Brickbat: You Blew It

Officials in Fowlerville, Michigan, have agreed to pay $320,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by Ryohei Akima, who was wrongly charged with driving under the influence after a rookie officer misread a breathalyzer test. Akima blew a 0.02, below the blood alcohol content for a drunk driving charge. But officer Caitlyn Peca read that as 0.22—nearly three times the limit. Peca told a colleague over the radio, "I have no idea what I'm doing." The charges were dropped when a blood test showed Akima was under the limit.

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[AT]

So basically you're out of anti-cop stories, huh?

[SQRLSY One]

One time, a hobo wondered onto my property, and stole a few cups of pond-water out of my pond! I called the cops, and they never even bothered to show up, to take a report! Rotten, lazy bastards! Twat about my PROPERTY RIGHTS?!?!

(Oh, ass I understand, the cops were "too busy" that day, holding down womb-slaves, forcibly implanting tested-known-defective, frozen Sacred Fartilized HUMAN Egg Smells! If the cops are "too busy" to perform ALL of their duties, then we clearly need more cops! If 134% of Americans need to be COPS to get 'er done, enforcing ALL of the laws, so be shit!!!)

[Foo_dd]

so you think it is cool when gross incompetence (inability to read a digital output) leads to false charges?

[Vernon Depner]

And it took a lawsuit to get them to admit they were wrong. Fucking pigs.

[AT]

Um, no.

"The charges were dropped when a blood test showed Akima was under the limit."

That's when they admitted they were wrong. The lawsuit was filed subsequently to cash in on it all.

[Fist of Etiquette]

Peca told a colleague over the radio, "I have no idea what I'm doing."

Filling a quota would be my guess.

[mad.casual]

Being stylish because math is hard.

[Fist of Etiquette]

At least Tyne Daly seemed proficient in the law, if not on the workings of a rocket launcher.

[Dillinger]

Dee Eee Aye.

[mad.casual]

Whoops. Moved above.

[Its_Not_Inevitable]

Our taxpayer dollars at work.