[marktwain]

Links to YouTube video at the site. Seems like very clear police abuse of this man's constitutional rights. First amendment, they forced the wife to delete video of the officers actions. The Seventh Circuit has ruled that recording police in the performance of their public duties is a first amendment right.

Second amendment, self explanatory.

I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest. The officer who intimidated the wife into deleting the file should be fired.

[driftdiver]

Fired? He should be jailed.

[seeker41]

I am really starting to dislike LEOs of all stripes. When not shooting pets they seem to be harassing citizens who are within their rights! I remember watching them pull people out of their homes when searching for those Boston Bombers.

[cripplecreek]

A Crawford county cop should know better. I'm guessing the real issue in the arrest was "escorting" the trespasser back to the house.



Michigan legislative action thread

[RckyRaCoCo]

When the cop said “doing this for our own protection”...she should have said the same...with regards to the camera.

[AlexW]

Welcome to the new USSA. Before I left, I noticed that police, everywhere, were morphing into jack-booted thugs, even in small rural areas. I now see the same thing on US TV programs that I get via Satellite.
I guess they are gearing up to control the descent.

[yarddog]

In ancient Rome it was illegal to put shackles on a citizen for any reason.

[Jeff Chandler]

The question on everyone's mind: how is the family dog?

[bkopto]

The official-looking costume that guy in the picture is wearing apparently confers all sorts of authority and privilege: to bully citizens, slap them around, order people to turn off cameras, tie-wrap their wrists, confiscate their property, and generally violate their God-given rights.

Wow - I wanna be one of those guys!

[bunkerhill7]

Heck all my neighbors got loaded guns on their properties n the local cops did the same thing before they were cops so wht the hell is wrong with those city slicker cops in MI?

[DemforBush]

“But soon the cops were saying that Thomas Donald was pointing his shotgun at the trespasser and he was charged with felonious assault, even though the couple says he never pointed his gun at the trespasser...”

I wish the wife had started the recording sooner, to have irrefutable proof of that. As it is, it will probably be the police’s word against theirs come court time (assuming the police don’t have video of their own here).

Whoever is telling the truth about how it went down, “I’m taking that for evidence” is just bull. I can’t see any where a cop had any legal right to confiscate the wife’s cell phone. Seems like unlawful seizure of property, in fact - i.e. theft. Not that I’m naive enough to think anything will come of it.

[SampleMan]

Cops are conditioning the 3% to treat them as the enemy.

[2ndDivisionVet]

[Born to Conserve]

Cops ever do that to me, and I will become a permanent fixture in the line for Freedom of Information Act requests. Every hired, appointed, or elected official in the hierarchy above the cops would see their public careers go down the tube, and their private ones as well. And it would not end until I died.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

With the massive uptick in membership at the NRA, NRA attorneys should be on their way to this homeowners house to provide him defense in court.

[Past Your Eyes]

Seems like not a day goes by but what there’s another story like this.

[PhiloBedo]

Bookmarked for future follow-up to see just what happens to this wanna-be sheriff’s deputy.

[Lurker]

I’m tired of taxpayer financed settlements. I was assholes like this bankrupted and then prosecuted criminally. I want their families in the streets dead broke and starving.

I want these thugs with badges spending 15 years pinned to some lifer with AIDS.

[from occupied ga]

I suspect that a big settlement is coming from this arrest.

Never happen

[RandallFlagg]

Bookmarking.

[nonsporting]

Never call a cop. Take care of the matter. Call the coroner, if you have to.