My point being that he was setting up the cop.
Let me get this straight: a 20 year-old obeying traffic laws is "setting up" the cop?
"His name is Robert Paulsen"
-Fight Club
I should have said, "Do you honestly believe a twenty-year-old normally uses turn signals?
My point being that he was setting up the cop. Do you think most twenty-year-olds would pull into a vacant parking lot at 2am and start mouthing off to a veteran St. Louis cop?
I would be interested in seeing where this rogue street reporter is in five years. Real interested.
My point being that he was setting up the cop. Do you think most twenty-year-olds would pull into a vacant parking lot at 2am and start mouthing off to a veteran St. Louis cop?
I guess turnabout is fair play. Cops use these tactics regularly. Why shouldn't a citizen use them to expose blatant corruption in the police? If the cop was doing nothing wrong, he would have nothing to fear.
To the contrary. The officer set himself up but good. He even got taped saying he could falsify any charge he felt like and on top of it the officers own tape is missing from his vehicle. Yeah the kid really set him up good. /s
On a side note I guess all the traffic in the background is people setting up police at 2:00AM.
This bad cop was an idiot. He was informed about the camera, and chose to be an idiot. What part of behavior in the public , and 4th amendment, did this cop miss? Also, as a contractor, per 10th amendment, 4th amendments may pertain to the vehicle(s) involved in a person’s commercial business. The officer deserved to get the ZOT.
“My point being that he was setting up the cop.”
No doubt. The cop fell for it hook, line and sinker.
“My point being that he was setting up the cop”
Like concealed carry people, just carrying looking for a gunfight. Sure.
The kid had a right to be where he was without harrassment.
If your read the entire transcript the cop suggests he was driving “impaired” because the kid said he was upset.
Should the kid not pull over, and continue driving impaired.
Where is the evidence of the kid mouthing off. This is only an assertion by the bad cop, who clearly stated that he would come make charges against him.
You got to love the irony.
You make it sound like being setup is an excuse. This was not entrapment, that is all that matters.
I wish this ex-cop luck in finding an honest job.
Well, let's say he did -= though I see no evidence of this = just maybe this cop was well known for this behavior and had been running his own little terror reign on town's people and getting away with it -(with the way he carried on, it certainly doesn't appear to be a one time lapse) = People could complain to the chief til the cows came home and nothing would be done. It had to be documented.
"My point being..." if this is what it takes to get a rogue cop off the beat, so be it. kudos
lOl. I’ve routinely used turn signals since I started driving at 15 years of age. Sure he was trying to set-up the police officer. Had the officer acted in a professional manner, we wouldn’t be talking about it.
If the cop was half the professional he thought he was he should have been able to handle this situation without resorting to threats and intimidation. The force--and all other cops--are better off that he's gone.
So he used the turning signal deliberately to obey the law knowing that a cop would say he didn't really to "set him up"?
Folks, it doesn't get much more ridiculous than this.
My point being that he was setting up the cop.
Let me get this straight: a 20 year-old obeying traffic laws is "setting up" the cop?
"His name is Robert Paulsen"
-Fight Club
Law enforcement uses sting ops all the time to snare those who would not appear to be engaging in illegal or unethical behaviors. Who is it that monitors the police? Internal affairs??
As the ultimate "employer" of the police, the citizenry must be vigilant to the performance of their public servants: Police and politicians and others.
If only by snaring the "servants" in webs of dubious design, then so be it.