Police try to arrest Uber driver for recording them, man turns out to be a lawyer

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Aura7541 said:

Machiavellian said:

The question is, would it have become violent if he was of a different race.  Just like the Nurse who was arrested because she would not let the officer take blood from a patient, Cops either not knowing the laws they are governed undered or just do not care can turn such situation into a deadly one.  I have seen time and again when people defend what the cop did even if death occured, it was alwasy blamed on the citizen not doing what he was asked to do even if he is in the right.  Being right and being dead is definitely something to think about when in such a situation.

I read up on that and that infuriated me. The officer wanted to extract a comatose patient's blood when that is against the hospital's policy and his reasoning for wanting to collect the patient's blood was extremely shoddy. Cops need to go through more training so that these kinds of incidents can be minimized.

My problem with that is that the cop new he was in the wrong.  When another officer asked him why he would not get a court order he clearly stated he did not have proable cause.  In other words he was using his authority to bullie the situation instead of standing behind the law.  That is like this video where the cop said he was going to search the guys car, and the guy said no you will not.  Just like a home, cops need proable cause and a court order to do that or your permission.

I have a lot of cop firends and I know how very hard it is to do their job, my only real beaf is when they try to protect the bad cops.  Every cop does not need protection by their peers and if someone is doing something shady they have to weed them out.