POLICE drain the wealth and freedoms from honorable taxpayers FORCING loss of jobs, credit, home, marriage, and desire to continue living after complete financial ruin. In contrast, the police convert taxpayers into welfare recipients! ($10,000 to $100.000 to prove innocence in court!) Police often say "The initial arresting process is the punishment", and they would be right ...! (POLICE encounter's seldom if ever benefit the taxpayer!) - USMC (Semper Fidelis) SGT E-5 (5811)
@@djmikesea As simple as your statement reads that's it in a nut shell, they cant admit they did anything wrong, even the statement by the sheriff says that its simply not true that they trample on peoples constitutional rights, I think we are looking at evidence that that is precisely what they do!
I have been advocating that LEO'S like most professionals have to have a personal liability insurance . What makes LEO'S any different that certain professionals to not have insurance ?
They DO have a "bond" ! I have asked a couple of YT attorneys to explain to their viewers just what is the threshold and procedure to go against their bond. So far I get crickets from the YT attorneys
@@nathanjones6638 speaking of fair fight, i can't believe there were near 400 uvalde cops on that faithful day vs 1 shooter and they were harassing the parents instead of doing something to save the kids.
The cops need to pay the full amount not us taxpayers and the cops need to lose their qualified immunity in fact not one cop in the United States deserves qualified immunity they need to be held accountable just like we are
@@l_burn So cops cannot be held responsible for their own actions with the blame being put unto the city and any monies awarded being paid for my the public.
Remember .. if you fumble and have a bad day, you are arrested and have a criminal record for life. When they fumble and have a bad day… you are arrested, battered, humiliated, and have to fight to not have a criminal record for life.
Actually he does have a criminal record now for the rest of his life, because the question you are always asked by police/potential employers/when crossing a border to another country/anyone, is this.....have you ever been arrested....not have you ever been convicted of a crime....so which he now must answer YES because he was arrested....smh
No, he doesn't have a criminal record because he was never convicted of anything. But he does have an arrest record, because the arrest took place and it is a documented fact. If he cares about it, he can take steps to have the arrest expunged, but the process varies from state to state = I don[t think it says where this incident took place, I guess Ada county is in OK - and it usually requires the service of an attorney to get it done right/
That’ll fix it! It’s about bad apples definitely not just a function of having a set of armed guards who exist to protect the wealthy. Every person who puts the badge on becomes an enemy of the people.
Clearly they aren't needed for actual policing since so many of them had the opportunity to be involved in assaulting and kidnapping a harmless man who'd done nothing illegal.
I don’t know what’s worse, the deprivation of rights under color of law by about 1/2 dozen officers, or the Chief LYING saying his rights weren’t violated. I’m not even a lawyer and I can identify at least 5 different ways his rights were violated. Leaving him soiled for 4+ hours…are you f*cling kidding me?!? Chief should resign in DISGRACE and his officers should face federal charges under 18 USC 242 AND 241.
As always cops claim " we investigated ourselves and found we did no wrong said the fox standing outside the chicken coop with blood on its face and feathers in its mouth ".
The police don't care if they make mistakes they know we will pay for there mistakes..so they don't care..much less to become a cop you must believe you are better than the rest of us it's we the people v.s. you...we are 300 million strong where our government holds bout 8 million in troops,cops,feds. I like that math but yet we let those Lil numbers mistreat us .WHY...war...
You don't really think that you'll see that money back in your check if they make the cop pay a settlement? At least when a citizen wins a suit I get to see where my taxes are going.
Under arrest for obstruction is always the dumbest charge officers make. It’s literally the charge they always make in illegal arrests. All obstruction charges should be reviewed by an outside party
Yup... But, this Police ABUSE happened in China, in Korea, or maybe it happened in Cuba. This Tyranny didn't happen here, at home, in US, cuz we live in the "Land of Freedom". Right? (I'm using SARCASM, okay?).
@@rodneymyers5114 Let's be real about this. If it did start coming out of their pocket they would all go on strike and demand a pay rise to cover the costs instead of ever changing their criminal actions. American policing needs to be rebuilt from the ground up because the system itself is fatally flawed. It's going to require a total cultural change with a new generation of cops who understand what accountability is, and know they will face consequences for their actions. This will mean removing almost every sheriff who came up in this corrupt system.
