I wonder what percentage of interactions with the police are tied to motor vehicles? It seems like operating a motor vehicle is a doorway to police contact. Makes you want to give up your drivers license and walk everywhere.
And he won't be found guilty. They'll screw him over for a couple of years...dragging it out....trying to ensure he never has the money to sue them...and then they'll drop all charges. AND Y'ALL CALL THIS FREEDOM! Clearly our dictionaries differ...greatly!
Luckily in oklahoma you can't be. It's technically legl, how ever you can only do it. If you can prove that the cops absolutely knew you wasn't guilty and did it anyway. Like in this case they pulled up they wrong guy. So they thought they was doing the right thing even though they wasn't. The law doesn't let you resist that you can only resist if they absolutely knew they know you was innocent and they did it anyway which is really hard to prove. Making a mistake is not covered. But it is legal
I’m a 50 year old white lady with not so much as a parking ticket. One day I’ll be called for jury duty, and after watching a million of these videos, I wouldn’t believe a single word that comes out of a cop’s mouth.
They all lie, regardless if they're male/female, white/black/hispanic/asian. At my trial, the detective (black female) testified that she contacted me 3x & talked to me, when nobody from any police dept has contacted me. The judge didn't give me a chance to speak. All of us were on Zoom. I was in county jail, judge on zoom, detective on zoom, my lawyer on zoom, my microphone was muted (i think). Don't know what law she was breaking by not contacting me, but the judge seems to know & just gloss over it. My case was against my ex-roommate who screw me over rent money & money that I loaned him.
"if he resisted, he resisted, we got him on that" Good lord, you cant resist a false arrest, what he technically resisted was a kidnapping lol, listen to these incompetent fucks.
This has become true in America. We presently have first amendment auditors trying to protect us from American police. We need more groups actively protecting us from the police, and that is a most horrible result which the American police have brought on themselves.
stjohnssoup The fact they are willing to convict an innocent man means they are dangerous and we need protection from them. I agree. If it's city cops that do this, call the SHERIFF!!. If it's Sheriff deputies, Call the city cops.
@@vvicked0471They got to justify their jobs and numbers. False arrests hire judges, prosecutors, cops and a whole bevy of support staff that would go away if they were honest.
If that man had not started screaming for help and attracting attention I truly believe those cops would have murdered him. A father out to get his 4 children their favourite breakfast who may never have come home! It brought me to tears. If I was a cop and I was involved in having any part in hurting that innocent father of 4 I would not only hand in my badge and my gun in shame but I would be singing like a bird.
@Sherwoody They already beat him up and tased him that's reason enough for a lawsuit..... This is one of many reasons black people dont trust Law enforcement
It's not the false arrest that is the issue for me... Mistakes happen all the time!! However, it's the unfair and sinister approach they take after the fact instead of holding themselves accountable. They proceed to make up lies and stitch this man up by doing and saying just about anything to justify their actions. The sergeant whose job it is to teach cops and make sure they do their jobs to the best of their ability is helping them to ruin this man.. How can policing get any better when the leaders are just as bad and a part of the problem. They cost taxpayers millions yearly with their bad judgment and lack of accountability.
We're gonna have to change both absolutely immunity for prosecutors and judicial immunity for judges, on top of qualified immunity for cops. Our justice system is designed such that no one can be held accountable.
If it can be proven to be malicious, it should be a mandatory life sentence in solitary in a supermax prison with no mail or visitation. Make the consequences real.
It's not that they falsely arrested him that upsets me, it the fact that after they realized they had the wrong person, instead of releasing him and letting him get home to his kids, they started making up reasons to arrest him to cover up their mistake. This is why cops are disliked and can't be trusted.
All about covering their ass in an attempt to justify their actions. Can’t sue if you’re found guilty of a crime. If they let him go, then it’s as if they’re admitting guilt for a lawsuit.
