I work at a tobacco shop. And after they said I blown through a stop sign. When asked when drinking I said no. Then he said I smelled, and I quote, “of something suspicious”. I get cops get their paycheck for tickets and such but seriously has it really gotten this bad that for a ticket they try to make it something bigger? and ignoring my rights?
I didn’t think flock was involved in that. The point though was the officer just plain lied, and when faced with evidence, he doubled down.
And yes. Officer need to have individual malpractice insurance in my opinion.
Not necessarily a lie, but (allegedly) mistaken would produce the same result.
Not everyone who is wrong is lying.
Nah. Cops writing tickets don’t that leeway. If they aren’t 100% certain of an infraction like this, they shouldn’t be stopping the driver. His doubling down after being shown proof establishes that he is willing to lie.
People can be “100% certain” of things that never happened; it happens all the time.
Yes, but in court, cops are given the assumption of higher accuracy. So they logically should be held to a higher standard.
No matter how much we expect/hope/demand cops to be superhuman, they will never be.
https://youtu.be/nsysxhgu0fs
This is the incident that modern_medicine is referring to.
If it’s the one-handed woman texting-while-driving viral video, I’m aware of it