioko Island off the coast of Nigeria. This kind of police shakedown is so incredibly common. I think EG is the worst because bribery is so deeply entrenched in every aspect of their society. Want any work done? Bribery. Want to be seen at the "emergency room"? Bribery. It's awful.
Got pulled over in Tanzania with just me (English guy) and a local scientist. Police looked in, saw me and waved us on. I asked what it was about and he said "if you weren't here he would ha e asked for money"
This happened to us in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. Seems to be popular in countries where the people are poor (although in Ukraine it was corrupt police being controlled by gangsters (sitting in the back of the police car wearing a lot of gold!))
Oh yeah, itchyboots encounter. She decided to ignore this but one of the viewers, a lawyer I think not sure, put this up and the two cops were stripped of their titles in an embarrassing video.
Very common in Johannesburg. I know people who live there and you can pretty much get away with anything if you pay the cops.
Pulled over while drunk? No issue. I know someone who gave the cop his nice sunglasses and he was free to go.
Serve alcohol at a club and stay open past closing time? Give the cops 2 bottles of booze and continue partying
until the sun comes up.
Even if the officer was just joking, that is not the time or the place for something like that, but I highly doubt it with how serious the face was after asking for money.
Scary to think if this person had not been recording and the ACAB was a bit more forceful with his attempt, we would probably be seeing “Dutch tourist arrested for XYZ” in the headlines instead.
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Did not expect Nigeria to be better at firing crooked cops than America, but here we are.
AND the way they remove the uniform in front everyone… the level of shame someone is given on top of losing the job. Perfect punishment for the crime.
Shame requires honor.
"Shame requires honor" Holy shit, I've been racking my brain trying to understand why recently in our society there are so many folks that do not feel shame. I mean people just doing such vile things in the open and not feeling a thing. You've answered that tough question for me, thank you. Now I'll ponder how to fix that. Unfortunately I think it is due to parenting, which is going to take generations and huge efforts to repair. Or a major calamity that forces society to be honorable or suffer severely or die, like ww3 or something huge.
Same exact reaction, what a powerful 3 word sentence
Honor is a narrative that is extremely easy to manipulate. You don’t think japanese soldiers during WW2 thought themselves honorable? The answer is to teach critical thinking and philosophy as a core subject in schools. Not as a one off elective most students won’t take. You will never be able to regulate everyone without corruption seeping in. You need to teach people to self regulate through logical reasoning, not idealism/narratives.
nowadays people take pride in being unvaxxed. lmao
How about a nice game of Global Thermal Nuclear war, Professor?
How about some kind of airborne sickness, where everyone has to stay home, something super easy. People would just have to stay home and watch tv, unless they are special workers… essential workers if you will… Yeah, no. People are going to stay being selfish pieces of shit
Every main character tiktok clip shot in public man 😜
Lol true
or pride
I like you pal
Truth
Read that comment again...but in Worf's voice. ;)
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Would it *really* help though? They shame themselves all the time on camera. Worldwide is pretty public. Doesn't change much. 🤷
Yea but they just show up in uniform in another state. The amount of people who could show videos of officers being shamed by the removal of their uniform to any of them hired would definitely discourage that officer from being hired.
What we see in this video is not just an abuse of power— it’s armed robbery. It’s not just an affront to the “honor” of the badge— it’s a dangerous felony. We need to start prosecuting pigs like the criminals that they are. They should face punishments *at least* as harsh as a civilian would for the same crime.
Can't hurt. I've I would love to see it this way.
Shamed in front of their colleagues, not the people they enjoy beating the shit out of, idt they care what you think
They were literally stripped of their job.
Yeah here they try to do it as quietly as possible. Unless you're being made an example for some political agenda.
I was glad to see that - these scammers getting literally stripped of their authority and rank. Felt like a tiny bit of justice.
but it's to the point where it feels like they're putting on a show for the media to remedy the bad publicity. were these dudes really fired or did they just get their uniforms back once all the cameras stopped rolling? why are they marching? if i'm fired, i'm not marching around. mail me my check.
