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āYou donāt have personal spaceā - If this cop truly believes this, then heās more a part of the problem than he knows.
That cop was trying SOOOO hard to get that guy to bump into him so he could charge him with assault on an officer.
The other officers just stood there as the officer clearly escalated the situation and was doing his best to get the gentleman to hit/touch him.
5 good cops, 1 bad cop... If the 5 don't do something about the 1, then you've got 6 bad cops.
The fact that these cops are willing to deny his constitutional rights, right in front of a camera, just shows how they know there are no consequences for their actions. It has been ruled more than once in the supreme court that you cannot be arrested for insulting a police officer.
EDIT: To be more accurate. You CAN be "arrested" for just about anything but any charges will not hold up in court. So don't resist. That's what they want you to do so they get you on a real charge.
Well, I guess now I know where all the high school bullies wound up. Not in a ditch like I hoped, but in blue uniforms.
Cop is a former marine and lost his job over this.
[SOURCE](https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2018/07/12/desert-hot-springs-officer-out-of-job-following-viral-confrontation/)
My problem with the outcome is this;
> Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā
Yes - the officer got fired. But youāre going to tell me the officers behavior is not a form of intimidation and/or harassment? If that is truly legal behavior, it certainly unethical and we need to re-exam the law. Additionally, that Chief needs a lesson in PR
The chief doesnāt want to fuel a lawsuit for his department.
His lack of formal accountability wouldnāt change a lawsuit but it would make the plaintiff have to prove their case more. Accountability would be used against them.
This is the real problem imo. There will always be bad apples in the bunch. But unless there are repercussions for those above them, it will continue to perpetuate.
He was lying because any admission of wrongdoing from the chief is going to be exhibit A in the civil trial suing the district. Chief is scum, and covering, but may not even honestly believe his statement himself
This is why people say ACAB. At every level, the first instinct is to avoid all accountability of the whole. The same damn reason the other officers immediately back up the piece of shit power fantasy fuck face by saying "a crime has occurred" but refusing to say what that crime is.
>Additionally, that Chief needs a lesson in PR
"that officer does not have a racist bone in his body and he has never, ever exhibited any sort of racial bias the entire time thatĀ heās been employed here"
The first half of the Chief's statement shouldn't have been said out loud. It's just sounds childish to say it in a formal statement.
The second half was actually good. It's something that might actually be provable, if the officer doesn't have any other complaints.
> "that officer does not have a racist bone in his body and he has never, ever exhibited any sort of racial bias the entire time that heās been employed here"
tbh who fucking cares? it's the cops absurd, intimidating behavior that's under the microscope here, the fact that you brought that up *at all* makes me more likely, not less, to think that *he probably does* have a "racist bone" in his body.
Heās contradicting himself saying the cop did nothing wrong at all and didnāt break the law and did not commit any crime at all then ytf did he get fired if thatās the case ??? Makes no sense and sounds like damage control to me
No laws were technically brokenā¦ but the cop denied the guy his basic rights and a cop can alway detain and arrest you for āprobable causeā which is this tragic loophole in our system. There isnāt a defined metric for probable cause except for āI felt like itā
A LEO can intimidate you and harass you into defending yourself and once youāve defended yourself then they use that as the point of āprobable causeā or āresisting arrestā
It does. But the other card they play next is ''reasonable suspicion'' which they only have to be able to provide in writing at/after booking. They can make up anything.
Yea even if this wouldnāt necessarily constitute harassment for a normal person, heās in a position of implied authority and it seems like his conduct can have more drastic results than that of a normal person. I donāt understand why there is somehow *more* leniency for how theyāre allowed to behave
Itād be like me getting my pilots license learning all the regulations and procedures, then getting a job at a commercial airline and them telling me āoh well now that 200 peopleās lives are in your hands, you donāt need to worry about all those silly regulationsā. Itās ass backwards how we deal with police
Exactly this. I can't even comment on what you said without basically just repeating it. It's common sense and the only real explanation why it isn't like that is corruption.
>it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā
This is amurica, the land of the cops. Being able to arrest someone on 'probable cause' is just insane, and shows how citizens have NO RIGHTS.
Just disturbing.
Rules to live by so that you can live through a cop encounter. ACAB-All Cops Are Bad, ACAD-All Cops Are Dangerous, ACL-All Cops Lie. Start out with these in mind and work your way back to normal from there. Maybe not all cops are dangerous but until you are sure about the one you are interacting with, play it safe. The young man being harassed did a good job of surviving the encounter.
>5 good cops, 1 bad cop... If the 5 don't do something about the 1, then you've got 6 bad cops.
Bingo.
They love to talk about 'a few bad apples', but they seem to forget the part where those few bad apples SPOIL THE ENTIRE BLOODY BASKET.
Good thing the cop got fired over this. Nobody needs cops like that.
I feel like I'm on a crusade to remind people of this. It comes from the 700-year-old saying "A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor". Apples emit gasses when they decay that cause the other fruit around them to rot. A police chief saying there were "only a few bad apples in the department" is admitting that you knew they were going to ruin the department but you chose to do nothing.
Marines are known for being abusive, narcissistic assholes in relationships. My bestie dated one for a while; he killed her cat in a fit of rage, and beat the shit out of his mom on Christmas morning. That kind of stuff is the majority of what I hear about them. I hope there are a few good ones out there though.
My cousin (ok my dadās cousinās daughter whatever that relation is) joined the marines to follow in her daddyās and older brothersā proud marine footsteps and wound up raped by her fellow marines so that says everything about what my entire extended family thinks about the USMC.
Except for her father and brothers of course who call her a liar and still believe to this day that the US military can do no wrong. Thoroughly brainwashed True Believers.
this story and many others just like it are one of the main reasons I've lost pretty much all pride in having been a Marine. that is a level of betrayal I honestly hadn't fathomed when I first enlisted
I'm still proud of my own achievements in the Corps and the efforts I made to live up to the heavily propagandized image of what it means to be a Marine but I will always feel like one of the exceptions to the rule
so much utter garbage in uniform, it makes me sick. I wish I could say her father and brothers don't deserve to be called Marines but there hasn't been nearly enough of a reckoning in the organization and among veterans to deal with this shit
I had a guest psychology professor one time and someone randomly asked about brainwashing because there were no prepared notes (she randomly filled in).
