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ok, cop-hater. sure thing.

cops can just wait around to see if anything illegal occurs? that's a good one. lots of crime is committed in the presence of a marked police car.

once again, i condemned the officer in question and made a valid point about officer psychology and someone jumps on cops as bullies and tells me AGAIN that this cop was wrong. well, i'm that sorry 100% of cops don't conform to your definition of perfect.

this kid knew what he was doing and that he would be stopped because he made himself suspicious. and then he stonewalled a cop who approached him. he did not just give him his ID. he acted stupid by saying (paraphrasing), "why are you stopping ME officer? have i done something wrong?" idiot punk. he knew he would be stopped and then antagonized the officer. but i guess i'll have to say it again, the officer went too far.

And if there were no cameras or recorders, this LEO would have trumped up multiple charges and arrested this individual. It would have his word in court against the cops.

You do realize the courts and law enforcement work hand in hand. If the courts and law enforcement were a private sector corporation, it would just be like two different departments or divisions of the same corporation.

I have watched countless times, people in court get hammered by both sides, never standing a chance against judges that bump bellies with those on the police department.

And I am totally pro LE.... lol

I’ll bet you throw that “cop-hater” tag around a lot.

this kid knew what he was doing and that he would be stopped because he made himself suspicious. and then he stonewalled a cop who approached him. he did not just give him his ID. he acted stupid by saying (paraphrasing), "why are you stopping ME officer? have i done something wrong?" idiot punk. he knew he would be stopped and then antagonized the officer. but i guess i'll have to say it again, the officer went too far.

I caught a couple of other articles on this, and the kid says he was supposed to meet a friend there to give him back an iPod that was left in his car. I agree the kid didn't have the best attitude toward the cop.

If his account of having been assaulted by a drunken off-duty police officer and then watching the system cover it up is accurate, and right now I don't see any evidence to contract it, I can understand how someone (especially a young person) would be left with a feeling of mistrust.

I understand that there's some bad apples out there, and they make it hard on the good ones. Sometimes that manifests itself in the form of having to deal with the people they've pissed off. I don't think the proper resonse in that situation is to try and break them of it by adding to it.

IMHO