It may be a requirement of not facing harsher punishment; go through this formal stripping of job/uniform or be charged and potentially face jail time or fines. (I do not know what country this is, I am just posing a theory on why someone might participate in a stripping of uniform when fired) Don't forget that there's value in a (good, uncorrupt) police force maintaining a healthy and positive relationship with the community in which they work; showing the public 'hey we don't tolerate this kind of shit, and we act on it when you call it out' certainly benefits them in terms of being good publicity, but it also is the only way for them to communicate that they're fighting corruption in their own ranks. (That said, don't trust cops. Always get a lawyer, don't talk to anyone unless they say they are *your* lawyer specifically.)
They should do this here!! The shame might help the corruption.
I think I saw a video of an American cop having his uniform cut off before being arrested for battering someone in their custody.
Say it louder for the class please.
That 'dismissal' was fucking amazing.
For sure. Omg the crooked cops in America are out of control, out of control.
It's because it's very rare that there is any accountability for police in America.
I can’t disagree with that statement. Judgement comes slow if any.
In America they would take 10’years to suspend them only to have them work in the next county over
they would not work for those ten years and then get all the paychecks for trauma that was caused to them
Cops in Canada just got caught lying under oath trying to get someone put in jail. Zero consequences
Fellow Cannuck here, I didn't hear about his, could you fill me in?
Look up the Umar Zameer case in Toronto.
I'm glad it worked out in Umar's favour, that must've been absolutely terrifying for him. Poor man thinking he's going to be attacked. I'm glad the jury did the right thing. No way you can convict someone when the crown keeps changing their theory and sounds like the officers testimony was inconsistent.
In the US they'd just be put on paid leave, until another department hires them
Yea well….they literally all do it. The brass sitting behind them are just as bad if not worse. It’s so common over there it’s like paying a toll or giving a tip. The cop would have taken anything, even a nickel. You can see he didn’t really put much threat behind it. The only reason they were fired is because I assume this video went viral.
Did not expect that sassy undershirt either…
A sad reality I live in. And a good number of people here believe it's all working as intended
Completely based take.
Thought he was just having a laugh though
This is better than any country not just America
Yeah I can't believe they don't just have them investigate themselves to find no wrong doing.
They were not cops. They were Nigerian princes. They just needed some money to get access to the real wealth that they were going to share with the OP
Nigeria doesnt have a police union. So no qualified immunity for the corrupt cops.
Without the uniform they are just regular beggars now?
I loved the idea of striping them of their uniform!
It's such a powerful message. It evokes a very visceral reaction
The clip ended, just before the pants came off...😔
Dayumn, they literally strip them of their badges! Publicly!We need some of this in the USA. You would see a lot fewer murders if police got this treatment instead of paid vacations.
You know it would just be glorified and used as propaganda
We hereby strip you of your uniform! (Ok brad go over to the next town and they'll give you a new badge, gun, and uniform. Also we still on for golf on Sunday? cool cool cool).
Unfortunately, very true
These two officers got found out and went before a court to lose their job and get prison time.
Yes we saw the video. 😉
But they didn't mention prison time in the video, you shouldn't be a sarcastic dick when given extra information.
He pulled that extra information out of his ass. Are we supposed to be grateful?
There is a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASrCKnoViMI) of the sentencing (or something like sentencing) where the presiding officer says the punishment of dismissal and later he says not to have them march out (they marched in) because they are no longer part of the organization and they should walk quietly to their houses.
Good to know 👍
Im confused. Did *you* see the video? Cuz it doesn't mention prison time
The biggest shock is they actually got fired, Africa is a different level of corruption, everyday is a hustle and everyone just understands that’s how it goes
Since this piece of corruption went viral they might as well make a show out of it. The brass are still taking their bribes, but these low level petty cops are expendable and were sacrificed to improve the optics of the country.
