I’ve eaten a lot of Krispy Kreme doughnuts. To be fair, they ARE kinda addicting.....
Geez...you’d think cops of all people would have a bloodhound-like scent of what a doughnut smells like.
Leni
This is simply BAD police work. I don’t understand how something this ridiculous and wrong can happen. Can you imagine how you would feel if it were you and your Krispie Kreme donuts?
I’m glad the guy sued and and got some money.
“The officer who made the arrest, Cpl. Shelby Riggs-Hopkins, an eight-year department veteran, had staked out the 7-Eleven because of complaints about drug activity, she wrote in her report.
She pulled over Rushing because he failed to come to a full stop before pulling out of the convenience store parking lot and because he was driving 42 mph in a 30 mph zone, according to her report.
Daniel Rushing buys a Krispy Kreme doughnut every other week. (July 27, 2016) (Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda / Orlando Sentinel)
When Rushing opened his wallet, she saw that he had a concealed weapons permit, she wrote. He told her that he had a gun, and she asked him to step out of his car, a small Chevy.
That’s when she spotted “a rock like substance on the floor board where his feet were,” she wrote.
“I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic,” she wrote.
She asked for permission to search his vehicle, the report says, and Rushing agreed.
“I didn’t have anything to hide,” he said. “I’ll never let anyone search my car again.”
Riggs-Hopkins and other officers spotted three other pieces of the suspicious substance in his car, according to the report.
“I kept telling them, ‘That’s … glaze from a doughnut. … They tried to say it was crack cocaine at first, then they said, ‘No, it’s meth, crystal meth.’”
His arrest report confirms that he tried to tell them.
“Rushing stated that the substance is sugar from a Krispie Kreme Donut that he ate,” Riggs-Hopkins wrote.”
He deserved more than 37K
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Cops don’t immediately recognize donut glaze?.
Officer: Boudreaux I noticed your eyes look a little red, have you been drinking?
Boudreaux: No sir Officer. I noticed your eyes look a little glazed, have you been eating donuts?
I had my run in with a female cop who though she was tough and ballsy and in reality just a bullying bitch.
Long story, Lakeland, FL PD. Last cop who ever steps on to my property uninvited without a warrant. One instance where I will always hold a grudge.
I was a leader of our hazmat team. We had some very advanced very expensive testing equipment. We also had test kits that didn’t require a lot of hardware. But a kit or machine was only as good as the person operating it. We often drilled with the police. My observation was that the vast majority of the police were not worth crap when it came to identifying chemicals.
They need to scrap that field test if it gives a false positive on doughnut glaze. But I’m wondering if the cop actually performed a field test or was just so sure that he claimed it was positive.
Geez. You’d think cops were experts on eye-balling doughnuts.
Like a skinny cop would be a donut expert...
Leni