Putting police procedure aside, this feels like a good time to consider the psychology of a police officer, particuarly the components for making a bad one. When you line up racism, the feeling of power that comes with weilding legal authority and police weaponry, the knowlwdge that your suspect (or perhaps victim), can't defend themself, and the assurance of your department letting you off the hook, you get a situation like this.
The basic story is these nosy cops wanted to harass this man. When it turned out to be an uppity Hispanic that knew the law and refused to cooperate with an illegal detention they falsely arrested him. When they found out he was a LEGALLY ARMED uppity Hispanic they went in to overdrive. When they realized their blatantly illegal and false "curfew arrest" fell apart, one of the officers lied and claimed he saw a handgun sitting in a cup holder, which would be unlawful open carry. Strange how neither officer mentions the gun in plain view for the first 10 minutes...
Guess he didn't know the uppity Hispanic was secretly recording everything and has proof they moved the gun from the center console.
Thirty straight minutes of a whole department crawling all over that car trying to find a reason to charge him with something, and when that fails, they just made some shit up. Every single one of them is culpable and should be fired on the spot, at the very least.
Putting police procedure aside, this feels like a good time to consider the psychology of a police officer, particuarly the components for making a bad one. When you line up racism, the feeling of power that comes with weilding legal authority and police weaponry, the knowlwdge that your suspect (or perhaps victim), can't defend themself, and the assurance of your department letting you off the hook, you get a situation like this.
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The basic story is these nosy cops wanted to harass this man. When it turned out to be an uppity Hispanic that knew the law and refused to cooperate with an illegal detention they falsely arrested him. When they found out he was a LEGALLY ARMED uppity Hispanic they went in to overdrive. When they realized their blatantly illegal and false "curfew arrest" fell apart, one of the officers lied and claimed he saw a handgun sitting in a cup holder, which would be unlawful open carry. Strange how neither officer mentions the gun in plain view for the first 10 minutes...
Guess he didn't know the uppity Hispanic was secretly recording everything and has proof they moved the gun from the center console.
Thirty straight minutes of a whole department crawling all over that car trying to find a reason to charge him with something, and when that fails, they just made some shit up. Every single one of them is culpable and should be fired on the spot, at the very least.