Yes, it's a thing. You don't fight the arrest. If you want to classify it as unlawful, you need to go to curt and fight it there (not during the arest) It's not up to you to decide.
Imagine going out to get some food some morning only to get violently jumped, assaulted and kidnapped by a violent gang of psychopaths. Did you imagine the gang were cops? Because that's exactly what happened.
Just to clarify a cops priorities in descending order are: officer ego, officer safety, your compliance, how to get fake overtime, feeling badass when they "get the bad guy," covering up for each other, avoiding liability (would be higher but they get indemnified even if QI is denied), what to have for lunch, what RU-vid videos up watch while pretending to watch traffic, if they should switch suppliers of illegal steroids, actually catching criminals, literally everything else, and finally upholding your rights. Following the law does not appear on the list, because they don't even bother trying that.
They can't admit they're wrong or they could be held liable. As long as they keep lying saying they believed they were justified, qualified immunity still applies.
Ruined that man’s life. Didn’t care about him but are suppose to serve and protect the community. Never trust cops. They aren’t on your side. This is crazy.
cops are the court's revenue drivers, nothing more. everything they do is geared towards always seeing every citizen as a criminal and constantly sniffing for an arrest. acab is as true as ever and this group just proves it goes up and down the chain of command.
The departments hire the worst people and they make the same mistakes over and over and over again. Officers should be required to tell you exactly why they are interacting with you before they expect you to do what they ask.
To all law enforcement: As long as you fear integrity and accountability, you are NOT the good guys! End qualified immunity! Make each officer personally liable! Take the settlements out of the police union pension fund. Do you want your respect back? THEN EARN OUR TRUST BACK!
they know their the criminals, so i don't think they care about your message. It's the reason their cops, their ability to violate law and brutalize people is why they're blue line swine.
Abolish police pensions. They can get a 401k like everyone else. They can also be required to carry malpractice insurance, like doctors. If they can't find insurance, then they can't keep their jobs.
This breaks my heart, they changed this man whole life because of mistaken identify. Then they huddle up to stack every charge they can think of up to cover they ass. Every cop should be arrested and jailed.
How about you swallow your pride and apologize profusely and then let him be on his way. Hard to believe they felt justified to screw with someone’s life.
Absolutely false arrest and malicious prosecution. The driver provided his ID. The officers should have properly checked his ID before escalating. To try to scheme to make something up after they falsely arrested the driver is despicable. Dismissal of charges and a lawsuit win is not enough. The officers must held personally held accountable.
This is just an example of why Cops have the reputation they have. Until qualified immunity is ended, this abhorrent behavior will continue. And never forget, the government is not your friend.
Not only Qualified Immunity, although it's a huge step in the right direction. They must also stop this nonsense of claiming we don't have the right to resist an unlawful arrest. We have the natural right to resist an unlawful arrest, it was recognized as a right under common law before this nation was ever founded, and recognized by our US Supreme Court in Bad Elk v United States. Then the system decided it didn't like that right, and they've made it a crime. Our right to be secure in our person is a right to resist unlawful arrest. Until ALL our rights are respected this abhorrent behavior will continue.
@@bpdmf2798 I've seen mail employees, firefighters, and municipal workers attack civil right auditors for recording in public, a constitutional right. MANY (not all) government employees in many different sectors view themselves as above the general public.
@@bpdmf2798ok, you named a few professions that work within the purview of governmental services. That really doesn’t paint the whole picture, now does it.
The court ruling that allows cops to pull people out of their cars combined with their habit of refusing to inform people why they've been stopped creates a recipe for this type of abuse.
These are not always MISTAKES. This is a wilful culture to cover their asses while actively looking at every citizen as a criminal and then actively pursuing some way to fabricate charges and make sure we, as law abiding folk, have our lives ruined by their lack of decency and accountability
@@keltontucker7879Especially the prosecuting attorney and the district Attorney. They knew it was wrong before they ever started with a malicious prosecution!!
