Cops Arrest THE MAYOR Of Their Town!
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bit.ly/3RaLEOk (arrest)
bit.ly/3RaLUgg (body camera)
bit.ly/3MRgrNA (city council response)
bit.ly/3MQSupu (Heidmann’s police misconduct allegations)
bit.ly/3G8vq1z (2020 election)
bit.ly/3sGmjCk (court charges)
bit.ly/3R7Gpi7 (disorderly conduct conviction)
bit.ly/46ovLI8 (disorderly conduct sentence)
Trial court records (Case #18-CR-20-2969)- bit.ly/47n1Kd7
Appellate court records (Case #A23-0858)- bit.ly/46vGnoY
Channel 10, Inc. v. Gunnarson- bit.ly/3SQtkLA
Glik v. Cunniffe- bit.ly/2XPnIXT
Gericke v. Begin- bit.ly/2SiII5U
Minn. Stat. § 609.50- bit.ly/45kJnUg
State v. Krawsky- bit.ly/46HaKsZ
State v. Occhino- bit.ly/49LEc3m
Grams v. Duzan- bit.ly/3SNsXkI
Minn. Stat. § 609.72- bit.ly/3MPKzsx
Cohen v. California- bit.ly/2OMM14a
Chaplinsky v. New Hampshire- bit.ly/3pqWcs5
Matter of Welfare of S. L. J.- bit.ly/47jdNrP
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can we be sure dude wasn't also some form of police captain or commissioner? in many towns and small citys the mayor acts as captain of the city guard. so im just curious if hes out of line or just a crappy boss
Typo in the video title. Should either be *_"Cops_* Arrest..." or "Cop *_Arrests..."_* not "Cop Arrest..."
@@aaronhobbs4592 Good he's passionate
Is there ever any new content on your other channel? Cuz I've seen all that is there now a while back... and there hasn't been anything new? Am I missing something? 🤔
May all elected officials have cops willing to arrest them in their presence at all times
And may all police have a government willing to challenge their power.
The system only works when both the lawmakers and law enforcement have a healthy fear/respect for one-another.
@@soylencerno shit
And may all elected officials be willing to not back up their officers when in the wrong.
In most municipalities the Mayor is the highest authority over the Police force; an elected official, like the Sheriff. What you just saw was their boss showing up and telling them to clear the scene. They arrested him for it. ZERO ACCOUNTABILITY!!
The cops are a bigger problem than a mayor. Particularly of a smaller city.
You love to see a mayor actively not giving a single shit about his police force or how people view them.
Regardless of the right or wrong, you're absolutely correct on that we need more mayors working for their people instead of blindly supporting the cops
@@someguycalledCh0wdahCrazy how fast they forget who elected them. Usually the same day.
I love to see that the police gave zero shits that he was the mayor of their town.
@@austinflake3938 If they give a zero shit to the mayor, the pigs will give minus shit for you.
Yeah, I was thinking do I like this guy? Yeah, I do. He may be government but he's not nice to the thugs.... Maybe he's an exception from the normal government employee....idk but good job getting those pigs Mr mayor
“If you guys weren’t pulling people over I wouldn’t be out here” isn’t that part of a police officers job? 😂
The mayor sounds drunk.
100%
Prob off some prescription benzos😂
MATE WAS OFF THE PILLS OR SOME
100% was acting like he was on something
Cops sound like they are on Adderall and steroids like 99 percent of the police force so who cares 😂
The only thing that concerns me is a disorderly conduct statute that allows police to be the complainant or injured party. Many states have recognized that such a statute is easily abused in “contempt of cop” situations and have eliminated/revised them.
100% he shouldn't have been able to be arrested for disorderly conduct in this situation.
Good on the towns revising these 👍
This time it was different and justified.
@@rixmail93292 Still not a good idea to allow police to be an “injured party” for D.C. I would support an arrest for failure to comply with a lawful order though.
Bingo. Disorderly conduct never covers criticism of the police or state. Never. Protest is always 1st amendment protected activity. This case is total BS and "Audit the Audit" failed us again. Contempt of cop is never a crime. Never.
Some Minnesota specific information for you. When the cops said, "you can talk to our TZD Coordinator if you don't like what we're doing" at around 2:58, this is a Minnesota program called "Toward Zero Deaths". The cops are from 2 different towns performing stops on MN-371, which is not illegal for them to do although the Pequot Lakes officer was slightly outside his patrol zone, however TZD pay requires a minimum of 2 contacts per hour. In my opinion TZD is extra pay for a quota that often ends up as fishing expeditions to find drugs or other things unrelated to their initial stop. MN Revisor 169.985 prohibits quotas, but TZD has a mandatory number of stops per hour in order to get the pay, so I personally dislike these kinds of contradictions.
Sounds like an unconstitutional quota system, were a constitutional challenge raised.
Quotas in policing are like asking for corruption. And where are the supposed positives for citizen safety? Im having hard time figuring out any. But thanks for the added info, OP, it makes the motives crystal clear here.
Police having quotas is the dumbest shit ever!
