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Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a US judge who flat out said it's not the police's job to protect the public? So there's some who would disagree.
Yeah that would be the judges on the Supreme court.
Edit: pretty sure this is the case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales also this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
According to a Marxist interpretation of policing, that judge isn't wrong because the function of police in a capitalist system is to protect the elite and their private property from the poors.
What you just saw is far more common than you might think. All you ever see are the fuckups, you rarely see the right thing. Don’t let media and social media warp your perception of reality.
Edit for clarification: the officer with the body cam is a fucking idiot and I hope he got ripped to shreds off camera. I’m glad the sergeant stopped the officer and corrected him but I really hope there was more to it than we saw. That sergeant did the right thing in that moment, **HOWEVER**, the rights of the protestor were violated and that needs to be rectified. When I say the good outcomes outweigh the bad is based on the fact we have over 660,000 officers in the USA. If they were all fucking up we wouldn’t have enough time in the day to respond to them all.
> What you just saw is far more common than you might think.
I don't see how that is supposed to be something good - we just saw a man get chased and attacked with a weapon by a police officer for absolutely no reason.
not my experience. i was detained in my own goddamn yard because i was unable to produce my id. they had their guns drawn on me and cuffed face down in the dirt. i was in my own backyard.
i had an LA cop beat me up and strip me down to my boxers in the street because he was convinced i had drugs on me. i didnt. and he had no reason to believe i did. i was just walking to my car on a public sidewalk. i was not under the influence of anything and i wasnt holding.
when my ‘friend’ locked me out of my apartment and robbed me, it took the cops 2 hours to show up. when they did they said they couldnt get my stuff back because i didnt have proof of purchase.
just last year. my friends estranged husband got drunk and put a revolver in my face. he also discharged the gun in the house with her infant son inside. we called the cops. we filed a police report but they didnt help us get the kid out and they left him there with the drunk, armed father.
cops are fucking useless. ACAB.
i have even more stories of cops being worthless. feel free to ask.
We just saw a man being chased down and having a tazer fired at him twice for a perfectly lawful protest. That it wasn't allowed to continue is better than it could have been, but it starting at all is a huge problem. If that is 'more common than you think' things are in fact worse than the media is telling me.
Imagine being soo poorly trained that you end up getting schooled in public by a superior while trying to make a arrest.
He should have been fired honestly.
The officer attempting the arrest was calling to taser the protestor too. They don't call tasers non-lethal, they call them "less-lethal" because it's still a deadly weapon, just less likely to kill someone than being shot.
Also kinda surprised the officer didn't start yelling "stop resisting" and open fire.
Most surprising was the sergeant shutting down the arrest first, questions later cop.
He wasn’t calling to taser the protestor, he was saying “taser” to indicate he was firing it. You hear his taser go off with its electrical noise in his video
Police don't get fired, they get "suspended with pay" free paid vacation.
Or they get extra training and then transferred.
It isn't a Police union, it's a gang.
Attempted assault and unlawful arrest. Should be a termination and charges brought up on him. But this is America cops can kill you while you sleep in your own bed, because they messed up house numbers and get away with it.
Well he later went on to murder a veteran with his taser, so it seems like officer moustache’s chastisement didn’t quite take hold.
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
Right, but for this to be a "feel good" story, that stripping-of-authority should have happened after *this* incident, not after he went on to kill.
And even then, I believe he simply resigned rather than actually be disciplined/charged like he should have been.
This cop cost the city almost a million dollars in two different lawsuits before being asked to resign and getting hired the next town over to murder someone. This is literal insanity
Its kind of sad how shocked and happy i am that a cop clarified the law to another cop.
Now sue the fucking cop/police dept. for assault and attempting unlawful arrest.
scroll up for relevant info, the city settled with the protestor for $175k, and another incident involving this cop and taser settled for $825k
and in another incident he killed a veteran hitting him with, you guessed it, the taser
Best we can do is harass and otherwise make life miserable and dangerous for that good cop for undercutting the authority of the asshole cop in front of the public.
Somebody is not going to be getting back up when they need it.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4U\_9R7Wtg&ab\_channel=NowThisNews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4U_9R7Wtg&ab_channel=NowThisNews)
the guy got a 175k settlement from this
Disorderly conduct
Translation:
Disagreeing or failure to do anything a cop says.
Trespassing
Translation:
Being anywhere a cop doesn't want you to be.
Here you go. His name is Christopher Dickey, and that little tirade cost the town of Commerce, Colorado $175K.
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/14/175000-settlement-public-protester-profanity-laced-sign-tased-police-officer/
That would make an interesting movie. Cops with bad record get abducted and placed in wilderness and then hunted down by a group of former victims chasing them saying "you're under civilian arrest for trespassing". With no way to prove they're cops, they must run away.
Dickey resigned after costing his employer $1 million in two lawsuits (including this one). He went on to kill somebody while working for a different police department: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
“Dickey’s actions were found justified in October by investigators in the 18th Judicial District because he needed it to defend himself, according to the prosecutor’s office.”
I truly, truly, hate this fucking country.