Given Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford's response that this was nothing more than an inadvertent "fumble" by his deputies means there will be no punishment, no adverse consequences, and he will e-mail his deputies a copy of the US Constitution for them to read at their leisure. When his deputies "fumble", they "fumble" away $250,000 of taxpayers money. Money that doesn't come out of his pocket or his department.
These cops were not held to account, the taxpayers were. It's doubtful that the response of the officers was more than a shrug, then business as usual.
The fact that all the officers acted in lockstep together tells you that there was nothing unusual or out of the ordinary in their abuse. Things won't change until the chief is replaced, or the chief is forced to adopt a Zero Tolerance policy.
@@firewater365 Indeed he did, but that is simply because he likely never had this kind of encounter before. Cops do this every day in the US, but the victims are disproportionally black and Hispanic. I am betting that Mr Heikkola now has a far better appreciation of what minority communities have faced for many decades and the lives it has destroyed. Cops can turn looking into a car a life threatening and life changing event. He knows this now, and he won't ever be able to unsee the outrageous behavior of cops.
EXACTLY. I always obeyed the law and respected law enforcement. Until I had something stolen and had to interact with the police. I was already their prime suspect because they thought I was doing some kind of insurance fraud. Doesn't matter that I gave them 4k video of the person that took the item with their name and current location. I have yet to personally meet a competent police officer.
Same here. Currently in a legal battle over an alleged DUI. Cop insisted I was intoxicated by legally prescribed medications. Doctor insists that’s impossible and the toxicology report was clean. The charges will probably be dropped but I’m still out several thousand dollars. According to my lawyer I can’t sue because the cop had a “reasonable suspicion” and that’s all he needs. This flabby roided-out tattooed pig just wanted to up his arrest numbers and I was an easy target. I was wary about cops before….now, I’m their sworn enemies.
Yup... But, this Police ABUSE happened in China, in Korea, or maybe it happened in Cuba. This Tyranny didn't happen here, at home, in US, cuz we live in the "Land of Freedom". Right? (I'm using SARCASM, okay?).
As they should. The "citizens" voted for the government that hired those cops and continues to allow those cops to get away with their crimes. The "citizens" need to wake up and vote for politicians, prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs who will fix the broken system. Maybe if taxes go up to fund lots of settlements, people will eventually wake up and choose their votes more carefully.
It still amazes me how many police officers don't know the law or understand the Constitution. And the tax payers pay for the officers actions. This is more officers losing the trust and respect from the people
You wouldn't let a plumber or electrician work on you house if they didn't know their jobs!!! So why are continuing to allow law enforcement who doesn't know the LAW be out there taking away people's MONEY, FREEDOM and in some cases LIVES???? We the People DEMAND BETTER!! ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNTIY
It wasn't even that they didn't know the law. The plain clothes cop was hurt by the old guy talking to him like he deserved and it was retaliation. That is all this is and they should all go to jail. Nothing lawful about any of it. All criminal.
The whole department jumped a citizen who broke no laws and trumped up a charge and kept with that charge. This wasn't just a "not our best day" thing. This was a "corrupt department doing their same-old same-old" but got caught. That's emphasized by the fact they STILL don't think they violated the citizen's rights.
And they get paid to do the "training" as well. All settlements should come from the cops pension fund. Watch how fast they figure out right and wrong when their money is on the line.
The same person as always with these situations, the victim. Cops need to be held accountable and the men who assaulted, battered, and falsely imprisoned the victim in this will not be. Only he will face any real punishment or discipline, simply for the "crime" of not breaking any laws.
$250k paid for by the taxpayers, because of Ada Sheriffs. Fire them ALL! They trampled his rights! Now he has a taste of what all American citizens, especially those in lower income neighborhoods have been dealing with for 100 years! Also want to point out, this gentleman was there to be a good citizen, and properly dispose of old medications WELCOMED by the Sheriff dept. Plain clothes officers should always identify themselves before they start with official business. Furthermore, the vehicles should NOT be left running, and it was a public/open parking lot! Shame on Ada Sheriffs. Their PR response missed the mark too-
The settlement should’ve included an admission of guilt, otherwise it should’ve gone to trial, in an open court, with everyone on both sides having to testify.
