Posted on 02/11/2017 12:17:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
Officials in Florida say an Orlando police officer who arrested a man after mistaking doughnut glaze for meth has been disciplined.
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins was given a written reprimand for making an improper arrest.
An internal affairs report released Thursday by the Orlando Police Department found no evidence she acted in bad faith. The report says the department never trained its officers to use the department-issued roadside drug tests.
Daniel Rushing was arrested in December 2015 when Riggs-Hopkins spotted flakes of glaze on his floorboard and thought they were pieces of crystal methamphetamine. Rushing told officers it was likely sugar from Krispy Kreme doughnuts he'd eaten but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.
A state crime lab test cleared Rushing several weeks later, and charges were dropped.
Well, donuts are a kind of addiction
The officer was just upset that the guy had eaten the donuts before they could be confiscated.
Michelle says that there’s nothing worse for you than eating glazed doughnuts. I used to comfort myself with one on the train.
You would think doughnuts are something police would have some expertise in.
Daniel Rushing is going to be awarded a big pot of money after he sues the dumb cops who arrested him.
The idiots should have been FIRED.
Stacy Keach in “Up in Smoke.”
...and she calls herself a cop?
Any officer that cannot identify doughnut glaze has no business being on the force.
“An internal affairs report released Thursday by the Orlando Police Department found no evidence she acted in bad faith.”
Shocker.
“The report says the department never trained its officers to use the department-issued roadside drug tests.”
Oh?
Do tell.
Someone explain to me how incompetence and ignorance is a defense of poor decisions?
The department should face sanction for not properly training their officers.
Those roadside tests are notoriously unreliable.
If she’d shot him, they’d have said she was just following training.
This reminds me of the attention I once garnered from another motorist down south when I could only find “headache powders” for my headache. White dust in a white folder...
...but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.
The roadside test reports EVERYTHING is an illegal substance - wouldn't want anyone to go unarrested, now, would we?
Is that why Meth Addicts always want to go to the gas station and pick up some Krispy Kreme doughnuts ?
And it's not any doughnut that will do. Has to be Krispy Kreme.
Let's underline this: Part of the usual "testilying" is working in "my XX years of training and experience" early and often, unprompted. And his pretending that his "training and experience" wasn't sufficient to tell the difference between crack -- or meth, when that became the better drug of choice for whatever reason -- isn't "bad faith" in the eyes of the department? The answer is: because we're living in a police state, folks.
In this case the officer is a “she.”
Ergo, eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer are worth jack squat in identifying narcotics. Good to know.
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