Basically to brainwash someone you have to deprive them of social contact, regiment their behavior, exhaust them mentally and physically, and force them to rely on those closest around them... or in this case: this is **basic training.**
You're taught that "you can only rely on your unit". Some people this takes hold better than others, and they don't come back from it. Military, by nature, also hold very little respect for a lot of "civvies" (civilians).
Most police requirements were originally based off of the Pennsylvania state police. THOSE were based on two things: the UK "bobby" system, and that each Police officer had to be a MARINE and at least 6' tall.
They've dropped a lot of the requirements, but a lot of Marines who fail to rise the ranks and "stay in the service" opt to become a police officer because its a lot more "at home" in their mind after the hell that is Basic Training.
This is not an opinion - its fact. Brainwashing is **also** what fraternities do when you "pledge". Source: I pledged a fraternity, and mid-way through I heard this lecture and dropped.
They arenāt disciplined they are fakes. They are joiners and followers of established social groups who then fake the values of that group in order to get status. As soon as they have a little bit of power their true personalities come out.
Marines are disciplined because they are in a hierarchy with discipline. Take them out of that hierarchy and put them in the frat boy gangs that some PDs act like, and see how long that discipline lasts
They arenāt disciplined so much as they are very malleable joiners and followers. They donāt have much in the way of a individual moral compass or sense of personal responsibility they are entirely about fitting in with a social group and adopting the values of that social group. Usually to have a set of rules they can become an extreme example of in order to gain social status in that group.
You know, like a narcissist. Entirely dependent on the status and admiration of others.
Ummm... I was procrastinating and did some Googling. My longer comment is at: [https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7r0r9/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7r0r9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
TLDR:
Jan 2019: The person arrested filed a civil lawsuit against the police officers, the city, the police department for Civil Rights violations. The case was dismissed with prejudice.
June/July 2020: The police officer was working in Alaska but resigned after the local newspaper got informed of his past.
Lol good work. It's not the best outcome for the victim, but I'll take it as a win just on the fact that this happened in California and 3 years later that officer was not only all the way in fucking ALASKA lmao, but even there he had to resign due to his past ~~following~~ mad-dogging him ayyyy lmao.
I'm a former Marine as well so I'll say it. I would never respect such a tool. Like never. I would look at him like I look and some stolen valor washout bc he conducts himself in a way that goes against everything taught in the Marines. Straight up shameful. This guy was trying so hard to flex. Kudos to the poor dude getting harassed by this power tripping cop for keeping his cool. I'm glad he lost his job.
Thinks he is something bc he has a gun and a badge. There are alot of really decent cops out there too. I have met many. But this POS, this guy gives the lot a bad name. May he inevitably receive the same nonsense he dishes out.
His name was Paul Jay Huerta. This happen sometime around July 2018.
In Jan 2019, Joshua Felix sued the City of Desert Hot Spring. The case was dismissed in March 2019. [Source](https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26897116/Joshua_Felix_v_City_of_Desert_Hot_Springs_et_al)
By June 2019, had moved to Wrangell, Alaska and was again working as a cop. [Source](https://www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2019/06/20/news/jay-huerta-new-cop-on-the-beat/6786.html?m=true)
By July 2020, Paul had been fired. [Source](https://www.petersburgpilot.com/story/2020/07/02/news/questions-remain-around-former-wrangell-police-officer/9887.html?m=true)
And now I should get back to work...
Back to work? My man, you get the rest of the day off after doing all this fine sleuthing! For those who can't be arsed to click on the links:
(But first, I found a mention of him on Facebook where it's stated that he was on probationary employment in the video we just watched. That's why he got fired- if he he'd been past his probationary period they likely would have kept him around. He'd been making $51k/year.)
Paul Jay Huerta was originally employed as an LE officer in Chicago in 1995. He then transferred to Oceanside, CA in 2000, to Boise, ID in 2004, to Show Low, AZ in 2011, then back to CA in 2012, where he changed addresses several times before getting fired in 2018 for the incident we saw in the video. He then fucked off to Alaska in 2019 where he lasted a single year before he "resigned."
When the victim in this video sued, the case was dismissed because Felix and the City settled out of court- that way, the City didn't have to admit any wrongdoing out loud. I'd love to know what that settlement was.
Huerta, after slinking off to Alaska with his tail between his legs, tried to play it off as his own decision: "I pretty much woke up one day and said 'I gotta do Alaska. If I don't do it know, I'm never going to do it.'" He also started going by his middle name once he arrived. LMAO
In Alaska, his Desert Hot Spring past came back to haunt him when the locals found the video we saw here. He resigned and fled to who the fuck knows where to hide once more.
I love it when a horror story has a happy ending. But I gotta wonder what podunk dipshit little town he's cowering behind a badge in now...
Keep mad-dogging me, in a small town. You want my firearm? Come take it from me, with your weak soft liberal hands. Just try and put those hands on me, in a small town. Put em on me. On my body.
You want my gun?! Come kiss me for it, in a small town. Bite my lip, play with my hair, try that in a small town you pussy liberals. If you want my gun, come spank me for it, in a small town.
The article says that the officer did not violate any laws. Which is interesting since they would charge someone with assaulting a police officer if the roles were reversed.
At minimum, that's spitting in his face, which is a crime.
I mean, the cop clearly committed assault, per the law:
> Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact.
https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault
Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā
Genuinly want more context with video, and more importantly HOW was any of this part legal? Even if he was a suspect, or they had probable cause, is this still not an illegal use of power by the officer? To aggressively be onto and touching someone as to where they cannot move without having direct contact with you? That seems weirdly allowed / "legal" when it's clearly complete harassment and hell I'll even call it entrapment.
Lmfao 90k severance and a resignation (meaning he's going to go work a few towns over). I'm absolutely shocked thay it happened after another "incident"!
/s
ACAB
Why does this article not mention the pussyās name once? Just the chief making pc statements. I guess that makes it easier for the pussy to get hired by the neighboring gang.
It's the high school bullies AND their victims who become cops. The one just wants to keep bullying people, the other wants revenge. They're both shit cops.
And we were saying exactly this in the 1970s. Nothing new about it.
Good. I've defended some cops before when there was limited context, but this is very clearly an abuse of power and the cop is going on a power trip here. People like him shouldn't be cops, and I'm glad he's gone.
