Bobzilla wrote: The cop's story was that he sped away from the light and cut him off, even though the victim has 2 eye witness accounts that state just the opposite.
not just the victim has two witnesses, that is what they told the investigator, it is in his report, and he still is trying to prosecute on only the basis of the officer's story.
Parente was, by his own written admission, only two to three feet behind Hitchcock when he activated his siren, far closer than law enforcement training guidelines.
Darwin grade stupidity on the cop's part there. Heck, he may actually be eligible for a Darwin Award if this "soft tissue injury" doesn't heal right.
Datsun1500 wrote: About 20 years ago I saw a cop run a stop sign and get nailed buy another car right outside of work. There must have been 3 other cop cars there within 2 minutes. I walked over and said I saw the whole thing and the cop ran the sign, no lights. All of the cops started telling me that is not what I saw, it was the other guys fault, etc. I waited until a higher ranking guy came and told him the same thing, when the others started saying that was not true I casually pointed to the security cameras and said we can just watch the tape. It got real quiet then...
I used to work as a bouncer at a pretty packed night club in East Lansing. Clearing people usually involves anything from asking them to leave politely to opening doors with their faces. We had a large brawl in the building and cleared about 40 people when a couple of uniformed LEOs came blasting through the front door. It seems that 20 or so of the people that were just bounced were visiting LEOs from various cities here for a coference and meeting with the Governor. ELPD and Sheriff officers were handcuffing bouncers when my boss mentioned the entire fight was now playing on the big screen and he wanted everyone involved charged... it seems the fight started after two of the visiting male LEOs started fighting over another man...
No charges were filed against anyone that night.
ncjay wrote: Is it just me or are the police getting more and more out of control? Lots of stories about cruisers crashing into civilian vehicles, destroyed police cars, and general nasty behavior on the part of the badge holders. I know here in Charlotte, NC, it seems like every few weeks or so there's a wrecked police car making headlines. Maybe it's just the endless media saturation. Give some guys a gun and a badge and bad things happen.
I blame it on the show Cops. That show glorifies cop violence.
carguy123 wrote:ncjay wrote: Is it just me or are the police getting more and more out of control? Lots of stories about cruisers crashing into civilian vehicles, destroyed police cars, and general nasty behavior on the part of the badge holders. I know here in Charlotte, NC, it seems like every few weeks or so there's a wrecked police car making headlines. Maybe it's just the endless media saturation. Give some guys a gun and a badge and bad things happen.I blame it on the show Cops. That show glorifies cop violence.
or wildest police videos, they showed a cop runing a guy over with his car, and say "look how the guy runs right into the cop car!"
and the latest from houston where 13 cops beat on a guy for several minutes after catching him, watch this video at about :56, cop tries to run the guy down, but misses and nails the fence, doesn't even touch the brakes till he bounces off the fence.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63YqU-GycdI
Datsun1500 wrote: so the cop says he got within 3 feet of the guy with his top down and activated the siren? Can you imagine how loud that was? Is anyone surprised the guy hit the brakes?
I can confirm this. I was driving my 64 convertible down Van Nuys Blvd in the San Fernando Valley years ago (stopped at a light), when a cop car behind me used his loudspeaker to tell me that I should go check out the Bob's Big Boy car gathering on Fridays. I can tell you it scared the crap out of me because with the top down it was very loud.
I almost got nailed by a cop yesterday on the way to fix my buddy's MR2 Turbo.
I'm a little police-shy for various reasons, but the most being that, well... my car is blatantly illegal. Granted, in this state, they really don't care, but it still sticks in my mind.
This moron put on his lights about a quarter mile behind me, and started damn near running everyone off the road on his way up to me. He was two lanes over from me (3-lane road), and there was about a 100 foot clear space between me and the next car behind me in ANY lane.
He made it a POINT to swerve two lanes over and get right on my ass and stay there for about 5 seconds, at which point i started to slow down, because i assumed i was getting pulled over for something. He came literally inches from rear-ending me, then locked up his brakes, and floored his car to get around me and blast through the stop light ahead.
Shaken, i continued my trip south, thinking that maybe he had an accident to get to, and was just naturally the worst and most offensive driver on the planet.
I caught up to him at a stop light 10 minutes later. He was chatting on his cell phone. 
carguy123 wrote: I don't know which is more embarrassing to the police dept. the fact that the cop ended up in the back seat of the car or the cover up that is going on afterwards.
This will only make it worse for the cop. Doesn't matter what the other driver says about "stopping quickly." The guy behind is at fault, hence the rest of the stupidity.
In LA, a school cop accidentally discharged his weapon, hitting himself in the bulletproof vest. Since cops have to account for every weapon discharge, he concocted a story about being shot at by a "man with a ponytail" that no one else saw. Therefore he "returned fire." You'll see him working the night shift at your local parking structure very soon .