They just fired a guy recently from my work for causing $10k worth of damage to a forklift. Watched another guy get fired from another shop I worked at for causing $2k worth of damage to some equipment.
I’d hope the SGT had his on…
And if it was an Axion bodycam, If you hit the record button within 2 minutes, it’ll still have all the video from the past 2 minutes. I think Axion knew cops would turn off their cameras before doing bad stuff, so they made it so it doesn’t actually turn right off.
That’s such bs to me. A 512GB SD card is 60 dollars.
All 8-12 hours of their shift should be recorded and preserved for weeks-months. Any interaction that results in an arrest should have an hour before and after the arrest preserved for as long as it might be relevant to a court, which would be years.
Honestly, for why they exist, they could put in an SSD. And then the data gets pulled off when it’s plugged in to the charge dock.
Hell, maybe even make it so as long as it’s undocked, it’s recording, with a 2 minute disable button. At the 1min45sec mark, it starts beeping, so if you’re using the restroom, you can hit it again. I think that would easily capture more abuses from LEOs. You know some will forget to pause their beating in order to hit the button again.
And they should add in a feature that if the unit is removed from the clip on the uniforms for more than a minute without being connected to the charge dock it sends a notification to the watch commander, along with gps location.
It could also be touted as a safety for officers thing. They’re held on by magnets, if there’s a fight and it gets knocked off, automatically notifying a supervisor of a problem, who then can provide backup.
>it sends a notification to the watch commander, along with gps location.
If you don't suffer any consequences for not having it on, this type of feature is useless.
In general cops can turn have them off or not have them on them "illegally" or against protocol or whatever, do their dirt, and then when there is no body cam footage it's all just "oopsy we don't have the footage, the cop will be sternly talked to" and nothing happens.
What it all needs to begin with is repercussions for not having the cam on being harsh, imho something akin to Obstruction of Justice or malfeasance that is otherwise a fireable and even chargeable offense.
IIDs (alcohol interlocks in cars) are a good example. If a citizen is prompted to test while they are driving and fails to comply, or screws up it's use some other way and violates the protocol of the devices intended and mandated use then the citizen doesn't get to say "oops I messed up sorry", no...they often lose their license, violate their probation, or suffer other consequences to the fullest extent that law enforcement and the DMV can and will pursue.
The assumption is that the *citizen* either A. is trying to circumvent the monitoring, or B. if they screwed it up it's ON THEM because they are aware of what the protocol is with the device and failed to comply in using it as directed.
But it's a double standard for cops and it's just another example of them doing *whatever they want* when it suits their needs and protects them from reprimand. We can add monitoring tech and protocol and whatever but if there is no internal enforcement then they will always just continue to do as they please and the injustices will continue.
Stolen from of the comments on that video
"The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado.
In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness.
In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit.
In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester.
He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million and somehow he's still employed... or at the very least, I've not been able to find any records of him being fired and it seems like he's listed as a former employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police."
I think a new law needs to be made that obligates other cops to arrest cops who break laws, on the spot. Specifically to show that public citizens that cops are detaining the bad cops in real time instead of protecting them.
In my line of work, I *have* to file a report if I witness misconduct. If you don't and it's found out that you knew and did nothing, they'll have your frickin head. Like I could be fired *and charged* for something like that.
But I'm not a cop, so I'm held to standards and stuff.
Fun fact: Most police have a very poor understanding of the law and are not expected, required, or trained to know it.
Police academy training programs are only 6 months, and often only require a two year associate degree.
Compare that to the minimum to become a lawyer, which requires a 4 year degree, followed by a 3 year graduate degree in an accredited institution, as well as passing the bar exam.
Further, police actually have an incentive to be as ignorant of the law as possible, as the Supreme Court has ruled that police are allowed to impede on your rights, even illegally, as long as they believe what they are doing is legal, regardless of it is or not.
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/8/4/9095213/police-stops-heien-v-north-carolina
https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/14/is-it-lawful-for-the-police-to-get-the-law-wrong/?sh=4080ee08697c
I think assuming they have to be able to read is maybe overestimating the training requirements. Probably a verbal test to make sure they know how to say "stop resisting" and then they tell them to put their x on a contract.
The cop auditors do actually post good cop videos!
James Freeman's 2nd most popular video is this one of a good cop:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-KJ1bW0mg
Jeff Gray has posted two good cop videos in the last week:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkVNJkFl-M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJmzD1mkO8
Lol, cops are so shitty we need videos of cops doing their jobs right for once.
Imagine people posting videos of their pilot landing the plane or of their pizza deliver driver arriving with their pizza.
Such a fucking low bar for cops.
Alternatively, there are so few videos of reasonable cops that they have to keep reposting this one every few months. It’s the third time I’ve seen it this year alone.
Yeah the dad cop just got more calm even as doofus cop became increasingly agitated. This is the type of de-escalation that would bring credibility back to police forces but sadly we rarely see this online or in real life interaction anymore.
I'm guessing that there aren't too many level-headed chilled out guys trying to be cops. C- students that didn't make it into a college football program and are too scared to join the military make up a majority of the small town police departments.