What's even worse, is the jail and prison system! My opinion, if you didn't commit a hangout crime (murder, rape, pedophile) the system should do everything to help them be better, but instead the system literally fucks you
I agree with what your saying, but in this specific incident the mayor should've kept his distance and talked to them after the fact, or gone through proper channels to affect change, he's not going to do that through the officers. That wasn't the time or place.
This is why I like this channel... Both the positives and negatives in law enforcement are shown without biases.
Makes me wonder what one or both of those departments have done in the past for the mayor to act that way with them 🤔
This channel is definitely biased but still very informative. To be fair it’s impossible for anyone to be completely unbiased though, it is what it is, i’m biased in my views and so are you but we can still all learn and listen to each opinion.
@@cliff5381 can you clarify what are the biases in this particular video?
@@Eskay94 doesn't matter what happened in the past because the Mayor make an assumption and fallacies beforehand. He shouldn't assume the worst of everyone
@@Lamzilla24 Yes he gave both the Cops an A. For arresting someone who wasn’t a threat or obscene. Did he make there jobs slightly harder, sure, did he annoy people yes, but imo the arrest on the spot was a stretch regardless of how the local courts ruled. It’s very expensive to appeal and the mayor probably didn’t feel it was worth it but imo that Disorderly Conduct wouldn’t of held up by the own wording of similar case law. So yes it’s biased towards the Police and yes this channel is swayed that way but like I said I still respect everyone’s opinion and am not dissing this creator in anyway as he puts a lot of effort into it.
I love how they were deterred from investigating intoxication by the suggestions of a blood test because it’s actually accurate
More likely it would have been more time and effort than they were willing to expend.
@@tadmccalister2234 don’t know about more likely because those field tests are not quick and if it’s really worth investigating then time and effort shouldn’t be an issue
An additional charge the wanted to add. Once cops make a shaky arrest they need to add as many charges as they can to assure something will stick. Since disorderly is a vague charge -- like loitering -- its always a good choice, and it worked.
@@krane15The cooked spaghetti tactic 👍
If police suspect you of intoxication, and you know you're not intoxicated, ALWAYS specifically consent for a blood test, instead of a blow test, or other "tests".
I'm just happy the dog was okay. Was scared this would turn into another Sunshine situation. 😢
To hell wit sunshine 😂😂😂
@@kingejbgm6730😂😂😂 asshole. But goddamn, that comment made me burst out with laughter.
@@kingejbgm6730keyboard warrior
That was awful about sunshine,, she looked so cute with that cowboy hat
@@commentsforcomments3018 what makes you say that ? You mad about dog you don’t know? 🤔
Is possessing weed legal in Minnesota? And where did the mayor even come from? He’s walking his dog on the highway?? LOL
From what i know it is legal as of Aug 1 this year
He must have parked the car somewhere. I'm not done with the video but I'm wondering if the kids that were pulled over know and called the mayor
I think it mentioned at the beginning of the video that the mayor crossed 4 lanes of traffic to get to where the officers were. Talk about butting into something that he had no knowledge about.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@WaffleStomper69yeah man. These randoms called the mayor and he ran right over with his dog. 🤡
So ‘boisterous’ behaviour that causes ‘resentment’ is enough?
What a ridiculous piece of law 😂
Whoever has the highest level of entitlement is generally in the wrong, whether it be a police officer, a citizen, a witness, or a mayor.
From my understanding the police are operating outside of their jurisdiction for the state police. If I were a mayor I’d be pretty entitled about this too. I’m paying you to police my town not the highway that’s the state police’s responsibility.
@@iandunn989city municipalities have jurisdiction over interstate highways, the exception being turnpikes. So what are you saying 😂 I treat traffic stop on interstate highway the same as state highway the same as residential street.
Worst part was the dog could have been hit by a car!
4 lane highway ..mayor just let’s dog go the officer was concerned but not the mayor.. good indicator of his character
Should be charged for animal endangerment too
The worst part is probably the travesty of justice and the waste of public funds for thus whole ordeal. But i'll grant you that i held my breath anytime the dog was between the mayor and the highway. He had no control over that dog, and given the location, it was terrifying.
Waaa waaaaa waaaaa y’all sound like cry babies 😊
That was my first think I thought of too.
Notice that cop tried to immediately jam him up on a subjective dui test then after the mayor asserted he wanted a blood test, the officer switched up and admitted he didn't smell alcohol?
RIGHT?!? i know!
Just listening to the mayor I thought he must be drunk. But, it turns out he is just a jerk all the time.
He simply asked him if he was drinking, there was no mention of a “test”.
@@jonnyroy2008well the police that stay at the side of the road wasting their time catching people for stupid reasons *are* bastards.
@@sunmeadfarmhe asked if he would take the sobriety test and he said no I will take the blood test
Thanks for the relevant analysis! Bravo 👏 to the cops for doing a great job during this interaction and protecting his right to record in a safe spot!
What great job? They arrested the mayor on a trumped up charge. Would that make you feel safer?