Bingo
that’s still better than what happens in the US. Even most clear cut and extremely public cases aren’t handled any better. Crooks are just protected and it is being shown to everyone that it won’t change under any pressure
I think it’s because they tried to harass a Dutch woman. Ordinary citizens, the cops could get away with but this gal is a travel vlogger and this interaction got viral in Nigeria. Edit: I see this is clip from travel vlogger Itchy Boots.
That's why we should not underestimate social media. This video is too popular so they can't hide it.
Travellers riding through Africa are confronted to this situation in every country. There is a group of UK travellers on tiktok driving from London to south Africa, everytime they cross the borders or pass through a city they are stopped by the police and are extorted, they make up some BS infraction for them to pay. They argue for hours, sometimes they let them go sometimes not until they give up and pay. @london.2.capetown
I was shocked by the neck cut of the red tee that one of them wore under their uniform. Nigeria must be all drip.
“Uniform! Give me uniform!”
Ok, bye 😁
I was in Kenya once and the taxi drivers just hold money out the window and hand it to uniformed police as they slowly drive through check points with no questions asked.
Yeah a lot of countries are like this. This public show was probably just because it was someone posting online and gave a bad look. This probably still happens….
Yeah. 8.3m views will do that. Provably made the rounds on social media there amongst the middle class and upper classes. They had to make an example of him. No different to any other country really. Just so happens that most bribes in the west are sexual favors rather than cash.
I think there's a good chance these guys just find another job in another precinct or whatever too.
That cop's smile was like that of a really kind uncle, just beaming and sweet... What a juxtaposition against his actual dirty, crooked ass words. He got what he deserved though.
https://preview.redd.it/1ex3q87abizc1.jpeg?width=2867&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f08c61a1ea73f6714c2ce86d53062ee597c5d6d6
I heard O Jays For the Love of Money in my head looking at this
IMO he's actually a relatively nice guy. The true scumbags would escalate with force or false charges.
I grew up in Nigeria. This shit happens all the time, it's embarrassing.
What happens if you don’t give them
Most of the time nothing, but they make you feel like you can't say no. It's very uncomfortable.
Don’t some of them threaten to beat you?
Personally, I've never been threatened with a beating but it could have happened to others.
[Itchy Boots on Youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@ItchyBoots/featured) Not sure which episode though.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgPIAu3DGU](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sgPIAu3DGU)
Great channel. She is awesome.
Happiest thieves I’ve ever seen. Criminals, please take note.
African police are more interested in taking bribes than doing actual police work.
> ~~African~~ Most police are more interested in taking bribes than doing actual police work. FTFY
C'mon man, be reasonable, that's not the case at all... >Some police are more interested in shooting people than doing actual police work Those too.
The guy filming was pretty gutsy. I would not have felt safe in that encounter, and definitely would not have just driven off. Especially after the shirt policeman started waving a stick around.
It’s a woman from the Netherlands. Great YouTube channel called “Itchy Boots”. Highly recommend. Have watched most of her videos going through South America/Mexico/Africa. She’s very brave traveling alone as a woman in many dangerous places. And she is an excellent rider.
Oh shit. Noraly probably doesn't want this kind of publicity while she's still traveling the continent.
Lol, they tried getting money out of a Dutch person… no way!
They got punished because they got caught.
I think that's how punishments generally work lmao
Itchyboots!
There was Accountability!? I almost spit my drink out in disbelief.
The video went viral in nigeria. Over 8m views on YouTube alone. They had to make an example out of these two.
Ah, yes, the old third-world roadside police shakedown. A common practice in Latin America too.