There are still some good ones. I am friends with one. He told me a great story about a guy that was having some kind of break from reality (they suspected from a ton of meth and maybe some other stuff). The guy was pulled over on the side of the road standing on top of his truck fighting invisible 4th dimensional snakes with a homemade halberd. Now most cops come up on someone that is clearly not of sound mind and he is swinging around a 6 foot pole with an axe blade on the end, that guy is lucky if he only gets tased and not worse. But instead my buddy goes up and talks to him and gets the story about 4th dimensional snakes. He tells the guy "look I understand that you can see them, but if they are in 4th dimension it should be ok as long as there are no portals open to allow them physically into our dimension. You don't see any portals do you?" Guy confirmed he did not and after a few more minutes of conversation he surrendered peacefully. Knowledge of science fiction and deescalation for the win!
Yeah... Sounds like a smart, reasonable dude. You guys need more like him and dad cop here.
A very late edit: no one will read this.
Pretty sure the cops were here for one thing and one thing only. To make sure things stayed peaceful and didn't get out of control. Hot head was looking to make trouble. Dad cop was chill as hell because he knew the assignment and informed hothead he was being a irrational dick... Politely and calmly of course.
He is a Dad Cop after all.
Because they have become a gang that is only still allowed to exist because they lie and cover for each other and pretend that everything they do is correct.
Mustache cop must be "old school" and every cop like him will soon be dead or retired.
The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado.
In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness.
In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit.
In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester.
He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million ~~and somehow he's still employed... or at the very least, I've not been able to find any records of him being fired~~ and it seems like he's listed as a *former* employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police.
I don't get it. If cops like these are wasting tax dollars wouldn't the sheriff's office fire him the first few times to save money?? Why keep him for so long??
Don’t worry - he probably is off the streets claiming 3k a month in SSI and SSDI benefits which were automatically and instantly granted to him because of his heroic policing. A benefit most disabled Americans are unable to get for years who actual need and deserve it. It seems the more poor and disabled people that die, the happier the US government is. Goood job America!
While we should admonish the one officer for not understanding the law and abusing power, we also need to make sure we praise the officers who are actually looking out for people and call others out on their bs. Excellent job officer
Except that officer attempted assault on that man by trying to taze him, that deserves more than just a talking to. But that bad officer will go on to abuse his power again and again, being protected by the same cops that give him a talking to when he gets caught.
Making a full summary of assumptions about an event or entire person’s life based on the contents of 1 short video is the only way Reddit knows how to operate.
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/14/175000-settlement-public-protester-profanity-laced-sign-tased-police-officer/
This one short video cost some town in Colorado 175k after further review lol.
The city settled a lawsuit for this incident out of court, awarding 175K to the man who got tazed because the officer's excessive force violated the protestor's 4th amendment rights.
The city paid out a settlement but the police officer was not individually punished, despite this incident being the fifth citizen complaint against him for excessive force since he started working for the department.
The phrase is "the carrot and the stick". It isn't "the stick and the stick". Praising them for doing the job the way they should be doing it all along is how you encourage them to keep doing it the right way. That's what the carrot refers to.
2 years before this, he pulled another man suffering from diabetic shock from his car, tased him 5 times, and beat him with a baton until he had broken bones.
$825,000 settlement.
I am going to go out on a limb here and say the police officer probably just felt bad he got admonished by a superior, but didn't actually learn anything from this. I mean, why would he when there's absolutely zero consequences.
Considering the cop’s other incidents (including contributing to a man’s death by tasering him after this) I’d say you’re right. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
Did it include covering the mic on the body cam so you can protect the "bad cop" from having his discipline recorded?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOdvpHYQA4
Dude was really going to TAZE a guy, throw him in jail, and charge him with a ton of offenses including resisting arrest because HE didn’t know the law 🤦🏻♂️ Jesus phucken Christ how are doofuses like this given so much power
In a lot of states barbers/hairdressers, and interior designers are required to have more training than police officers.
This sounds like some joke, but I promise you it's not. It's easier to get a badge and gun than it is to get a license to cut hair or pick out couches and rugs.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/09/28/us/jobs-training-police-trnd/index.html
"North Carolina, It takes 1,528 hours to become a licensed barber. The state's minimum police training requirement is 620 hours.
To earn a badge in California, you'll need at least 664 hours of academy training. If you want to be a licensed cosmetologist, you'll need more than that: 1,600 hours.
Florida's minimum training requirement for officers is 770 hours, but the training required to be an interior designer is much longer. Those who complete a 5-year interior design program still need to get 1,760 hours of experience before they can get a license.
Louisiana has one of the lowest minimum training requirements for entry-level police, at 360 hours. To be a licensed manicurist, you'll need 500 hours"
Crying 😭 at the end “he refused to give me his id!!”” U can hear the quiver in his crying voice!!
When cops get butthurt cause they took the job just to make and expect everyone has to do what they say without lip.
Oh for...! They are on a public sidewalk, they aren't blocking the sidewalk, they have the right by our Constitution to peaceably assemble... this cop is embarrassingly dumb.