@@krane15 The mayor, which was told to keep a safe distance if he wanted to keep recording and insult them? The mayor who instead kept insulting and walked back into the scene he was told to keep a safe distance from? He was never stopped for exercising his rights and should be punished. If he's walking back into the scene and insulting them it SHOULD be taken as fighting words for disorderly and interfering. All he had to do was stay a safe distance back if he wanted to keep being a dickhead legally.
So yeah I'd feel better knowing my cops aren't giving the mayor a free pass
He absolutely should’ve been arrested. Crossing a four-lane highway? With the dog? Yelling at police officers from a few feet away? Standing on the fog line? His dog gets loose on a highway… On a traffic stop?!?!?!? He’s creating a very dangerous situation.
When factoring the totality of the circumstances. Each individual act in itself may be legal. But in totality, he created a dangerous situation for himself, others on the road, and everybody involved in the traffic stop.
Wearing a ski mask is legal. Walking into a bank is legal. Handing the teller a note is legal. But in totality… Walking into a bank wearing a ski mask, and handing the teller a note… Creates probable cause. It’s always about the totality and not each individual act.
Depends on what the note says. It might say "Hey gorgeous, wanna go skiing?"
@@jonstone9741 no, it really doesn’t. Just walking into a bank with a ski mask on. That’s probable cause.
Why do you think banks remained closed after the pandemic and businesses were opening back up ? Because people were still wearing mask long after everything was declared “safe”
. So banks kept their doors locked.
The mayor must have been watching auditing videos all morning 😂 he is a huge fan of long Island audits lol
I think the issue the mayor was addressing was that officers from his department are out on the highway writing tickets when they should be patrolling the town. We have the same problem in our small town.
I think the cops were from a jurisdiction other than this mayor's town.
Don’t think these cops were under the mayor’s department
They were from a police group specifically tasked with doing such stops. TZD, I think.
@@markstevenson6635 1 cop was from the Mayors town, the other wasn't
They were working specialized patrol in the area called TMZ. It’s basically a traffic patrol paid by the state, not by the budget set by the city/county they work for. So while they may have been officers on duty from his city, they were being paid by the state to run traffic.
I'm always happy when the cops get an A.
That's the goal of channels like this. Thank you for your tireless hours of work.
It's so nice to see the cops getting in a on this channel, especially when dealing with a corrupt public official
"Why do you want to do a blood test"...and then miraculously they don't think he's drunk anymore.
Cops are free to pick anything out in roadside tests to support charging you, drunk or not. Go for the blood/breath test every time.
Cops that are looking to trump up charges (on a jerk who isn't breaking the law) should never get an "A" from Audit the Audit. This channel pisses me off sometimes.
SFST is an internationally recognized and scientifically supported test. Also if you’re actually impaired it’s in your best interest to refuse as it can provide reasonable doubt
@@Kissypoohthis comment right here. The "A" was based on a whole lot of what ifs
@@Kissypooh The channel is massively biased. It is what it is. It's not proper journalism or objective content.
@@dicksherman284 If you watch enough of these videos, you see people who pass the test are failed, and the people who fail the test are let go. The test requires competence to be valid and many are incompetent. More importantly, the test requires integrity to be valid. And we find that many cops lack integrity. They are incentivized to make arrests. Or they act on their emotions (like anger) instead of the test results. When field sobriety is passed (as physically able as the person can be), and the breathalyzer is zero, the cops switch to drug intoxication and haul you to jail anyway. Many people due to age, weight, or disability, are unable to complete field sobriety while they are sober. A valid test requires the basic capacity for balance and mobility, which many drivers don’t have.
The title of this video should be: When egos and assholes collide!
We need Powerman 5000 to write a song about it.
I love that you are willing to show good cops on your channel. A lot of other police interaction channels will only show bad cops and seemed to intentionally foster an us vs them mentality.
There's no such thing as a good cop. All cops perpetuate the same failed system and if there were good cops, we wouldn't have bad ones.
I also have to say @AuditTheAudit is one of if not the most unbiased channels when it comes to this kind of content and i appreciate the commitment and integrity to the truth the rule of law and accountability.
Would you consider doing an update of the cases that were "ongoing" when you first covered them, but have then since resolved? You could do a handful of the interesting ones in a single video, I'd turn up for that
Agreed
To any that may wonder, a lot small cities and towns in America the city or town council president is given the honorary title of mayor. They are not the chief executive of the city or town. They are not in charge of the police force. The council hires a city or town administrator who is actually in charge and answers to the council.
Correct! I believe nearly 6,000 municipalities function either a council/manager system of government. A mayor is the leader of the council, but it's the City Manager who really is more of a CEO, so to speak, of that cities government
It depend on where he's a strong mayor or not. They could have the final say, or no more than a vote like any other council member. Obviously this mayor was the latter. Also the mayor typically appoints the chief of police.
Yep. In my town the City Manager has all that authority. The mayor is really just a town mascot of sorts. Doesn’t even have an office. He’s a nice guy and is sure to be at every little event in town he can attend, and he does attend the council meetings to share any issues he might observe, but he only even gets a vote if the council is somehow tied.