Just absolutely disgusting and disheartening behavior by the police and prosecution. They doubled down on their mistake and basically ruined the guys life.
As usual, they counted on him, like so many others, not having the means or money to fight it. Once they find out they are fighting it, they drop charges and hope for the best. Sad part is these pigs involved will likely face no disciplinary action. That's where the problem truly lies.
Speaking of doubling down, When the cops are explaining themselves to their supervisor, when they already know they have the wrong guy, there are 4 cops in the background tearing apart the guys car... why bother, it's all fruit of the poisoned tree anyways, Oh I forgot, cause they can, maybe they will find something good to steal.
@@JohnPowers-g6zI don't know how many videos I have seen of cops pocketing things . Caught on their own body cam. And then for some odd reason they get some bullsh¡t of. Oh, well, they didn't know. They weren't Allowed to steal $2000 from this person's house. W t f?
Internal affairs is the police version of human resources, they only check for policy violations, and almost always find their officers innocent. Then the DA uses their "investigation" to not pursue criminal charges on the cops.
I saw this one last week, just heinous. They KNOW they have the wrong guy. Did little to “investigate” Sylvester vs Silvester. And then slap the guy with charges by kidnapping him anyway. Wow
The fact a cop can even begin to think claiming you resisted an illegal detainment shows serious problems with police mentality and that we need to stop letting courts make decisions show them the people have the power
In Texas it is illegal to resist a lawful or unlawful arrest. Also the arrest isn’t unlawful if a court finds the mistake to be reasonable. It is a defense to resisting an arrest in Texas if the force is excessive. It looks like the initial force was reasonable when he first started resisting. It’s not clear to me about the later force used…because the situation was so chaotic.
@@tobitsdogcasenerdif it was reasonable, why did the Sgt (or lead officer) apologize for roughing him up?!? Then AFTER THE FACT they fished for something to pin on him?!? Edit: also TCRL said it’s LEGAL TO RESIST UNlawful arrest.
@@sirslickrock he was mistaken. Texas Penal Code - PENAL § 38.03. Resisting Arrest, Search, or Transportation Current as of April 14, 2021 | Updated by FindLaw Staff (a) A person commits an offense if he intentionally prevents or obstructs a person he knows is a peace officer or a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction from effecting an arrest, search, or transportation of the actor or another by using force against the peace officer or another. (b) It is no defense to prosecution under this section that the arrest or search was unlawful. (c) Except as provided in Subsection (d), an offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor. (d) An offense under this section is a felony of the third degree if the actor uses a deadly weapon to resist the arrest or search. The statute TCRL cited provides for an affirmative defense for violating 38.03; that is if the force is excessive to the need. There is ample caselaw on this from Texas. See _Ford v. State,_ 538 SW 2d 633 - Tex: Court of Criminal Appeals 1976. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals is on equal par with the Texas Supreme Court and is the highest court in Texas that hears criminal cases.
So disgusting of them to stand there and lie and conspire to arrest an innocent man. They shouldn't be able to distroy someones life so easily. End qualified immunity.
Otherwise it would be an open shut legal case. Now they can muddy the waters a bit to try to get off. And of course, they have to punish those that don't immediately comply with all (il)legal orders
@@Thezuule1 The machine runs the people through the dirt because the people allow it. Yes, we're awake to it, but the majority of the public still think cops are heroes who deserve respect by default. The people give the police their power.
@Chill_Sergeant by law, you are able to resist false arrest. However, since the courts are biased towards cops instead of citizens, the outcome would most likely be a cage.
The thing that is most disturbing is the fact that they feel they have to fabricate some pretense to arrest him rather than have to admit they fucked up.
ARE YOU SILENTLY ALLOWING THIS? IF & WHEN YOU DON'T ACT? BE NOT AN ENABLER OFTHIS " DISGUSTING, CONTINUING PART OFTHE US HISTORY, LIKE: INEQUALITY AND S...........
