Posted on 03/01/2015 9:54:48 PM PST by LibWhacker
The latest example of cellphone video vindicating someone from false charges is a doozy. It comes from Washington Parish, La., and WWL TV.
One of the worst days of Douglas Dendinger’s life began with him handing an envelope to a police officer.
In order to help out his family and earn a quick $50, Dendinger agreed to act as a process server, giving a brutality lawsuit filed by his nephew to Chad Cassard as the former Bogalusa police officer exited the Washington Parish Courthouse.
The handoff went smoothly, but Dendinger said the reaction from Cassard, and a group of officers and attorneys clustered around him, turned his life upside down.
“It was like sticking a stick in a bee’s nest.” Dendinger, 47, recalled. “They started cursing me. They threw the summons at me. Right at my face, but it fell short. Vulgarities. I just didn’t know what to think. I was a little shocked.”
Not knowing what to make of the blow-up, a puzzled Dendinger drove home. That’s where things went from bad to worse.
“Within about 20 minutes, there were these bright lights shining through my windows. It was like, ‘Oh my God.’ I mean I knew immediately, a police car.”
“And that’s when the nightmare started,” he said. “I was arrested.”
He was not only arrested, he was also charged with two felonies and a misdemeanor. A prior drug charge on his record meant he was potentially looking at decades in prison. Seven witnesses backed up the police account that Dendinger had assaulted Cassard.
But Dendinger had asked his wife and nephew to record him serving the papers. It was a last minute decision, but one that may have saved him his freedom.
From what can be seen...
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Not commenting on the merits of the case, but do you really want to have a relative as the process server? Seems like a lot of this could have been avoided by having an uninvolved 3rd party. I know Bogalusa's small, but surely they can find someone who isn't involved.
“giving a brutality lawsuit filed by his nephew to Chad Cassard “
Say what? He served the paperwork on behalf of his nephew.
When will cops and everyone else in public service learn that they have to expect to be on camera any time they are in public or even think they are in private? This seems to be Darwinism at work in my opinion.
You are forgetting:
Conspiracy
Conspiracy to commit a Felony Kidnapping
Felony Kidnapping
Using a Firearm during the commission of a Violent Felony
Extortion
Aggravated Assault using a Firearm
Sounds like Back to Back Life Sentences for EVERY LAST PERSON INVOLVED!
So what are you saying? That this story shouldn’t be reported because it’s part of a “War on Police” and, hey, it’s Louisiana, where this is normal?
The cops are going down.
Lof of relatives in the area, Bogalusa is known for its stinking paper mill.
You are either an ally or enemy of the Police Chief and Parish Sheriff.
A good ole redneck network if there ever was one.
There’s bad apples in any profession, but here we find that in a group of 7 officers, there wasn’t even a single honest person to stop this evil conspiracy.
Every person who lied in that video needs to be charged with a Felony. There are crooked cops everywhere, but there are a WHOLE HELLUVA lot of crooked cops in Louisiana; it’s just part of the culture. I know, I live in Texas, but you can almost throw a rock from my house to LA. I’ve lived in Cajun Country since I was four years old. I know what I’m talking about. There was an expose’ some years ago about crooked LA cops fleecing and frightening out-of-state travelers on Interstate 10. DESPICABLE, LOW-LIFE, SCUMBAG, SONS-OF-BITCHES.
Every person who lied in that video needs to be charged with a Felony. There are crooked cops everywhere, but there are a WHOLE HELLUVA lot of crooked cops in Louisiana; it’s just part of the culture. I know, I live in Texas, but you can almost throw a rock from my house to LA. I’ve lived in Cajun Country since I was four years old. I know what I’m talking about. There was an expose’ some years ago about crooked LA cops fleecing and frightening out-of-state travelers on Interstate 10. DESPICABLE, LOW-LIFE, SCUMBAG, SONS-OF-BITCHES.
I’ll bet you a dollar that the cops do not go down, that at most one of them will get a reprimand in his file after they all take a nice paid vacation.
Works for me.
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