This wasn't a case of the First Amendment not being "absolute". He wasn't restricted in any way from recording, only from standing in the middle of the traffic stop to do it.
Also...
Child: Can I have a cookie?
Parent: Not before dinner.
...5 minutes later...
Child: (eats cookie)
Parent: (administers spanking)
Child: YoU dIdN't WaRn Me!
2:55 not even three minutes into this video and watching the mayor’s attitude, I can already see where this is going… 🤣
"I know what the F I'm doing"
LITERALLY INSTANTLY his dog is loose... What an absolute clown
I saw something similar over 40 years ago in a smaller town. The Mayor of the town coasted through a stop sign and got pulled over and ticketed. He commented that if he did something wrong, he pays the price. I think this was a stunt to curb low level corruption forming. Some town council members were getting off on speeding and other things. The Mayor made a few enemies that day, but got the public behind him.
I didn’t see where anyone got behind him. The council censured him, the court found him guilty of disorderly, and the voters voted him out next election 100 votes for him and 1000 for his opponent.
@@pauladouglass9456the comment you're replying to is referring to a different incident.
Every town needs a mayor like him, FOR THE PEOPLE
Honestly, these are the most competent cops I have ever seen on this channel personally. Not the best ever but ya know
Maybe these cops can now go arrest the corrupt Dolton mayor!
How can the Minnesota cops arrest somebody in Illinois? That's a "little bit" out of there jurisdiction. You might as well ask for the Mossad to do it. 😅😅😅😅
@@FrauditorsBane Well, they can perform a citizens arrest in another state I think, I can't see how Mossad would do anything! They generally either kidnap you for interrogation or assassinate you!
It sure looked like the traffic stop was over when they arrested the Mayor.
I’ve spent a lot of time in the Pequot Lakes area. My longtime friend was a realtor in the area and had a house on one of the lakes. She passed away 2 years ago. Her daughter still works at the APine restaurant there
I’m happy to see the videos of great cops as much as the ones that show corrupt ones. Both need to be shown.
Did I miss the part where he talked about how the traffic stopped was over so how could it possibly be interfering
Why was the mayor so up and adamant anyway? The entire encounter seems very strange and random.
He doesn't want local police harassing drivers.
@@bobthetitanicthey can easily argue this as drug trafficking unfortunately if it's over a certain quantity
Local pd on highway is the issue I believe
@@oivi3iv635 then its his job to put forth that proposition to the city officials/township council and have them stopped at the legal level until it is done so and no judge has ordered what they are doing is illegal, mayor cant do shit.
Because he doesn't like bad policing, and it's obvious he has bad cops harassing citizens in his town.
I saw the title and immediately knew this one was gonna be good.
Can you imagine getting pulled over, The mayor rocks up and is just the worst person ever instantly taking any heat off you. Their friends will never hear the end of this LMAO
I really appreciate and enjoy the level of nuance you put in every single one of your videos ive seen so far. Keep doing great work. I hope you and your team succeed and make immense amounts of money.
But was the stop over. I saw the officer give the ticket and let him go. Then it cuts to the guy on the hood. So what happened. If the stop was over it was over.
He was the one man that could walk straight to the Police Chief’s Office.
And the police chief would tell him he has NO AUTHORITY here.
It's amazing to see a mayor behaving like this. If one type of person should be an exemplary citizen, it is a mayor. No one is above the law, no cop, no mayor, no judge, no senator, no congress member, nor the president himself.
Joe Biden is exempt 🤔ask Garland
Back the blue till it happens to you comrade Adolf left some boot polish on your lip...
Even mayors can be clowns
Unless you personally know someone, it proves that you really don’t know who you are voting for. Look at all the ass clowns in Washington.
The active president is above the law.
Kinda support the mayor here. We dont know how his meetings go with the chief of police or head aches these officers give him. At the end of the day he’s trying to push his police officers to be better and not fee seakers that most cops in these areas are notorious for. Even neglecting their own township for sake of traffic fine profits.
So, I'm from The Netherlands. Over here, mayors aren't elected, but appointed, so most mayors are simple boring bureaucrats. So it baffles me to see how this person could be a mayor, I mean his profanity, misuse of authority and breaking of the law is baffling to me. I'm all for elected mayors, but how is it possible someone like this even gets elected?
Trump supporters will vote for anyone who says their key words the loudest!
Because we poison our youths with propaganda in school and university. By the time they're ready to vote, they are fully brainwashed
how's biden doing for ya@@get_me_the_bonesaw3029
And the Democrats just mess it up👍
Have you seen our last president? Our Representatives don't REPRESENT us... Polititions lie & promise groups of people stuff...
imagine the story those boys are gonna tell at school, “yeah cops had us busted for weed but they had to let us go because they were busy arresting the mayor off the hood of my car”
The voters who dunked Heidmann out of office get an A+
Mayor being voted out by such a large margin is super satisfying.