I hate how people lump all of a group based on the few bad apples that get plastered all over the news. Yes there are bad cops, but there are good ones as well that doesn't try to do something like that. Would you like it if people started to say all Germans are still National Socialists even today, because of their past leaders. Note you never see news reports on the good cops only the ones that help the defund the police narrative, ever notice that?
If his rights weren’t violated then why did you settle for a quarter of a million dollars. Innocent parties never end up paying for something they “didn’t do”
The utter refusal to take any real accountability and admit to what they actually did wrong is just one of the worst parts of this. Always, 100% of the time, they just deflect, deny, change the topic anything but take responsibility
Believing this incident to be unintentional it seems officers have no idea how to handle any given situation with other than the use of violence. Sadly this is typical of police today. The officers suffered NO personal loss from this although all involved committed several felonies as well as civil rights violations. If police start getting charged and jailed on a routine basis this type behavior will stop.
Any law enforcement department or law enforcement officer who say that they do not violate citizen's rights on a regular is outright lying. It's that simple. What made it "not our best day" was that you were held to account.
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL AND MOST LIKELY VERY ENLIGHTENING… If your station kept a “Bad Policing Cost to the Public Meter” and you showed that meter every time another settlement, caused by Sub-Par and/or Bad Policing, is reached. Then, when the Sheriff or Police Chief claim they need more funds, We The People can deduct the additional costs to us from whatever is being requested.
A settlement is NOT justice. That entire department needs to face 18 United States Code 241 & 242. Prison time in a federal prison sentence is appropriate.
And who pays the bill?: Taxpayers of your community. Are the perpetrators ever held accountable? No, because they have qualified immunity, unlike other criminals, meaning the taxpayer gets the bill every time. Hope you enjoy supporting your local cops, and paying for their mistakes. This is YOUR doing, the taxpayer who doesn't care or pay attention.
Even without qualified immunity we'd still be footing the bill in most cases because government officials are covered by indemnification. Qualified immunity is what typically prevents lawsuits from moving forward. Even once the court decides the officer isn't entitled to qualified immunity because of established case law, the taxpayers still pay because usually good old indemnification kicks in. According to a study done by NYU Law, police officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98% of the dollars that plaintiffs recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement. Law enforcement officers in the study never satisfied a punitive damages award entered against them and almost never contributed anything to settlements or judgments-even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy, and even when officers were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.
I was once stopped by a cop while jogging. Blue lights and all. I had witnessed the police officer run a stop sign and threw up my hands in disgust. The officer passed me, went to a nearby house and searched around the outside with a flashlight. I turned to watch. Then I kept running. About 4 mins later I was stopped. I was asked what I was doing. Uh, jogging. What did my hands thrown up mean? Uh, disgust that you ran a stop sign, no blue lights on. He denied that of course. Then he asked why I was watching him. Uh, because police activity in this neighborhood is rare and I was curious. I should have said I don’t answer questions. Why did he light me up? Middle aged woman jogging by a park? He didn’t like that I gestured and watched, that’s why. Pissed me off.
"It wasn't our best day."
We usually get away with violating citizen's rights.
Not our best day, we got caught this time.
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The dude was literally plain clothed so i believe they do this alot
True words! 💯
POLICE drain the wealth and freedoms from honorable taxpayers FORCING loss of jobs, credit, home, marriage, and desire to continue living after complete financial ruin. In contrast, the police convert taxpayers into welfare recipients! ($10,000 to $100.000 to prove innocence in court!) Police often say "The initial arresting process is the punishment", and they would be right ...!
(POLICE encounter's seldom if ever benefit the taxpayer!)
- USMC (Semper Fidelis) SGT E-5 (5811)
The DA should also be charged for not dropping the charges for a year.
Right 😢
Grossly entitled conservative republican maga government, police, and their deplorable supporters are a threat to real Americans everywhere!
Scuuuumbags.
especially since the ydo that on purpose, cause its shows they have no case, but dont want to admit it.
@@djmikesea As simple as your statement reads that's it in a nut shell, they cant admit they did anything wrong, even the statement by the sheriff says that its simply not true that they trample on peoples constitutional rights, I think we are looking at evidence that that is precisely what they do!
250k from tax payers and not the oath breakers. End qualified immunity. Make cops carry insurance
Go after the insurance of the Judges that are extending immunity by filing criminal complaints against the judges that protect them.
I have been advocating that LEO'S like most professionals have to have a personal liability insurance . What makes LEO'S any different that certain professionals to not have insurance ?
