Posted on 10/27/2023 10:40:28 AM PDT by algore
HAZELWOOD, Mo. (KMOV) - Hazelwood Police Chief James Hudanick says an internal investigation is underway after a traffic stop Wednesday night.
It happened around 11:30 pm near Lindberg and McDonnell. Joseph Hibler was pulled over for an expired license plate on his way home from a funeral.
Hibler says the officer told him he had an open warrant. The warrant stemmed from a citation from 2018 over no vehicle insurance. He described what was going through his mind when the officer told him to get out of the car and handcuff him.
“My children are in the car. There’s no way they’re going to take me away from my children,” Hibler said
A bystander captured the traffic stop on camera. Hibler is heard saying it “isn’t even serious” as police hold him against the squad car and moments later tase him.
Meanwhile, the four kids, ages 14, 13, 11 and one year old, sit in the car. The video shows police drive Hibler away and then check on the kids, asking if any of them have a driver’s license. But then officers leave the scene. Video from the bystander shows the car on the side of the road with the children inside.
“What the hell? Who would leave minors in the car by themselves late at night,” is the question JaCee Robertson can’t stop asking.
She was still at her father’s funeral when she got the text from her fiancé that he had been pulled over. She finally reached her children who were hysterical. She drove the route home and found them.
“We see them on the side of the road, with the door open, the headlights on, the car still running,” said Robertson.
Hazelwood Police Chief Hudanick says it is their policy that minors should not be left unattended. The internal investigation will look into use of force from this incident as well as the policy surrounding passengers in the car. First Alert Four is working to learn the status of the offices and additional details of the investigation.
Hibler was released Thursday morning and no charges have been filed surrounding the traffic stop at this time.
Everyone is blaming everyone but the mother and her boyfriend out till all hours
What kind of altercation is the press leaving out
The quietest situation has the driver the father figure the stupid boyfriend prob in handcuffs and the cops leaving the kids behind, car running
None of the adults thought to turn the car off and call the mother or they did and she’s too wasted
The kids are horrified and beside themselves
People here don’t read between the lines of a press they know propagandizes
Worst scenario is the guys wasted and uncooperative. Resisting arrest
The kids are traumatized. Either way
No business getting on them.
The little tin god brigade strikes again! They should lose their badges.
“ Probably he had a Trump bumper sticker on his car.”
Oh ya. Right
No. prob was swerving and then resisting arrest. The cops were wrong to leave the kids. The mother was the first offender not driving those kids home at a decent hour
It was her father’s funeral. Most families remain together to mourn after the actual service ends - often for days or more.
But even if she was at a wild nightclub drunk as a skunk, the children should not have been left alone just off a highway.
I’m not excusing the police. I’ve never been around anyone that spends all night at a funeral.
Cop should be fired immediately and $50000 restitution given to the man arrested. Make the ex-cop pay with his own money. /spit
Good to know!
I’ve never been around anyone that spends all night at a funeral.
It is likely a turn of phrase. If I go to a family funeral and stay overnight to be with the other mourners, my trip may well be described as away because I am "at a funeral" or "for a funeral."
As usual, you seem to know a lot of facts that are not in existence.
Oh. Ok. “11:30 pm near Lindberg and McDonnell. Joseph Hibler was pulled over for an expired license plate”
This is unbelievable
People here hate so much they can’t step back and say I don’t want to be a kid riding home with my 1 year old sibling and two others after watching adults drink all day and all night and now the cops pull over and arrest this loser of a stupid boyfriend of my mothers and my mother is still drinking eithe the drinkers
But people here say the 14 year old who is traumatized has no choices everyone is bad except the mother and the stupid boyfriend. They’re fine. They trusted the cops. Maybe you can cite them for that
“ As usual, you seem to know a lot of facts that are not in existence.”
Like what?
Would there be anything usual in the idea that you are not going to elaborate in your blanket accusation?
Because we are waiting for details
“It is likely a turn of phrase. If I go to a family funeral and stay overnight to be with the other mourners, my trip may well be described as away because I am “at a funeral” or “for a funeral.”
For which you would have your responsibilities taken care of. Do the kids in the car think “Mom is away because she is at a funeral”?
Or do they think “mom left us in the care of the idiot again for whatever her excuse is this time
It’s always easy to point out what other people are doing wrong. That is what Karens do. Karens gonna Karen.
Lots of Karening going on here.
You: "Who lets their boyfriend with no insurance drive her kids home at midnight?"
FTA: The warrant stemmed from a citation from 2018 over no vehicle insurance.
You: "the could have waited for the mother when she finished partying"
FTA: ...She was still at her father’s funeral when she got the text from her fiancé
Enough?
Here is a story about that case.
You be surprised at the number of Knuckle-dragging law enforcement officers I’ve dealt with. Problem is some of the knuckle-draggers wind up being Chiefs.
Ok what? People here are pointing out everything the. Kids and the cops are doing wrong
I’m defending the kids Period
Theres a 14 year old with 3 siblings with an infant. The mother sends them home close to midnight wth a guy who can’t manage registration and insurance or a police warrant - outstanding warrant
A funeral is not at 11:30 at night
Facts
Karen ing?
Towards whom?
People are karening on the kids and the cops
You think it’s cool for a mother to send her kids home with a guy not their father at 11:30 during an after funeral drinking thing?
You call it Karening to call out someone who is traumatizing and neglecting her kids like this?
BS
Insurance problem was 5 years ago, get over it. How do you know he knew about the warrant? It happens. Maybe he moved out of state before it could be issued. And how TF do you know she didn't stay to console people after the funeral?
You make up sh*t because you want to believe the worst. After years of seeing your posts, maybe see if Jim will let you change your handle to 'stain'.
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