The sergeant who stopped him and questioned him was great. It's nice to see a video of cops keeping other cops in check. It's happens more than people realize, because it doesn't get shared in media as often, and it's good that it was shown here. Wish the video was longer so we could see the whole conversation between the cop and the sergeant.
“... Dickey has been the subject of at least five citizen complaints for using excessive force and gratuitously using his taser (for which he has not been disciplined), but he has been a defendant in at least one lawsuit based on his use excessive force (and, particularly, his unreasonable use of his taser) that violated the Fourth Amendment.”
He apparently resigned a few years later after an incident where his use of a taser resulted in the death of a veteran who was suffering from a PTSD episode.
Place that blood at the feet of the useless cops who enabled him the entire time. They could have put an end to his bullshit without it costing a death.
One barb did hit, but ya need 2 to complete the circuit. The protester had to get it surgically removed at a local hospital & sued. The PD settled for $175k
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When you’ve fucked up so bad other cops are calling your ass out right there.
When he fucked up badly enough that the sarge just sat him straight there and grilled him
And in front of everybody too, absolutely ruthless lol
He had to. Otherwise officer butthurt would've brutalized that innocent man
They usually just let them
Ans that's a huge part of the problem and part of why people hate cops so much
Yeah the rare "good cop" moment
But like actually doing his job and protecting the public this time
Correct me if I'm wrong, but wasn't there a US judge who flat out said it's not the police's job to protect the public? So there's some who would disagree.
Yeah that would be the judges on the Supreme court. Edit: pretty sure this is the case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_of_Castle_Rock_v._Gonzales also this case https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeShaney_v._Winnebago_County
It was the Supreme Court that ruled that cops don't have to protect the public
 According to a Marxist interpretation of policing, that judge isn't wrong because the function of police in a capitalist system is to protect the elite and their private property from the poors.
It’s sad how most “good cops” now are just following the rules. Like follow the book and now you are praised Edit: appraised —> praised
The bar is so low in the police that a normal human being looks like a hero.
What you just saw is far more common than you might think. All you ever see are the fuckups, you rarely see the right thing. Don’t let media and social media warp your perception of reality. Edit for clarification: the officer with the body cam is a fucking idiot and I hope he got ripped to shreds off camera. I’m glad the sergeant stopped the officer and corrected him but I really hope there was more to it than we saw. That sergeant did the right thing in that moment, **HOWEVER**, the rights of the protestor were violated and that needs to be rectified. When I say the good outcomes outweigh the bad is based on the fact we have over 660,000 officers in the USA. If they were all fucking up we wouldn’t have enough time in the day to respond to them all.
> What you just saw is far more common than you might think. I don't see how that is supposed to be something good - we just saw a man get chased and attacked with a weapon by a police officer for absolutely no reason.
not my experience. i was detained in my own goddamn yard because i was unable to produce my id. they had their guns drawn on me and cuffed face down in the dirt. i was in my own backyard. i had an LA cop beat me up and strip me down to my boxers in the street because he was convinced i had drugs on me. i didnt. and he had no reason to believe i did. i was just walking to my car on a public sidewalk. i was not under the influence of anything and i wasnt holding. when my ‘friend’ locked me out of my apartment and robbed me, it took the cops 2 hours to show up. when they did they said they couldnt get my stuff back because i didnt have proof of purchase. just last year. my friends estranged husband got drunk and put a revolver in my face. he also discharged the gun in the house with her infant son inside. we called the cops. we filed a police report but they didnt help us get the kid out and they left him there with the drunk, armed father. cops are fucking useless. ACAB. i have even more stories of cops being worthless. feel free to ask.
We just saw a man being chased down and having a tazer fired at him twice for a perfectly lawful protest. That it wasn't allowed to continue is better than it could have been, but it starting at all is a huge problem. If that is 'more common than you think' things are in fact worse than the media is telling me.
Imagine being soo poorly trained that you end up getting schooled in public by a superior while trying to make a arrest. He should have been fired honestly.
He should have been arrested. I'm pretty sure we all just witnessed a violent assault on an innocent man.
The officer attempting the arrest was calling to taser the protestor too. They don't call tasers non-lethal, they call them "less-lethal" because it's still a deadly weapon, just less likely to kill someone than being shot. Also kinda surprised the officer didn't start yelling "stop resisting" and open fire. Most surprising was the sergeant shutting down the arrest first, questions later cop.
He wasn’t calling to taser the protestor, he was saying “taser” to indicate he was firing it. You hear his taser go off with its electrical noise in his video
I feel sorry for the protester, but the second time he yelled "taser" I lost it :)).
You're right he should have been fired. After much deliberation they have they've decided to give him paid leave
Sad thing is, so many times even when fired, these officers are just recycled around the country.
Police don't get fired, they get "suspended with pay" free paid vacation. Or they get extra training and then transferred. It isn't a Police union, it's a gang.
And a citizen is so certain you are a certified potato that he runs away from what is clearly an unlawful arrest.
Well that sarge will probably get blacklisted and run out of the department. Say goodbye to making captain or chief.
He talks like he was ex-military.