They DO have a "bond" !
I have asked a couple of YT attorneys to explain to their viewers just what is the threshold and procedure to go against their bond.
So far I get crickets from the YT attorneys
You get what you voted for.
@So-U-Say... yet they keep voting in a corrupt system
That was the entire force hassling a 70 year old man. How pathetic
Coward cops never attack someone who can take them on in a fair fight.
@@nathanjones6638 speaking of fair fight, i can't believe there were near 400 uvalde cops on that faithful day vs 1 shooter and they were harassing the parents instead of doing something to save the kids.
@@mikenguyen9683 exactly. They kidnapped parents at gunpoint to ensure the shooter could do maximum damage.
Officers need to pay the settlement, not the taxpayers.
At the very least, share in the cost.
Sell the squad car they left running
Insurance is paying for that...
The cops need to pay the full amount not us taxpayers and the cops need to lose their qualified immunity in fact not one cop in the United States deserves qualified immunity they need to be held accountable just like we are
they should been fired and charged with assault
Settling out of court is NOT "accountability"... 🙄
The cops should have faced assault and kidnapping charges.
Qualified immunity.
COPS: We investigated ourselves and found no wrong doing.
Let the Courts decide.
@@Beast_from_the_middle_east that's not what qualified immunity means, it only protects police from civil action
@@l_burn and the union protects the rest
@@l_burn
So cops cannot be held responsible for their own actions with the blame being put unto the city and any monies awarded being paid for my the public.
Remember .. if you fumble and have a bad day, you are arrested and have a criminal record for life.
When they fumble and have a bad day… you are arrested, battered, humiliated, and have to fight to not have a criminal record for life.
Actually he does have a criminal record now for the rest of his life, because the question you are always asked by police/potential employers/when crossing a border to another country/anyone, is this.....have you ever been arrested....not have you ever been convicted of a crime....so which he now must answer YES because he was arrested....smh
@@davidjames5727 Well actually, he does not, nor does anyone have to answer that question.
No, he doesn't have a criminal record because he was never convicted of anything. But he does have an arrest record, because the arrest took place and it is a documented fact.
If he cares about it, he can take steps to have the arrest expunged, but the process varies from state to state = I don[t think it says where this incident took place, I guess Ada county is in OK - and it usually requires the service of an attorney to get it done right/
Everyone of these officers need to be held accountable.
Every one. Second grade class.
They will get "more" training...that infers they had any training to start with..
how can that happen when so many people take the pay off and empty promise of doing better next time.
@@patverum9051*implies
The settlements should be from their pensions.
Publicly name all the police officers involved in the false arrest.
Ya, but these people have no shame
Back the blue till it happens to you.
I was just getting ready to say the exact same thing
I live by this
I keep them at arms length and judge accordingly. No benefit of the doubt is given from me unless its earned by them.
Yes indeed
"Occasionally we miss the mark." These cops blew a fuse and intentionally violated this guy's constitutional rights.
Pay out from police pension fund
How about firing the deputies as part of the lawsuit since there is zero accountability.
That’ll fix it! It’s about bad apples definitely not just a function of having a set of armed guards who exist to protect the wealthy. Every person who puts the badge on becomes an enemy of the people.
No accountability should be their motto
Clearly they aren't needed for actual policing since so many of them had the opportunity to be involved in assaulting and kidnapping a harmless man who'd done nothing illegal.
You heard the sheriff's statement. Even in light of the settlement he's still in denial they did anything wrong. He won't fire anyone of his boys.
@@clintmatthews3500
Yes, you would think at least half of them would be eating donuts somewhere.
“This wasn’t our best day.”….
Dude, this is EVERY day.
I don’t know what’s worse, the deprivation of rights under color of law by about 1/2 dozen officers, or the Chief LYING saying his rights weren’t violated. I’m not even a lawyer and I can identify at least 5 different ways his rights were violated. Leaving him soiled for 4+ hours…are you f*cling kidding me?!? Chief should resign in DISGRACE and his officers should face federal charges under 18 USC 242 AND 241.
If I can love this I would
18 U.S.C. § 241.
242, is an Epstein in law, no senior nugget mining happened.
If their victim was black the feds would have jumped at the chance to investigate everything!