These are not always MISTAKES. This is a wilful culture to cover their asses while actively looking at every citizen as a criminal and then actively pursuing some way to make sure we, as law abiding folk, have our lives ruined by their lack of accountability
Shows the mentality of these clowns, and the supervisor had the nerve to feign outrage when the guy (correctly) said that he'd been profiled in the first place.
We need to start looking at removing bar associations and telling the legal system to either start correcting or there will be no future for them in this country. Fear of loss of power will drive them to correction.
Exactly, corrupt prosecutors and judges are out of control. How do you move forward with resisting arrest on an unlawful arrest. To watch the body cam the the footage AND hear those disingenuous cops and Supervisor lie about the entire interaction. Attempting to cover up their errors🤮. Text book racial profiling.
Crazy they wrongfully arrest a man that never been in trouble a day in his life. Realize their mistake and then huddle up and search for a way to charge him, thereby ruining his life. He has four kids and was put in a position of not being able to provide for his family. Why not just apologize and let him go. What service to the community does it do by making a criminal out of a good law abiding person. This is disgusting.
The two incompetent cops should be fired, and their certifications removed. Then they should lose their qualified immunity and made to pay for their "Mistakes." Plus, the DOJ should press charges for violating his basic civil rights.
@@Chadok89did you miss the part where he explained that in the video? When a Sergeant arrives on the scene they depend on the word of their officers. If he wasn't there and he didn't witness it that absolves him of liability.
@@rachelsill79he arrives on scene and his questions are all about "can you cover your ass"? He didn't care about the truth, his was focused on one thing alone: "can you charge him?"
I just love how she whispers, "this is the wrong guy, oh we fucked up" instead of yelling at the other officers to let him go. Oh that qualified immunity.
@@longsleevethong1457 If "good cop" tried to put a stop to this they'd be fired and no department would ever hire them. Stopping other officers from breaking the law and abusing power breaks every unwritten rule of policing.
Ain’t it crazy, and we pay for them to treat us this way. And even when they are found liable of violations, we still pay for it! Gotta love how the blue protect and serve us in the land of the free
That’s false. In Texas it is unlawful to resist a lawful or an unlawful arrest. There is an affirmative defense that one was resisting excessive force…but it is unlawful to resist an unlawful arrest in Texas.
The only criminals in this situation, as usual, are the cops. Unbelievably unprofessional. I am blown away by the stupidity of these cops. This situation is the exact reason why there needs to be better quality people hired to be cops, and there HAS to be better training. I am just so sick of seeing this happen to innocent Americans. My heart goes out to Mr Hayes. This should have never happened.
They need to put an end to police using charges to defend their mistakes. You can't resist an unlawful arrest. I am once again sickened how they "Conspired" together untill they came up with a way to justify their own stupidity.
Bad elk vs USA says we have the right to defend ourselves against unlawful arrest including death of the cop and a judge has to tell the jury we have that right
@@Robett-r4l That's not how it works in practice. Resisting arrest by sufficient force that it can actually succeed gives the police the right to execute you. Should they have that right, especially in the context of false arrests, ego-driven escalation tactics, and insufficiently explained arrests? Absolutely not.
Yeah that’s what gets me….when they plot to try and make a mistake “right”. They failed to acknowledge they were wrong and instead decided to concur up charges to make it look justified. That’s evil af. That is what should be a felony for all involved.
@@Robett-r4lUnfortunately this happened in Texas. It’s bs but in Texas, even if the detention/arrest is unlawful, you are not legally allowed to defend yourself against it. Definitely an unconstitutional overreach.
@@longsleevethong1457 yeah that is worse that being wrong. When you know it's wrong and throw an innocent man under the bus to save your own ass. That is satanic.
There should be steeper penalties for false arrests and prosecutorial misconduct. Both should carry heavy fines and jail time. Otherwise these people have to much power there’s no balance. There’s nothing to make a cop think twice before making a wrongful arrest.