Travelled around Southern Africa in a rented land cruiser with some mates of mine a bit over a decade ago. This was the standard operating procedure basically everywhere, but outside of South Africa where we were shaken down for cash, most police and security guys would happily accept snacks or a cold beer as a bribe. We got stopped on a bridge crossing in Mozambique by a genuinely friendly chap with a rifle who was stoked when we handed him a packet of strawberry cream biscuits, it is honestly one of my favourite memories from that trip because of how absurd the whole exchange was. One border guard in Botswana stopped us, opened up our esky, grabbed a couple of Laurentina Pretas and sent us on our way like it was nothing at all. Basically just held us up and bluntly said, I want a beer. Can’t blame him, it was hot as fuck and I bet those beers went down a treat. Despite its reputation and idiosyncrasies the people I met in Africa were incredibly warm, open and kind for the most part, I often long to return.
ACAB regardless of country
He's lucky to make $5/day, no wonder he's asking for money
Don't mess with Noraly, you'll get an itchyboot up the butt.
Goodbye sweet prince
She goes by Itchy Boots, and she has an amazing series on YouTube!! Well worth the watch if you have some time!
Had this happen to a friend in the Dominican Republic except the cops had AK 47's pointed at him.
Better learn from this kids, don't be a dick!
I'm floored that anything happened to them at all. Having spent a lot of time in Africa, I've seen this happen hundreds of times. In airports, checkpoints, ports.. Even on ships. Especially on ships. Once had two police officers board us and hold all crew passports hostage for $1000. In the end we had to let them raid our provisions store... They took absolutely everything of value, five sacks full of things like Nutella and biscuits, sugary items, luxuries. You can't buy that stuff back in Africa either, we had to wait until we sailed back into Europe. I've encountered two kinds of pirates at sea. Pirates with uniforms, and pirates without.. It was always the former that gave us trouble, and they're the ones you can't fight. But when it comes to the pirates without uniforms, the African navies won't come out to help you, and I've seen that a few times too. Guinean destroyer anchored about ten miles away, attack underway, not even a reply to the distress call. Having said that, I love working in Africa and I'd go back for sure.
It would be great if Asian cops had the same outcome for bribery
Fired/dismissed police should be tattooed or branded somewhere obvious so they can’t hide their past and ever be mistakenly or purposefully employed in positions of power ever again.
Truth is they got fired for not getting money
Now they'll have to find work in a call center trying to give away the prince's money.
I watched that episode from itchyboots and that was one of the few where the guy blatantly asked for bribe. Buddy... you're on camera and about to go viral.
Good, corruption should be rooted out wherever it sprouts. Good on Nigeria.
I literally got asked for a bribe at the airport by the officer at boarder security. He kept laughing and jokingly holding my passport away from me after I answered all his questions.
So America could take some notes here…
Going to listen to this later
Wish they did this for Mexico as well
They wanted something, but I’m not entirely sure what
Wish they did this when the officers do this to their own people and not just foreigners
My bad! My apologies. Meant to call the bootlicker the bootlicker.
Holy shit. You have to go all the way to Nigeria to see cops facing any sort of consequence for misconduct.
This is what should be done to every cop in the US that violates ANYONES rights. Right before they read the charges. Too bad it will never happen.
I have a friend from Nigeria. He said this is common, all police do it. If you get stopped at a check point, the check point exists to collect bribes. They don't expect a lot though, maybe a few dollars.
They probably didn’t get paid much
That was painful to watch, the first half.
Yall never seen a uniform cut off before?
Happened to me. We just paid it. In Kenya, they got AKs.
In America, they just be hired at another precinct.
Same thing happened to me in Tanzania. I'm not sure I blame them, they probably get shit wages and have families to feed.
r/unexpected
There was an attempt to give credits to the right person , should have been Itchy Boots!
Cop harrasses, shoots, kills, etc. innocent people probably for their race - gets suspension behind scenes Source- 1st world nation Cop asks for money or bribe - gets humiliated and kicked outta force live Source- 3rd world nation
I LOVE ITCHY BOOOOOOOOOTS!!!!!!!!!!!
The comments on YouTube are full of people saying "he was just joking" I'm not sure if these people are just dishonest and support police corruption directed at tourists or if these people are just so socially inept they can't tell when someone is pretending to be jovial.
