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In a US federal civil rights lawsuit, a Connecticut man has shared footage to bolster his claims that police illegally confronted the pedestrian because he was filming one of them. Authorities seized Michael Picard's camera and his permitted pistol, and the officers involved then accidentally recorded themselves allegedly fabricating charges against the man.
Picard's police encounter began as he was protesting a sobriety checkpoint while lawfully carrying a handgun in a holster. The plaintiff often protests near sobriety checkpoints in the Hartford region and is known by locals and police in the area, according to court documents. "Cops Ahead: Keep Calm and Remain Silent," read the 3-foot-by-2-foot sign Picard held up to motorists ahead of the checkpoint in West Hartford last year.
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(Score: 3, Insightful) by mendax on Thursday September 22 2016, @10:35PM
Okay okay. Getting serious now. What these cops did is frightening. After reading this article, is there any wonder why any person in the US should EVER trust the police? I don't, and I void them as often as I can.
My hope for the outcome of this case is as follows:
-- The cops in question here will be fired.
-- The cops who took the camera and falsified the charges will find himself in prison.
-- The victim in this case and his attorneys will find themselves considerably wealthier, courtesy of the taxpayers of Connecticut.
Well, we can only hope.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by rts008 on Friday September 23 2016, @12:32AM
Alas, I got my hopes up, only to realize I got excited over a typo...*sigh*
I also avoid them when possible, and have since 1972. I never found any good reason to trust them, but many excellent reasons to distrust them.
(Score: 2) by mendax on Friday September 23 2016, @03:39AM
Ah yes, it is a typo, but what a marvelous typo it is. Voiding them could mean "nullify" them, and if I had added the word "on" after "void", it would have had additional meaning. We should void our bowels on the police far more often.
It's really quite a simple choice: Life, Death, or Los Angeles.
(Score: 2) by GungnirSniper on Friday September 23 2016, @02:07AM
The cops in question here will be given a slap on the wrist, or at worst find employment with another department. We need to revoke their credentials like we do with bad doctors or unethical attorneys.
What needs to happen is a civil rights investigation from the Federal level needs to happen so the local DA can't intentionally half-ass hearings and wash this away.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday September 23 2016, @04:58PM
no, we don't need the feds to come in and do shit. what we need is for lazy, ignorant, slaves to take control of their local pigs!