Leave it to the Cleveland PD to arrest the wrong people.
Did the police set up a perimeter around the trunk and wait?
I dunno about that. Read the story. But all parties involved got what they deserved.
No good deed goes unpunished.
This illustrates very well why everything will go sideways soon enough.
The cops job IS in no small part to protect the crooks from the citizenry. But to keep the trust (and most important, consent) they have to uphold their part of the bargain or contract, if you will. Car theft use to be dealt with harshly. Not anymore, apparently.
And those “agreements” and “memorandums of understanding” between “stakeholders” - well the cops are now paid federal and state grant money NOT to arrest “too many” teens, especially or particularly blacks or
hispanics.
These folks did a great job, and that can’t be tolerated.
Made the police think they could lose their jobs to citizen patrols.
Gotta protect those pensions.