“I find it hard to believe that the crime rate is that high in that area”
That is something else I wanted to say as well. This is in quiet South St. Louis County. This is not in a high crime rate area at all. I have no doubt the talk about the thefts in that area was just another lie like all the others that came out of Sgt. James Kuehnlein’s mouth.
Also, I wanted to post about the officer’s patrol car video.
When I first went to see the chief and file a formal complaint on Tuesday the 11th, the chief said he didn’t think the system was turned on for my stop. He told me the units installed were the ‘Prosecutor 2000’. He told me they turn on by the officer pressing the button on his body mic, a button in the car, or when any or the rotating lights come on (when the slide bar is pushed on the Code 3 control box). I told him it would have recorded then since you can see the lights come on when he comes up behind me. He tried telling me it might have only been the tape down lights (big bright white lights on lightbar that DON’T flash). I told him that those were on, but you can clearly see in my mirror, the overhead flashing lights were on.
He finally told me their was no tape. He didn’t know what happened to it and said the officer probably got rid of it. They have 7 tapes (one for each day) and they just rotate them unless one is needed for court or a complaint.
The next day I met with him again. He had all of a sudden come up with a tape that was supposedly the “missing” tape, but it had no footage from anything that happened that night. It had stuff on there from weeks ago. It was clear they just stuck a tape in it’s spot. This conveniently happened after the officer got an attorney. I’m sure he told them that if an officer destroys evidence, it’s a federal felony.
The chief has even publicly gone back and forth about if there is a tape from THAT night, or if it just didn’t record.
They know if that tape came out though, the officer would be in jail. He had me pinned up against my car and while yelling at me, spit was flying all over my face.
I think it’s funny when people say I baited the officer. He was the one baiting me to push/hit him so he could beat me up. He was the one looking to start something that night.