[Bernard]

I suppose you have to cut the police officer some slack, if he spends his entire shift hanging out in the men's room at an airport every day.

But, then again, wouldn't the bad guys figure out who he was after a while?

[dusttoyou]

Who knows if Craig is guilty or not here, but the question that keeps bugging me is; in most airports, to get past first security to even get to gate areas, you are required to have a valid airline ticket, how is it that the “regular” frequent rest room queer hustlers are able to get past security and just hang out for lengths of time trying to hustle passengers?

On a talk show the other day, a similar undercover cop called in and said the cop that busted Craig did it wrong in that its procedure for a clean conviction to have some more overt act or verbal solicitation rather than some “signals”.

Putting tinfoil hat on, could there be some possibility, considering the Idaho newspapers research on Craig, that he was specifically entrapped for political reasons? It wouldn’t be too difficult to determine his travel, especially considering he often changes planes in Mn-StP, more than likely same gates, same restroom. Anyone who thinks the Dims are not as devious as the old KGB will wake up one day and find what we knew as America and freedom gone.

I suspect Graig plead because he knew he was being researched by that Idaho newspaper for many months and pretty well knew the jig was up with the airport situation no matter guilty or not guilty and tried to get all over with as fast as possible hoping it would just fad away. Might be very interesting to see some background on the cop.

[GOPPachyderm]

Very interesting question. We in Minnesota are apparently paying police officers to wait in bathrooms for hand signals?

[jiggyboy]

The cops need a pepped-up version of ROBODUMP to remotely do their undercover work.

That'd be a fun little project, adding joystick controls to make it tap its foot, get video in and out, etc.

[Ronin]

That’s an aspect of this story that bothers me somehow. The cop here is a Sargent with 20 some years on the books?

And they have him staking out mens rooms trolling for perverts?

Now, granted, I am not an expert on police ranks and obviously situations will vary from police force to police force, but it still strikes me as very strange that an officer with that many years on the force and that much rank would be given that crappy of an assignment.

Either Minneapolis has a lot more sargents then they need or this guy is a total loser and they (his department) stuck him there to get him out of their hair.