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I almost got nailed by a cop yesterday on the way to fix my buddy's MR2 Turbo. I'm a little police-shy for various reasons, but the most being that, well... my car is blatantly illegal. Granted, in this state, they really don't care, but it still sticks in my mind. This moron put on his lights about a quarter mile behind me, and started damn near running everyone off the road on his way up to me. He was two lanes over from me (3-lane road), and there was about a 100 foot clear space between me and the next car behind me in ANY lane. He made it a POINT to swerve two lanes over and get right on my ass and stay there for about 5 seconds, at which point i started to slow down, because i assumed i was getting pulled over for something. He came literally inches from rear-ending me, then locked up his brakes, and floored his car to get around me and blast through the stop light ahead. Shaken, i continued my trip south, thinking that maybe he had an accident to get to, and was just naturally the worst and most offensive driver on the planet. I caught up to him at a stop light 10 minutes later. He was chatting on his cell phone.
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Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I almost got nailed by a cop yesterday on the way to fix my buddy's MR2 Turbo. I'm a little police-shy for various reasons, but the most being that, well... my car is blatantly illegal. Granted, in this state, they really don't care, but it still sticks in my mind. This moron put on his lights about a quarter mile behind me, and started damn near running everyone off the road on his way up to me. He was two lanes over from me (3-lane road), and there was about a 100 foot clear space between me and the next car behind me in ANY lane. He made it a POINT to swerve two lanes over and get right on my ass and stay there for about 5 seconds, at which point i started to slow down, because i assumed i was getting pulled over for something. He came literally inches from rear-ending me, then locked up his brakes, and floored his car to get around me and blast through the stop light ahead. Shaken, i continued my trip south, thinking that maybe he had an accident to get to, and was just naturally the worst and most offensive driver on the planet. I caught up to him at a stop light 10 minutes later. He was chatting on his cell phone.meow
Excuse me, are you saying "meow?"
92CelicaHalfTrac wrote:Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:Excuse me, are you saying "meow?"92CelicaHalfTrac wrote: I almost got nailed by a cop yesterday on the way to fix my buddy's MR2 Turbo. I'm a little police-shy for various reasons, but the most being that, well... my car is blatantly illegal. Granted, in this state, they really don't care, but it still sticks in my mind. This moron put on his lights about a quarter mile behind me, and started damn near running everyone off the road on his way up to me. He was two lanes over from me (3-lane road), and there was about a 100 foot clear space between me and the next car behind me in ANY lane. He made it a POINT to swerve two lanes over and get right on my ass and stay there for about 5 seconds, at which point i started to slow down, because i assumed i was getting pulled over for something. He came literally inches from rear-ending me, then locked up his brakes, and floored his car to get around me and blast through the stop light ahead. Shaken, i continued my trip south, thinking that maybe he had an accident to get to, and was just naturally the worst and most offensive driver on the planet. I caught up to him at a stop light 10 minutes later. He was chatting on his cell phone.meow
Is there something funny here boy?
what is a shame.. you can have a force with 100 offericers.. if you get 1 with an attitude, it affects the entire force.
mad_machine wrote: what is a shame.. you can have a force with 100 offericers.. if you get 1 with an attitude, it affects the entire force.
In this case, deservedly. The investigator and the prosecuter have also shown their moron cards in this situation.
Where's the ACLU when they are really needed?
Never talk to the cops unless your legal defense representative is present.
I stumbled onto a forum for police officers the other day when searching for acceptable (legal) window tint levels. I was blown away by the attitudes of many (not all) of the officers on there. And not in a good way... Here it is if you want some interesting (and scary) insight to the attitudes of various law enforcement officials: http://forums.officer.com/forums/
carguy123 wrote: I'm betting the guy will end up on Letterman, Oprah, or one of those fake news shows that's so popular with the 20something crowd.
Letterman and Oprah popular with the 20 something crowd? Just thought this was a weird comment.
TuffWork wrote:carguy123 wrote: I'm betting the guy will end up on Letterman, Oprah, or one of those fake news shows that's so popular with the 20something crowd.Letterman and Oprah popular with the 20 something crowd? Just thought this was a weird comment.
Yeah, well, you're probably standing on his lawn too!
TuffWork wrote:carguy123 wrote: I'm betting the guy will end up on Letterman, Oprah, or one of those fake news shows that's so popular with the 20something crowd.Letterman and Oprah popular with the 20 something crowd? Just thought this was a weird comment.
I think he meant that the guy will be showing up on Letterman or Oprah or the Daily Show or Colbert Report. Makes more sense that way.
dinger wrote: This part absolutely infuriates me. How much of a Bob Costas do you have to be to try and pull this off?LA Weekly said: After that, Redondo Beach Detective Mike Strosnider invited Hitchcock to a let's-be-friends lunch at Subway on the pretext that the investigation was over. It wasn't. Strosnider secretly recorded the lunch in hopes of capturing incriminating comments, but came up empty, according to his own report.
That's why i say get a lawyer.
Disgusting. Flat out, no two ways about it, DISGUSTING. It stories like this that makes me not want to be an Officer some day. I don't want to even be associated with people who behave in this manor. It just sickens me.
porksboy wrote: Never talk to the cops unless your legal defense representative is present.
have you guys read some of the comments on the laweekly story site?
apparently there's some dirty laundry about the cops wife or something?
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