🤦🏻♂️ bootlicker.
Im all for that mayor protecting his citizens.
Good guys dont last long. Same with cops.
mayor seems like a d bag to he honest.
“Voters B1TCH SLAP A-HOLE Mayor”
Wild how behavior/language like this gets you fired from McDonald's, but not fired from the mayor's office... Shouldn't the mayor be held to a higher standard than a teenage cashier??
Ha! You'd think...
I don't think you've seen the standards for politicians in this country?
I've heard worse from the police
You're confusing an employee at work, from an employee not at work, and in the public. If the mayor were at his office, on the clock, yes. Do you get the difference? It's called freedom of speech, deal with it.
They believe they are our masters hence them getting special treatment and little to no consequences!
Mayor was needlessly antagonistic
I live in MN and know where this happened. I don't live where this happened but I'm guessing the mayor is pissed that town cops were on a state highway pulling people over and not in the town where they work. Not sure the laws and rules, but mostlikley they do have jurisdiction to patrol the hiway as well. Where the mayor probably thinks it's the State patrols job......
I live in Pequot lakes and that's correct, state 371 north and south are patrolled both by Pequot lakes police and nisswa PD as well as the highway patrol does
@cainclemmer8050 yeah, they are all fighting for money!!
A mayor who knows police are just harassing and collecting rather than serving and protecting!!!...he can come be our mayor any time.
Yup😊
Wow, you are so woke...
@@morbidmanmusic lol no we just like good people and hate criminal cops. O and spamming this Chanel with 100 crap comment isn't helpful bud
Holy crap! This is my home town. Two miles from my house. That lake in the background is the lake I live on. I’ve never had a bad encounter with the Nisswa police. Always been real chill.
Holy. A lot of vids of small to mid size town mayors on some kind of power trip. Like a boss lol.
Im stuck on the mayor saying that his officers are not licensed to be out on the state highway pulling people over.
LEOs *CANNOT* be the complaintants in a DC, period.
Why did the body cams not record the mayor "yelling at the driver" that was pulled over?
Everyone's laughing and getting along, until the Mayor shows up 🤣
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Thanks!
First time we are in a disagreement, when the mayor approach for the second time the traffic stop had ended.
I like the mayor…”unreasonable searches.”
Seeing competent cops is something I like seeing, imagine if every police officer were as good as these officers were, America would be so different!
A fucking dozen political issues would vanish overnight
How did you watch the video if you posted this a couple minutes after it went up lol
Competent? What are you talking about? They arrested him , then tried to make up a reason for the arrest!!
@@shrimpy6519 delay on youtube, the video probably posted a while before you actually clicked it but it says like 5mins ago instead of the actual like half hour to hour ago, its really bad with pre secheduled videos
Video last 20 min, comment posted 10 min ago when video was just released How did you even watch the video ?? nice Bot
Obstruction is a physical act of interfering. The Mayor was recording and didn’t verbally engage the officers until they approached him. Officers will often tell citizens they can record but order them to a distance where they can no longer see nor hear. Glad the Mayor requested an accurate blood test as the field sobriety tests are used to subjectively build evidence against the test taker even if sober.
The Mayor was close enough to the road that he could have been hit by a passing car if it accidentally swerved into the shoulder. I think all the officer was telling him to do was move off the shoulder to the grass, further from the road. If "over there" meant 50 feet from the scene, it's not much different from me telling my granddaughter to stand a safe distance back while I operate my rotary saw. As my supervisor, a retired cop, has said and the Audit the Audit narrator himself said, traffic stops can be very dangerous and cops take steps not protect both themselves and the citizens around them from the potential dangers.
The mayor crossed the roadway to approach the officers. He acted as if under the influence of something other than reason.
Your perception is way off. The mayor walked right up and started berating them and refused to move to a safe distance, while acting like he was "altered" and almost got his dog killed. He was rightly convicted and then removed from office by 87% of voters who also thought he was a disgrace.
Obstruction does not have to be exclusively a physical act. If a person went up and stood right next to an officer at a traffic stop and shouted in his ear to the point he was unable to perform his duties that is considered interfering.
If you want to get even more into it speaking is a physical act we do as humans. You physically move your body to do that so while the words are protected, it doesn’t mean you get to weaponize it to the point that you are interfering.
I side with the mayor on this. Sure he could have been more tactful with his speech. He was nonetheless in his right to film and question the cops. The sad thing is people who want good mayors who will stand up for their rights are the same people who didn't vote for him. Even though he was trying to make sure the cops weren't doing anything illegal. I'd give the Mayor a C, and those cops a C as well. Neither party did something outright wrong but they all could have done better.
I loved when he called their asking bluff about alcohol like yeah no lets document that I am not under the influence.
Boy it sure looked like the other officer was handing back documents like the stop had concluded right before if not the same time they said he was interfering. 🤔
Were the local police *constantly* pulling people over and searching their cars? If so, that explains why the mayor was up in arms. That question should have been addressed in this video. Pequot Lakes is a small town that depends on tourism. If the local police are on the warpath pulling people over and searching their cars, it's a major *threat* to the local economy.
