Posted on 07/29/2023 7:29:09 AM PDT by DFG
The Frisco Police Chief is apologizing today to a family from Little Rock pulled over and held at gunpoint this past Sunday because the officers mistakenly believed they were in a stolen car: a mistake Frisco PD says happened because an officer entered the vehicle as being from Arizona, not Arkansas.
On Sunday, a Frisco police officer saw a black Dodge Charger with an out-of-state license plate leaving a hotel. Police said due to recent burglaries and vehicle thefts in which Chargers are frequently stolen, the officer conducted a computer check of the vehicle’s Arkansas license plate. However, when entering the information, the plate was mistakenly entered out of Arizona, according to police. The error resulted in an incorrect registration return, leading the officer to believe that the vehicle was possibly stolen.
The officer then reportedly initiated a "high-risk traffic stop" on the Dallas North Tollway, which police said is standard procedure for stolen vehicles.
The officer who pulled over vehicle waited inside her squad car for nearly four minutes until additional officers arrived. In body cam videos released Friday, the officers use their PA system to shout commands at the family.
"Everyone put their hands outside, do it now," an officer yells. "Walk a little faster. The tollway is shut down," the officer shouts at the female driver. "Keep walking backwards."
After the driver is out of the vehicle and placed in a squad car, officers yell at a teen in the back seat to get out next. He turns out to be the 6th grade son of the driver.
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AZ, AK, AL…they all look alike.
“Walk a little faster. The tollway is shut down,”
Commuters approve.
Every encounter with aggressive law enforcement can turn lethal.
They are not your friends.
They have no legal obligation to protect you.
If they commit a crime their department will cover it up.
If you haven’t done anything wrong they might kill you anyway.
And there is a shortage of brothas driving around in black Dodges.
As the years go by, I have become more and more critical of the police. And that’s because more and more of them seem to have ego and control problems.
This, however, appears to be just an honest mistake on the part of the cops. The stopped family deserves a written letter of apology from the city, and a settlement for the unnecessary stress they were put through. I’d say $50,000 would do.
I picked a relatively high number there due to the word “unnecessary”.
Can’t make mistakes these days - someone might get his feelings hurt.
Mistakes, no matter how innocuous or small, cause job loss and cities millions upon millions of dollars in lawsuits, which will certainly be the case here.
Very risky situation for the innocent people. The cops are primed to shoot them all dead because they think this is a stolen vehicle. The innocent people don’t know that this is the cops’ state of mind, and so will do innocent actions that the cops understand as the actions of felons, and so people will be shot dead.
An apology will be issued. But they would still be dead.
Suppose one of the innocent people had stuck his hand in his pocket to pull out his wallet! bang bang! “I thought he was reaching for a gun.”
Gee officer, can I apologize when you stop me for speeding? Or maybe DUI?
Who wants to be a cop these days?
When they have a gun leveled on you the possibility of more than feelings getting hurt exists.
Trying to figure this out.
So the Frisco LEO entered the Atkansas license plate as from Arizonaap and it came ip as a stoken vehicle??
There was an Arizona stolen Black Chsrger wuth same plate numbers as an Arkansas legit Black Charger?
Sorry nit buying it.
Tge Frusco cop needs to be fired
You’d think that law enforcement is a profession where attention to detail would be considered very important.
Sorry for typos
Those who can, do.
Those who can’t, become cops.
Arkansas isn’t called Mayberry for nothing. Backward crazy police force.
“As the years go by, I have become more and more critical of the police. And that’s because more and more of them seem to have ego and control problems.”
Seems to me that it should be because the police departments across America have been decimated and deliberately destroyed by Leftism policies. Anything from mandated vaccines during the Covid fiasco to “defund the police” actions and demonizing every white officer that exists on the assumption that they are racist.
Most of the officers that were good at their jobs have, by now, retired or quit the force... and for very good reason. What we have now, for the most part, are the dregs. A predictable, if not intentionally orchestrated by the left, outcome.
Like I said, just because you did nothing wrong won’t stop them from possibly killing you.
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