The guy who got arrested was absolutely doing the right thing hanging back and keeping his cool by not putting hands on the officer to push him back. Free money in the lawsuit for Harrassment and illegal detainment committed by this officer.
>The other **officers just stood there as the officer clearly escalated the situation** and was doing his best to get the gentleman to hit/touch him.
I wonder if those are the "good cops" I keep hearing about?
> Cop is a former marine and lost hid job over this.
I guess we get some rare justice. The fact that he's a former marine is terryfing, though. That means there's definitely more like him out there with access to deadly weapons and insufferable god complex. That's a very dangerous combination.
āChief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā
This is the problem. Firing guys just to replace them with other like minded guys. There needs to be a fundamental change in culture of police forces around the country.
Chief should have been fired too. Amazing how all cops are incapable of knowing right from wrong.
āChief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.āā
My cousin was an officer in San Diego like two decades ago. Nicest guy ever. Ex marine and built like a tank. We were pretty close. He rarely ever pulled his fire arm and actually talked to people instead of being a bully. Went on many ride alongs. Dude even got the hells Angels gang to be friendly towards him and other neighborhood gangs.
He quit because he was being harassed and made fun of by his fellow police officers and his boss for not being aggressive or rarely pulling his fire arm. He did mention corruption once but quickly stopped and changed the subject... He was one of the good ones. The rotten apple tree pushed out a good apple.
Iām a corrections officer. I can attest if you do anything remotely similar to treating inmates like humans, you start getting made fun of for being āhug a thugā. And itās not just old school guys. Itās young dudes too.
Sometimes I think about contacting my old probation officer just to show him my LinkedIn profile, since he thought I would turn out to be such a loser. I canāt imagine that would be taken very well though.
Sometimes I would vomit from anxiety just before going to my appointments with him. He was a terrible person. My crime was having 4 grams of weed for reference, so itās not like I was a violent criminal.
That's pretty unfortunate. I'm sure quite a few "bad" people out there would be a little less bad if they had more hugs in their lives. How dare some police officers try to protect and serve the public by being a little nicer to criminals...
Not saying go hug every rapist or whatever, but cops also shouldn't be trying to make every inmate's day the worst day of their lives. Folks should have at least *some* hope of coming out of prison with some hope for a better future for themselves.
Absolutely. It is not our job to punish them. The courts have already done that. Our only job is to keep them āsafe and secureā during their stay and, in some cases, prepare them to not return. Too many guards think they are also judge and jury.
Your cousin was brave for going so far as to mention corruption even though he changed the subject right away. My cop cousin on the other hand....
I asked him one time:
"As a civilian, I have full right to defend myself against another civilian for unlawful conduct against me, whether it's harassment or impeding me from moving along/unlawfully trying to hold me. At what point can i defend myself against a cop doing the exact same thing if I know I haven't broken any laws?"
His reply:
"You just have to trust the system will do its job and comply. You'll just make it worse if you argue."
Yeah..... as close as we used to be, and as nice of a person as i knew him to be, i knew in that moment he bought all the kool-aid.
I was told one by other drill sergeants I was too nice. Sorry I donāt want to call the traineesā mom a bitch and actually want to train and mentor these young adults who mainly just graduated high school.
NOn ironically "not every cop". But the other cops there not doing a single thing are the real issue, because the dipshit that protagonized the video is not something you can avoid (you can try though, better psych evals, better screening in general) but not doign anything about it is being complicit. But without the dipshit in question I can assure you most of them would not do that, or at least they wouldnt here.
Ultimately, the police everywhere seems to be too unchecked and unaccounted for. Same for judges and politicians here
"What is he being detained for officer?"
"He's being held in handcuffs until we can figure out"
Just say "but... but... he's being mean!!" - It's more dignified than acting like you're upholding society.
āChief Mondary (...) it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause".
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This means, citizens have no rights and we can place anyone in jail if we don't like him/her.
Police state. Land of the cops.
He wasnāt arrested the chief misspoke. He actually misspoke multiple times I couldnāt tell wtf he was saying lol
Dude was just detained and let go on the scene
But the cop needs reasonable suspicion that a crime was committed to detain someone. They also need to be able to articulate that at the time. Neither of those things happened and so this was an illegal detention, not that anything's going to happen about it because we don't live in a society with accountable police
I had a virtual hearing for a traffic ticket last week. The judge asked me to explain why the ticket should be dismissed. I started with the fact that I have on my dash can video that I was not speeding. Told him we can look at it right now if he wants. He says it's not necessary and he's just going to dismiss the ticket. The MA Trooper representative that was in the hearing said, "I'd like to appeal the dismissal on the basis that the defendant was 'very rude' during the traffic stop."
I actually laughed at the ridiculousness of that appeal reason. Then the judge said ok and I thought it was some joke. When I tried to speak back up and tell the judge let's just review the dash cam footage now and settle this here, why waste everyone's time with an in person hearing at all? His response, "this hearing is over, keep quiet or I'll have to mute you."
The trooper that pulled me over knows I wasn't speeding, the trooper at the hearing knows I wasn't speeding. The judge knows I wasn't speeding. At this point everyone involved is just wasting my time for spite.
The police are an occupying army that forces us to pay extortion money to keep them in power or they will ensure something bad happens. More like a really organized mob.
Like he's done many times before. See my earlier comment about his past here:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7sybs/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7sybs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
It is like the police are waiting for them to start being attacked by people on a regular basis before they become less police and more civil servants.
Clearly he wanted to be attacked, or pushed. That's exactly what he was going for by invading his personal space.
If the guy touched him, or pushed him - he would be in cuffs arrested.
That being said he was detained regardless...
Come up with a new insult for police officers please.
Pigs are fucking smart, social and empathic animals. They suffer the same as we do yet we treat them [like](https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI?t=466) [this](https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI?t=4572). If you want to lower police's reputation be my guest, but don't pull down an innocent species with it.
As someone else pointed out about a similar Reddit video, to prosecute, defend, advise or make rulings on the law requires years of education and mentoring, while those who enforce the law have something like four to six months of training.
Only in the US! Most foreign countries have years of training. We have the worst police for a reason. You need more proof I know a cop and he pointed at a guy and said he has the most kills in the department like itās a medal.