If this were the concern, yelling at police officers on the side of the road isn't the way to do it.
Surely he could work closely with the chief of the police
@@prestontiegs5022 I agree that the Mayor's behavior was wrong. But given his obvious frustration with the local police, it would seem that he had no power over the Chief of Police. Police Chiefs are elected just like Mayors are and have quite a bit of autonomy.
Are traffic laws enforceable to everybody? If so then why should certain people be given special privileges just because a town might be considered a tourist town?
@@FrauditorsBane Yes, traffic laws are enforceable to everybody and more to the point, if you're familiar with this channel's content, you know that the police can pull over any car on the flimsiest of traffic infractions. When police do this, they're often motivated by departmental orders to raise revenue by issuing citations, confiscating property etc.
@@john24110 According to speedtrapsdotgorg, Pequot Lakes is listed as one of the 10 worst speed trap cities in all of Minnesota. Clearly there is evidence on the side of the Mayor's beef with the Pequot Lake's police.
Police always say that someone filming is "impeding" their investigation when the cop is the only one making a fuss.
The cops impede their own investigations by confronting people filming.
Every single time and their traffic stop was over the cop even clearly stated that so I'm not sure where he impeded their investigation
@@jeremyhodges7956 And "far enough back" usually translates to, "So you can't pick up any audio."
He wasn't arrested for filming he was arrested for being a foul mouthed, interfering, egotistical arsehole.
The camera didn't interfer, his actions and words did.
@@BionicDance as it should be. The cops all had body cams and if I was being arrested I really wouldn't be happy if some total stranger was recording my conversation with the police.
@@JigglingJugs1091 even if he was how does that stop them from doing their job
I completely agree with the mayor it's a shame other mayors don't have the same sensibilities. I'd give the cops an F and the Mayor an A. Omg, they had weed the cops then have a duty to ruin their lives, smh.
They get an “A”? They tried to accuse him of being drunk or under the influence, but didn’t want to do the blood test when he called them out. Obviously they were trying to disparage him because a field sobriety test is purely subjective and the officer could have said he appeared to be drunk. You got to drop that “A”
they asked him, didn't accuse
@@robj7386 do you ask sober people to take a field sobriety test, that is an accusation that they believe he is under the influence.
@@jasonholman1011 Because the Mayor stupidly thought he could butt in and obstruct a traffic stop for NO GOOD REASON, then he makes an INANE charge against the Department just because his charge stuck, and then he was censured for his blatant stupidity.
Think about it this way. He gave them an A for arresting a man exercising his first amendment right.
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Well, letting his dog loose looked like a factor; he was stupid enough to even almost let it go out on the highway, especially considering the front part of its body was sticking out over the lane.
Cop says it's not safe to stand if it's not safe to stand there it's not safe to pull the cars over there either is it
That went over their heads.
Maybe I missed it if it was mentioned again, but didn’t this start by him saying they were essentially out of jurisdiction, not supposed to be patrolling this part of the highway. If that’s true and it’s been recurring I can see him being irate and standing up for his citizens. So which is it, I think that’s a vital part of the story.
Exactly. I also find him sticking up for his citizens admirable. I feel like it is way too common for public officials to be bootlickers nowadays.
And even the cop said that the traffic stop is over so I still can't figure out what he impeded
Even if that was the case, this location and this moment was NOT where this needed to happen. He already had the stop on video, so he already had evidence. So then he takes that and brings up the complaint in a time and location where you aren't at risk of being flattened by a 18 wheeler speeding by.
@@rjh00 Why was this not the place for it to happen lol? It's on the side of the road in public, I can't really see a much better need lol. You can do both. I certainly think telling the tyrants what they are doing wrong is a great idea. Being on the side of the road doesn't really put you at that much greater risk to be ran over lol. Maybe if you aren't sure what a road is, I could see how it would be much more dangerous.
Cops also tried to pin him with a DUI, But dropped it when mayor requested a blood test over a field sobriety test. Requesting a blood test is such f behavior.
Come on ATA
Oh the irony of the mayor telling them they're being unsafe while walking his dog along the highway. What a maroon!
Yeah what a more on!
A cop lived on my block a few years ago, and he was an arrogant, obnoxious jerk. He thought it was hilarious to hem up innocent citizens. He told us he and his fellow cops loved to say the following: "If we can't arrest a guilty man, an innocent man will do." That's today's police, folks. Back The Blue Until It Happens To You.
I knew one that said he liked "bashing heads" when anyone asserted themselves in anyway
I know a few people that became police officers after high school, they literally had no skills or knowledge at all so I guess they didn’t have a choice, they were idiots in high school and they didn’t learn anything since…
Police are just publicly funded mercs
"He told us he and his fellow cops loved to say the following: "If we can't arrest a guilty man, an innocent man will do."
Why go on the internet and tell straight lies? Nobody talks like that.
