Posted on 11/10/2014 4:29:18 AM PST by SkyPilot
A Saratoga County sheriff's sergeant was suspended after a video posted on the Internet Friday captured him allegedly slapping a young man as the deputy insisted on searching his vehicle, which had a rifle on the back seat.
Sheriff Michael Zurlo on Saturday said he was "very disturbed" by what he saw on the video.
"I really am," the sheriff said. "I don't condone activity as it's portrayed and we're going to look into it and we'll handle this quickly and swiftly."
Sgt. Shawn R. Glans, 48, who has been a police officer for 27 years, was suspended without pay pending an internal investigation.
The video was captured by a young man who filmed his friend's encounter with Glans early Friday in Halfmoon. Glans confronted the pair after he said they walked out of nearby woods to their vehicle, which was in the parking lot of a business. Glans noticed a .22-caliber rifle on the back seat. The sergeant said they were wearing dark clothes and acting suspiciously, although they broke no laws.
"We'll get a (expletive) search warrant," the video shows Glans telling the young man, who was questioning the deputy's insistence that he be allowed to search the car.
"I wasn't in my car when all this was happening," the young man says. "Like, why don't you want to search, like, my house or something."
The video depicts Glans becoming frustrated as he says: "Let me see your (expletive) keys."
"Why?" the young man asks. "You can't do that."
"Because we're searching your (expletive) car, that's why," Glans says.
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At that point, it appears from sounds in the video that Glans grabs the young man's car keys and tosses them to someone off screen, as he says: "Search the (expletive) car."
All because this young man had a .22 cal rifle in his car that he had just legally purchased.
Glans? That’s really his name? No wonder he was acting like a d*ckhead.
foking bully.
From the Daily Mail:
They had purchased a .22-caliber rifle earlier that day and had a receipt for the weapon. They were finally let go after showing the deputy the receipt. It's not the first time the Sergeant has had a brush with the law he is supposed to uphold. In 1999, the town of Wilton, Saratoga County paid $6 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of a 45-year-old man left paralyzed when a patrol car being driven by Glans smashed head-on into the other car. Douglas H. McEachron suffered critical brain injuries and a federal jury found Glans was negligent in the crash. The deputy was responding to a 911 call and driving close to three times the posted speed limit around a sharp curve on Smith Bridge Road in Wilton when he lost control of his vehicle. Glans crossed into the oncoming lane and smashed head-on into McEachron's car.
Left wing politicians and out of control brainless cops think they have the "right" to terrorize citizens for having a .22 cal rifle (legally purchased) in their cars.
It is time America realized that these gun laws are nothing but an excuse for tyranny. The criminals robbing liquor stores and homes don't care about "gun laws." This type of behavior happens every day in America. We are living in a Third Reich atmosphere.
what a motley looking crew
Another great example of a stupid cop with nothing but power trippin’ syndrome to show us who’s the boss....
They wonder why they are so hated....well there ya go!
That's the real surprise. They almost always get paid vacation for wrongdoing.
He should have been fired after crippling the man in the auto crash he caused. What is the matter with departments who let these hot heads stay on their jobs after proving themselves unfit?
It wasn't "portrayed", it was recorded.
In the article, a slip of the truth. The officer was in trouble before and just shuffled off to another city. This happens A LOT! A bad cop busts a head, steals, gropes... gets caught, the department fires him to look as if they have done something but in truth, they found a nice home for him somewhere else and in turn, take in one of the bad apples from another city or town. Some of these jokers get away with 8 or 10 minor crimes before they do something really horrid and most reporters are uncaring enough to dig into his past.
I take it this jerk didn’t join “Oath Keepers”
Well, that makes abuse of power OK, right Mrs. Glans?
Some quotes from the full article I found disturbing:
“Asked if he would have handled the matter the same way again, Glans said he would, but not if he knew it was being filmed. He acknowledged that he did not know the incident was being videotaped. “I was concerned. It was a public safety issue,” the sergeant said. “If I had to do it all over again ... I’d probably do the same thing. If I knew the camera was there, no, because it does look bad.”
Yes, trampling on the constitution and striking innocent citizens does “look bad”. We should all make sure we have some way to record any encounters with the police so there’s an incentive not to have things look so bad.
“His wife, Carrie, who is a medical provider, said her husband has been under a lot of emotional and physical stress and that she’s concerned how the video and any fallout may portray their family in the community. “What my husband did and how he reacted wasn’t the correct way to do it, but there were circumstances that came about beforehand,” she said. “He’s had a very hard year.”
I would say the guy who was paralyzed in the car crash this officer caused also had a “very hard year”. The Constitution of the United States has also had a very hard year.
NYSERS = New York State Employees Retirement System
NYSPFRS = New York State Police and Fireman's Retirement System
NYSTRS = New York State Teachers
I have no problem with good police and firemen getting a decent pension. First responders should also be paid more than a clerk who was in charge of fish hatcheries for 35 years. But what we need to address are police who are acting out of control now that these gun laws have been passed that are clearly unconstitutional.
Certain cops feel empowered to abuse their citizens and the public they are supposed to serve.
Spoken like a true battered wife. These power tripping dickheads don’t just abuse the public they usually abuse their wives and kids too.
Terminate this useless waste of skin immediately. He should never again be allowed to hold a position of public trust.
I image there were hundreds of similar incidents with this same officer that went unrecorded.
Right. When one of these guys moves into an area, the public is taking in a monster without knowing it. And the department that re-hired him knew it when they employed him! Again, government (fed,state,local) people not doing their jobs of looking out for the public. A HUGE sweeping out is in order..
He has got away with it for 27 years, and probably more because I do not expect anything to happen to him. You can take to the bank that tis was not his first rodeo.
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