Puckered asshole.

Not being intimated by them.

warranted until he saw the video.

The supervisor was also "generous" to arrange for her not to be charged for having her car towed. Damn. Now there's a real servant of the people. A real gentleman.

1. it is known that cops are allowed to lie about the law to get people intimidated into confessing, which could be the case here.
2. cops don't know the laws at all. they just have a vague idea of what the laws are and interpret the laws as they please.

Neither explanation makes cops look like the good guys they are supposed to be

I am betting that particular officer would "felt threatened" and "feared for his life" resulting in a "justified use of force" and another shooting.

There are too many ex-military police with itchy trigger fingers and feelings of inferiority that demand hyper-servitude from the populace. These types - or ANYONE like them or displaying similar behavior - have no business carrying a badge and a gun. They do not make me feel safer, just the opposite.

There are a lot of very important national issues at stake this year, but the control of local police departments is equally as big an issue in my eyes, and one that we can't afford to see put on the back burner.

Writing New Jersey's obstruction statute defines the criminal act as impeding law enforcement through "flight, intimidation, force, violence, or physical interference or obstacle, or by means of any independently unlawful act."
one thousand times on the blackboard.

Not meant as a defense of the cop, this frighteningly bad ruling 3 years ago has received very little attention. Pure Scalia.

JUNE 19 2013 6:05 PM
You Don’t Have the Right to Remain Silent
The Supreme Court’s terrible—and dangerous—ruling this week on the Fifth Amendment.

On Monday, in a case called Salinas v. Texas that hasn’t gotten the attention it deserves, the Supreme Court held that you remain silent at your peril. The court said that this is true even before you’re arrested, when the police are just informally asking questions. The court’s move to cut off the right to remain silent is wrong and also dangerous—because it encourages the kind of high-pressure questioning that can elicit false confessions.

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/jurisprudence/2013/06/salinas_v_texas_right_to_remain_silent_supreme_court_right_to_remain_silent.html

End the tyranny of these RW judges.

Someone share one of those click bait links. I read it and thought BS. Then I starting researching it. I was shocked. It never got any attention other than a few articles like I posted above.

Salinas v. Texas refers to a case about someone who voluntarily cooperated and then withdrew that cooperation. I'm sure this attorney was well aware of that case which is why she never volunteered anything at any point and never indicated she was going to cooperate beyond what was legally required of her. That was the smart play. If you are or think you will be accused of anything, never cooperate at any point. It will only work against you.

a whole, the police force at almost every level has been indoctrinated to act like a military fashion , shoot first ask questions later, intimidate the person in the car, there is just no training in using common sense-------first time and last contact in any given scenario,or situation.
Your already presumed guilty, you are stop, then tried, convicted, right on the spot, like its a kangaroo court and then when you go down into the police station, its just a bigger kangaroo court, with the same mentality has on the street, when you get stopped.

No wonder there is a social break down in justice in this country--------------------amazing, no common sense

So why wasn't he arrested?

Having spent many of my early years "walking on the wild side" I've had more than my share of dealing with police officers.

I've never been arrested and nearly every encounter I've had with police has been amicable save for the one time a cop "ordered" me to do something that exceeded his authority. My simple reply was to him was "I'm sorry sir but you can't make me do that" to which he responded with "Don't try to tell me what I can or can't do you little shit."

In a matter of moments this officer and I were standing nose to nose screaming obscenities at each other. The only thing that kept this asshole from arresting me was when other officers arrived and diffused the situation by basically agreeing that the first officer had crossed the line.

I have no doubt in my mind that had I been a minority the outcome of this confrontation could have been much different.

How interesting.

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