Wonder how long it will take for the boot lickers to show up here
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Officer smelled drugs. There were drugs and it is common for drug runners to try to swallow drugs to hide evidence and to resist arrest. I’d like to see the rest of this officers record before I side with those ready to bash cops so readily. I’ll give you 10 to 1 odds the judge in this case takes drugs regularly. The fact that a judge rules one way or the other, these days, doesn’t mean much. For a judge to issue a blanket statement that the cop is unwelcome in his courtroom in the future is, in itself, suspect behavior from a judge who should form an opinion on the case before him. It appears to me that the Judge is reacting in an unfair and arbitrary manner. I’ll back the cop for now until I see his entire record that might give us more insight into his character and performance. I question the character of both the punk and the judge.
I don’t care what the judge says. I don’t need a judge to tell me if a cop is on a power trip and acting improperly. Even if he did smell drugs, so the hell what? He was not being physically attacked, nor was anyone else, and he did not have a court order to physically assault the man in the hopes of finding evidence.
I say good for the judge. If the Police Chief won't fire him, the judge can decide who he is going to believe or not in any case involving a particular cop. If a number of judges do the same, he will be out of a job one way or the other. Doesn't sound like the prosecutor wants to have anything to do with him, either; but he could prosecute the cop and solve all the problems.