# Controversial encounters between law-enforcement and civilians - the omnibus thread **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [October 10, 2014, 7:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942 "2014-10-10T07:35:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 580
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 1:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11582 "2017-09-22T13:03:26Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > The guy was stone deaf. Listen??? > > Learn how to read. LOL, thanks for the laugh this morning. Snowflake? Who says that? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11583 "2017-09-22T14:34:51Z")
> [@PatriotX](#): > > I hear cops finally killed a deaf guy for ‘failure to comply’ with orders he could not hear. > www.google.com/search?q=magdiel+sanchez > > Justifiable homicide. > > If you want to survive an encounter with the police, you need to listen. > Otherwise, they can legally confiscate your life. > > It’s totally not a due process violation either. > The process which was due is the office shouting commands. > Or so I imagine the case goes. > > Idk. > > Maybe there will not be anyone who wants to defend this with the usual set of justifications. [This isn’t the first time it’s happened.](http://www.colorlines.com/articles/seattle-cop-resigns-after-native-american-mans-killing-ruled-unjustified)That was in Seattle back in 2010. And of course there was the [Robert Dziekański Taser incident](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dzieka%C5%84ski_Taser_incident) in 2007, where a man was killed because he couldn’t understand what people were saying to him and no one could understand him, creating a situation that escalated until he was killed by police. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11584 "2017-09-22T21:49:18Z")
It isn’t just the cops, the whole damn system is rotten, from the cops, to the “scientists” to the DA to the prosecutors on up. > **[Prosecutors Lied About a Chemist Who Tainted 18,000 Convictions. Time to...](https://slate.com/technology/2017/09/sonja-farak-convictions-aclu-wants-to-overturn-them-all.html)** > > Prosecutors’ misconduct, a judge wrote, was “reprehensible” and “ a fraud upon this court.” > [@](#): > > Prosecutors Lied About a Chemist Who Tainted 18,000 Convictions. Time to Overturn Them All. > > …It wasn’t an isolated case. Farak began using drugs from the lab in 2005 and continued to do so until she was arrested in 2013. All told, roughly 18,000 convictions were tainted by certifications that Farak issued while under the influence. Now the ACLU is asking Massachusetts’ Supreme Judicial Court to vacate these convictions. All of them. With prejudice. … > > … : Over her nine-year career, Annie Dookhan falsified tens of thousands of reports, frequently certifying results without testing the substance. Dookhan’s misconduct tainted about 24,000 convictions—but the SJC refused to dismiss all of them … 21,839 wrongful convictions. … > > …Farak’s case is different. Prosecutors were not only negligent in investigating the scope of Farak’s misconduct; they deliberately withheld exculpatory evidence from the defense, an egregious due process violation. … > > … When the “Farak defendants” demanded that prosecutors turn over all potentially exculpatory evidence—a constitutional requirement—the attorney general’s office sought a protective order to keep this paperwork secret. The office also told the judge, as well as the defense, that evidence seized from Farak’s car was “irrelevant” to the Farak defendants, a blatant lie. … > > … He found that two assistant attorneys general, Anne Kaczmarek and Kris Foster, had withheld exculpatory evidence “through deception,” “tampered with the fair administration of justice by deceiving [the court],” “distorted” the court’s fact-finding, and “unfairly hampered” the defense. Their “reprehensible” conduct, Carey concluded, “constitutes a fraud upon this court.” … ---
**Author:** ![k9bfriender](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/k9bfriender/32/3283_2.png) [@k9bfriender](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/k9bfriender)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2017, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11585 "2017-09-22T21:57:09Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > It isn’t just the cops, the whole damn system is rotten, from the cops, to the “scientists” to the DA to the prosecutors on up. > > [Sonja Farak convictions: ACLU wants to overturn them all.](http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2017/09/22/sonja_farak_convictions_aclu_wants_to_overturn_them_all.html) Sounds like she was certifying the drugs to me. She was certifying them by taking them herself, rather than using the appropriate lab equipment and procedures, but that’s gotta count for something, right? ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11586 "2017-09-23T16:12:34Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > …I’m actually waiting for someone to explain why it’s so hard to put “Use deadly force as a last resort” into practice. That’s the million dollar question. ---
**Author:** ![asahi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asahi/32/8693_2.png) [@asahi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asahi)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11587 "2017-09-23T16:55:51Z")
> [@SteveG1](#): > > That’s the million dollar question. As I mentioned a while ago in this thread, the standard of what passes as justifiable use of deadly force is not clear evidence of a threat but the mere perception of one. And since jurors tend to give law enforcement the benefit of the doubt, the fuzzy and highly subjective standard of a perceived threat is basically enough to allow deadly force in situations where it may not truly be called for. To repeat something I’ve said before, “I was afraid” is a pretty low standard in justifying the killing of another person. If we allowed ordinary citizens to kill each other because they simply feared them, an already violent society such as ours would resemble a war zone. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2017, 7:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11588 "2017-09-23T19:31:44Z")