As always cops claim " we investigated ourselves and found we did no wrong said the fox standing outside the chicken coop with blood on its face and feathers in its mouth ".
We should not allow Law Enforcement to treat citizens like this. Where are our legislators?
They brag on “backing the blue”
Busy treating their jobs as opportunities to get rich instead of treating it as an honor to serve their communities.
They’re out being paid by the police unions
The government isn't here to help us we must help ourselves.
The police don't care if they make mistakes they know we will pay for there mistakes..so they don't care..much less to become a cop you must believe you are better than the rest of us it's we the people v.s. you...we are 300 million strong where our government holds bout 8 million in troops,cops,feds. I like that math but yet we let those Lil numbers mistreat us .WHY...war...
Nothing will change as long as the taxpayer is paying the lawsuit settlements.
It's We the People,we are financially responsible.
IT'S THE SAME THING@@bobthetitanic! 🙄🤣
Doesn't seem like anybody wants it to change.
People keep voting for this. So, till that changes, well..
More like it is paid by the agency's liability insurance company. It only effects them /you if the judgement is more than the policy will cover.
You don't really think that you'll see that money back in your check if they make the cop pay a settlement? At least when a citizen wins a suit I get to see where my taxes are going.
How many cops were involved in his arrest? And not one of them questioned the legality? So yes, ... they absolutely DO trample on citizens' rights.
Under arrest for obstruction is always the dumbest charge officers make. It’s literally the charge they always make in illegal arrests. All obstruction charges should be reviewed by an outside party
Right!?? It's similar to resisting arrest. If it's an ILLEGAL detainment, a citizen has every right to resist. We are not a police state. YET.
@@nismo2070 Either one of those is an automatic not guilty on all charges from me as a juror.
Yup... But, this Police ABUSE happened in China, in Korea, or maybe it happened in Cuba.
This Tyranny didn't happen here, at home, in US, cuz we live in the "Land of Freedom". Right?
(I'm using SARCASM, okay?).
@@nismo2070 Why do I feel FEAR when a Cop approaches me, when I should feel SAFE in the presence of a Police Officer?
@@nismo2070 Usually "Stop resisting" is yelled at people they have knocked out or killed as well.....
Part of what they did to him was to INTENTIONALLY humiliate him.
Settlements need to start coming from police pensions.
And lock them up.
I 100% agree with this. If they all had to pay when a few do this you just might see other officers stop this kid of craziness.
Pensions are taxpayer funded. If they get low on funds, they'll just tax you more. The money should come out of these dipshits pockets
@@rodneymyers5114 Let's be real about this.
If it did start coming out of their pocket they would all go on strike and demand a pay rise to cover the costs instead of ever changing their criminal actions.
American policing needs to be rebuilt from the ground up because the system itself is fatally flawed.
It's going to require a total cultural change with a new generation of cops who understand what accountability is, and know they will face consequences for their actions. This will mean removing almost every sheriff who came up in this corrupt system.
Their Pension, their budget and the unions!!!
Wow. I’m an officer and will say without hesitation that the Chief is full of 💩.
Given Ada County Sheriff Matt Clifford's response that this was nothing more than an inadvertent "fumble" by his deputies means there will be no punishment, no adverse consequences, and he will e-mail his deputies a copy of the US Constitution for them to read at their leisure. When his deputies "fumble", they "fumble" away $250,000 of taxpayers money. Money that doesn't come out of his pocket or his department.
His response guarantees that rights violations is standard procedure.
Vote him out!!!!
And cops still wonder why they're hated...
Abolish Qualified Immunity and make the cops actually pay for their illegal activities instead of the taxpayers.
When an officer violates your civil rights (4th Amendment, here), they lose their immunity and can be personally sued
The problem is these seven dumb shits don’t even realize they violated his civil rights. Part of the problem is poor training.
@@Snarksneezethis is not the case. There are a number of criteria that have to be proven for QI to be nullified.
@@brkbtjunkie I have watched tons of hearings on the subject. A single violation is all that's required.
Nope. All officials are above the law. Especially the president. Trump 2024
These cops were not held to account, the taxpayers were. It's doubtful that the response of the officers was more than a shrug, then business as usual.
$250,000 is no were near enough. $1 million, plus lawyer fees, sounds about right.
AND feed them some ex-lax and let them sit in their own filth for 6 hours.
the victim decided it was enough. He didn't have to settle and could have gone to court for a million plus lawyer fees. He was happy with it.
