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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No worries...BTW..I named by cat Dindo Nuffins....*snicker*
LEO basher.
/sarc
Yep, true.
Being a cop is a rough job. I know that it is a job that I personally could not handle. I have a temper. I get pissed off too easily sometimes.
Anyone who wants to become a cop should know that they are going to see a lot, have to put up with a lot, and they are going to need to remain as professional as possible through it all.
Like I said though, I don’t think this man should be fired, but he was out of line. He let his professionalism slide in an encounter that really had no reason to cause such a slip. Some amount of discipline is in order here.
I mean look, if I am driving along and I make a mistake...
A number of years ago, I was in the hospital for a week with hyperglycemia, I almost died from that. i came back the next day to pay them, and when I left I went down the street to an area I was not familiar with, and in my stupor I ran a stop sign that I did not see.
Now no one saw this mistake, but if a cop had then pulled me over and rushed my car and told me he was going to blow a hole in my skull, I probably would have had a heart attack on the spot, because I was really frail at the time.
What the cop did this time in this encounter was too much.
Lol!
You know as well as I do that I am a copsucker :D
But no, in this case, I can’t support the cop’s behavior. I would have been scared too.
If the police officer was not threatened then he is guilty of communicating a threat.
Maybe he's got a drug problem or something that can be fixed. Or, maybe he's just stupid. They need to find out.
Oy. Imho, they’re very dangerous.
I think that a reevaluation of this man is warranted and justified.
If I were him, I think that I would ask to be reevaluated. I don’t want to be a menace. I do want to be a loose cannon. I would be concerned with the way that I behaved that night were I him.
Yeah.... In a perfect world the guy would have been scared enough to just run over the jerk.
Anyway, when I lived up in Massachusetts, I used to always wonder why everybody around the country referred to us as "Mass-holes". That video brought it all back home to me. The way that that cop yelled was the way a lot of "tough-guy" Bostonians talked.
So when I moved to NYC, I braced myself for even worse because I figured NYC would be the major leagues of "Masshole" behavior. But I was fortunately proven wrong. By and large, I find the people in New York (including the police) much friendlier than what I experienced in Massachusetts.
About twenty years ago, when I was still up there, I was pulled over in similar fashion by an off-duty cop in an unmarked car. Had no idea he was a cop and he never even showed me a badge. But he yelled and screamed and threatened to haul me in for reckless driving because he thought I cut him off in traffic. Ironically, this was a rotary as well, but a rotary in Lowell (which is the town where the driver in this video was from).
If you've ever been to New England, it's very difficult to navigate a rotary without cutting somebody off. Otherwise, you will just go round and round in circles because once in, nobody will ever just let you out.
And it's not just a recent phenomenon. The illegal 1919 police strike fought bravely by Governor Calvin Coolidge and Police Commissioner Edwin Curtis revealed just how thuggish the cops were. Now, almost a century later since that example of union mob behavior, the roguishness of many member of the Boston police force is reaffirmed.
I've seen it, too, in some friends who are cops or retired cops. In a non-state, free enterprise job, the "professional" who becomes jaded and cynical with regard to his clients, ENDS UP GOING BROKE and has to find a new line of work. In Civil Service, however, the jaded cynical "professionals" stay on the job and get sympathy from the likes of Secret Agent Man.
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.
Exactly right! Cops that "jaded" or that power-trippy, are liabilities to the folks they supposedly serve. They have no more business being cops than convicted child molesters have being teachers or counselors in elementary schools.
How would people here react if the driver had run over and killed the detective after the detective threatened to kill the motorist? Self-defense?
Why do you think I am sympathetic to them? I dont want cynical and jaded cops out there thinking anyone who isnt a cop is a criminal, they just havent busted them for something, yet.
Explaining one reason why someone can become cynical isnt being sympathetic about it. Please employ your brain.
The problem is that it is unfounded to view every citizen who isnt a cop as being scum. Thats when these guys either need to get help, which most wont, or hang it up.
Anyway, the cop deserves to be disciplined.
I Agree, but I do not believe in special rights or special treatment in any way for any person EVER! With that being said he should have already been arrested and charged with:
Making Criminal Terrorist Threats, a FELONY 10-20 years
Assault with a Deadly Weapon, A FELONY 2-5 years
Using a Firearm during the commission of a Violent Felony, a FELONY 10-20 years added on to the other sentences.
If you or I did what he did, you can bet your last nickel these are the charges that would be pending.
“Traffic circles,” “roundabouts,” “rotaries,” whatever you want to call them, are as European as the metric system, soccer, and socialism. Personally, I hate seeing any of them in America.
Now ... replace the word "cop" in the above list with "banger" or "punk" and tell me what you would do. Or better yet, what do you tell your wife or daughter she should do if she encountered those circumstances.
I'm surprised the driver did not bolt, he should have. He actually took his life in his hands there by betting on the fact the cop was not a psycho or crook. Had the driver instead been a load of gangbangers they would have shot first and the cop's suicide would have been complete. I know from my area in NY what I would do. If it was impossible to back out and bolt I would have drawn and then all bets are off.
The powers-that-be should make this video a required teachable moment on how NOT to do their job and any dummies that justify it should be run out of the force on a rail.
The cop's comment about confiscating the drivers dashcam is just as egregious ( as is the two-party consent nonsense ). Fascist creep with no respect for private property and especially civilian oversight. Indeed he would prefer NO oversight. It's time these dashcams be made doubly redundant with simultaneous local storage and cloud mirroring. One copy needs to be kept far away from the fascist overlords.
Even if the driver was doing an elaborate setup/sting, the facts still remain the same. Come to think of it that might not be a bad idea at all ( but who the hell would want such a job knowing what a modern cop might do! ). Cops and all officials should always be wondering if they are being tested and filmed. Then civies might encounter more cops being on their best behavior, rather than their worst.
You can understand his treatment of someone who made a traffic infraction? This a-hole needs to lose his badge today.
Well said, my FRiend!
A lingering fear -- and it still may be realized before he's evicted from office -- is that the illegal hussien regime will still impose the metric system on the Republic. As I see it, measurement in the metric system is a necessary first step toward controlling America via a caliphate. It's part of the one-world government sought by the axis of evil controlled by Gates/Soros/Buffett, the communist powers behind hussien's throne.
And I've noticed that on hussein's teleprompter, the word "color" is spelled in the Euro style of "colour". This takeover of the Republic will end in January 2017 when a Patriot (hopefully Senator Ted Cruz) restores the Biblical values that are the foundation of America!
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