• Mr_Buscemi@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    10 months ago

    That title hides the worst part.

    The cops arrested him and then said social services was coming to take his son who was with him at the time. Then the cop was told the charges wouldn’t stick and still did it.

    Fucking disgusting to terrify a child like this.

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    If the reason to have speed traps is to get people to reduce their speed then that guy was literally getting people to reduce their speed.

    The police need reformed because they try to get people to do bad as a way of making money.

    That makes society literally worse instead of better.

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      Pretty telling that they’re not really about safety when officers will speed after someone at 100+ cause they got their feefees hurt in the exact same area the speed trap is.

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      I mean if the police wanted to enjoy their job they each would get a day to park a cruiser up the street … and then change into civilian clothes and sit in a lawn chair up the street drinking a beer smoking a cigar holding a sign saying “speed trap ahead” and then calling in anyone that ignores it with it being tracked by the squad car’s camera.

      that would be how you police if you want to have fun.

      (this is my most brilliant idea ever. and i yield it freely to law enforcement)

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    Improper use of hand signal charge for the middle finger made me chuckle. Two first amendment infringements in one encounter though? This officer needs to learn what the first amendment is and how it works.

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        “Douglas is heard saying that even if the charge would be dropped, it at least “inconvenienced” Guessford.”

        They should get charged for inconveniencing the court

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    Power tripping assholes.

    “You can’t do that,” Popp tells Box. “That will be dropped.”

    “Yeah, it’s gonna get dropped,” Box replies. “I told (Douglas) it’s definitely going to get thrown out. … I said, ‘Ah, that’s not really going to fly, buddy.’”

    Douglas is heard saying that even if the charge would be dropped, it at least “inconvenienced” Guessford.

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    I don’t understand why he didn’t go after Box himself. The recording demonstrated that he was violating his civil rights, and knew it wouldn’t be upheld. That should have gotten rid of his qualified immunity.

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    Saying all the quiet parts out loud

    edit: to be clear i am referencing the police talking to each other idk what else people thought i meant but ok