Best comment is when the citizen tells the cop that he's going to be in trouble and he laughs it off. Now it looks like he'll be out of job.
The Facebook video referenced shows the cop punching this woman in the face. Link here:
https://www.facebook.com/mario.robinson.148/videos/691942075763580/
“Placed on leave, pending internal investigation”. Translation “Stay low for a while until the news dies down”.
The cops were called by management to the restaurant and this screechy woman escalated the incident by refusing to comply with a lawful request.
“Somebody get me a cheeseburger!”
I get the feeling that this woman is going to suddenly be very wealthy in the near future................
I was a civil dispute. When she decided to leave the Cops job was over and it should not have gone any further past that.
There’s plenty of YT videos demonstrating cops having below a basic understanding of the law regarding basic rights. Just because “you got a call” isn’t grounds for demanding an ID without “reasonable articulable suspicion” of an actual crime. A phone call is nothing but hearsay. Somehow many cops seem to believe that because they got a call the investigation requires ID’s by law. It doesn’t. You’re required to ID only once an offense has been identified.
There’s also a lot of misunderstandings respective to trespassing. You’re only trespassing if you’ve been asked to leave and refuse to or you return afterward. Being asked to leave, then leaving, is not an offense where you’re required to provide ID so they can “write up the trespass” - as you’ve not trespassed at that point. Being asked to leave somewhere isn’t a crime.
I’m no lawyer but I’ve seen enough videos, over and over, on these topics where police departments end up getting sued and lose, costing the taxpayer money. The other absurdity is that they should just assume cameras are everywhere, because they are!
This lady, once they decided to arrest her, irrespective if it was a lawful arrest, should not have resisted. That said, multiple punches to the face is excessive imo. The posted video also doesn’t show if she was told to leave and refused to do so, which would be trespassing and they’d have a right to ID her.
Ohio law:
“Failure to Deliver/Substitutions
Under the Consumer Sales Practices Act, a seller may not advertise prompt delivery of goods or services unless the seller actually takes reasonable steps to ensure prompt delivery (Ohio Administrative Code 109:4-3-09).
Failure to Deliver
It is deceptive for a seller to accept money from a consumer and allow eight weeks to pass without:
Delivering the goods or services;
Providing a full refund;
Telling the consumer about the delay and offering to send a refund within two weeks, if the consumer requests it; or
Substituting similar goods or services of equal or greater value, if the consumer agrees.
Substitutions of “Equal or Greater Value”
To be considered “equal or greater value,” the substituted goods or services must be substantially similar to the original goods or services. They also must be made for the same purposes and cannot have a lower normal price than the original goods or services.
Sellers may not provide similar goods of equal or greater value when they had no intention to ship, deliver, or install the original goods ordered.”
she had every legal right to stay and ask for the product to be made right. She was legally right, the business was not. Therefore the officers were also not.
Exercising one's Constitutional rights is not, in and of itself, probable cause for arrest.
-PJ
I thought it was racist to ask a black for ID. That’s what they tell us re voting.
Meet a newly minted multi-millionaire.
I would not bet the farm on it. “It” being the Officer is out of a job. If he gets fired, the next town over will pick him up.
“The woman was leaving, the cop stopped her from leaving, and then arrests her for failing to ID for a trespass violation that doesn’t exist in law. “
Yet the article says they were called about a report of disorderly conduct, not trespassing. That’s enough reasonable suspicion to detain someone, and if they can detain them, they can demand ID.
I could be wrong but I think that woman has won the lottery.