“Aside from that one, I also watched a vid of the Loveland CO police dept activities charging people with DUI when they tested negative.”
The same PD that battered an old, senile woman and fist-bumped about it among themselves. Loveland’s finest.
You know? I forgot about that!
I had an experience up at Laramie WY around 2013. I was hired as a yard super for a log yard that was an absolute mess and my job was to try and get it cleaned up.
The outfit hired some of the usual riff for logging crews and they all stayed at an old RR station masters house. I had my trailer hooked up and stayed in it.
One, had an heart attack a couple weeks before and had stents put in and got released. He went back to work and proceeded to get his ass drunker than hell there one night.
At just about 2 in the morning there was bang bang bang on my trailer door which about sent me through the GD roof of the thing it scared me so bad.
Got up, put my pants on and answered the door. Right away this punk cop says..”SHOW ME YOUR ID!” I said, “What the hell for?” At that time a EM guy told me that they had a call of a guy who was having chest pains. I said that the only one that could be is the guy through that front door and in the bedroom just ahead. They went in and yup, he was having chest pains.
Anyway. The punk cop started in again and told me that after this, i was required to show ID when it was demanded. One of the other EMs was standing by and I told him to get this cops supervisor here RIGHT NOW! He did, the super came and he and I had a nice long talk.
I explained. Here is how you do this. Knock on the door, when answered, ID yourself as the officer so and so and that there was a call that someone was having a medical problem-chest pains. DO NOT POUND ON THE DOOR AND DEMAND TO SEE ID! I dont have to show this sonny boy ID and there was NO REASON to act like some tough boy just out of academy.
I filed a complaint and the punk was dismissed.
The drunk worker? He was fired the next day by yours truly and sent back to where he came from after they set him straight at the ER..was OK.
Some of these eager beavers need to be taught that common sense and a little respect goes a long way in such incidents.