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Orlando Officer Who Mistook Doughnut Glaze for Drugs Disciplined
NBC Miami ^ | Feb 10, 2017

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.


TOPICS: Food; Local News
KEYWORDS: donutwatch; meth; policestate; wod
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1 posted on 02/11/2017 12:17:48 PM PST by nickcarraway
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Well, donuts are a kind of addiction


2 posted on 02/11/2017 12:19:29 PM PST by floozy22 (Edward Snowden - American Hero)
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The officer was just upset that the guy had eaten the donuts before they could be confiscated.


3 posted on 02/11/2017 12:20:17 PM PST by Rusty0604 (bc)
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Michelle says that there’s nothing worse for you than eating glazed doughnuts. I used to comfort myself with one on the train.


4 posted on 02/11/2017 12:22:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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I warned them about problems with using "Old Diabetes" as their canine unit. He'll alert on anything edible and the only time he found drugs was a bag of pot brownies.


5 posted on 02/11/2017 12:23:36 PM PST by KarlInOhio (a government contract becomes virtually a substitute for intellectual curiosity - Pres. Eisenhower)
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You would think doughnuts are something police would have some expertise in.


6 posted on 02/11/2017 12:24:00 PM PST by Nachoman (My guns and my ammo, they comfort me.)
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All Amped up on Sugar again
7 posted on 02/11/2017 12:24:49 PM PST by mylife (The roar of the masses could be farts)
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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.


8 posted on 02/11/2017 12:26:52 PM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (Our 8 Year Nightmare Has Ended!)
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To: nickcarraway

Stacy Keach in “Up in Smoke.”


9 posted on 02/11/2017 12:29:55 PM PST by MUDDOG
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...and she calls herself a cop?


10 posted on 02/11/2017 12:35:55 PM PST by Delta 21 (The minority demands NOTHING !)
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Any officer that cannot identify doughnut glaze has no business being on the force.


11 posted on 02/11/2017 12:41:56 PM PST by Timpanagos1
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I'm wondering what the roadside test could be ?

...but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.
12 posted on 02/11/2017 12:56:42 PM PST by stylin19a (Terrorists - "just because you don't see them doesn't mean they aren't there")
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“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.


13 posted on 02/11/2017 1:01:12 PM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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Those roadside tests are notoriously unreliable.

If she’d shot him, they’d have said she was just following training.


14 posted on 02/11/2017 1:24:04 PM PST by Forgotten Amendments (Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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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...


15 posted on 02/11/2017 1:34:04 PM PST by miss marmelstein
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I'm wondering what the roadside test could be ?

...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?

16 posted on 02/11/2017 1:34:16 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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Rushing told officers it was likely sugar from Krispy Kreme doughnuts he'd eaten but roadside drug tests were positive for the illegal substance.

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.

17 posted on 02/11/2017 2:18:18 PM PST by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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"I recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic," the report said."

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.

18 posted on 02/11/2017 2:41:57 PM PST by jiggyboy (Ten percent of poll respondents are either lying or insane)
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In this case the officer is a “she.”


19 posted on 02/11/2017 3:08:55 PM PST by Verginius Rufus
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"I recognized, through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer, the substance to be some sort of narcotic,"

Ergo, eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer are worth jack squat in identifying narcotics. Good to know.

20 posted on 02/11/2017 3:20:17 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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