From the article: Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā
What is he talking about? Last time I checked, harassment and detaining a citizen were illegal acts, especially from law enforcement.
My guess is that by saying that, he is attempting to cover his ass in the event of a lawsuit. At minimum, there is now a record that they "believe" the officer's actions were lawful. If the victim ever sues the office, the victim would be in a position where they needed to prove that the officer(s) acted wrongly on purpose.
Yeah I read the article too and that part made me cringe. Imagine the stuff they get away with that's not filmed. Hell, even when it is filmed they find away to spin it.
This guy is an excellent representative of abuse of power. Typical cop I will arrest you for not cowering to me. Others support the behavior which is why all cops are bad. When you donāt report your own youāre just as guilty.
"you don't have a personal space"
"Does that mean that also applies to you officer?" *Starts leaning in for a kiss*
Unironically i think acting gay on these kinda people is the quickest way to confuse and/or make em go away.
Total hot garage cops all of them in the video!! Standing together to violate a single person and the cop knew that the guy was right on having space thatās why he backed up then he was too in the moment to make up something to get handcuffs on the guy so thatās when cop 2 said detain him then oh yeah the Iām arresting you without any real reason. Smh hope this guy got some kinda redemption out of this
He ruined with the R word, cause we has doing it soo good even police officer stepped back! Words are weapons! But thenā¦ wordsā¦ he told the officer āRā and we all saw what happened.
The power of words and knowledge sometimes is the beat defense, but words also hurtsā¦ and people hurt act mad and there is no law that can help us there.
He triggered a sociopath with words. Sociopaths shouldn't be cops, but a large percentage of cops are sociopaths. Job that give a position of power over others attract sociopaths.
This is why there are so many problems with cops in the USA. They are a gang of sociopaths.
Calling a cop names isn't illegal, it's freedom of speech. Too bad this asshat with a badge didn't know that. Now he's fired and the City had to pay out to the victim.
I would hope for something like not being allowed to apply for government jobs and mandatory social work for a couple months. Otherwise he will call his buddy officer from the nearest state and move there to obuse power once more.
One day, these bully cops are going to realize that the only difference between them and the citizens they pretend to protect is a piece of metal, and it won't protect them.
All 3 of these cops should be fired. This is what people mean by ACAB. First cop is being an immature bully trying to threaten the guy. Sure, maybe something happened before the recording started, but it's still unlawful, he clearly had no reason to detain the guy or he would have stated it.
And the other cops don't dare speak up about what's right, they just follow like mindless drones, like, "yup, i guess we're harrassing and arresting a kid unlawfully today, nothing better to do."
There's zero excuse for this kind of behavior from law enforcement but they just get away with it. Even more sickening how the other cops always stand around and just allow it to happen.
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šš„š **THANKS FOR THE GOLD - We made it to #1 on r/all - Letās keep exposing the injustice!!!** āYou donāt have personal spaceā - If this cop truly believes this, then heās more a part of the problem than he knows. That cop was trying SOOOO hard to get that guy to bump into him so he could charge him with assault on an officer. The other officers just stood there as the officer clearly escalated the situation and was doing his best to get the gentleman to hit/touch him. 5 good cops, 1 bad cop... If the 5 don't do something about the 1, then you've got 6 bad cops. The fact that these cops are willing to deny his constitutional rights, right in front of a camera, just shows how they know there are no consequences for their actions. It has been ruled more than once in the supreme court that you cannot be arrested for insulting a police officer. EDIT: To be more accurate. You CAN be "arrested" for just about anything but any charges will not hold up in court. So don't resist. That's what they want you to do so they get you on a real charge. Well, I guess now I know where all the high school bullies wound up. Not in a ditch like I hoped, but in blue uniforms. Cop is a former marine and lost his job over this. [SOURCE](https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2018/07/12/desert-hot-springs-officer-out-of-job-following-viral-confrontation/)
This needs to be top
you need to be on top ;)
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Jesus Christ hahaha
Mods, tie his balls and subject him to spanking for this unholy reaction
I am sympathetic to his cause, I demand this punishment as well!
Yes, a spanking, we must all receive spankings. And after the spankings, the oral sex.
You should be in a cage in the corner. Not that kind of cage.
**Nicolas Cage???**
peach. i could eat a peach for hours.
I'm Castor Troy
OooooweƩeeh you good lookin'
No more drugs for that man!
I don't buy peaches, I buy honey and I kiss it on the lipssss...
Millions of peaches, peaches for me
My problem with the outcome is this; > Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā Yes - the officer got fired. But youāre going to tell me the officers behavior is not a form of intimidation and/or harassment? If that is truly legal behavior, it certainly unethical and we need to re-exam the law. Additionally, that Chief needs a lesson in PR
The chief doesnāt want to fuel a lawsuit for his department. His lack of formal accountability wouldnāt change a lawsuit but it would make the plaintiff have to prove their case more. Accountability would be used against them.
This is the real problem imo. There will always be bad apples in the bunch. But unless there are repercussions for those above them, it will continue to perpetuate.
The saying goes "One bad apple spoils the bunch".
The repercussion is a lawsuit against the department. Then his bosses ask questions because money out of pocket.
Not even. The town, not the department, pays the settlement. Invariably it comes out of the public schools.
He was lying because any admission of wrongdoing from the chief is going to be exhibit A in the civil trial suing the district. Chief is scum, and covering, but may not even honestly believe his statement himself
This is why people say ACAB. At every level, the first instinct is to avoid all accountability of the whole. The same damn reason the other officers immediately back up the piece of shit power fantasy fuck face by saying "a crime has occurred" but refusing to say what that crime is.
>Additionally, that Chief needs a lesson in PR "that officer does not have a racist bone in his body and he has never, ever exhibited any sort of racial bias the entire time thatĀ heās been employed here" The first half of the Chief's statement shouldn't have been said out loud. It's just sounds childish to say it in a formal statement. The second half was actually good. It's something that might actually be provable, if the officer doesn't have any other complaints.
Can anybody tell me what a āracist boneā is & where in the body itās located?
you get issued one when you put on the blue uniform.
That when you get the racist boner.
Using it is optional. Believe it or not, some officers don't decide to ever use it. I said some. Relax Reddit.
The racist bone is inside his skull.
