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The Straight Story Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:11 PM
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Officers Write Tickets So They Can Park Themselves
Officers Write Tickets So They Can Park Themselves

ATLANTA -- Channel 2 Action News has learned have that the Atlanta Police Department has launched an internal investigation into whether two officers are enforcing parking laws that they then go and break themselves.
Channel 2’s Tony Thomas has obtained cell phone video that investigators are looking at.

Thomas has learned that APD was investigating whether two people wearing Atlanta badges forced drivers parked illegally to move, only so they could park their city cars and go to lunch.

On the video, you hear Oscar, who did not want to be identified beyond his first name, arguing with one of the officers, saying, “You parked on the street to go get your lunch and you was going to write us a ticket?”

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“They said ‘yeah we work for the city, these are city cars and we can do that,’” Oscar said. “You think they were just moving people so they could park, that's exactly what they were doing, so they could park.”

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/28577751/detail.html
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PoliticAverse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:15 PM
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1. Another example of why police want it to be illegal for citizens to video-record them. n/t
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 01:28 PM
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8. +1
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:23 PM
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2. I can has cheeseburger.
You get ticket; I get to park to get cheeseburger.

Not nearly as cute as in the cat meme.
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DainBramaged Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 01:31 PM
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9.  CAN haz cheezburger
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Drale Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:26 PM
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3. OMG THIS IS THE BIGGEST SCANDAL TO EVER HIT THE PAPERS!!!!
Lets try them for treason and hang them. :sarcasm: Seriously who cares, if they find something or they don't I doubt the idiots will be doing this again, plus they made the people who parked illegally move which is something they should be doing anyway.
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Broderick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:28 PM
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5. I get a feeling it is just a small microcosm
of what else they do.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:26 PM
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4. wow.
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 12:28 PM
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6. cell phone cameras shine light on corruption that's been going on for decades. god bless cell phone
cameras
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msongs Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-18-11 01:25 PM
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7. the primary function of police departments is to generate income to....pay themselves nt
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