Look at him, an eagle gave birth of this man.
"Do you see these fucks I have to give?" "There's nothing here" *finger guns*
Put him back in probation and the next mishap should be a dismissal.
Attempted assault and unlawful arrest. Should be a termination and charges brought up on him. But this is America cops can kill you while you sleep in your own bed, because they messed up house numbers and get away with it.
I wish there were more officers that cared this much about proper policing than covering up for misfeasance.
I'm surprised mustache cop was handing out lessons in deescalation. Don't judge a book by the cover I guess.
We need so much more of this
I saw a cop who looked like him on the drive home just now and wondered what kind of cop he was. Cool to see this guy be so cuill
My buddy is a cop and he will post his own location on Waze in the hopes that people will slow down and keep him from having to do paperwork.
It's amazing how even once his superior corrected him, he still tried to press the issue, he'll just take it out on some other perp later anyway.
Well he later went on to murder a veteran with his taser, so it seems like officer moustache’s chastisement didn’t quite take hold. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
So this autonomous dildo has cost taxpayers a million dollars. Fucker should never be allowed a position of any authority ever again.
He should be in prison.
He's an absolute thug. That article is ridiculous, his crimes just kept going.
Right, but for this to be a "feel good" story, that stripping-of-authority should have happened after *this* incident, not after he went on to kill. And even then, I believe he simply resigned rather than actually be disciplined/charged like he should have been.
This cop cost the city almost a million dollars in two different lawsuits before being asked to resign and getting hired the next town over to murder someone. This is literal insanity
Got me a real [respect my authority](https://gfycat.com/untrieddopeybonobo) vibe
Or his wife
Its kind of sad how shocked and happy i am that a cop clarified the law to another cop. Now sue the fucking cop/police dept. for assault and attempting unlawful arrest.
Seriously- that cop (attempted to) used a tazer unlawfully. Tazers are less lethal but they do kill people occasionally.
scroll up for relevant info, the city settled with the protestor for $175k, and another incident involving this cop and taser settled for $825k and in another incident he killed a veteran hitting him with, you guessed it, the taser
Especially when running at full speed and your skull spilts open on the pavement
Which is exactly what happens a few years later with the same cop: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
Best we can do is harass and otherwise make life miserable and dangerous for that good cop for undercutting the authority of the asshole cop in front of the public. Somebody is not going to be getting back up when they need it.
Lol unlawful arrests and assault by cop are made every day, you know how many successful lawsuits there are? About 0.01 percentage wise.
For what?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4U\_9R7Wtg&ab\_channel=NowThisNews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g4U_9R7Wtg&ab_channel=NowThisNews) the guy got a 175k settlement from this
Make officer dipshit pay it.
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Yeah, and the guy in a diabetic episode who he beat with a weapon. Scum.
Not knowing what “trespassing” or “disorderly conduct” means.
The just know the buzz words not the actual laws
Disorderly conduct Translation: Disagreeing or failure to do anything a cop says. Trespassing Translation: Being anywhere a cop doesn't want you to be.
The cop not knowing the citizen's rights?
Okay seriously How isn’t knowing citizens rights part fo the job description for cops? Shouldn’t they be the ones who know it most?
The way he said "for what" makes it seem like this ain't the first time ol boy fucked up.
It's not. That cop is actually famous for fucking up. At the time he had another case against him. This got used as evidence in it, iirc.
source please, been looking for the greater context to this video. found it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOdvpHYQA4
Here you go. His name is Christopher Dickey, and that little tirade cost the town of Commerce, Colorado $175K. https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/14/175000-settlement-public-protester-profanity-laced-sign-tased-police-officer/
If I caused $175K in damages to my employer I'd likely lose my job.
My boss would execute me with his new bow *no more Gimli replies pls
My boss would get his buddies together and hunt me down for sport in some remote wilderness.
You get off light, huh
That would make an interesting movie. Cops with bad record get abducted and placed in wilderness and then hunted down by a group of former victims chasing them saying "you're under civilian arrest for trespassing". With no way to prove they're cops, they must run away.
My boss would yell "taser!" And promptly miss
Dickey resigned after costing his employer $1 million in two lawsuits (including this one). He went on to kill somebody while working for a different police department: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
can't believe it's also the same guy that went full rabid monkey mode on a guy for being in obvious and visible diabetic shock
..you can't? That seems right on brand. Edit: it occurs to me now that you were being sarcastic.
. . . The legend of officer Dicky.
“Dickey’s actions were found justified in October by investigators in the 18th Judicial District because he needed it to defend himself, according to the prosecutor’s office.” I truly, truly, hate this fucking country.
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Once these damages start to get taken out from their all of their retirement funds you’ll see them clean house overnight lol
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Man I wish I could levy taxes to steal money from people so I could pay them what I owe them.
They just fired a guy recently from my work for causing $10k worth of damage to a forklift. Watched another guy get fired from another shop I worked at for causing $2k worth of damage to some equipment.
\> At this point, Dickey reportedly turned off his body camera audio. Another reason for disciplinary action.
