They should be the one having to prove all their cases with cameras. There has been so many cases in the news now of police officers lying that we should mandate having recorders on and unless they can prove their case on video their case should be dismissed.

jones and 10-8 seems to be abuser cops like many others. My fiancee was just abused and harassed the other day by transit police officers for no reason and got a ridiculous ticket. They threatened to take her to jail for disorderly conduct for no valid reason. We filed a complain the same day with the internal affair and now it seems that according to our lawyer if we were to drop the complain to the internal affair they would drop the charge against my fiancee… They are very upset we filed a complain. Such BS and abuse of power.

so yeah, I think we should start watching the police and hold them responsible for their actions. The burden of proven civilian people to be guilty should be on the police with hard evidence. There has been enough cases of officers lying and abusing power to warrant saying that their words have no value anymore.

Please take a look at my story… http://batteredbypd.wordpress.com
and you will read 1st hand what I’ve been going through behind the lies police tell!!!

I really hope they aren’t LEOs.

Don’t forget to smile for the camera.

You are a walking parody. So the only option was another form of violence? How about just give the guy a reason “why” or are you too wrapped up in being violent above all else?

By the way, had Jackson said “for safety” and “I need us off the highway” and Leake had still refused to get out of the car, I’d have no problem with force. Reasonably applied, emphasis on using reason.

The “review” I was referring to, and why it was in scare quotes, was regarding the attack on Leake. It’s in the article, read for comprehension. And you might understand why I used scare quotes.

Wow, he called me a pig. I’m crushed. Like that’s never happened before. Like I’ve never heard a smartmouth punk who knows nothing about the law use that taunt on me before.

Here’s a cold dose of reality from the real world from someone who both knows and enforces the law: the burden of proof is on the defendant to show that the order is unlawful. If you don’t meet that standard, which happens in far more than 99.99 percent of prosecutions, you lose. In the extremely rare occasion when you can successfully show the order was unlawful, more than 99.99 percent of the time, the police officer will be protected by qualified immunity.

So your chances of prevailing on this point are about the same as the chances of holding a winning lottery ticket in your hand while simultaneously being struck by lightning.

If you actually think you can successfully challenge a police officer’s order to step out of a vehicle during a lawful stop as somehow “unlawful” in a pleading, all you have proven is you’ve never stepped into a courtroom in your life.

If by “other options” your talking about a taser I don’t know if he had one. I agree, when he refused to get out I would have given him a warning that he was going to be tased and if he still didn’t get out I would have tasered him.