Wilmington, NC cops told a driver on video that it was illegal for him to record them, and because he refused to cooperate, they were going to bring out a drug dog. Unfortunately for them, the driver was a lawyer.
But the police are refusing to name the cops, and are not planning on investigating other than to slap their wrists.
That article was from 2017. There are more recent videos of cops lying to people and telling them that it’s illegal to film them. When that doesn’t work, they come up with a different lie: if you continue to film me from [insert number of feet] away you’re interfering with my work. Arizona trield to codify that into law but it got repealed or struck down or something. A more knowledgeable Doper lawyer can cite what happened book, chapter and verse.
Every state needs a law that says every time a cop purposely gives wrong information or lies to a civilian, the entire department gets a 1% pay cut of a year. That would fix the problem rather quickly. Or they all lose their weapons for a day of duty. Any cop getting 3 dings is fired and loses their right to carry a weapon in public for life in that state.
In some areas the cops would be a volunteer force within a month.
And this would be bad why?
Didn’t say it would be bad.
Granted. It would be fun to watch beating each other up rather than doing it to civilians.
"Larry, your ignorance of the law cost my my bass boat! (punch!!)
Two south Florida police officers have been charged with kidnapping, beating and handcuffing homeless man
Jason Witlock said on Fucker Carlson’s show that the murder of Tyre Nichols was because the Police Chief of Memphis is a single black woman.
Back when he wrote for the Kansas City Star, Whitlock was one of my favorite sports columnists.
Depends on implementation. If you give a bunch of unpaid people guns and badges, they will find ways to make the effort worthwhile. There is already a non-trivial amount of theft, shakedowns and bribery, but an all-volunteer force, with even less oversight would make the police-proper look like pikers.
Or even better: The Stanford Prison Experiment
Yeah, and collective punishment rarely gets the intended results.
Better to have a law that says that if a cop lies or gives false information, they are disciplined up to and including immediate termination, along with potential civil and criminal liabilities for the harm resulting from that lie.
And unicorns that fart rainbows, as long as I’m asking.
The racists on my Nextdoor app are responding with “How come the cities burned when George Floyd was killed by a white cop but we’ve got peaceful protests when it’s five Black cops doing the killing? It just proves these Black people are the real racists.”
It does seem problematic that you can be charged with breaking a law if you tell an officer a fib, but they are free to pile the bullshit upon you with no consequences. I do understand that they need to catch the bad guys, but being allowed to do it dishonestly seems like it must be part of what is wrong with the system and reinforces a work-culture suffused with lies.
I’m not going to argue about who is or isn’t racist, but the difference in the public response to both incidents is noteworthy. Why were the protests over George Floyd’s murder so much more violent than the protests over Nichols’ murder?
It could be that the LEAs have learned a strategic lesson from the earlier protests, deciding that turning them into riots was having a negative effect on the police, so now they are going to try just letting them happen in hopes that there will be less media attention and they will just fade away quietly.
To ask this presupposes that it is the protestors that were the sole initiators of the violence.
Truly. How can we forget the Minneapolis Umbrella Man?
I suspect that the police department’s response probably has something to do with it. Announcing they were going to release the video ahead of time seems pretty strange, but not if you consider it a pre-emptive attempt to stave off public outrage. The message seemed to be, “Um, we’re going to be releasing this video, and it’s really bad, you guys. I mean super bad. So please don’t riot.”
First time I’ve ever heard a police department respond with the appropriate level of horror and dismay or in any way prepare the public for what they were about to see. So maybe that has helped quell the chaos. That and the victim’s Mom asked people not to riot.