Congratulations, you have one small anecdote against some people years ago that you then lump all millions of people with that profession together with. How intelligent
when the cop responded `we`re making stops` was clear that they are fishing, 100% with the mayor in this one, cops should have better things to do
In the US Supreme Court 1989 decision in DeShaney v. Winnebago County Department of Social Services, the court concluded that the police have "no duty to protect..." the public without the subject under arrest or detainment. Still the police want to give directives "for your safety".
When you need protection the police are not obligated but when they give orders its invariably for "your safety".
Words are always passive. It's the recipient's decision what to make of them, how to feel and react so I believe there isn't a single criminal ounce in any words but a whole lot in how you receive and react to the words. So it's a passive thing. Fighting words, insults... all passive!
The whole concept of 'fighting words' , in present day society, is absurd. The idea that mere words could provike violence and thus should be criminalized - instead of criminalizing any actual violence in reaponse to mere words is repugnant.
Meet speech with speech...and actual violence with defensive violence.
sorry, seen WAY to many fights over words that have been said to think we do not need this term still. YOU might never get mad when someone says something to you that is designed to provoke you, but the vast majority of humans will indeed respond to those words...that is why they are still around and why it is still on the books.
I am simply giving you the common human reaction, however, be the change you want to see, and maybe you can see that change start to take off and make a difference.
IKR the wording of so called fighting words 'physically obstructing' movement or causing 'physical pain' is silly. Still these guys did the right thing and fined this guy for assholeishness.
@@DaleHartley…so, by your logic a woman shouldn’t wear clothing that may be considered provocative by some, because some will be driven to molest that woman…and so the woman has the burden to prevent her attack?
@@charliepiland3285 that makes absolutely no sense as a comparison.
1) in my post the person doing the illegal thing is deliberately instigating a fight with words
in yours no words are said, the women just wears what she wants.
Deliberate, vs none deliberate.
2) Fighting, and the use of violence to achieve a person goal...is to me a mental instability...a mental health problem.
3) I tirelessly and vebosely campaign on here for better mental health coverage and for an end to violence use for personal problems
4) in YOUR example the woman is not deliberate, BUT even if she were deliberate, NO violence towards here would NOT be acceptable
( although just to note, a hard wired rape response has been suggested in evolutionary terms... I have not followed the discussion, and it has been a few years since I say that...but... I do not accept religion even though we are hard wired for a sense of awe and wonderment as well)
5) The person speaking fighting words is the aggressor... guess you did not get that. The woman is not.
6) If a woman dresses to be sexually appealing, they generally ARE sexually appealing. That is what the woman wants as a reaction, but to respond to that with anything more then words ( such as compliment, or asking her out, striking up a conversation or just standing there with your jaw on the floor) and especially violence towards here is wrong.
6) many things are in humans, some are social norms, some are hard wired, some are just habits....And I am not going to get into social engineering with you because it is far to big ( verbose even to me :) lol) and has a checkered history ( several bad groups have tried to use it and given it a bad reputation)
BUT the use of violence is tolerated too much, and becoming too prevalent in society.
point blank...You presented a false narrative that made false assumptions ( that people do not use fighting words anymore) I countered with not only personal observations, but real world info ( no one in a civilized country should be starting wars...but putin did).
You countered that with a dis-similar example of non-deliberate nature
Point get through?
@@charliepiland3285 there are words that will cause a physical response...such as calling someone a slur while you are face to face with them in an argument. There was no reasonable reason to utter the slur, other than to illicit a response. That is just one example of why we need the "fighting words" ruling.
I have a feeling these two officers would not have been so patient if that were anyone else, but I’m glade they were and let the mayor show who he is.
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The mayor did nothing wrong! Those cops are bitches!
Who is he? A guy who likes the 1st amendment and wants a blood test?
Imagine taking sides with these cops getting their quotas 😂😂
@@montezuma6962 mayor
I love how the mayor says he knows what he's doing at exactly the same moment his dogs runs free.
That’s some Parks and Rec stuff haha
The mayor was more upset than the people getting their car searched damn
Anyone department not wearing body cams at this point is because they want to be able commit crimes. It would have been an uphill battle to convict a mayor without their cameras.
Just thinking... Wouldn't be nice if mayors themselves used bodycams?
Imagine how many things would surface.....
@@nod2009 in most cities the elected mayoral / city hall activities are heavily documented or open to the public, most citizens just don’t care to watch or show up
@@nod2009Almost all of their actions is recorded as either public record emails, letters, speeches, etc. they also don’t have free reign to kill or beat whoever they want and claim they were in fear for their life, that’s just cops.
@@meerkatmanorjr.2085 well... maybe it's just in Brazil... But here, many meetings are not documented. Or what goes on the paper is not exactly what has been said.
That's why there is corruption....
@@nod2009 I understand, but even with things public here there is still corruption lol
3:23
Mayor: "I know what the ---- I'm doing!"
As his dog gets loose right by the road lmao
The dog displayed better sense than Mayor by escaping and leaving the scene (and not getting hit by a car)
Such a respectable and professional mayor!
