Florida trooper who pulled over 120mph police officer sues for $500,000

Daily Mail ^ | 11 February 2014 | DAN BLOOM

[moonshinner_09]

The world use to laugh with us.The world is now laughing at us.Headlines out this country have reached 3rd world status..

[driftdiver]

Which part of this story do you think puts us in 3rd world status? Hard to tell these days.

[AlexW]

“The world use to laugh with us.The world is now laughing at us.”
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Every morning when I open FreeRepublic, I wonder what horror I will see. It never ceases to amaze me....and to think, some think that I am a stupid jerk for not being there to enjoy it.

[Jabba the Nutt]

This is part of the chickafication of America. A man would know, you don't handcuff a fellow officer. The chick follows the rules maniacally. Then gets upset when other officers get p-o'ed at her stupidity of not following the unwritten rules of a male group. So, she turns to Father State (Vaterstaat in the original German) to make things right and protect her. I bet, if she hadn't handcuffed the guy, she wouldn't have got the reaction that she did.

The War on Men continues...

[Doc Savage]

When you start to pick and choose which laws you want to enforce, you’re a banana republic.

[GilesB]

One officer claimed he accessed her DL records out of concern for a fellow officer when he heard rumors that she was being harassed. Riiiiiight!

Just exactly how does her DL information help you protect her?

[drunknsage]

Pigs they get what pigs deserve. Pigs are no better than the rest of us and if an officer wants to put a pig in handcuffs, he should be placed in handcuffs.

This isn’t a war on men issue. This is a war against pigs issue. They chose the blue line therefore they should all hang by it. String em up, stretch their necks, then we will see how much they love their precious blue line.

This childish and stupid frat boy mentality is destructive and not reserved just for pigs. Doctors engage in the same behavior, covering up and not speaking out against their fellows. It’s a serious issue in the medical community just as it is with law enforcement. Corruption must be fought from within if we wish to fight it at all.

[Logical me]

The badge does not give the right to disobey the law when off duty. At that speed the cop should have been fired.

[Drawsing]

I agree there was no need to handcuff him. But I resent the attitude “We can do anything we want to because we are the police!”

[ArtDodger]

Can't agree with you here, Jabba. 120 mph is reckless endangerment of the public. If you or I were caught doing it, we would be led away trussed up like Hannibal Lector. Being a police officer doesn't give one special status as a law breaker. One of the big problems in this country is government people are NOT being held to the same standards as the great unwashed. If I stole documents from the National Archives, I would be buried UNDER the prison, but Sandy Berger got a free pass. My opinion, politicians and officers should be held to a HIGHER standard.

[Blood of Tyrants]

So the cop driving illegally at 120 mph should just be ignored?

[bigbob]

The thug blue line...

Wonder what he was drinking at 120?

[FR_addict]

Absolutely, She had every right to pull him over for his excessive dangerous speed that could have killed somebody.

Since when does a badge give someone the right to break the law. She is being harassed and she has every right to sue.

[Mouton]

Worse, driving in a reckless manner like that and operating a department vehicle, he put the entire city on liability watch had he run into anyone. 120mph, wow.

[coloradan]

Well, obviously you post officers outside her house, and phone her at her home number at all hours to make sure she’s safe. You know, that sort of thing.

[sten]

then you’re aware we’ve been a banana republic for many moons

[baddog 219]

The officer heard that there was a dog that needed to be shot....He was in a hurry to get there first.

[ZULU]

Precisely correct.

We need a group here called “Copwatch” that pings you for these kinds of articles.

[luvbach1]

Obvious we have some police, and ex-police, on FR.