Louisiana State Police say a trooper is on paid leave after being booked with battery, assault and false imprisonment of a judge after a traffic stop. [More]So: Did he pick the wrong victim or mess with someone higher up in the "Only One" food chain?
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Well... I guess that is ONE way to get the judicial system to open their effing eyes at the possibility of police overstepping boundaries.
ReplyDeleteWithout more information, my instincts tell me the judge is wrong here. There wasn't enough information in the article to make a valid opinion, but I do know that only judges and doctors consider themselves more god-like than do cops.
ReplyDeleteAm curious why no mention of the cruiser video.
I'd love to see them all eat each other and leave the rest of us out of it.
ReplyDeleteWell, both: he picked the wrong victim AND messed with someone higher up the food chain.
ReplyDeleteAnd, holy mackerel, I can't decide if straightarrow is sincere or trolling. "My instincts tell me the victim was asking for it; surely no police officer would ever abuse an innocent at a traffic stop." Damned holster-sniffer.
Not trolling D.R. but I have seen what happens to a cop who has the audacity to ticket a judge or his family members. Judges protect cops except when the object of the cop is the judge. Being the guy who gets to decide is very heady stuff. Lesser men cannot handle it. Ergo, you get cops who shoot people for no reason, taser them for no reason, etc, and so on, because they are the ones at the scene who get to decide, knowing that likelier than not they will never be held accountable. Now this is a trait of human nature that infects a lot of people in all walks of life, however when people of that defect hold the power of life, liberty,or death over others, we cannot afford to let them get away with it.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately, not enough people care enough as long as they can fantasize that it will never be their turn in the barrel.
Long 'roundabout way to say that the judge probably did have a ticket coming, but something smells here if the dash cam tape hasn't been referred to. However, the judge gets to decide on warrants. Are we surprised that the cops was the subject of an arrest warrant? I think not!
I know of a Highway Patrolman who lost his job and was harrassed out of state because he picked up a pickled governor who had run his car in a ditch and passed out. He didn't arrest him, nor ticket him, he just took him to the hospital because the man was so drunk the cop thought he might die. No penalty to the governor, but the cop was punished for being the unfortunate bastard who tried to keep him alive.
Anyone who has spent any time around me knows that I am a skeptic or cynic when it comes to cops, because of those defective ones who get to decide and feel like God. However, those defective souls are not limited to cops,and the more power that comes with the position the more those defectives seek it.
My instinct in my first comment is partly because it seems inconceivable that this judge never heard of a complaint against a cop's actions before and I bet this is the first time he issued an arrest warrant. Something stinks. Maybe two somethings.