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Followup: Motorcyclist wins taping case against Maryland state police (w/video)
AutoBlog ^ | September 28, 2010 | Jeremy Korzeniewski

Posted on 09/28/2010 4:24:14 PM PDT by decimon

Score one for the good guys. Not that we think police in general are bad guys or anything, but after watching this video of a Maryland state trooper jumping out of his unmarked car in plain clothes while brandishing a gun, we're not exactly keen to put him in the good guy category, either.

In any case, Anthony Graber, a man who was out shooting video of his (not exactly completely legal) motorcycling exploits when he was confronted by the aforementioned officer, was charged with felony wiretapping for recording the state trooper's actions when being pulled over.

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1 posted on 09/28/2010 4:24:16 PM PDT by decimon
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To: decimon

John Wayne syndrome.....


2 posted on 09/28/2010 4:28:58 PM PDT by Doogle ((USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: decimon

Did they publish the name of this louse with a badge?


3 posted on 09/28/2010 4:29:19 PM PDT by COBOL2Java (Obama is the least qualified guy in whatever room he walks into.)
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To: decimon
o come on that never happens. /s

power-corrupts-alert; hell-in-a-handbasket-alert;decline-of-the-empire-alert.

4 posted on 09/28/2010 4:31:27 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (after your fifteen minutes are up you get a lifetime of ignominy.)
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To: decimon
state troopers are the personal goons of the governor in most states, right?

the good citizen ought to think about moving or his life is apt to become difficult.

5 posted on 09/28/2010 4:32:45 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (after your fifteen minutes are up you get a lifetime of ignominy.)
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To: decimon
ok, my last word on this:

If only we'd had cameraphones when the SWAT team swarmed into my office that warm summer eve...internal affairs would never have been able to say to me, "we looked into it, and it never happened."

And Pinellas county might have become a better place.

6 posted on 09/28/2010 4:34:33 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (after your fifteen minutes are up you get a lifetime of ignominy.)
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To: Doogle

The really scary part is that he probably thinks that he is doing society good... This John Wayne type still thinks that speeders require a drawn gun to subdue...where is that in the John Wayne history? He is the State and he thinks that anything he does is okay. That is a real problem and has been a prevailing attitude with the police today.


7 posted on 09/28/2010 4:36:33 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: decimon

What a huge moron.

Here. Let me cutoff this motorcycle and then jump out of an unmarked car with a gun drawn and no badge to get in his face and confront him.

Cops overall do a great job for what they have to work with but I can think of no other organization I think so little of other than the Maryland State Troopers. Well, the Democrat Party comes close.


8 posted on 09/28/2010 4:36:40 PM PDT by VeniVidiVici (The Democrat Party is spending your great-grandkids inheritance)
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To: Doogle

John Wayne wasnt stupid.How ‘bout Barney Fife?


9 posted on 09/28/2010 4:36:40 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: the invisib1e hand
If only we'd had cameraphones when the SWAT team swarmed into my office that warm summer eve...

That must have been interesting.

10 posted on 09/28/2010 4:37:59 PM PDT by decimon
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To: Deagle

Lets use the name Barney fife.After all John Wayne did love America and was a patriot.This guy,not so much.


11 posted on 09/28/2010 4:39:39 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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To: decimon

Is the cop’s finger on the trigger?


12 posted on 09/28/2010 4:41:45 PM PDT by Paladin2
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To: decimon
That must have been interesting.

a half dozen snarling, steroid junkies in uniform waving guns, a snarling german shepard, and one very upset fiance.

...you had to be there.

Oh, I'm sorry...it never happened...

13 posted on 09/28/2010 4:43:09 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (after your fifteen minutes are up you get a lifetime of ignominy.)
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To: decimon

Wait... was the plainclothes guy an off-duty trooper?


14 posted on 09/28/2010 4:44:37 PM PDT by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Wiggins

Paging Wiggins. Please stop watching NCIS or Hawaii 5-0 long enough to view and rate this performance. Thank you.


15 posted on 09/28/2010 4:46:00 PM PDT by Zuben Elgenubi
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To: decimon
The ongoing dumbing down of America by the radical left now has our lives in danger.
16 posted on 09/28/2010 4:47:54 PM PDT by JonPreston
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To: Paladin2
Is the cop’s finger on the trigger?

I can't tell. I can make out his thumb and grip fingers but not his index finger.

17 posted on 09/28/2010 4:47:54 PM PDT by decimon
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To: imahawk

Yes, you’re right, should never have used John Wayne in that example! He was a much better man and had intelligence that today’s Police Officers do NOT have...or even care about.

I do feel sorry for Barney though... at least he was honest and decent and should never be compared to today’s police officers negatively.


18 posted on 09/28/2010 4:48:01 PM PDT by Deagle
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To: COBOL2Java
Did they publish the name of this louse with a badge?

Joseph David Uhler. It's in other stories, along with the detail that the cops raided the biker's house searching for the video, seized four computers, locked him up for 26 hours, and have cost him thousands in legal fees. Oh, and the signature of the judge who signed the search warrant? It wasn't on the warrant. Privacy concerns, you know.

19 posted on 09/28/2010 4:52:47 PM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep ("More weight!"--Giles Corey)
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To: Deagle

You gotta point.How ‘bout SLEDGE HAMMER?


20 posted on 09/28/2010 4:57:00 PM PDT by HANG THE EXPENSE (Life is tough.It's tougher when you're stupid.)
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