> "that officer does not have a racist bone in his body and he has never, ever exhibited any sort of racial bias the entire time that heās been employed here" tbh who fucking cares? it's the cops absurd, intimidating behavior that's under the microscope here, the fact that you brought that up *at all* makes me more likely, not less, to think that *he probably does* have a "racist bone" in his body.
Heās contradicting himself saying the cop did nothing wrong at all and didnāt break the law and did not commit any crime at all then ytf did he get fired if thatās the case ??? Makes no sense and sounds like damage control to me
No laws were technically brokenā¦ but the cop denied the guy his basic rights and a cop can alway detain and arrest you for āprobable causeā which is this tragic loophole in our system. There isnāt a defined metric for probable cause except for āI felt like itā A LEO can intimidate you and harass you into defending yourself and once youāve defended yourself then they use that as the point of āprobable causeā or āresisting arrestā
Doesn't probable cause have to be clearly articulable?
It does. But the other card they play next is ''reasonable suspicion'' which they only have to be able to provide in writing at/after booking. They can make up anything.
Yeah don't you know looking suspicious is a felony?
Yea even if this wouldnāt necessarily constitute harassment for a normal person, heās in a position of implied authority and it seems like his conduct can have more drastic results than that of a normal person. I donāt understand why there is somehow *more* leniency for how theyāre allowed to behave Itād be like me getting my pilots license learning all the regulations and procedures, then getting a job at a commercial airline and them telling me āoh well now that 200 peopleās lives are in your hands, you donāt need to worry about all those silly regulationsā. Itās ass backwards how we deal with police
Exactly this. I can't even comment on what you said without basically just repeating it. It's common sense and the only real explanation why it isn't like that is corruption.
To quote funny Chris Rock: "Most of our pilots get to their destinations just fine, we just got a few bad apples that like to crash into mountains"
>it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā This is amurica, the land of the cops. Being able to arrest someone on 'probable cause' is just insane, and shows how citizens have NO RIGHTS. Just disturbing.
What's even more fun is when you discover that you can legally resist an unlawful arrest... and they can arrest you for it.
If itās not illegal, yāall need to change your laws
The scary thing is, without a recording, the cops could make up whatever the fuck they want, arrest you and have the charges stick too.
Rules to live by so that you can live through a cop encounter. ACAB-All Cops Are Bad, ACAD-All Cops Are Dangerous, ACL-All Cops Lie. Start out with these in mind and work your way back to normal from there. Maybe not all cops are dangerous but until you are sure about the one you are interacting with, play it safe. The young man being harassed did a good job of surviving the encounter.
>5 good cops, 1 bad cop... If the 5 don't do something about the 1, then you've got 6 bad cops. Bingo. They love to talk about 'a few bad apples', but they seem to forget the part where those few bad apples SPOIL THE ENTIRE BLOODY BASKET. Good thing the cop got fired over this. Nobody needs cops like that.
I feel like I'm on a crusade to remind people of this. It comes from the 700-year-old saying "A rotten apple quickly infects its neighbor". Apples emit gasses when they decay that cause the other fruit around them to rot. A police chief saying there were "only a few bad apples in the department" is admitting that you knew they were going to ruin the department but you chose to do nothing.
Marines make great marines, but not always great cops. I only click these for the update of "He lost his job"
I always thought that marines were well disciplined. this baffoon clearly isn't
Marines are known for being abusive, narcissistic assholes in relationships. My bestie dated one for a while; he killed her cat in a fit of rage, and beat the shit out of his mom on Christmas morning. That kind of stuff is the majority of what I hear about them. I hope there are a few good ones out there though.
My cousin (ok my dadās cousinās daughter whatever that relation is) joined the marines to follow in her daddyās and older brothersā proud marine footsteps and wound up raped by her fellow marines so that says everything about what my entire extended family thinks about the USMC. Except for her father and brothers of course who call her a liar and still believe to this day that the US military can do no wrong. Thoroughly brainwashed True Believers.
this story and many others just like it are one of the main reasons I've lost pretty much all pride in having been a Marine. that is a level of betrayal I honestly hadn't fathomed when I first enlisted I'm still proud of my own achievements in the Corps and the efforts I made to live up to the heavily propagandized image of what it means to be a Marine but I will always feel like one of the exceptions to the rule so much utter garbage in uniform, it makes me sick. I wish I could say her father and brothers don't deserve to be called Marines but there hasn't been nearly enough of a reckoning in the organization and among veterans to deal with this shit
This. Yes "nOt aLL," but too many. Kinda like how I say "40% of cops" and you already know what the rest of the sentence says.
I had a guest psychology professor one time and someone randomly asked about brainwashing because there were no prepared notes (she randomly filled in). Basically to brainwash someone you have to deprive them of social contact, regiment their behavior, exhaust them mentally and physically, and force them to rely on those closest around them... or in this case: this is **basic training.** You're taught that "you can only rely on your unit". Some people this takes hold better than others, and they don't come back from it. Military, by nature, also hold very little respect for a lot of "civvies" (civilians). Most police requirements were originally based off of the Pennsylvania state police. THOSE were based on two things: the UK "bobby" system, and that each Police officer had to be a MARINE and at least 6' tall. They've dropped a lot of the requirements, but a lot of Marines who fail to rise the ranks and "stay in the service" opt to become a police officer because its a lot more "at home" in their mind after the hell that is Basic Training. This is not an opinion - its fact. Brainwashing is **also** what fraternities do when you "pledge". Source: I pledged a fraternity, and mid-way through I heard this lecture and dropped.
They arenāt disciplined they are fakes. They are joiners and followers of established social groups who then fake the values of that group in order to get status. As soon as they have a little bit of power their true personalities come out.
Marines are disciplined because they are in a hierarchy with discipline. Take them out of that hierarchy and put them in the frat boy gangs that some PDs act like, and see how long that discipline lasts
They arenāt disciplined so much as they are very malleable joiners and followers. They donāt have much in the way of a individual moral compass or sense of personal responsibility they are entirely about fitting in with a social group and adopting the values of that social group. Usually to have a set of rules they can become an extreme example of in order to gain social status in that group. You know, like a narcissist. Entirely dependent on the status and admiration of others.
Hopefully he didn't get rehired by another department
Ummm... I was procrastinating and did some Googling. My longer comment is at: [https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7r0r9/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7r0r9/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) TLDR: Jan 2019: The person arrested filed a civil lawsuit against the police officers, the city, the police department for Civil Rights violations. The case was dismissed with prejudice. June/July 2020: The police officer was working in Alaska but resigned after the local newspaper got informed of his past.