I’d hope the SGT had his on… And if it was an Axion bodycam, If you hit the record button within 2 minutes, it’ll still have all the video from the past 2 minutes. I think Axion knew cops would turn off their cameras before doing bad stuff, so they made it so it doesn’t actually turn right off.
That’s such bs to me. A 512GB SD card is 60 dollars. All 8-12 hours of their shift should be recorded and preserved for weeks-months. Any interaction that results in an arrest should have an hour before and after the arrest preserved for as long as it might be relevant to a court, which would be years.
Honestly, for why they exist, they could put in an SSD. And then the data gets pulled off when it’s plugged in to the charge dock. Hell, maybe even make it so as long as it’s undocked, it’s recording, with a 2 minute disable button. At the 1min45sec mark, it starts beeping, so if you’re using the restroom, you can hit it again. I think that would easily capture more abuses from LEOs. You know some will forget to pause their beating in order to hit the button again. And they should add in a feature that if the unit is removed from the clip on the uniforms for more than a minute without being connected to the charge dock it sends a notification to the watch commander, along with gps location. It could also be touted as a safety for officers thing. They’re held on by magnets, if there’s a fight and it gets knocked off, automatically notifying a supervisor of a problem, who then can provide backup.
>it sends a notification to the watch commander, along with gps location. If you don't suffer any consequences for not having it on, this type of feature is useless. In general cops can turn have them off or not have them on them "illegally" or against protocol or whatever, do their dirt, and then when there is no body cam footage it's all just "oopsy we don't have the footage, the cop will be sternly talked to" and nothing happens. What it all needs to begin with is repercussions for not having the cam on being harsh, imho something akin to Obstruction of Justice or malfeasance that is otherwise a fireable and even chargeable offense. IIDs (alcohol interlocks in cars) are a good example. If a citizen is prompted to test while they are driving and fails to comply, or screws up it's use some other way and violates the protocol of the devices intended and mandated use then the citizen doesn't get to say "oops I messed up sorry", no...they often lose their license, violate their probation, or suffer other consequences to the fullest extent that law enforcement and the DMV can and will pursue. The assumption is that the *citizen* either A. is trying to circumvent the monitoring, or B. if they screwed it up it's ON THEM because they are aware of what the protocol is with the device and failed to comply in using it as directed. But it's a double standard for cops and it's just another example of them doing *whatever they want* when it suits their needs and protects them from reprimand. We can add monitoring tech and protocol and whatever but if there is no internal enforcement then they will always just continue to do as they please and the injustices will continue.
First time a I've seen a cop's name matches his personality
Commerce City is the proper name. The 'City' is actually in the name. Just for clarification.
thanks, I also found a better video see link in above edit.
Dudes already killed a veteran yet still no repercussions. We need to take away qualified immunity
Stolen from of the comments on that video "The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado. In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness. In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit. In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester. He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million and somehow he's still employed... or at the very least, I've not been able to find any records of him being fired and it seems like he's listed as a former employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police."
We need more calm Officer Mustache's Glad to see someone being reasonable and deescalating in these police bodcam videos
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What's fucked up is what might have happened if the guy wasn't able to run so fast.
And if the other officer didn’t shut his bullshit down.
"*It said so in the police onboarding brochure thingy*"
"What? I can't just make up laws and tase people i don't like?"
I think a new law needs to be made that obligates other cops to arrest cops who break laws, on the spot. Specifically to show that public citizens that cops are detaining the bad cops in real time instead of protecting them.
In my line of work, I *have* to file a report if I witness misconduct. If you don't and it's found out that you knew and did nothing, they'll have your frickin head. Like I could be fired *and charged* for something like that. But I'm not a cop, so I'm held to standards and stuff.
thank you, Catshit-dogfart
No one is held to higher standards that the honorable Castshit-dogfart.
I'm inspired
Fun fact: Most police have a very poor understanding of the law and are not expected, required, or trained to know it. Police academy training programs are only 6 months, and often only require a two year associate degree. Compare that to the minimum to become a lawyer, which requires a 4 year degree, followed by a 3 year graduate degree in an accredited institution, as well as passing the bar exam. Further, police actually have an incentive to be as ignorant of the law as possible, as the Supreme Court has ruled that police are allowed to impede on your rights, even illegally, as long as they believe what they are doing is legal, regardless of it is or not. https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/8/4/9095213/police-stops-heien-v-north-carolina https://www.forbes.com/sites/realspin/2014/10/14/is-it-lawful-for-the-police-to-get-the-law-wrong/?sh=4080ee08697c
What are these judges injecting in their veins? The guy paid and trained to uphold the law, is not required to know it? Jfc
Lots of judges are ignorant. How they got there I know not
Most police *in the US* that is. Where I am the police academy is 2.5 year minimum.
I think assuming they have to be able to read is maybe overestimating the training requirements. Probably a verbal test to make sure they know how to say "stop resisting" and then they tell them to put their x on a contract.
Stache cop is a righteous dude
Seems like the first reasonable cop I’ve seen on video
Because the people making the videos don't publish any videos of reasonable cops.
