Posted on 07/29/2023 7:29:09 AM PDT by DFG
I’m sure it’s all covered by the cities’ liability insurance. You think anyone hesitates to sue if a black cop screws up?
I’ve been pulled over at gunpoint. I don’t care for it much.
The true inconvenience begins when the officers go to incredible lengths to pile on additional charges to cover up for their original mistake(s).
The true inconvenience begins when the officers go to incredible lengths to pile on additional charges to cover up for their original mistake(s).
Hey, it's just a coincidence, dontcha know?
“I think it all traces back to the post office’s decision to make all state abbreviations two letters.”
When used with the ZIP code.
You hit the big point.
The police officer reacted quickly to a Black Charger with Black people in it. Even if the Frisco LEO was Black it doesn’t excuse her pulling them over on the NTTA.
Big money in the future for this family...
What is unusual about this story is that the female cop didn’t get out of her car and use her taser & gun on the family...
That’s the norm for female cops...
“As the years go by, I have become more and more critical of the police.”
Me too..and I used to be one. Nowadays they presume everyone ..except fellow cops..to be low life criminal scum and act accordingly.
“Tge (sic) Frusco (sic) cop needs to be fired”
She.
Plenty of trigger happy motorists out there as well.
One of my relatives is married to a police officer - his partner was killed when he pulled over someone. Motorist came out of the car with a blazing gun.
Police officer husband of relative hurt his back severely while chasing a criminal and was offered a desk job for the rest of his career, which he declined. We were extremely relieved when this happened, especially the wife.
One of my relatives was married to a police officer who worked the night shift early in his career.
His partner was killed by someone he pulled over, motorist drove into a gas station and exited the car firing a gun. The young officer, with a family, was killed instantly.
There’s a good reason these officers are wary of motorists they pull over.
But that hasn’t happened in this case.
EC
Yes. Cops should be held to the very highest standard and they are not.
Nine of my 20 years in the Air Force I was on Missile Combat Crew. We lived underground and had the keys and Sealed Authenticators needed to launch ICBMs. Our training and operating standards were zero error...ever.
Cops may not have the ability to destroy entire cities and countries but they have the ability to kill people so they should be held to the same standards.
Arizona - Arkansas Yep pretty sure it does.
This happened as everything started being computerized.
Memory was so precious anything that could be truncated was truncated. When I joined the military I took the tests for two Services (no ASVAB back then) and in each case aced the blocks except for their respective admin blocks. I was a bit upset when my my Flight's test scores were posted on the bulletin board at the entrance door and they had truncated my scores to 99. My TI told me it was due to the computerization that happened between me taking the test and the implementation of computer scoring and ASVAB.
This was also why people freaked out with the Y2K issues back in 1999.
Hmm…what I got from the article is that the plate number came back as invalid for AZ (I.e., not on file?) and the officer ASSUMED the car was stolen because it was a Charger, etc as detailed in the article. At that point, the officer initiates the stop and calls for back up because it may be a high risk apprehension.
Where the process went wrong was during the four minutes the officer sat in the patrol car while waiting for backup. It was an ideal time to run the plate again just to double check. Had that happened, the error would have been discovered beforehand and the high risk traffic stop call cancelled. Since units were probably already rolling, they might have all shown up anyway. But the tension level would have been dialed down very significantly.
The article says that the error was discovered ten minutes after the high risk stop had begun. Who decided to check again? When had the recheck been initiated? What caused the recheck to be initiated?
There were two guys back in college (70’s) on Spring Break heading back home. They got pulled over as they were driving a car similar to a murder suspect.
There was just one cop that pulled them over. The one cop started roughing up the one guy pretty bad. The other guy took the cop’s pistol out of his holster and told him to stop.
Just about the time the other cops showed up.
I was really surprised to see them both in school the next year. Good guys, smart and probably upper-middle class or higher families that could afford decent lawyers.
Or perhaps it was a police force that didn’t want a lawsuit. Although I think back then nobody would think of suing the police.
I don’t think it was a tall tale. I heard about it from the sister of one of the guys.
Here’s the full bodycam video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2RXzRpF_Y4
I hope this family files a lawsuit.
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