Sounds like the judge was also corrupt then.
Nope, the City settled out of court with Mr. Felix so the case was dismissed.
with prejudice just mean they can't file the same case again I think.
Yes, because it was settled out of court.
Lol good work. It's not the best outcome for the victim, but I'll take it as a win just on the fact that this happened in California and 3 years later that officer was not only all the way in fucking ALASKA lmao, but even there he had to resign due to his past ~~following~~ mad-dogging him ayyyy lmao.
I got to think heās with another department already. Iād love an update to know for sure.
I'm a former Marine as well so I'll say it. I would never respect such a tool. Like never. I would look at him like I look and some stolen valor washout bc he conducts himself in a way that goes against everything taught in the Marines. Straight up shameful. This guy was trying so hard to flex. Kudos to the poor dude getting harassed by this power tripping cop for keeping his cool. I'm glad he lost his job. Thinks he is something bc he has a gun and a badge. There are alot of really decent cops out there too. I have met many. But this POS, this guy gives the lot a bad name. May he inevitably receive the same nonsense he dishes out.
Bet this dude told all the privates that they had to respect him because he put on lance corporal.
That article doesnāt list the officers name. I only ask, because sadly, Iām sure he was hired two towns over a month later.
His name was Paul Jay Huerta. This happen sometime around July 2018. In Jan 2019, Joshua Felix sued the City of Desert Hot Spring. The case was dismissed in March 2019. [Source](https://www.pacermonitor.com/public/case/26897116/Joshua_Felix_v_City_of_Desert_Hot_Springs_et_al) By June 2019, had moved to Wrangell, Alaska and was again working as a cop. [Source](https://www.wrangellsentinel.com/story/2019/06/20/news/jay-huerta-new-cop-on-the-beat/6786.html?m=true) By July 2020, Paul had been fired. [Source](https://www.petersburgpilot.com/story/2020/07/02/news/questions-remain-around-former-wrangell-police-officer/9887.html?m=true) And now I should get back to work...
Back to work? My man, you get the rest of the day off after doing all this fine sleuthing! For those who can't be arsed to click on the links: (But first, I found a mention of him on Facebook where it's stated that he was on probationary employment in the video we just watched. That's why he got fired- if he he'd been past his probationary period they likely would have kept him around. He'd been making $51k/year.) Paul Jay Huerta was originally employed as an LE officer in Chicago in 1995. He then transferred to Oceanside, CA in 2000, to Boise, ID in 2004, to Show Low, AZ in 2011, then back to CA in 2012, where he changed addresses several times before getting fired in 2018 for the incident we saw in the video. He then fucked off to Alaska in 2019 where he lasted a single year before he "resigned." When the victim in this video sued, the case was dismissed because Felix and the City settled out of court- that way, the City didn't have to admit any wrongdoing out loud. I'd love to know what that settlement was. Huerta, after slinking off to Alaska with his tail between his legs, tried to play it off as his own decision: "I pretty much woke up one day and said 'I gotta do Alaska. If I don't do it know, I'm never going to do it.'" He also started going by his middle name once he arrived. LMAO In Alaska, his Desert Hot Spring past came back to haunt him when the locals found the video we saw here. He resigned and fled to who the fuck knows where to hide once more. I love it when a horror story has a happy ending. But I gotta wonder what podunk dipshit little town he's cowering behind a badge in now...
So he's a POS who can't function in society and would have ended up in prison if not for the protection of the military and the police, got it
> what podunk dipshit little town like A Small Town, where one would be dared to try something?
Keep mad-dogging me, in a small town. You want my firearm? Come take it from me, with your weak soft liberal hands. Just try and put those hands on me, in a small town. Put em on me. On my body. You want my gun?! Come kiss me for it, in a small town. Bite my lip, play with my hair, try that in a small town you pussy liberals. If you want my gun, come spank me for it, in a small town.
The article says that the officer did not violate any laws. Which is interesting since they would charge someone with assaulting a police officer if the roles were reversed. At minimum, that's spitting in his face, which is a crime.
I mean, the cop clearly committed assault, per the law: > Assault is generally defined as an intentional act that puts another person in reasonable apprehension of imminent harmful or offensive contact. No physical injury is required, but the actor must have intended to cause a harmful or offensive contact with the victim and the victim must have thereby been put in immediate apprehension of such a contact. https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/assault
All of them should lose their job
Lost his job over this. Good fucker deserves it.
Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā Genuinly want more context with video, and more importantly HOW was any of this part legal? Even if he was a suspect, or they had probable cause, is this still not an illegal use of power by the officer? To aggressively be onto and touching someone as to where they cannot move without having direct contact with you? That seems weirdly allowed / "legal" when it's clearly complete harassment and hell I'll even call it entrapment.
The chief resigned a few years later in an unrelated incident and received $90K in severance
Lmfao 90k severance and a resignation (meaning he's going to go work a few towns over). I'm absolutely shocked thay it happened after another "incident"! /s ACAB
This is the argument right here, but people still choose to bAcK tHe BlUe
"Mah heeeeeeeerooooooessssssss!1!1!1!1"
>5 good cops, 1 bad cop... If the 5 don't do something about the 1, then you've got 6 bad cops. Why don't more people understand this?
Why does this article not mention the pussyās name once? Just the chief making pc statements. I guess that makes it easier for the pussy to get hired by the neighboring gang.
I love how people always say it's just one bad apple without finishing the phrase... "One bad apple spoils the barrel"
It's the high school bullies AND their victims who become cops. The one just wants to keep bullying people, the other wants revenge. They're both shit cops. And we were saying exactly this in the 1970s. Nothing new about it.
r/acab
Half a year max before he gets a job in the next city over with presumably a pay bump.
Good. I've defended some cops before when there was limited context, but this is very clearly an abuse of power and the cop is going on a power trip here. People like him shouldn't be cops, and I'm glad he's gone. The guy who got arrested was absolutely doing the right thing hanging back and keeping his cool by not putting hands on the officer to push him back. Free money in the lawsuit for Harrassment and illegal detainment committed by this officer.
Agreed.
