What a ding dong. He probably would have gotten detained for having a suspended license, and probably would have gotten a slap on the wrist for the marijuana possession. Instead, he’s going to have to get his car fixed AND go to jail for resisting.
Idiot.
When you at the complete video not the edited video that originally was posted, it’s obvious the idiot was setting up the officers to get something on camera he could sue for.
He had a dash camera point at himself; he edited the video to show only parts of what happened and immediately he hired one of the biggest race hustlers in the country as his attorney.
“At the briefing, [Sheriff] Waters showed body-camera footage from two officers who were involved in the arrest, Officer Bowers and Officer Miller, after announcing that the State Attorney’s Office found the officers’ actions did not violate criminal law, but added that Bowers has been stripped of his law enforcement authority.”
If Bowers did nothing wrong, why was he stripped of his law enforcement authority?
There’s not enough on the video to make a determination.
Why was he pulled over?
Did the cop offer a reasonable articulable suspicion that a crime was committed?
cop can’t just pull you over or walk up to you and force you to comply. You are not required to produce identification and cannot be detained with reasonable articulable suspicion.
You look suspicious doesn’t count.
A cop was recently fired after doing just that to a kid who was sitting on a bench outside a closed store while waiting for an Uber. He was a store employee and his shift just ended. As the cop was cuffing him the Uber arrived, proving his case, yet the cop still took him to jail.
Most cops are good, some are very bad. Busting out a car window counts in the very bad category.
Most people are good, some are very bad, but being bad doesn’t allow your Constitutional rights to be violated.
1st, 4th, 5th and 9th Amendments are always in play during police interactions.
Saw that on our local TV-3 ABC station this morning.
Dude was being stupid. Maybe he’s a professional at it..............
The officer claimed he was pulled over for not having his lights turned on in the rain EXCEPT that none of the responding officers had headlights on or windshield wipers on. It was a BS stop. The officer was not looking for a traffic infraction, he was looking for an arrest for something else.
The sheriff saying that he should have taken another route to complain is also BS. Police will investigate themselves and find they did nothing wrong. He could file a lawsuit but no lawyer is going to take a case where there are no substantial damage because there is not going to be a settlement high enough to even pay legal bills.
These local news pages are the worst. You literally can’t get to the video that is advertised without having to see a bunch of other junk
Paging the UK enemedia outlets that ran with this...
Nice try.
Not a lot of similarity between the two. None, actually.
This man thought he could get away with being polite while disobeying police orders.