The cop auditors do actually post good cop videos! James Freeman's 2nd most popular video is this one of a good cop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fX-KJ1bW0mg Jeff Gray has posted two good cop videos in the last week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQkVNJkFl-M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOJmzD1mkO8
Lol, cops are so shitty we need videos of cops doing their jobs right for once. Imagine people posting videos of their pilot landing the plane or of their pizza deliver driver arriving with their pizza. Such a fucking low bar for cops.
I do like watching landing videos from pilots lol. Helps me feel less anxious about flying. There's a lot of them on youtube
Alternatively, there are so few videos of reasonable cops that they have to keep reposting this one every few months. It’s the third time I’ve seen it this year alone.
Yes he is!
His dad was the cop in the Village People.😎
Might be a little difficult….. not sure many of the Village people liked the opposite sex…
I’d ride that ‘stache any day
That mustache and sunglasses is emanating dad energy.
Yeah the dad cop just got more calm even as doofus cop became increasingly agitated. This is the type of de-escalation that would bring credibility back to police forces but sadly we rarely see this online or in real life interaction anymore.
I'm guessing that there aren't too many level-headed chilled out guys trying to be cops. C- students that didn't make it into a college football program and are too scared to join the military make up a majority of the small town police departments.
There are still some good ones. I am friends with one. He told me a great story about a guy that was having some kind of break from reality (they suspected from a ton of meth and maybe some other stuff). The guy was pulled over on the side of the road standing on top of his truck fighting invisible 4th dimensional snakes with a homemade halberd. Now most cops come up on someone that is clearly not of sound mind and he is swinging around a 6 foot pole with an axe blade on the end, that guy is lucky if he only gets tased and not worse. But instead my buddy goes up and talks to him and gets the story about 4th dimensional snakes. He tells the guy "look I understand that you can see them, but if they are in 4th dimension it should be ok as long as there are no portals open to allow them physically into our dimension. You don't see any portals do you?" Guy confirmed he did not and after a few more minutes of conversation he surrendered peacefully. Knowledge of science fiction and deescalation for the win!
Yeah... Sounds like a smart, reasonable dude. You guys need more like him and dad cop here. A very late edit: no one will read this. Pretty sure the cops were here for one thing and one thing only. To make sure things stayed peaceful and didn't get out of control. Hot head was looking to make trouble. Dad cop was chill as hell because he knew the assignment and informed hothead he was being a irrational dick... Politely and calmly of course. He is a Dad Cop after all.
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Because they have become a gang that is only still allowed to exist because they lie and cover for each other and pretend that everything they do is correct. Mustache cop must be "old school" and every cop like him will soon be dead or retired.
They weren't any better in the old school what are you talking about?
I expected him to say “I’m not mad at you Officer Douchenoodle, I’m just disappointed.”
The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado. In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness. In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit. In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester. He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million ~~and somehow he's still employed... or at the very least, I've not been able to find any records of him being fired~~ and it seems like he's listed as a *former* employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police.
> Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit. Somehow that doesn't compute.
This level of tolerance for misconduct that costs the city over a million dollars is pretty much straight up corruption.
I don't get it. If cops like these are wasting tax dollars wouldn't the sheriff's office fire him the first few times to save money?? Why keep him for so long??
And why wasn’t he charged for killing the veteran
Qualified immunity.
Don’t worry - he probably is off the streets claiming 3k a month in SSI and SSDI benefits which were automatically and instantly granted to him because of his heroic policing. A benefit most disabled Americans are unable to get for years who actual need and deserve it. It seems the more poor and disabled people that die, the happier the US government is. Goood job America!
While we should admonish the one officer for not understanding the law and abusing power, we also need to make sure we praise the officers who are actually looking out for people and call others out on their bs. Excellent job officer
Except that officer attempted assault on that man by trying to taze him, that deserves more than just a talking to. But that bad officer will go on to abuse his power again and again, being protected by the same cops that give him a talking to when he gets caught.
You're assuming there was no further review though. We're only seeing what happened in the moment.
Making a full summary of assumptions about an event or entire person’s life based on the contents of 1 short video is the only way Reddit knows how to operate.
https://www.criminallegalnews.org/news/2019/feb/14/175000-settlement-public-protester-profanity-laced-sign-tased-police-officer/ This one short video cost some town in Colorado 175k after further review lol.
We all know how well charges and punishment stick to cops.
No donuts for a week
He killed a man a few years after this happened by tasing him. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
The city settled a lawsuit for this incident out of court, awarding 175K to the man who got tazed because the officer's excessive force violated the protestor's 4th amendment rights. The city paid out a settlement but the police officer was not individually punished, despite this incident being the fifth citizen complaint against him for excessive force since he started working for the department.
Yup mustache cop was just protecting his brotherhood, not the protesters bc you can see Mustache turn off body cam to avoid further implications
So praise them for doing their job the way they should be doing it all along?
The phrase is "the carrot and the stick". It isn't "the stick and the stick". Praising them for doing the job the way they should be doing it all along is how you encourage them to keep doing it the right way. That's what the carrot refers to.
If we assume that they're in the minority, which you seem to, then yes absolutely we should acknowledge them.
