Posted on 04/27/2024 4:35:08 AM PDT by Libloather
An upstate New York district attorney refused to stop for cops when she was caught speeding — and instead drove back her house and called the police chief to complain about the “a–hole” officer who pursued her home, bodycam footage shows.
Monroe County District Attorney Sandra Doorley admitted that she was driving 55 mph in a 35 mph zone on Monday on Phillips Road in Webster — less than half a mile from her neighborhood, WHAM reported.
“Once I realized that the intention of the [police car] was to pull me over, I called the Webster Police Chief to inform him that I was not a threat and that I would speak to the Officer at my house down the street,” she said in a statement.
The officer followed her to her home and issued Doorley a ticket, which she accepted. The DA pleaded guilty in municipal court on Tuesday “because I believe in accepting responsibility for my actions and had no intention of using my position to receive a benefit,” she said.
However, bodycam footage released by the Webster Police Department on Friday shows the tense exchange between Doorley and the officer in her driveway, in which the district attorney appears to have been doing just that.
When the cop tells her she was doing 55 in a 35, she tells him “I don’t really care,” clearly irritated.
She gets on the phone and calls Webster Chief of Police Dennis Kohlmeier and asks him “can you please tell them to leave me alone?”
Doorley refuses to step outside her garage to speak with officers. She dismissively hands the cop the phone to speak with the chief and tells him “just go away.” The officer can be heard explaining what happened on the phone.
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Speeding is small potatoes for a democrat. She needs a lot of work to make it to the democratic party and the big league, but she has potential with that display of arrogance.
An attorney friend was recruited YEARS ago by the DAs office.
Didn't take the job...Said he couldn't figure out who was the good guy and who was the bad guy.
Seventy years ago, the year I graduated from high school, The Sheriff’s office under Albert Skinner, working together with the highly effective New York State Trooper agency, Rochester’s Monroe County was a very and willfully peaceful aw-abiding community to live in. One felt very safe there, though presence of the law enforcement was hardly ever seen except in the newspaper or radio. They were, however, very particular about highway safety.
The lawyers with anything on the ball go work for a law firm or go into private practice. Working for a State’s Attorney is for the politically connected and oftentimes they aren't the brightest.
“People don’t understand how body cameras have changed the game; next thing, they’ll want them removed.”
First that I heard of body cameras was regarding a stop somewhere in the Northeast where a black woman accused a cop of being a racist bastard and had the cop terminated...until someone remembered the camera and the footage was looked at. Wound up that the cop was a perfect gentleman and the woman behaved perfectly.
The police later commented that the cameras were intended to catch racist police officers not the civilians who were framing police officers, so, of course, the woman couldn’t be charged.
A friend was saved by a bodycam a few years back when a ticketed made the same allegation against him; the accuser was more astute, and made the allegation without filing an actual report - so he couldn’t be charged with filing a false police report (though at last the cop was cleared).
As more and more wild behavior ends up on YouTube from these bodycams, I suspect those who thought it would protect them will demand they are removed; the scales fall from everyones’ eyes when the “unemployed behavior” is staring you in the face.
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