Ok, that's a great mayor
Can you imagine if they convict him,. That means every cop on the force should be in jail then.
The first time I've seen a person with power start berating police not in their own stop 😅 that mayor really wanted to be an auditor 😂
The mayor doesn’t want the police harassing motorist.
Well done mayor!!!!
Can’t wait to see the next moves. Update’s definitely needed on this one
I agree! I'd vote for him
Yessir we need popcorn 🍿 for the updates to this because it’s going to be an action packed sequel 😂
the update is that he didn't get re-elected
Impeding his investigation, really looked like the traffic stop was over. The Mayor just pissed the cops off
Them there parabolic microphones - I think that's what they're called, - together with a decent camera, will allow a person to stand WELL away from the scene while capturing it.
I never thought I'd see a video from you from my own county. Very informative on the situation
My friend was a long time realtor in the area. She passed away 2 years ago. I spent a lot of time at her house on Ossi
The problem with these 'conditions' applied to our Constitutional Rights is that they leave interpretation of 'reasonable' up to the most unreasonable people like police, prosecutors and judges - whose job it is to persecute and prosecute we the people. The Supreme Court has also said that public safety isn't the responsibility of police, which leaves us only with officer safety as their primary concern. So then I ask why we need police if they only harass and collect from us and protect themselves (generally speaking, as it would be wrong to generalize that all police are dim-witted cowards - just the majority happen to be a drain on a free society).
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“Plato argued that good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will always find a way around law. By pretending that procedure will get rid of corruption, we have succeeded only in humiliating honest people and provided a cover of darkness and complexity for the bad people. There is a scandal here, but it's not the result of venal bureaucrats.
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― Philip K. Howard, The Death of Common Sense: How Law Is Suffocating America
@@AaronAlso Thanks for sharing! I will check this book out. I don't like how we have an entire branch of government who's sole purpose is to enact new laws. What would anyone expect after 237 years of this being the case? And what's the USA going to look like in another 50 years? In 100 years? (super fast internet search, taking this on faith only: Congress has enacted approximately 200-600 statutes during each of its 115 biennial terms so that more than 30,000 statutes have been enacted since 1789. Now add state and local government laws to this total)
How is he disorderly on the side of the highway with no civilians around to disturb? Nobody complained, rather, the cops made the call.
I personally find it refreshing to see a mayor criticizing their town's police force!
More should call them out on potentially unlawful orders and actions on its citizens!
I agree! How did the Mayor get an F for the same conduct that Auditors get an A+. And how do the cops get an A+ for what Auditors usually give an F-?
I think ATA should go back to Auditing college because he got this one Bass Akwards!
Sounds like you hate all police. What a refreshing and original stance.
@@Solo-RoadHow does it sound like that, may I ask?
@@Sakuodo You may ask. It's apparent you have no idea why traffic stop took place, if any laws were broken by the drivers/passengers, if the police violated any policies. You just find it refreshing to see a mayor make a horse's ass of himself and get in the face of two officers who, for all you know, a good cops who are doing their jobs.
I think the officers brought up the idea of field sobriety tests because the Mayor’s aggressive behavior appeared that he was under the influence of something! He inserted himself into a situation he clearly had no idea about! He immediately began berating them with cursing about the job they were trying to do! I thought for sure it was going to turn out that he was highly intoxicated!
Doesn't the mayor have anything better to do than harassing cops?
Those cops are trash for harassing and ticketing those young men for having weed. I could never be a cop and harass, extort, and rob people like that. Good people don't become cops.
To add, the stop was completed when the Mayor was arrested. So the argument that he was endangering their stop is hollow.
If it's illegal in that area, so be it.
@@alanmcentee9457 It seems like having a huge ego and being emotionally immature are requirements to work in police departments.
Well it'd depend if its considered recreational or not there. Here in Illinois police can't stop you for weed. In georgia, straight to jail. So i'd say it's fair game. Since, mind you, this is in 2020 and it's been legalized in minnesota as of 3 months ago.
Okay pot head go get high and don’t contribute to society and when you are in trouble and call 911 I hope nobody shows up to help because all the good people didn’t become police
I like that Mayor, even though he was drunk and ignored the police orders to stand back. That was awesome, the Mayor took the walk and had to squat and cough. Hell yeah Mayor!
He’s not your mayor he’s our mayor. Lol
The old "You can't arrest me" politician.....
At the end of the video the cop admits the stop was over when they arrested him for interfering with the stop. In other instances you would have called this out, it seems because the mayor is the more powerful person in the video you don't want to do this
Or maybe there's a chance he missed over it.. I don't think he cares about the Mayor and his power that's an odd thing,why would Audit the Audit would care about the mayor's power
Audit the Audit is afraid of repercussions from a shit-canned mayor, you heard it here first.
@Lanny-io9bi sure he did, that why he gave the cunts an A, and said "it's good they didn't cow under the mayor's authority."
Ok Brian🥴
Not necessarily, they cold have arrested him during it but warned him. They can go back on that warning for the behavior he showed, and still arrest him as the scene was still active.