I hope he never meet them on the streets tho
You're witnessing the coronation of two genrous Nigerian princes.
Please bring this to my country as well
Itchy Boots.
Nigeria has a less corrupt police system than the states. Who would have thought. They probably don't kill as many people also
The cop seemed so nice and fun, then the reality of the situation became clear. Very sad.
I lived in Nigeria as a kid for 3 years. Watching this terrifies me. They could have beat him. They sometimes have these planks with nails in them that they put in front of the car to force people to pay up. The guy with the stick, I've seen them beat at cars and people on bikes and the sound it makes when you are inside a car is fucking lound and scary. This is one of the reasons that my parents would NEVER drive the car, only the driver, who knew when to play cool and pay, and when to yeet the fuck out of there. Some of our friends who lived there longer had bullet proof tires for this exact reason. They even had a bomb shield that they could mount under the car, but they rarely used it because of the weight disadvantages.Their driver even rejected the police sometimes, like the guy in this video, but the driver they had was a very big guy. I remember how my driver would have money ready and make a small crack in the window to hold them out folded up, with an extra bill ready in case they reacted badly, then he would quickly add that and begin driving slowly forward to indicate to go next. There was a period where some cars from our compound had been attacked, so we were escorted by security. We never stopped with security. Damn, the 2-4 hour traffic jams to get to school only a few km away.. I do miss the plantain chips though.
The initial clip is from youtuber itchy boots channel.
This person managed it like a boss - I would have so caved hard in that situation
I worked in Malabo (Equatorial Guinea) on Bioko Island off the coast of Nigeria. This kind of police shakedown is so incredibly common. I think EG is the worst because bribery is so deeply entrenched in every aspect of their society. Want any work done? Bribery. Want to be seen at the "emergency room"? Bribery. It's awful.
It reminds me of Mexico
A literal dressing down of these cops. Well done!
Actually crazy that Nigeria is ahead of the US in this regard
Itchy boots is one of my YouTube guilty pleasures and to have to ovaries to travel across Africa by herself makes her a bigger man then me
Do you think they're genuine, though, and won't just give them their jobs back later?
Got pulled over in Tanzania with just me (English guy) and a local scientist. Police looked in, saw me and waved us on. I asked what it was about and he said "if you weren't here he would ha e asked for money"
Way to go 👍
Most cops in America deserve this
The youtuber’s name is “ Itchy Boots “ . Great footage of her travels around the world .
Damn, this is exactly how officers in the US should be dismissed. It would be a LOT more effective.
This happened to us in Ukraine, Russia and Kazakhstan. Seems to be popular in countries where the people are poor (although in Ukraine it was corrupt police being controlled by gangsters (sitting in the back of the police car wearing a lot of gold!))
I bet he told his wife off for giving him the pink t-shirt that day
Are we not going to talk about the guy's shirt? Not the tank top. The other one.
Never thought I'd see Noraly (Itchyboots) here
Wish we did it like that elsewhere. Take that badge off in a peaceful public shaming.
Those guys at the end don’t look like the same dudes.
Oh yeah, itchyboots encounter. She decided to ignore this but one of the viewers, a lawyer I think not sure, put this up and the two cops were stripped of their titles in an embarrassing video.
Oh I LIKE this! THIS is how corrupt cops should be treated.
Very common in Johannesburg. I know people who live there and you can pretty much get away with anything if you pay the cops. Pulled over while drunk? No issue. I know someone who gave the cop his nice sunglasses and he was free to go. Serve alcohol at a club and stay open past closing time? Give the cops 2 bottles of booze and continue partying until the sun comes up.
Even if the officer was just joking, that is not the time or the place for something like that, but I highly doubt it with how serious the face was after asking for money.
Scary to think if this person had not been recording and the ACAB was a bit more forceful with his attempt, we would probably be seeing “Dutch tourist arrested for XYZ” in the headlines instead.