Posted on 07/22/2011 7:46:14 AM PDT by marktwain
A profanity-laced dash-cam video from a Canton, Ohio police car that shows a street cop threatening a legally-armed citizen with felony charges, and possible execution, is racing across cyberspace at warp speed, enraging gun rights activists all over the country, including the distant Pacific Northwest.
According to CantonRep.com, the police department has begun an internal investigation. The officer is identified as Daniel Harless, and he has been on sick leave since Monday of this week, the newspaper said. He has also been placed on administrative leave. My colleague, David Codrea, writes about the incident here.
The video, now on YouTube, was posted Wednesday by Ohioans for Concealed Carry (OFCC). It shows a June 8 roadside encounter involving two Canton officers and three citizens in a parked car. The man seated behind the wheel of that parked car was arrested because he allegedly did not advise Harless fast enough – as is required by law in Ohio – that he was armed. There is no such requirement in Washington State. OFCC is definitely making an issue of this case.
On June 8, 2011 the following unfortunate arrest took place in Canton, OH. Notifying the policy when you have a firearm is required by Ohio Law, but when this individual with a thirty-day old license tries to do that he is repeatedly ordered to look away, shut up, or interrupted and "forced" to change what he is speaking about by the actions of an aggressive cop who maintains verbal control of the situation. A two man car dealing with three people put itself at risk when one officer started what appears to be an illegal search of the rear of the car without extracting or securing the driver - which would have given him an opportunity to notify.
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He should be stripped of his weapons, fired and arrested for misconduct, terroristic threats, violation of civil rights, etc... Unfortunately the Police Union will defend this POS till the end.
Doesn't matter.
United States Code, Title 18, U.S. Criminal Code §ection 241:
Conspiracy against rights
If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in any State, Territory, Commonwealth, Possession, or District in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States, or because of his having so exercised the same; or
If two or more persons go in disguise on the highway, or on the premises of another, with intent to prevent or hinder his free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege so secured—
They shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both; and if death results from the acts committed in violation of this section or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, they shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years or for life, or both, or may be sentenced to death.
Ohio Revised Code:
525.13 INTERFERING WITH CIVIL RIGHTS.
(A) No public servant, under color of his office, employment or authority, shall knowingly deprive, or conspire or attempt to deprive any person of a constitutional or statutory right.
(B) Whoever violates this Section is guilty of interfering with civil rights, a misdemeanor of the first degree.
(ORC 2921.45.)
Daniel Ray Harless of Canton, OH better disconnect his phone. Pipl and Zabasearch shows his wife’s name as Kristina and it lists her address and phone but not his. He didn’t think the privacy thing out too well.
With new technology, the people are regaining control over the police. It is a new day. This officer is just now realizing that this is so.
In Ohio the police can’t even sit on the side of the highway and run radar without lights on. There are no unmarked cars either.
This is why they threaten, harass, and prosecute anyone that records their behavior,
and it’s also why we need to lobby our legislators to make sure we retain the right to record them.
Every motor vehicle should at least as an option, video capability as a safeguard against the government. These cameras should be of the type that can upload to the internet in real time.
Officer in this video had a history of not turning on his camera at stops and was reprimanded. Imagine what he did with the camera off.
“It seems they forgot laws and that they work for us.”
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That sentiment applies to the entire public sector currently. Ever dealt with some of the drunk-with-power commissars at your local building inspection department?
That said, the police have an uniquely wide-ranging and yes, NECESSARY amount of power in their hands. Too many of them have no respect for the importance and critically important role of their own job, performed properly and professionally.
Not that I personally have much interaction with the police, but I feel like telling SOME (certainly not all) cops. “See that badge you are wearing? You are also supposed to respect it, just as much as I am.”
That's just half the problem. Now his partner has the choice as to whether to testify against Harless, or be charged with him as an accomplice in a federal felony. On top of which, he too faces a state misconduct charge:
Ohio Revised Code:
(a) No law enforcement officer shall negligently do any of the following:
(1) Fail to serve a lawful warrant without delay; (2) Fail to prevent or halt the commission of an offense or to apprehend an offender, when it is in the law enforcement officer's power to do so alone or with available assistance.
(b) No law enforcement, ministerial or judicial officer shall negligently fail to perform a lawful duty in a criminal case or proceeding.
(c) No officer, having charge of a detention facility, shall negligently do any of the following:
(1) Allow the detention facility to become littered or unsanitary;
(2) Fail to provide persons confined in the detention facility with adequate food, clothing, bedding, shelter and medical attention;
(3) Fail to control an unruly prisoner, or to prevent intimidation of or physical harm to a prisoner by another;
(4) Allow a prisoner to escape;
(5) Fail to observe any lawful and reasonable regulation for the management of the detention facility.
(d) No public official of the Municipality shall recklessly create a deficiency, incur a liability or expend a greater sum than is appropriated by the legislative authority of the Municipality for the use in any one year of the department, agency or institution with which the public official is connected.
(e) No public servant shall recklessly fail to perform a duty expressly imposed by law with respect to the public servant's office, or recklessly do any act expressly forbidden by law with respect to the public servant's office.
(f) Whoever violates this section is guilty of dereliction of duty, a misdemeanor of the second degree.
(g) As used in this section, "public servant" includes an officer or employee of a contractor as defined in Ohio R.C. 9.08.
“There are no unmarked cars either.”
Ooohh yes there are. They can’t use them for traffic law enforcement, but they can use them for other things.
Kristina has extensive experience handling legal matters involving workers' compensation, and regularly advises clients regarding employment law-related matters.
That cop showed numerous symptoms of steroid use, which is known to result in aggressive, irrational behavior. LEO friends tell me that buffed-up cops (wearing tightly-tailored uniforms that show off their build) most likely are steroid users -- and should be treated like a bomb with a hair trigger.
IMHO, anabolic steroid use should be an immediate disqualification for legal carry -- professional or citizen. And LEOs should undergo frequent drug testing.
I just saw her picture at the link.
Suffice to say that it explains A LOT!
Give the gal a break. If that cop treats his fellow citizens that way, I doubt that he treats his wife very well either.
From the law firm’s website: “Prior to obtaining her law degree, Kristina was a police officer in Fredericksburg, Virginia.”
Well, someone made sure that the dashcam video didn't "get lost" or "malfunctioned".
State Trooper in Ohio, when parked on the highway for the purpose of tracking speeders with their radars and lasers must have their lights on at night. I don’t know if that applies to other Ohio cops as well.
That’s what I was referring to.
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