Posted on 03/29/2012 8:55:31 AM PDT by heartwood
Yep, but she isn't on the government payroll, carrying a gun and badge, or given special credibility while on the witness stand.
Then Miss Mait instead of thinking, hmm, I have seriously annoyed this police officer, I had better defuse the situation...
She's not trained or paid to know how to diffuse situations. The cops...well, they should be.
Agreed.
Thanks.
Not Coral Gables, Coral Springs up near Boca Raton.
I agree. It should be serious as a heart attack for law enforcement officials AND witnesses to lie for the purpose of falsely charging or convicting an American. We have a serious problem with entrapment, too.
As a culture, we no longer value character and telling the truth is for suckers. This includes law enforcement officials and witnesses which makes our justice system an absolute farce.
How are people to act on juries knowing all this?
I am with you on fearing cops more than criminals. Been attacked for saying it here on FR, but it is how I feel. I no longer trust any of them.
Seeing officers act like this...I have lost the automatic trust I had from them in an emergency.
My sister was in an accident recently and it was not her fault. It was obvious and there were witnesses who pulled over to verify what happened. The cops treated her like dirt and scared the heck out of her. She said it was more frightening dealing with the police officers than the accident. She really thinks the cops were insane or possessed. They really creeped her out.
did you even read the article you posted ???
Mait spent a night in jail, charged with felony obstruction and — because officers believed she was impaired by drugs — DUI. The latter charge was dropped when a toxicology test came back positive for only Wellbutrin...
seems the criminals decided to tack on a charge to intimidate her, hoping to make her an instant criminal with the DUI laws if she had anything in her system...
their *report* is a proven lie, therefore the burden of proof is a bit higher than your sayso of what she might or might not have said...
it would be nice if her lawyer would file a *Deprivation of Rights* suit to bankrupt and jail these two for conspiring to harm a citizen that they should have been SERVING...
I do not tolerate my employees and servants (yes, the category "servants" most definitely includes police officers) directing foul language at me.
Well, today, Gov’t is allowed to lie[Martha Stewart case]. But, you aren’t...[Martha Stewart].
Cops, sad to say, often lie, because the average Joe will believe the cops over the victim.
Quite early in the recording you can hear the male police officer tell the female police officer that the driver takes Xanax. This is before they felt she was flouting their authority, before the female officer cursed, before they hauled her from the car, and before they started co-ordinating their cover-up.
Whether rightly or wrongly, the male officer thought early on that she was taking Xanax - maybe he was confused, maybe she was but not recently and it didn’t show up in the tox screen. Lots of people on anti-depressants also have benzodiazepine prescriptions - and from experience I will say this is particularly common among the more self-involved patients.
Actually I was wrong in my recollection of when the officer first mentionned Xanax - I’m listening now but it is not early - you might be right.
” it would be nice if her lawyer would file a *Deprivation of Rights* suit to bankrupt and jail these two for conspiring to harm a citizen that they should have been SERVING...”
YEAH!!
You know all of what you allege could be true, but the two officers should still be fired and tried for their crimes. If you or I lied like them we would face criminal charges, so should they.
You are absolutely right. I don’t hear “xanax” in the recording, there is a mention of “pills” by the male officer right after they arrest her, when they are still in the how did that happen phase and before they get to the serious co-ordination of stories.
I must have read Xanax in the testimony of one of the officers and assumed she actually said she was taking it but that’s completely unreliable now.
I am with you on fearing cops more than criminals. Been attacked for saying it here on FR, but it is how I feel. I no longer trust any of them. . . . . .
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Most cops are what we want them to be, servants of the public. When a cop is not a servant but goes around with a chip on his shoulders he should find other employment. One of my sons says he can’t believe they pay him for his work as a cop because it is fun.
I have no time for a bad cop. A friend of mine, dead now, who was chief of a large metropolitan county told me that about one half of all cops are bad. They take bribes, not always money, often sex. They fabricate evidence, hide evidence and lie on police reports. His advice is to avoid cops. Don’t talk to cops if you don’t have to. His reasoning is that they can do whatever they want and ask questions later and they gather the evidence and say what happened. What ever they say is what is according to judges.
Cops are just like other people, they have good and bad days but we pay them to always be perfect and expect nothing less. When you need them they are good to have around but don’t depend on them to tell the truth or you will sometimes be disappointed.
“They seem better suited doing something not involving people.”
They seem better suited doing time (about 25 years) in the Florida State Penitentiary.
...there, fixed it!
Unless I am confused, it is illegal to drive while impaired by a drug even if you have a legal prescription for it.
The problem is the impairment, not illegal possession.
There are perfectly legal drugs that you should never use while trying to drive.
Some people could take a Xanax and simply be calmed by it - perhaps reactions a bit slower but not fit to drive. Some people take it and are too dopey for the road. But I don’t know the law here - if there are blood level limits as with alcohol or what.
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