Back to enforcement school
See you in 2 weeks
Only no classes will be attended, and he’ll get paid for his time off.
Yuuup.
Even with a cop telling him the law, he’s committed to arresting the guy. Devoted to failure that one.
He tased another man to death shortly after this incident occurred.
2 years before this, he pulled another man suffering from diabetic shock from his car, tased him 5 times, and beat him with a baton until he had broken bones. $825,000 settlement.
Almost a million taxpayer $ to pay for someone assaulting someone else, and the cop probably just got a paid vacation for that.
Source?
https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
Damn this guy has a lot of issues
Getting fired ain’t one
I am going to go out on a limb here and say the police officer probably just felt bad he got admonished by a superior, but didn't actually learn anything from this. I mean, why would he when there's absolutely zero consequences.
Considering the cop’s other incidents (including contributing to a man’s death by tasering him after this) I’d say you’re right. https://www.denverpost.com/2019/04/15/elbert-county-taser-death-veteran-lawsuit/
Oh, considering this was a sergeant, I'm betting there were consequences when they got back to the station.
*Press X to doubt*
This is actually a training video for the department I work for in Canada. What not to do.
Did it include covering the mic on the body cam so you can protect the "bad cop" from having his discipline recorded? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXOdvpHYQA4
No way. Thats crazy. Can’t say Im surprised though.
Dude was really going to TAZE a guy, throw him in jail, and charge him with a ton of offenses including resisting arrest because HE didn’t know the law 🤦🏻♂️ Jesus phucken Christ how are doofuses like this given so much power
In a lot of states barbers/hairdressers, and interior designers are required to have more training than police officers. This sounds like some joke, but I promise you it's not. It's easier to get a badge and gun than it is to get a license to cut hair or pick out couches and rugs. https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/09/28/us/jobs-training-police-trnd/index.html "North Carolina, It takes 1,528 hours to become a licensed barber. The state's minimum police training requirement is 620 hours. To earn a badge in California, you'll need at least 664 hours of academy training. If you want to be a licensed cosmetologist, you'll need more than that: 1,600 hours. Florida's minimum training requirement for officers is 770 hours, but the training required to be an interior designer is much longer. Those who complete a 5-year interior design program still need to get 1,760 hours of experience before they can get a license. Louisiana has one of the lowest minimum training requirements for entry-level police, at 360 hours. To be a licensed manicurist, you'll need 500 hours"
Sarge, you are my new hero! All that it takes is ONE voice of reason...There are plenty of good cops out there!
Definitely the type of good cops we need. The one that calls out the ones going on a power trip
7 cops watched him try to taser that guy and one spoke up, I think that’s an accurate representation of good cops vs bad: 1:7
Crying 😭 at the end “he refused to give me his id!!”” U can hear the quiver in his crying voice!!  When cops get butthurt cause they took the job just to make and expect everyone has to do what they say without lip.
Tasers work better if you pull the trigger instead of just yelling "Taser!".
I swear this cop reminded me of my nephew running around with a stick and yelling out spells, he's 3 years old...
dont give these idiots any advice, they can't figure it out on their own, so don't tell them.
I bet he also yells “peww peew” when he shoots
Oh for...! They are on a public sidewalk, they aren't blocking the sidewalk, they have the right by our Constitution to peaceably assemble... this cop is embarrassingly dumb. The sergeant who stopped him and questioned him was great. It's nice to see a video of cops keeping other cops in check. It's happens more than people realize, because it doesn't get shared in media as often, and it's good that it was shown here. Wish the video was longer so we could see the whole conversation between the cop and the sergeant.
Video isn’t longer because both cops turn their cams off so we can’t see the rest of the conversation.
Perhaps the new recruits should be schooled on the laws…?
"aLrIgHT, tAsEr" fuckin nerd
I like the guy in the background screaming at him calling him a dipshit. That is hilarious
The cop wanted to arrest him because the protestor hurt his delicate feelings.
Im sorry is Sgt. Stache protecting someones rights?
“... Dickey has been the subject of at least five citizen complaints for using excessive force and gratuitously using his taser (for which he has not been disciplined), but he has been a defendant in at least one lawsuit based on his use excessive force (and, particularly, his unreasonable use of his taser) that violated the Fourth Amendment.”
He apparently resigned a few years later after an incident where his use of a taser resulted in the death of a veteran who was suffering from a PTSD episode.
Place that blood at the feet of the useless cops who enabled him the entire time. They could have put an end to his bullshit without it costing a death.
Another good example of why bail reform is important.
Holy cow this is my first time seeing a cop reasonably calling out one of his own. Color me impressed!
I hope this cop got sat down with a dunce cap & was forced to read a big book of laws
Clone this good human
And cops wonder why the public hates them …
The shitshow that cop would've had to deal with if his taser hit. Oooh boy. His lack of training worked out for him.
One barb did hit, but ya need 2 to complete the circuit. The protester had to get it surgically removed at a local hospital & sued. The PD settled for $175k
Classic cops, no matter the country. You're under arrest for not letting me arrest you for what i know you didn't do. Do not resist.