Now sue Sherriff Clifford for defamation.
When you fumble...then the entire court system should come down on them.
It won't stop until these bad cops go to jail.
The fact that all the officers acted in lockstep together tells you that there was nothing unusual or out of the ordinary in their abuse. Things won't change until the chief is replaced, or the chief is forced to adopt a Zero Tolerance policy.
Exactly right. There are no good cops in this situation.
Mr Heikkola has seen the reality of how aggressive US policing in the US really is. He gets it now. He has seen the light.
He ONLY GOT it after he got treated the way he has likely seen others, but dismissed that treatment for reasons you know why...
@@firewater365 Indeed he did, but that is simply because he likely never had this kind of encounter before. Cops do this every day in the US, but the victims are disproportionally black and Hispanic. I am betting that Mr Heikkola now has a far better appreciation of what minority communities have faced for many decades and the lives it has destroyed. Cops can turn looking into a car a life threatening and life changing event. He knows this now, and he won't ever be able to unsee the outrageous behavior of cops.
The 250k should come out of the sheriff's budget.
at the bare minimum...
Should come out of the retirement funds of the whole department! Maybe then they’ll hold each-other accountable instead of covering for each-other!
And they should be in jail for the crimes against the guy.
City council: "Nope, its coming out of taxpayers. Period."
The sheriffs budget comes from the tax payers, so...
the blue wall of silence speaks volumes... the sheriff's statement was insulting and pathetic
Sure, they settled! It's not THEIR money. They don't GAF
The worst from cops is yet to come.
Too much power for people who are too emotional to be in positions of authority.
250K should’ve been doubled.
Which is why the cops will keep doing it
Quadrupled.
This is sickening what a bunch of incompetent criminals .
I need backup!! It's a grey haired old man that scared me!! Will ten be enough?
And always moaning about being understaffed, while clearly they got twice
the cops needed.
Always remember: "Back the blue until it happens to you!"
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His first mistake was having any trust in the police to do the right thing.
$1MILLION SHOULD HAVE BEEN AWARDED.
"I wasn't an activist until they made me one!"
EXACTLY. I always obeyed the law and respected law enforcement. Until I had something stolen and had to interact with the police. I was already their prime suspect because they thought I was doing some kind of insurance fraud. Doesn't matter that I gave them 4k video of the person that took the item with their name and current location. I have yet to personally meet a competent police officer.
Its EASIER if you are the suspect.
Facts.
@@nismo2070
@@nismo2070 I am not sure if you are aware, but there is an IQ requirement to become a cop and if you exceed it they will not hire you!
Same here. Currently in a legal battle over an alleged DUI. Cop insisted I was intoxicated by legally prescribed medications. Doctor insists that’s impossible and the toxicology report was clean. The charges will probably be dropped but I’m still out several thousand dollars. According to my lawyer I can’t sue because the cop had a “reasonable suspicion” and that’s all he needs. This flabby roided-out tattooed pig just wanted to up his arrest numbers and I was an easy target.
I was wary about cops before….now, I’m their sworn enemies.
@@clovercaledwych6131Sorry to hear of your troubles. Good luck.
Good for this courageous citizen!! Very proud of him!!
"MOST interactions go well" ? and he is happy with that?
Most is 51%!
This is what a state sponsored gang looks like. These gang members need to be dealt with one way or another.
Every cop involved belongs in prison.
These tyrants are thugs!!
They knew it was wrong but that’s what happens when you don’t bow down to their Authority!!!
END QUALIFIED IMMUNITY!!!
LOOK AT THEM ALL PRESSED UP AGAINST HIM!! FOR LOOKING IN A COP CAR?? SICKENING!
If it were me, it would be a settlement with stipulations for termination of the officers involved.
So the taxpayers are on the hook for yet another payout because of officers...these officers need to be fired for assault.
Just fired???
STOP saying that! Firing isn't a criminal punishment. They need to be charged and sentenced for the assault.
Arrested!!!! Just like you or me would have been 😡😡😡🖕
All "law abiding citizens" need to see this. They all act as though it's untrue until it happens to them.
So Officers...which one did you not trample on...Every person is a criminal in their eyes PERIOD!!!!!!
Except their own .
Yup... But, this Police ABUSE happened in China, in Korea, or maybe it happened in Cuba.