Almost all cops will quit if qualified immunity is removed. Any that stay will all be in court over frivolous lawsuits. What really is needed is for immunity to be striped when it is obvious malicious misconduct occurs.
@@adamstull2436 I believe the major problem is that police are used as "revenue farmers" instead of law enforcement. They are looking and fishing to escalate a situation like a tail lamp out into a major drug bust. Normal citizens get agitated at this behavior and resist, leading to unnecessary confrontation.
@@adamstull2436Any cops who quit over qualified immunity are showing their true colors and didn't join the force for the right reasons. They can't go around doing whatever they want with impunity anymore, so they tell the people the supposedly signed on to serve to go fuck themselves.
Remove qualified immunity and make lawsuits come out of police funding/pensions. They'd take much more consideration for their actions. Frivolous lawsuits aren't the issue with removing it. If the cops all did their jobs properly, there'd be no lawyers to contest them. And if there were still somehow, sure waste time in court and lose if the job is done right.
Initially it was mistaken identity, after that it was malicious persecution. They knew the guy was an innocent law-abiding citizen, but they arrested him and prosecuted him anyway.
A nation founded on hate, opression, theft, rape, racism, salvery and and murder can not abandon the principles it was built on and still maintian power. Acccepting truth is a very hard thing to do because it requires letting the ego die which is very painful. I took me 44 years of lying to myself before I accepted what I had witnessed my entire life as reality..
This should a lawsuit and charges, the lying cop changing the story just minutes later , making up that ""he was already acting weird" he was not "I just asked him come on man , just step to the back of the car for me " no he didn't, he just kept repeating " just step out" just step out of the car " without explaining what for. So many incompetent , complete lack of integrity cops out there, it's disgusting..
AFIRMATIVE! BUT! IT'S OUR CITIZENS' RESPONSIBILITY TO FIX THE CON- GRESS' POLITICAL BRIBARY'S BY ???? 1. ELIMINATING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH AS CORPORATE PERSONHOOD. 2. EFFECT LEGAL CONGRESSIONAL LAWS REINFORCEMENTS OF THE PUBLIC PRE-JUDICIAL STATEMENTS MADE DURING THE TELEVISED PUBLIC QUESTIONING OF SCOTUS' CANDIDATES STATEMENTS. 3. AT THIS TIME THERE IS NO ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SCOTUS, SO CONGRESS MUST MAKE MANY FOR THEM. 4. NOW ETHICS REQUIREMENTS, MUST BE INCLUDED AS NEW AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION, ENGRAVED IN THE CLOUD. 5. ALL POLICING LAW ENFORCEMENTS, WITH OUT RESERVATION, UPON THE PUBLICS ANYTIME DEMAND, STATE OUTLOUD, VERBALLY, THE FIRST, FOURTH, AND EIGHTH AMENDMENT SO THAT FAILURE TO ADHERE, IS UNITED STATES, NATION WIDE PERMANTENT, ENDURING FOR A LIFE TIME, LOSS OF QUALIFICATION TOWARD ANY AND ALL LAW ENFORCEMENTS INVOLVEMENT OF ANY LEGALLY RECOGNIZED AUTHORITY.
@@eleven9286 yes, I get that's why they do it, so they can commit road piracy and economic terrorism on the people they are supposed to protect and serve. 🙄
1 - admits they were illegally running random license plates 2- unnecessarily escalates the situation - 3 - realized they have the wrong guy 4 - trumps up charges against an innocent dad on a food run
It's simple, because the criminal justice system is corrupt. Some many of us have been brainwashed to believer that its fair and impartial. Nothing could be further from the truth. The CJS was created out of classism and racism and doesn't even come close to being fair. Take the part which says "innocent until proven guilty." Well if you're assumed innocent, why are you charged and go immediately to jail? If that's assumed innocent, what would be the case if you were assumed guilty? It would be laudable if it wasn't so tragic. Next there's the constitutional right to a speedy trial. This case happened years ago. You call that speedy? What would be slow waiting decades? Are you starting to see all the lies in the system. There's a lot more but this reply would go on for pages.
