Posted on 07/27/2015 11:42:04 AM PDT by GoneSalt
A Medford police detective has been placed on administrative leave after he was caught on video threatening to “blow a hole through your f---ing head” while pulling over a driver who drove the wrong way at a traffic circle.
Medford Police Chief Leo Sacco confirmed to Boston.com that the man in the video was Medford Police Detective Stephen Lebert.
“He’s a 30-year member of the department and works in our detective division,” Sacco said. “He’s a very effective police officer but last night’s incident that’s on video, at least that portion of the video that I saw, is troubling to say the least.”
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They’re dangerous, especially for out of state drivers.
You really need to learn to recognize sarcasm when you see it.
A guy in plain clothes, in an unmarked car gets out, yells like some road-rage moron, I'd back up too.
Only thing missing was the:
But being this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and would blow you head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
Sounds like the end of a career with a mental disability.
Whoever invented those things should be shamed! Publicly!
Meaning this son-of-a-bureaucrat has been infringing the rights of citizens under color of law for decades.
I have no love, and no sympathy for cops like this. They should be in JAIL with the worst inmates they can scrape up.
I can tell you that after 30 years on the force the cop is probably very jaded about citizens.
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Yes. I would like to see some of the the armchair QB’s deal with the worst that humanity has to offer day after day.
History
French architect Eugène Hénard was designing one-way circular intersections as early as 1877.[14] American architect William Phelps Eno favored small traffic circles. He designed New York City’s famous Columbus Circle, which was built in 1905. Other circular intersections were subsequently built in the United States, though many were large diameter ‘rotaries’ that enabled high speed merge and weave maneuvers. These designs were doomed to failure for two primary reasons:
It takes a large diameter circle to provide enough room for merging at speed. Although some of these circles were huge (many were in excess of 100 meters or 300 feet in diameter), they weren’t large enough for high-speed merging.
Giving priority to entering traffic means that more vehicles can enter the circulatory roadway than it can handle. The result is congestion within the circle which could not clear without police intervention.
The experience with traffic circles and rotaries in the US was almost entirely negative, characterized by high accident rates and congestion problems. By the mid 1950s, construction of traffic circles and rotaries had ceased entirely. The experience with traffic circles in other countries was not much better until the development of the modern roundabout in the United Kingdom during the 1960s.
Source: Wikipedia
I appreciate your ardent response and your commitment to sound principles and values.
Please permit me to respond.
We in FReeperdom all recognize the “/s” sarcasm tag. We also know the impact of its omission.
My post was one of sarcasm- that a story about a LEO-driver interaction will only get “legs” if the (leftist moniker) driver is a POC.
Didn’t mean for you to get riled up. I can understand why you did.
You need not report me any longer to Mr. Robinson. Promise ;-)
The cop is a menace.
Might have made sense with horse-drawn wagons I guess
Sheesh...lighten up francis.
While it is very true that working with bad people day after day can make one jaded, one must still effort to be professional.
There was no justification for his aggression. He needs to control his rage or take some time off.
If his department says hey, this is not how we want to handle things, this is not the image we want to project, then they are within their rights to do so.
I don’t think this cop needs to be in jail or fired, but a stern talking to and some time off, sure.
Yes, I would agree.
Thanks much and now I finally get it...through my sometimes thick skull. When Blueflag stated "That’s all that matters here", the term here did NOT refer to the Free Republic forum but to the locale of the incident itself. I am indeed most sorry for the misunderstanding (solely on my part) and apologies -- without equivocation -- to all involved.
Now that things have been clear to me, it serves to reaffirm that knee-jerk racism has never existed here on FR -- aside from that summer 2009 incident when liberals signed up en masse to discredit this forum.
Time for them to retire; find another way to make a living. The instant they forget that they are PUBLIC SERVANTS, they become unworthy of the uniform and dangerous to a free society.
Some guy turning the wrong way is “the worst humanity has to offer”? This is one armchair QB who thinks this cop needs to be punished and retired. I would venture to guess that if this same cop threatened to kill you, you wouldn’t be such a bootlicker.
See post #35 where I come clean and admit my wrong on this matter. I further realize that “person of color” was used in a mocking way to show the mindset (if a liberal even has a mind) of leftists. The misunderstanding was exclusively my fault.
While it is very true that working with bad people day after day can make one jaded, one must still effort to be professional.
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True, but I know that nobody’s perfect, and I know that people slip every now and then. It’s easy to hold someone to a very high standard, while I’m sitting here in my comfy chair, in the air conditioning listening to pretty music.
They’ve been ADDING rotaries up in these parts, substituting for 2-way stops, mostly.
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