There are many YT videos of First Amendment Auditors being detained, harassed, and (sometimes) arrested for the mere act of filming in public.
The driver was probably hopped up on goofballs.
Your Honor, we have evidence that the defendant was substituting someone else’s breath for his.
He was drunk on power, because he did not respect the police officer’s authority!
Clearly, it would protect people from choking on someone else’s vomit.
Then he should have been charged with driving while hopped up on goofballs, not drunk driving.
Goofballs are notoriously difficult to prove. Better to file a false charge. It’s safer.
“Well, we think you committed burglary but that’s hard to prove so we’ll charge you with armed robbery instead.” That’s not how it works.
In any event, what in the report leads you to believe he was ‘hopped up on goof balls?’
I’m being silly. It’s a Chief Wiggums reference.
Which he stole from Joe Friday.
Thank you. I was wondering why I heard that in Dan Aykroyd’s voice.
Yeah, but Joe Friday saw someone OD on LSD with his own eyes.
Harry Morgan was a wild man!
It could be a case of the Asshole Tax being levied. Show the slightest “contempt of cop”/“I pay your salary”/or even “you don’t have reasonable, articulable suspicion that I’ve committed a crime or am about to commit one,” and that minor infraction gets a complete citation. Or lacking even a minor infraction, you, Mr. Constitution Expert, will learn that in this state you’re required to keep a trash bag in your car, or can’t have an air freshener on your rear view. In extreme cases, the cop is willing to fill out all the DUI arrest paperwork that he knows the judge will dismiss, just so you spend the night in jail. And in at-will employment states, missing work due to arrest results in termination, because employers love that “I’ll show you who’s boss here” power too.
In this case, it looks like the officer was out of control. From the article I quote above:
So it looks like he would just go hunting for DUIs and haul in everyone, drunk or sober.
One attorney on YouTube pointed out how this is a good reason for not taking field sobriety tests because of how subjective they are.
Officer and his prisoner die when he drives into the water, apparently due to texting
One of the deputy’s last communications was a text to his wife that said, “Arrest,” Johnson said.
“His wife texted back and said, ‘That’s good’ or ‘That’s great,’” Garrett said at a press briefing earlier on Thursday. “We know that his phone did not evidently receive that text.”
Well, he was only going 74 mph in a 25 mph zone.
Actually it surprised me that a police officer would care that much about an overdose call.
I get to drive fast and inconvenience people, YAAAY!
Two cops on horses are approched by a dog. One of them proceeds to beat the dog with his baton. According to TMZ this happened about a year ago and just popped up online recently, so I have no idea if the cops are still cops or if anything ever became of it.
What really bugged me is when the owner came running up to grab it and the “the officer on the ground gets one last good swing on the dog”. That one was particularly awful.
Fucking monsters.
If a dog dashed out and started biting my horse’s legs when I was riding it, I’d jump off and beat the dog too, enough to get it away from my horse for good. One attack that slashes a tendon and the horse is lamed, probably for life.
I’d also be concerned that the dog’s propensity to make a vicious attack might not be confined to horses but could extend to, say, small children running.