> [@Slash1972](#): > > I’m actually waiting for someone to explain why it’s so hard to put “Use deadly force as a last resort” into practice. There was a story [a few months back](http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/cops-salt-like-city-no-murders-police-brutality/1956644/) stating (at the time) that the Salt Lake police had not killed anyone in almost two years. They have implemented de-escalation training, instituted a de-escalation award and had avoided shooting even when it might have been justified. There may have been police violence since then, I have not kept up. But before you say otherwise, SLC is a very large urban area full of non-Mormons and other weirdos. Reducing police violence is not quite a River City Iowa piece-of-cake there. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11589 "2017-09-24T03:15:34Z")
Then you have the Seattle police who sued to block the then newly implemented policies for use of force and de-escallation claiming the new policy violates their second amendment rights. [Court unanimously votes to tell them to pound sand.](https://www.policeone.com/use-of-force/articles/421700006-Court-rules-against-officers-who-sued-over-Seattle-PDs-UOF-policy/) ---
**Author:** ![Rick\_Kitchen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rick_kitchen/32/522_2.png) [@Rick\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick_Kitchen)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11590 "2017-09-24T04:45:14Z")
Five ICE agents in civilian clothes with no identification or warrants stopped a Latino couple (both US citizens) in Washington County, Oregon, demanding their IDs and claiming the man was a person with an arrest warrant. Only when ACLU showed up with a camera did they leave. > **[Oregon lawmakers demand investigation, apology over mistaken ICE stop](https://www.oregonlive.com/hillsboro/2017/09/oregon_lawmakers_demand_invest.html)** > > U.S. Reps. Suzanne Bonamici and Earl Blumenauer said they were "greatly disturbed" by Isidro Andrade-Tafolla's account of what happened after he and his wife left the Washington County Courthouse on Monday morning. ---
**Author:** ![Chisquirrel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6bbea6/32.png) [@Chisquirrel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chisquirrel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11591 "2017-09-24T05:47:09Z")
> [@asahi](#): > > To repeat something I’ve said before, “I was afraid” is a pretty low standard in justifying the killing of another person. If we allowed ordinary citizens to kill each other because they simply feared them, an already violent society such as ours would resemble a war zone. When citizens start using that justification at their murder trial after blowing away a cop, we might see a re-visiting of the concept. Just kidding. “Better to be tried by twelve than carried by six” is only a justification police can use. ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2017, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11592 "2017-09-24T18:43:06Z")
> [@Projammer](#): > > Then you have the Seattle police who sued to block the then newly implemented policies for use of force and de-escallation claiming the new policy violates their second amendment rights. > > [Court unanimously votes to tell them to pound sand.](https://www.policeone.com/use-of-force/articles/421700006-Court-rules-against-officers-who-sued-over-Seattle-PDs-UOF-policy/) That is pretty fucking ironic, since so many police ad “law 'n order” types want to strip the rest of us, of OUR 2nd Amendment rights – All. The. Time. Because they’re so fucking scared. Uh huh. ---
**Author:** ![Slash1972](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slash1972/32/6461_2.png) [@Slash1972](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slash1972)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2017, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11593 "2017-09-25T16:03:29Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > There was a story [a few months back](http://elitedaily.com/life/culture/cops-salt-like-city-no-murders-police-brutality/1956644/) stating (at the time) that the Salt Lake police had not killed anyone in almost two years. They have implemented de-escalation training, instituted a de-escalation award and had avoided shooting even when it might have been justified. > > There may have been police violence since then, I have not kept up. But before you say otherwise, SLC is a very large urban area full of non-Mormons and other weirdos. Reducing police violence is not quite a River City Iowa piece-of-cake there. I’m not going to say otherwise. I think that story was great, thanks for linking to it! ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2017, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11594 "2017-09-26T23:43:34Z")
I don’t know when the arrest of the homeless man took place, exactly, but apparently the lawsuit against the LEOrganizations that took part in it was filed back in March; sorry I missed [this item](http://faultlines.us/fault-lines/debate-fresno-cops-went-beyond-overkill-raiding-casa-jessen/17374) back then: > [@](#): > > The main point of contention in a case pending before a Californian court is whether the city of Fresno was justified in bringing a real-life platoon to a farmer couple’s home to smoke out one unarmed homeless man, and whether destroying the home in the process was “excessive, unreasonable, violent, destructive […] intrusive […] unnecessary and unreasonable.” > > Those are some explosive adjectives, indeed. And these commandos were backed up by, and received cover from, quite the arsenal. From the couple’s lawsuit: > > To arrest a singular, unarmed, hungry, homeless person the Fresno County Sheriff’s and Clovis Police Departments deployed and utilized the following: a. Utilized over 50 vehicles; b. A K-9 unit; c. Two helicopters; d. Two Ambulances; e. One Fire Truck; f. A crisis Negotiation Team arriving in a large motor home, that Plaintiffs are informed and believe included communications equipment and other support equipment; g. A Robot; h. SWAT Team; and i. Back Up SWAT Team — Clovis City Police. Get a load of the picture of the house at the top of the page, eh. I’ll try and keep tabs on the lawsuit. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11595 "2017-09-27T13:15:44Z")
Here’s a case: a Texas Jury just awarded a man 1.3 million dollars after he proved that police lied about his arrest. The story is begins when the man’s sun called the police because he was angry about be grounded and claimed his father was drunk and waving around a gun. The police came and arrested him, beating him up in the process, and then claimed that he had attacked them. The man was looking at a lengthy prison sentence (the evidence was incontrovertible, 3 cops agreed the man had attacked them) for felony assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, and aggravated assault with a firearm. Unfortunately for the tax payers in that county, the man had a security camera that showed that everything the police claimed was a lie. [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/video-clears-texas-man-of-assaulting-cop-did-police-commit-perjury/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/video-clears-texas-man-of-assaulting-cop-did-police-commit-perjury/) As far as I can tell, the officers were never charged with perjury or otherwise punished. Their 5 minutes of lying could have resulted in up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine as assaulting a police officer is a 3rd degree felony in Texas, yet there seems to be no consequences for the officers, only the taxpayers. I wonder how often this kind of shit happens. I also wonder what happened to the son… ---
**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\ **Post date:** [September 27, 2017, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11596 "2017-09-27T23:09:53Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > I wonder how often this kind of shit happens. I also wonder what happened to the son… 1. because the system is rotten, from the top down. 2. If it were me he accused, he’d be pushing up daisies. ---
**Author:** ![Projammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/projammer/32/559_2.png) [@Projammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Projammer)\ **Post date:** [September 30, 2017, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11597 "2017-09-30T22:35:57Z")
[Ex-South Carolina trooper sent to prison for shooting unarmed black motorist](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-south-carolina-shooting/ex-south-carolina-trooper-sent-to-prison-for-shooting-unarmed-black-motorist-idUSKCN1AV28J) > [@](#): > > A former South Carolina state trooper will serve a total of five years behind bars for shooting and injuring an unarmed black driver during a 2014 traffic stop… > > Sean Groubert, who is white, shot motorist Levar Jones after stopping him in Richland County for not wearing a seat belt. Patrol car video of the incident showed Jones with his hands raised as he was shot. > > Groubert, 34, was fired from the state Highway Patrol after the shooting and pleaded guilty last year to assault and battery of a high and aggravated nature. It only took three years, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Negative](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/typo_negative/32/484_2.png) [@Typo\_Negative](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Negative)\ **Post date:** [October 2, 2017, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11598 "2017-10-02T17:52:51Z")
> [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](#): > > Unfortunately for the tax payers in that county, the man had a security camera that showed that everything the police claimed was a lie. > > [https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/video-clears-texas-man-of-assaulting-cop-did-police-commit-perjury/](https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/03/video-clears-texas-man-of-assaulting-cop-did-police-commit-perjury/) > > As far as I can tell, the officers were never charged with perjury or otherwise punished. Their 5 minutes of lying could have resulted in up to 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine as assaulting a police officer is a 3rd degree felony in Texas, yet there seems to be no consequences for the officers, only the taxpayers. I wonder how often this kind of shit happens. Same as with cockroaches. If you see one… ---