This Tyranny didn't happen here, at home, in US, cuz we live in the "Land of Freedom". Right?
(I'm using SARCASM, okay?).
The taxpayers are held accountable, the cops didn't pay anything, not even attorneys fees.
So nothing happened to the corrupt pigs but the citizens have to foot the bill
As they should. The "citizens" voted for the government that hired those cops and continues to allow those cops to get away with their crimes.
The "citizens" need to wake up and vote for politicians, prosecutors, judges, and sheriffs who will fix the broken system. Maybe if taxes go up to fund lots of settlements, people will eventually wake up and choose their votes more carefully.
Deputy William Clark thinks the deputies acted "kind" to the poor fella. The D.A.'s office is just as guilty.
It still amazes me how many police officers don't know the law or understand the Constitution.
And the tax payers pay for the officers actions. This is more officers losing the trust and respect from the people
You wouldn't let a plumber or electrician work on you house if they didn't know their jobs!!! So why are continuing to allow law enforcement who doesn't know the LAW be out there taking away people's MONEY, FREEDOM and in some cases LIVES???? We the People DEMAND BETTER!! ABOLISH QUALIFIED IMMUNTIY
In cop kindy most time is spent on: How to escalate ANY situation.
They know. They just don't care (as long as their qualified immunity is in place).
It wasn't even that they didn't know the law. The plain clothes cop was hurt by the old guy talking to him like he deserved and it was retaliation. That is all this is and they should all go to jail. Nothing lawful about any of it. All criminal.
This ignorance of the law is how they get away with claiming qualified immunity.
The whole department jumped a citizen who broke no laws and trumped up a charge and kept with that charge. This wasn't just a "not our best day" thing. This was a "corrupt department doing their same-old same-old" but got caught. That's emphasized by the fact they STILL don't think they violated the citizen's rights.
Paid with tax dollars
They violated the heck out of his rights, but they don't violate rights? So much for accountability. The double standards are disgusting.
Cop: ", not my money. Who gives a f**k"
And they get paid to do the "training" as well. All settlements should come from the cops pension fund. Watch how fast they figure out right and wrong when their money is on the line.
SCUMBAGS
10% of the payouts should come from the officers involved.
WHO, was Charged or, Disciplined for this ???
The same person as always with these situations, the victim. Cops need to be held accountable and the men who assaulted, battered, and falsely imprisoned the victim in this will not be. Only he will face any real punishment or discipline, simply for the "crime" of not breaking any laws.
The sheriff investigated and found no wrongdoing, and awarded them medals of constitutional merit
Only the victim
Poor man, all for looking in a window. What a bunch of bullies those cops were
$250k paid for by the taxpayers, because of Ada Sheriffs. Fire them ALL! They trampled his rights! Now he has a taste of what all American citizens, especially those in lower income neighborhoods have been dealing with for 100 years! Also want to point out, this gentleman was there to be a good citizen, and properly dispose of old medications WELCOMED by the Sheriff dept. Plain clothes officers should always identify themselves before they start with official business. Furthermore, the vehicles should NOT be left running, and it was a public/open parking lot! Shame on Ada Sheriffs. Their PR response missed the mark too-
Those officers should be required to pay that settlement.. Taxpayers should not have to take on the financial burden of the corrupt incompetence.
It’s about time something gets done. Thank you for reporting it and educating the viewers
He did not get enough compensation for what they did to him! 😡
Did she really mispronounce "policing" as "policy-ing"?
The settlement should’ve included an admission of guilt, otherwise it should’ve gone to trial, in an open court, with everyone on both sides having to testify.
Takes a sick minded individual to be a cop
I hate how people lump all of a group based on the few bad apples that get plastered all over the news. Yes there are bad cops, but there are good ones as well that doesn't try to do something like that. Would you like it if people started to say all Germans are still National Socialists even today, because of their past leaders. Note you never see news reports on the good cops only the ones that help the defund the police narrative, ever notice that?
If his rights weren’t violated then why did you settle for a quarter of a million dollars. Innocent parties never end up paying for something they “didn’t do”
Remember folks, good Cops don't need Qualified Immunity!
Great job on reporting clear and concise information, clear clean diction, got high hopes for you lady.
Earning the hate. Abolish qualify immunity ASAP
Hard to lose trust in something that never deserved it to begin with...
