Comment by m463
2 days ago
I knew a guy who wanted to be a police officer in the LA area.
They gave him a psychological exam.
one of the questions was something along the lines of "you pull over a drunk driver, and it turns out to be your mother. what do you do?"
I asked him what he said.
He said he would call another officer and have him take her home.
I was thinking, wow.
He said if someone answers that they would arrest her, they wouldn't hire that person.
Took me a while to work through it and wrap my mind around all of it.
(Spoilers ahead for the first few minutes of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse")
After I watch a movie for the first time I like to check out a few YouTube reaction channels to see their take on it. They sometimes catch interesting things I missed.
I've watched a few such reactions to "Across the Spider-Verse" and one interesting thing that stood out is when after a fight Spider-Women, who is wanted for murder, is out of webs and cannot escape when Captain Stacy, who is leading the effort to capture her, arrives. Captain Stacy does not know that Spider-Woman is his daughter. She reveals her identity to him, says she is innocent, and he is clearly conflicted, but finally starts reading her her rights.
The reactors almost uniformly condemn him for this, some quite adamantly. They think he should have let her go.
I would assume that the thinking is that someone that says they would arrest (or have arrested) their own mother, is a liar.
This is very charitable assumption.