The deputy demanded the man’s property to indict others and possibly the rider himself. When the rider rightfully refused, the cop then made up false charges, began seizing the man’s more valuable property and started arresting the officer.
We need to stop letting gang bangers and dumbed down standards for minorities into the police academy and open it up to our veterans. We need to get the jack booted thugs and those who ignore corruption out and good men and women in.
I wouldn’t say those charges are automatically false - I know of this group of idiots and the guy’s bike was probably a rolling exhibit of probable cause. I want to see the dash camera from that cop car to see what the bike looked like.
This officer screwed up and stomped on the biker’s civil liberties to start, I won’t argue that one. But he could have done the same thing, legally, by just changing the order of operations - he should have arrested the guy for the equipment violations then searched the rest including the contents of the camera as incident to taking into custody and impoundment.