“Witch hunt”
Have you watched the dashcam video of this “stop?” This cop’s behavior is what gives all the good LEO’s a bad name!
let me answer for him.
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Have you watched the dashcam video of this “stop?†This cop’s behavior is what gives all the good LEO’s a bad name!
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I am no fan of today’s cops. In fact, that’s a substantial understatment of my position.
However, I have no issues with this cop’s actions.
Please note that I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the charges against this cop.
In my view he deserves this and then some.
Have you watched the dashcam video of this “stop?†This cop’s behavior is what gives all the good LEO’s a bad name!
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I am no fan of today’s cops. In fact, that’s a serious understatment my position.
However, I have no issues with this cop’s actions. Please note that I am not agreeing or disagreeing with the charges against this cop.
I watched it, and I agree it is a witch hunt.
This poor woman killed herself, but it was not the officer’s fault.
He gave her a lawful order, and she refused to comply.
The officer merely wrote her a warning. But she was so bullheaded she was unwilling to shut her mouth and let the officer advise her of how to proceed away safely or avoid getting pulled over in the future.
I am not saying the officer handled this the best way. But she definitely did not respond the best way. Officers must always be alert to the possibility of someone they pull over attacking them. They also have to worry about another driver running them over while they are standing on the side of the road with their attention on something else.
Lesson to be learned here is to cooperate with the police unless they are instructing you to do something illegal or dangerous. Save your mouthing off for a lawsuit filed at a later time if you must. But do not escalate the situation into a confrontation because you will probably lose even if you are in the right.
Especially do not do this on a Friday night. Bail is not set until at least the following Monday or possibly later if it is a holiday. This means you can spend a few days in a jail even if you are 100% innocent.
Unless some new evidence was brought forward, I will remain convinced that the jury felt they had to make someone pay for this woman’s suicide and would not have otherwise even been asked to render a decision on perjury. The charge itself is ridiculous. An officer can easily make a judgment to stop a conversation and order someone out of their car. It is not unreasonable to order this when dealing with someone who is uncooperative and unwilling to listen to instructions intended for their and other’s safety.
This woman was so worked up, she was ready to assault a police officer, go to jail, and was even unstable enough to hang herself. I would say the officer’s instinct to not allow this woman to drive off in that state of mind was the right one. It is impossible to say for sure what would have happened if the officer would have just ignored this. Perhaps she would have drove off and been just fine. Or perhaps she might have been so worked up she would have immediately caused a wreck and hurt other people on the road.
I have proved before a court that an officer’s statement was false to the point the district attorney had to go back and ask him to make a new statement. The court still upheld this officer’s testimony, and perjury was NEVER even a consideration. Perjury requires a high standard. We cannot just decide to find something to charge a person with because something bad happens.
The only thing I despise more than a crooked corrupt abusive cop is a corrupt politician. The pols write laws and cops enforce them, and both of them too often forget they work for us.
There is nothing more corrosive to a respected government. If it was up to me the minimum sentence for such first time offenders would be 15 years at hard labor w/o parole and all pensions forefeited. There would never be a second offense because both would be black balled from ever serving in that capacity in any state.