They sound so disappointed every time they say he’s not a felon and that his record is clean. The one officer even said, “Not convicted” when his sergeant asked if he was a felon. Which is crazy. So the answer is no. No he is NOT a felon. The two options to that question are yes and no. There is no, “He’s an unconvicted felon.” This implies that everyone is either a felon, or just not convicted yet. Wtf kind of logic is that?
That's what we are to them. Just unconvicted felons. We are all guilty of something, the exact what is just yet to be determined. Welcome to the police state.
These cops had an out with an apology for mistaken identity, as embarrassing as this encounter was. They need busts, suspensions, demotions (in the case of the supervisor) and retraining now. Inexcusable. The DA needs to have a confidence vote after this.
That terrible woman is fine with using a traffic law to take him to jail. That supervisor is a terrible human being. They all know no shame. Sub-human.
Everyone is guilty of resisting arrest. If you don't drive down to the station right now and demand they arrest you then you are resisting. At least that is how they look at it.
Two cops, LYING about an innocent man. Send them both to prison for ten years. Maybe that will make these jackasses wake up. This is absolutely reprehensible!
Shame on these lying cops and their false and malicious detainment and relentless prosecution. They should certainly be held accountable for their criminal behavior.
Watching that poor man beg due to his 4 hungry children being at home, broke my heart! Show THAT to the jury, along with the excessive force, lying and multitude of crimes those officers perpetrated against that man.
There’s no place in our society for cops that are lazy, incompetent and then fail to accept responsibility for mistakes and then lie about it. The prosecutor also has some level of responsibility.
You bet. 4 kids, loss of employment and damage to reputation, psychological harm, physical harm, long-lasting PTSD, length of time before acknowledging mistaken arrest, cops lying about circumstances and his actions, physically attacking him. Big ole long list of life altering damages. Irresponsibility of cops not doing due diligence before arrest.
Well that would be a start. Just keep in mind that judgement for a million doesn't get him that. Remember, all judgments are fully taxable and at the highest rate. So Uncle Sam will be there to take over 40% off the top. After that you have lawyer fees of 33 1/3, and other expenses. That mean whatever the judgement amount victim will lake home less than half that. They've also held this case for years and he's been unemployable for that time with a family and 4 kids. These cops literally destroyed this man's life and he may never recover. A half million won't come close to fixing that.
To cops that act like this: Why do my tax dollars have to pay for your wrongdoing? This man is going to end up receiving a settlement that I have to pay for because you made a "mistake" and refused to take accountability for it. Then you continued with your lie and ruined this man's life to try to cover for yourselves.
Conspiring to justify the arrest and the abuse. It's so incredibly clear. The female officer knows very well that she made a mistake, a grave mistake, but continues to hear the offending officer explain to the sergeant the wrong information. No concern about the truth at all. None.
This is disgusting. Even more so, when he didn't return home, the children must have been terrified. All officers involved, including the Sargent, need to go...
These are not always MISTAKES. This is a wilful culture to cover their asses while actively looking at every citizen as a criminal and then actively pursuing some way to make sure we, as law abiding folk, have our lives ruined by their lack of accountability
Why on earth, do the police always double down when they are caught red handed? Our taxes go to pay the lofty sums of money that these hooligans put our municipalities in line for. Do we need law enforcement? Of course. But they need to be held to the letter of the law also. We need outside accountability to oversee our paid tyrants.
Getting charged for resisting an unlawful arrest should be illegal and these cops should be fired. Instead of just admitting their mistake they try to charge him with something in order to justify their actions. Disgusting behavior…
This is everyones worse nightmare being falsely accused and beaten by the police. All of them should have been fired an apolgy is not going to cut it. He was unjustly detained so anything they found was not legally obtained and should be automatically thrown out.
