Brickbat: Ask Questions Later

Former Shreveport Police Officer Christopher McConnell has been given a three-year suspended prison sentence followed by two years of probation after being convicted of malfeasance in office. When McConnell pulled a woman over for a license plate light not working, he got out of his vehicle with his weapon drawn and shouted, "License, registration, shut your mouth." He pulled the woman from her vehicle and tried to handcuff her. Two other officers arrived to help him, and when the woman allegedly pulled away from them, another officer used a Taser on her. McConnell later struck her in the face even as she was compliant.

Comments

[Get To Da Chippah]

Clearly resisting arrest. Look, if you go easy on these criminal scum and their inoperable license plate lights, pretty soon you'll have unlit license plates everywhere. And only some ACAB nutball would want that.

She should be glad she wasn't shot for flouting the law as egregiously as she did.

[Fist of Etiquette]

His wife better leave him, quick.

[Longtobefree]

Maybe she did, and that is what set him off - - - - - - -

[Adans smith]

armed, stupid and drunk on power is no way to go through life.

[Stupid Government Tricks]

I'm surprised he didn't add, "And where's my sammich?"

[mad.casual]

Shreveport

Fuckin' Red State, law-and-order, Back-the-Badge, motherfuckers!

[bobby oshea]

And what details of this story are we missing? I'm going to assume this was a case of failing to pull over in a reasonable distance/time frame. These details matter to me.

[AT]

She slowed down but didn't pull over until finding a parking lot with good lighting.

So, for anyone who's considering that kind of thing - let me tell you a really important thing you can do to help yourself out.

Turn on your hazards. Give the cop a signal that you see him and that you're intending to comply. When you lead him on like that, he's going to think you're buying time

If you want to go a step further - call 911. Tell them you're being cherried, but that you don't feel safe stopping and that you're looking for a well lit place to stop. Identify who and where you are, and they'll get in contact with the officer. They may even put you in contact with him.

It's a way of identifying compliance, without making the cop think that you're delaying the stop so that you can arm a weapon or destroy some evidence or what have you.

The source article is just as limited as the brickbat - but I think it's safe to say that the malfeasance was when he jocked her in the face. And I don't disagree with that.

I'm just saying that, like most of Chaz's whining - the thing he's whining about could have been easily avoided if the citizen wasn't such a friggin' moron.

[LIBtranslator]

ATF offers a training course in grovelling and bootlicking to appease girl-bullying redneck cops.

[LIBtranslator]

This Shreveport Police Officer Christopher McConnell sounds like exactly what the Lebensborn SA of Trump/Kennedy Republicans for Female Enslavement is looking for. The article as résumé, I'd wager, makes him a shoo-in.