**Author:** ![Kinthalis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kinthalis/32/16084_2.png) [@Kinthalis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kinthalis)\ **Post date:** [October 5, 2017, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11599 "2017-10-05T23:46:15Z")
Another day, another murder by cops: > **[Video shows Utah police fatally shooting man from behind as he fled](https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/oct/05/patrick-harmon-utah-police-shooting)** > > Police face no charges amid accusations of racial profiling and ‘brutal execution’ in case of Patrick Harmon, 50, who was pulled over for cycling without a light > [@](#): > > Police in Utah fatally shot a man from behind while he was running away from officers, according to newly released footage, which has sparked accusations of racial profiling and a “brutal execution”. > > Prosecutors in Salt Lake City have said officers were justified in killing Patrick Harmon, 50, who was pulled over for riding a bicycle without a light and who attempted to flee when police tried to arrest him. Police are not facing charges despite the fact that the body-camera footage captured officer Clinton Fox shouting “I’ll fucking shoot you!” from a distance before he fired three bullets into Harmon, who was running in the opposite direction. > The district attorney’s office claimed that Harmon said “I’ll cut you” and turned and faced officers with a knife as he was running. The video, however, raises questions about the narrative. Harmon cannot be heard making that threat and was running away from the officer, not facing him, when he was killed. > Salt Lake officials have claimed that the killing of Harmon was legal because the officers feared for their lives, even though the video, released to local media, revealed that Harmon was not advancing toward them. Another officer said he fired his Taser at the same time that Fox shot Harmon. The footage showed the officers handcuffing Harmon as he laid on the ground face-down, groaning in pain. > Civil rights activists said the killing of Harmon was the latest example of police brutality and a prejudiced criminal justice system in the US, where officers kill black men at disproportionately high rates. Data has shown that across the country, black citizens and people of color are stopped by police and targeted for low-level offenses at higher rates than white residents, and some reports have suggested that police stop and cite black cyclists for minor infractions with much greater frequency than others. > Police are rarely charged and almost never convicted for use of force in the US, where the law generally allows officers to use lethal force if they claim that they perceived a threat. > Police declined to answer questions about the case, but the chief, Mike Brown, said in a statement: “We trust the process and support the decision from district attorney Sim Gill. I believe our officers have the training and judgement and ability to make split-second decisions in dynamic situations.” > > Gill added in a statement: “Officer Fox reasonably believed deadly force was necessary to prevent death or serious bodily injury to himself and/or others and therefore his use of deadly force was ‘justified’.” > “He was scared. All he did was run,” said Adriane Harmon, another niece, who was sobbing after watching the footage for the first time Thursday. “It hurts … They said ‘I’m going to kill you’ and they shot him three times. He’s just moaning on the ground.” How can anyone here possibly still believe that the courts are just when cases like this KEEP ON MOTHER FUCKING HAPPENING? There’s that phrase too: “Feared for their lives”. A black man running away from them. Bunch of racist fucking cowards. ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_fun_ball/32/17664_2.png) [@Happy\_Fun\_Ball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Fun_Ball)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11600 "2017-10-06T00:21:36Z")
How about this one: [Police detain 5 12-14 year old boys coming back from the park at gunpoint.](http://woodtv.com/2017/04/21/watch-grpd-video-shows-children-detained-at-gunpoint/) Really sad to watch; one of the boys is crying and they are all scared. One is begging the cops not to shoot him and states he doesn’t want to die. I will let you guess the race of the kids. The police were searching for two adolescents that were in a fight earlier, one of which reportedly displayed a gun. The reports were unconfirmed by any other witnesses. No shootings had occurred. Nobody had come forward claiming to be assaulted. Just a guy called the cops and said he saw two teenagers fighting and one had a gun. This was enough for the police to justify pointing guns on any kids they saw in the neighborhood while they made them drop to their faces. The only thing the police had to go on was the color of their clothing. Cops are too scared. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [October 6, 2017, 11:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942/11601 "2017-10-06T11:26:03Z")
[Miami Beach police have no sense of humor. None.](http://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/man-arrested-for-parody-police-twitter-account-in-miami-beach-9725564) They’ve arrested a guy who created a parody Twitter account making fun of the police. They claim that he is “impersonating a police officer”, a felony. If Leslie Nielsen were alive he could be sharing that cell. In 2014 a guy was arrested over a parody Twitter account aimed at the mayor of Peoria, Illinois. It cost Peoria $125,000 to apologize to the guy. Hope the dude in Miami gets at least that much. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942.md?page=579) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-encounters-between-law-enforcement-and-civilians-the-omnibus-thread/700942.md?page=581)