Exerpt:
Officer #1: Let me see your insurance card for the vehicle.
Brett: Did I commit a moving violation?
Officer #1: Yeah you did, when you were coming in here. Brett: Really? What was that?
Officer #1: Yeah, you wanna try me? You wanna try me tonight? You think you've had a bad night? I will ruin your ****ing night.
[Officer starts to get close up to my face] Officer #1 You want to try me?
[Officer is inches away from my face, screaming as I'm pinned between him and my vehicle]
Officer #1 Do you wanna try me young boy? Do you want to try me tonight young boy?
Brett: No I don't.
Officer #1: Do you want to go to jail for some ****ing reason I come up with?
Brett: No I don't.
Officer #1: Do you wanna see who knows the law better, me or you. My experience compared to your young ass. Huh? Don't ever get smart mouthed with a cop again. I show you what a cop does. Do you understand me?
Brett: Yes sir.
Officer #1: Try and talk back -- Talk back to me again. I bet I could say you resisted arrest or something. You want to come up with something? I come up with nine things. Do you wanna try something?
Young punks and that pesky Constitution.... where do they get off not licking boots...
Cops don’t do such things........must be a fake................./s
follow up — Cop is suspended w/o pay
I have respect for the law, but something like this should never, ever be tolerated by anybody.
There, fixed it for him.
Cops never do this, except to the rare motorist who takes the trouble to record traffic stops. All the other motorists are lying.
OK... just why is this officer on suspension and not fired???
When someone is at work they need to have a certain level of detachment that isn’t required in their non working private life.
During work hours a Policeman is just that a uniformed, union, city Policeman , the part of himself that may be Craig the hard nosed guy that doesn’t take crap from A** holes can’t surface during duty hours.
There are two sets of laws. One set of laws on the books. And another set made up by LEO’s specifically used for entrapment and fabrication.
Anyone alone in a traffic stop can be abused and there is little they can prove because the Lawman is the universal truth and the defendent is pond scum.
it is very difficult to have respect for the law when the lawman abuses their authority.
That’s why it’s not recommendable to drive carelessly in any St. Louis County municipality with a population under 5000.
Someone help me here. Is this from an event not too long ago where the kid was going through a police checkpoint and part of the story involves the policeman (poorly) attempting to move the kid’s stick-shift vehicle to the extent that he was burning the clutch? I guess I’m asking if this is rather old news?
In any event, bring out the usual cop-supporter versus cop-hater arguments that regularly occur here on FR.
Notice I haven’t taken any side in this (yet). I’m just wondering if this is the story from this past spring...
The little suburb of St. George—a short strip along Reavis Barracks Rd.— is one of the two worst speed traps in the St. Louis area (the other is the town of Arnold, the two-mile stretch on I-55). Issuing tickets is how these cops pay for their jobs. Revenue enhancement for the town.
—would be great if nationwide about one of ten vehicles was so equipped—it would have the same effect on bad cops that concealed carry permits had on crime-—
You’ve got to be a real brain-trust when you do something like this and you know there’s video being shot.
This kid sounds like he asked a rather simple question, but he may have been a real smart ass too. Unfortunately that probably won’t show up on the video, because he was in the car.
The officer should have sited the violation, or action he observed, and kept his cool. And then he should have written the kid up if he had grounds to do so.
Now he’s in hot water.
If there is a case for a civil rights violation, this is it. Sue the hell out of the individual officer.
Nothing ever changes!
20 somethings with badges !?
Now we all know why so they are sometimes
called “ Pigs” .
"How do I know that this police officer didn't have it coming?"
That cop lost his mind. But his instincts were correct: that kid was up to something. What kind of person runs around with a video camera set up in his car unless you think you need it.
And, if it had been me, I’d have given the cop my id and answered his questions. The kid did have a right to be there and the cop did have a right to ask him questions. The cop had suspicions that could have led to probable cause after questioning.
The correct answer by the cop should have been to tell kid to, “have a nice night,” and then watched him.
I had an embarrassing similiar situation once. I had taken a new job, moved to a new area, and was driving around randomly on the weekend looking for a house to buy. It was semi-rural and there wasn’t any restaurants or gas stations out there.
I had to urinate. I had a ‘pee-bottle’ in the car and pulled into a deserted parking lot to use it. Just as I was wrapping up I looked up into the mirror and there was a police car behind me and the scenario began a lot like the one did with this kid.
Except, I answered his questions and gave him ID. I didn’t tell him I pulled in to take a leak although he probably would have just nodded his head and moved on. I babbled something about looking for a place to live which made no sense although it was the truth.
He said he approached me because I was ‘hunched-over’ and he wanted to make sure I was ok. I figure he was thinking I was having some kind of solitary sexual interlude out there in that parking lot in the middle of the day. He was right in thinking “something” was going on but I think he came to the wrong conclusion.
To this day I’d like to have told him what I was really doing :D.
Throw the thug cop in jail.