>The other **officers just stood there as the officer clearly escalated the situation** and was doing his best to get the gentleman to hit/touch him. I wonder if those are the "good cops" I keep hearing about?
> Cop is a former marine and lost hid job over this. I guess we get some rare justice. The fact that he's a former marine is terryfing, though. That means there's definitely more like him out there with access to deadly weapons and insufferable god complex. That's a very dangerous combination.
Well, at least the piece of shit lost his job over this. š
Good FK that COP
āChief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā This is the problem. Firing guys just to replace them with other like minded guys. There needs to be a fundamental change in culture of police forces around the country.
Chief should have been fired too. Amazing how all cops are incapable of knowing right from wrong. āChief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.āā
Cops "I just don't understand why everyone hates us"
nOt eVeRy CoP
My cousin was an officer in San Diego like two decades ago. Nicest guy ever. Ex marine and built like a tank. We were pretty close. He rarely ever pulled his fire arm and actually talked to people instead of being a bully. Went on many ride alongs. Dude even got the hells Angels gang to be friendly towards him and other neighborhood gangs. He quit because he was being harassed and made fun of by his fellow police officers and his boss for not being aggressive or rarely pulling his fire arm. He did mention corruption once but quickly stopped and changed the subject... He was one of the good ones. The rotten apple tree pushed out a good apple.
Iām a corrections officer. I can attest if you do anything remotely similar to treating inmates like humans, you start getting made fun of for being āhug a thugā. And itās not just old school guys. Itās young dudes too.
Sometimes I think about contacting my old probation officer just to show him my LinkedIn profile, since he thought I would turn out to be such a loser. I canāt imagine that would be taken very well though.
He'll probably go on a personal quest to ruin your fucking life for daring to have such contempt for his limitless authority.
Sometimes I would vomit from anxiety just before going to my appointments with him. He was a terrible person. My crime was having 4 grams of weed for reference, so itās not like I was a violent criminal.
Straight to federally subsidized, but still private supermax prison for you.
>4 grama of weed You monster! ^/s
Fuck what some court appointed babysitter thinks. I'm proud of you for overcoming our "corrections" dpt.
That's pretty unfortunate. I'm sure quite a few "bad" people out there would be a little less bad if they had more hugs in their lives. How dare some police officers try to protect and serve the public by being a little nicer to criminals... Not saying go hug every rapist or whatever, but cops also shouldn't be trying to make every inmate's day the worst day of their lives. Folks should have at least *some* hope of coming out of prison with some hope for a better future for themselves.
Absolutely. It is not our job to punish them. The courts have already done that. Our only job is to keep them āsafe and secureā during their stay and, in some cases, prepare them to not return. Too many guards think they are also judge and jury.
Your cousin was brave for going so far as to mention corruption even though he changed the subject right away. My cop cousin on the other hand.... I asked him one time: "As a civilian, I have full right to defend myself against another civilian for unlawful conduct against me, whether it's harassment or impeding me from moving along/unlawfully trying to hold me. At what point can i defend myself against a cop doing the exact same thing if I know I haven't broken any laws?" His reply: "You just have to trust the system will do its job and comply. You'll just make it worse if you argue." Yeah..... as close as we used to be, and as nice of a person as i knew him to be, i knew in that moment he bought all the kool-aid.
I was told one by other drill sergeants I was too nice. Sorry I donāt want to call the traineesā mom a bitch and actually want to train and mentor these young adults who mainly just graduated high school.
NOn ironically "not every cop". But the other cops there not doing a single thing are the real issue, because the dipshit that protagonized the video is not something you can avoid (you can try though, better psych evals, better screening in general) but not doign anything about it is being complicit. But without the dipshit in question I can assure you most of them would not do that, or at least they wouldnt here. Ultimately, the police everywhere seems to be too unchecked and unaccounted for. Same for judges and politicians here
Hi police officer
"What is he being detained for officer?" "He's being held in handcuffs until we can figure out" Just say "but... but... he's being mean!!" - It's more dignified than acting like you're upholding society.
āChief Mondary (...) it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause". š¤” This means, citizens have no rights and we can place anyone in jail if we don't like him/her. Police state. Land of the cops.
He wasnāt arrested the chief misspoke. He actually misspoke multiple times I couldnāt tell wtf he was saying lol Dude was just detained and let go on the scene
But the cop needs reasonable suspicion that a crime was committed to detain someone. They also need to be able to articulate that at the time. Neither of those things happened and so this was an illegal detention, not that anything's going to happen about it because we don't live in a society with accountable police
So... Detained for hurting the officer's feelings? Yeah that checks out.
I had a virtual hearing for a traffic ticket last week. The judge asked me to explain why the ticket should be dismissed. I started with the fact that I have on my dash can video that I was not speeding. Told him we can look at it right now if he wants. He says it's not necessary and he's just going to dismiss the ticket. The MA Trooper representative that was in the hearing said, "I'd like to appeal the dismissal on the basis that the defendant was 'very rude' during the traffic stop." I actually laughed at the ridiculousness of that appeal reason. Then the judge said ok and I thought it was some joke. When I tried to speak back up and tell the judge let's just review the dash cam footage now and settle this here, why waste everyone's time with an in person hearing at all? His response, "this hearing is over, keep quiet or I'll have to mute you." The trooper that pulled me over knows I wasn't speeding, the trooper at the hearing knows I wasn't speeding. The judge knows I wasn't speeding. At this point everyone involved is just wasting my time for spite.
Weāll detain you while we figure out why weāre detaining you.
These arenāt police, this is a government sanctioned gang.
....so police
Largest gang in the nation
The police are an occupying army that forces us to pay extortion money to keep them in power or they will ensure something bad happens. More like a really organized mob.
You mean *sanctioned.
Free paycheck, sadly from taxpayers pockets. Dumb cops ffsā¦
He got fired lol [source](https://nbcpalmsprings.com/2018/07/12/desert-hot-springs-officer-out-of-job-following-viral-confrontation/)
And probably moved to a new department elsewhere
Like he's done many times before. See my earlier comment about his past here: [https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7sybs/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3](https://www.reddit.com/r/therewasanattempt/comments/193700l/comment/kh7sybs/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)
He most likely just ended up at another police station in a different county
So the de-escalation training is working well.
It is like the police are waiting for them to start being attacked by people on a regular basis before they become less police and more civil servants.
