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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCaught on video: police ding car, then arrest man for sitting without a license.
Jackson was sitting in his girlfriend's parked car, waiting for her, when the police car drove the wrong way down the street and, in an effort not to hit an oncoming vehicle, dented his gf's car instead.
So they arrested him.
http://nypost.com/2014/02/21/cops-hit-my-car-then-arrested-me-to-cover-it-up-suit/
Jackson, a maintenance worker, said he was sitting in the legally parked car outside of his apartment when the accident happened. He got out of the vehicle and walked up to the officers.
I was smiling, like, Howd you run into me?? he recalled. Then the cop said, Dude, you ran into me.?
I just wanted them to fix the damage and apologize, but it didnt turn out that way, Jackson said. They were trying to cover it up.
At that point, things got even more surreal.
The two cops checked the block for surveillance cameras before arresting him for destruction of city property, according to the lawsuit filed by Jackson in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
The video showing the police lied is here:
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/brooklyn/cops-slam-brooklyn-man-parked-suv-busted-driving-license-suit-article-1.1622184
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)but prior charges that rested on their unsupported evidence should be reviewed by an independent body.
Just disgusting, but it happens.
Mariana
(14,861 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)But you know it won't happen!
FreakinDJ
(17,644 posts)Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)Think about why that is. It cannot make anyone with half a brain feel good.
louslobbs
(3,238 posts)frequency. I've always thought that was just common sense, but I guess common sense is lacking at many of our tax payer funded, but corporate owned policing facilities. Charge and try enough bad officers who shoot first and ask questions later, beat citizens and falsify police reports, and you will change behavior.
Lou
Yo_Mama
(8,303 posts)This is a culture, and all such offenders should be rooted out. If there were any serious attempts to combat police corruption it WOULD be rooted out.
louslobbs
(3,238 posts)cars. I think they should be factory installed options.
Lou
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Donald Ian Rankin
(13,598 posts)The narrative the person who wrote this clearly wants you to buy into is that the police attempted to frame this man in order to conceal the fact that they hit his car. But the comments at the link suggest a very different story - rightly or wrongly I don't know:
:-The police filed an accident report acknowledging that they had hit him.
:-It was the driver-side, not the passenger-side door he got out of.
:-Under NY law, sitting the driving seat with the keys in the ignition counts as "intent to drive", and the police are required to arrest him for it.
I don't know for sure if that is a more accurate representation of what happened than the one in the OP - I don't care enough to do much more research. But I'm struck by the number of people who appear to have fumed before they did even the limited amount of digging that I've done.