Pretext

And They are a civil rights tool in particular.

As a progressive prosecutor, I can say that they are a civil rights tool because they reduce effectively and they reduce and they have effectively made obsolete the old policing practices, dragnet traffic stops, traffic Pretextual stops, stop and frisk, all of the blunt instruments that fall disproportionately on poor communities that have suffered from over-policing and that are the most dangerous of police and citizen encounters.

By taking those encounters out of the community, we are increasing safety by allowing the police to focus where they need to.

Flock is photographs on public roads.

So our city managers decided that maybe we should start doing the reactive policing.

And since then, it's been this long struggle to actually, today, I'm reading in the paper where the city council is looking into removing the pretext stops.

Pretext means, I see that broken taillight, I'm going to use that as a reason to stop the investigating and find out what's going on.

And I think that the proactive policing is the way to go, especially now when we've got all these illegals that have come through that we have no idea who they are.

But they're coming from countries, third world countries that hate us.

So the children of the evil one imitate their father, who's the father of lies.

Pretext, lies, deceptions.

The mayor had no real intent of doing what he said he would do.

He was not going to take the children to the site of the apparition.

This is a textbook pretext maneuver, and it is crucial for employees to understand how it works mechanically.

Breakdown pretext for us.

Pretext is a legal concept where an employer offers a false, seemingly legitimate business reason to justify an adverse action against an employee.

The goal is to mask their true discriminatory or retaliatory motive.

So how does that actually play out in a daily work environment?