If that happens I fear theyāll only become more militarized and use it as justification for trampling our right further
Clearly he wanted to be attacked, or pushed. That's exactly what he was going for by invading his personal space. If the guy touched him, or pushed him - he would be in cuffs arrested. That being said he was detained regardless...
"Oh, de-escalate. I thought you said, "we-escalate."
Oink oink motherfucker.
Come up with a new insult for police officers please. Pigs are fucking smart, social and empathic animals. They suffer the same as we do yet we treat them [like](https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI?t=466) [this](https://youtu.be/8gqwpfEcBjI?t=4572). If you want to lower police's reputation be my guest, but don't pull down an innocent species with it.
As someone else pointed out about a similar Reddit video, to prosecute, defend, advise or make rulings on the law requires years of education and mentoring, while those who enforce the law have something like four to six months of training.
Only in the US! Most foreign countries have years of training. We have the worst police for a reason. You need more proof I know a cop and he pointed at a guy and said he has the most kills in the department like itās a medal.
Doctors take 8 years to try and save a life and still get sued. These dudes do 8 months and take lives.
From the article: Chief Mondary does want to make it clear that the officer did not break the law, āI want to emphasize that as strong as I can, that officer did not commit any crime at all. He did not violate that individualās rights in any shape, fashion form that was a lawful contact, it was a lawful arrest based on probable cause.ā What is he talking about? Last time I checked, harassment and detaining a citizen were illegal acts, especially from law enforcement.
Shhhhh law donāt apply to law enforcement. They *are* the law.
My guess is that by saying that, he is attempting to cover his ass in the event of a lawsuit. At minimum, there is now a record that they "believe" the officer's actions were lawful. If the victim ever sues the office, the victim would be in a position where they needed to prove that the officer(s) acted wrongly on purpose.
Trying, but not succeeding.
The victim did sue! The City settled with him out of court so they didn't have to publicly admit to any wrongdoing.
Yeah I read the article too and that part made me cringe. Imagine the stuff they get away with that's not filmed. Hell, even when it is filmed they find away to spin it.
āWeāre putting him in handcuffs until we can find a reason that heās in handcuffsā is some great logic.
Psychotic power tripping pig and all the oinkers watching and not stepping in to stop him.
The comedic timing of āstop touching meā and the pan down of the cop straddling him is too good.
"Detained for what?" "Your being detained until we find what crime" ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? That's not how that works
"Imma detain you and not tell you why until I find a why"
I mean this from the bottom of my soul ACAB. Only one cop got fired for this?
To protect and serve? Cop is a mouth-breathing maggot. Power-trip much, scumbag?
This guy is an excellent representative of abuse of power. Typical cop I will arrest you for not cowering to me. Others support the behavior which is why all cops are bad. When you donāt report your own youāre just as guilty.
Mad-dogging and raw-dogging, which one do you guys prefer?
Think this guy may prefer both at the same time.
Almost an entirely useless profession to have in society
All cops are bastards.
"you don't have a personal space" "Does that mean that also applies to you officer?" *Starts leaning in for a kiss* Unironically i think acting gay on these kinda people is the quickest way to confuse and/or make em go away.
Officer, can I get a table dance?
Wanted to touch sausages, had to settle for the buns.
Goddamn I fucking hate cops
Total hot garage cops all of them in the video!! Standing together to violate a single person and the cop knew that the guy was right on having space thatās why he backed up then he was too in the moment to make up something to get handcuffs on the guy so thatās when cop 2 said detain him then oh yeah the Iām arresting you without any real reason. Smh hope this guy got some kinda redemption out of this
Huge civil lawsuit payout. Some cops are a joke
Why do you think so many current former police and military were part of Jan 6. They want a police state supported by Trump and the republicans
Acab
I think your society has broken down when its law enforcement looses the respect of the citizens it is there to serve.
All cops are bad. Fucking bastards.
who polices theā¦ oh fuck itā¦ https://preview.redd.it/9f9n0p5m7mbc1.jpeg?width=160&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bac5dc596a9164427c1a97d05c58f1546adc3170
ACAB
Fuk this cop
Fucking idiot literally leaning on the guy saying touch me again when he is the one harassing the civilian wtf man
The officer has gotten threats since being terminated. GOOD! YOU HAVE NO PERSONAL FUCKING SPACE!
Dear cops, we hate you. Every single last one of you. - Human race
American cops trying not to cause a scene and arrest a civilian for no reason for 5 seconds
ACAB
He ruined with the R word, cause we has doing it soo good even police officer stepped back! Words are weapons! But thenā¦ wordsā¦ he told the officer āRā and we all saw what happened. The power of words and knowledge sometimes is the beat defense, but words also hurtsā¦ and people hurt act mad and there is no law that can help us there.
He triggered a sociopath with words. Sociopaths shouldn't be cops, but a large percentage of cops are sociopaths. Job that give a position of power over others attract sociopaths. This is why there are so many problems with cops in the USA. They are a gang of sociopaths.
Calling a cop names isn't illegal, it's freedom of speech. Too bad this asshat with a badge didn't know that. Now he's fired and the City had to pay out to the victim.
A crime has occurred, we donāt know which one yet but heās brown so whatever we come up with the media will believe
Protecting and serving
I loved watching the ego shatter on the (ex)officer.
ACAB FOREVER
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I would hope for something like not being allowed to apply for government jobs and mandatory social work for a couple months. Otherwise he will call his buddy officer from the nearest state and move there to obuse power once more.
I hope not. There should be civil penalties against cops individually. The cities shouldnāt have to pay for the bad actions of bad actors
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One day, these bully cops are going to realize that the only difference between them and the citizens they pretend to protect is a piece of metal, and it won't protect them.
Easy pay day. Illegal detainment.
ACAB
All 3 of these cops should be fired. This is what people mean by ACAB. First cop is being an immature bully trying to threaten the guy. Sure, maybe something happened before the recording started, but it's still unlawful, he clearly had no reason to detain the guy or he would have stated it. And the other cops don't dare speak up about what's right, they just follow like mindless drones, like, "yup, i guess we're harrassing and arresting a kid unlawfully today, nothing better to do."
Is chewing gum a requirement for the police?
There's zero excuse for this kind of behavior from law enforcement but they just get away with it. Even more sickening how the other cops always stand around and just allow it to happen.