The utter refusal to take any real accountability and admit to what they actually did wrong is just one of the worst parts of this.
Always, 100% of the time, they just deflect, deny, change the topic anything but take responsibility
I am just glad that these things are coming into the light...
A wrongful arrest is a, say it with me, Kidnapping. There is no accountability until people go to prison for this serious felony.
Good reporting! Very courageous for him to speak out. It's absolutely disgusting that officers think they can treat people this way.
The fact that any of those cops are still alive is proof that there is no justice in this country.
If being "held accountable" means you can pay your way out of crimes, there is no one actually being held accountable.
@nooneyouknow8359
Especially if somebody else is paying the bill for you you have no incentive to learn.
"Arrested for obstruction". You know they got nothing on you
Next question should be what law did he break that required the police action he allegedly obstructed?
One of my favorite things to ask a cop is how many resisting, disorderly conduct or obstruction arrests they've made this year.
If something is in plain view, we can look at it, film it, or take photos of it.
Believing this incident to be unintentional it seems officers have no idea how to handle any given situation with other than the use of violence. Sadly this is typical of police today. The officers suffered NO personal loss from this although all involved committed several felonies as well as civil rights violations. If police start getting charged and jailed on a routine basis this type behavior will stop.
No surprise. This happens everyday all over America.
They don't realize how many activist they've made.
Any law enforcement department or law enforcement officer who say that they do not violate citizen's rights on a regular is outright lying. It's that simple. What made it "not our best day" was that you were held to account.
Moral of story, keep your meds and stay away from the po,po.
When is the tax players going to say you can't use tax dollars to pay for untrained cops
More taxpayers' dollars being wasted, training officers on what they should already know.
Something they should have been taught as children.
YOU KNOW WHAT WOULD BE HELPFUL AND MOST LIKELY VERY ENLIGHTENING…
If your station kept a “Bad Policing Cost to the Public Meter” and you showed that meter every time another settlement, caused by Sub-Par and/or Bad Policing, is reached.
Then, when the Sheriff or Police Chief claim they need more funds, We The People can deduct the additional costs to us from whatever is being requested.
Back the blue until it happens to you.
All this could have been avoided with “I’m a police officer-what are you doing there sir?”
nothing can be made worse when Police interfere...!
Sadly true. Calling 911 is a crapshoot, you might get the services your paid for or just as likely get arrested, jailed or dead.
A settlement is NOT justice. That entire department needs to face 18 United States Code 241 & 242. Prison time in a federal prison sentence is appropriate.
Settlement should have been for no less than $100,000,000. Nothing less will force any change.
Shame on those Deputies!
And who pays the bill?: Taxpayers of your community. Are the perpetrators ever held accountable? No, because they have qualified immunity, unlike other criminals, meaning the taxpayer gets the bill every time. Hope you enjoy supporting your local cops, and paying for their mistakes. This is YOUR doing, the taxpayer who doesn't care or pay attention.
Even without qualified immunity we'd still be footing the bill in most cases because government officials are covered by indemnification. Qualified immunity is what typically prevents lawsuits from moving forward. Even once the court decides the officer isn't entitled to qualified immunity because of established case law, the taxpayers still pay because usually good old indemnification kicks in.
According to a study done by NYU Law, police officers are virtually always indemnified: During the study period, governments paid approximately 99.98% of the dollars that plaintiffs recovered in lawsuits alleging civil rights violations by law enforcement. Law enforcement officers in the study never satisfied a punitive damages award entered against them and almost never contributed anything to settlements or judgments-even when indemnification was prohibited by law or policy, and even when officers were disciplined, terminated, or prosecuted for their conduct.
I was once stopped by a cop while jogging. Blue lights and all. I had witnessed the police officer run a stop sign and threw up my hands in disgust. The officer passed me, went to a nearby house and searched around the outside with a flashlight. I turned to watch. Then I kept running. About 4 mins later I was stopped. I was asked what I was doing. Uh, jogging. What did my hands thrown up mean? Uh, disgust that you ran a stop sign, no blue lights on. He denied that of course. Then he asked why I was watching him. Uh, because police activity in this neighborhood is rare and I was curious. I should have said I don’t answer questions. Why did he light me up? Middle aged woman jogging by a park? He didn’t like that I gestured and watched, that’s why. Pissed me off.