Brickbat: On the Record

Robbinsdale, Minnesota, officials and the city's insurer have agreed to pay $70,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by Amy Koopman, who was arrested for livestreaming police holding at gunpoint two men whose car they had pulled over. Koopman, who was standing on the opposite side of the intersection while video-recording the arrest, was charged with obstruction. A judge threw out the charge against her, saying "no reasonable officer" could find her actions obstructed or interfered with "the performance of their duties."
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What about sending them out to collect more taxes?
I wonder what these cops do when they're on video.
Let’s ask Rodney King.
"no reasonable officer"
But what about the average officer?
But what about the average officer?
*punches Jerryskids in the face*
I have it from several reliable sources with knowledge of the event that Jerryskids slipped on a bar of soap and fell down the stairs twice.
Give him ten years and he'll be the chief of police.
However, unreasonable officers (and the unions that protect them) won't give a damn. Everyone gets arrested and let the courts sort 'em out. There's no personal risk in being a bad cop these days.
When was the last time you heard of a good cop stepping in while a bad cop is committing an illegal arrest or beating someone in handcuffs and said "Hey, you can't do that!"
The correct answer is "What are you talking about? They always join in the fun."
Which is why I find it difficult to believe that good cops exist.
Sometimes it happens by accident. Good Cop Gets Bad Cop Fired and Arrested
"Bad" cops organized the bootlegging rings that glued the U.S. economy back together after the Volstead Act made trace amounts of alcohol a serious crime. Roy Olmstead was the most famous example, and to coerce him the Supreme Court ruled wiretaps were as patriotic and legal as slave catching had been in Dred Scott v Sandford. Only after Willebrandt's precedent cases made such production and trade a tax felony and the 1929 Jones Law made it OK to shoot beer drinkers did the entire economy come crashing down.
No true policeman would fail to find it reasonable.
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"The" law says they can stop and rob people for no reason AND with immunity from having to return the goods--to say nothing of actual prosecution. Doesn't it make sense for them to assume that they can likewise mug, slug and intimidate inconvenient witnesses?