Category Archives: Constitutional Law

CVS Employee Arrested Waiting on Bench for Lyft Driver (7 MINUTES after closing the store)

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22 year-old Paul was sitting outside the CVS store where he works in Edgewater, FL, sitting on a bench waiting for a ride using the Lyft app. Edgewater Police Department Officer Daniel Rippeon observed Paul and concluded that he looked suspicious. No crime had been committed. No crime had been alleged by anyone to have been committed. Yet Paul was almost immediately seized and threatened with being tased and bitten by a police K9. He was taken to jail, despite the fact that Officer Rippeon was fully aware that Paul was a store employee waiting for a Lyft driver.

Arrest report:

Other incident video from James Madison Audits.

Here’s the full unedited raw bodycam from Ofc. Rippeon, so that you can see what was cut and that there was no misleading editing involved. This is as provided via FOIA request from the City of Edgewater, FL:

Cop Yanks Autistic Kid Out of His Home, Onto the Ground, Arresting Him

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In Milton, Florida, Deputy Zachary MacPherson observed 20 year old Aleczander “Zander” Cash, who is autistic, walking across his residential street and into his home. Becoming angry that he couldn’t hear him (due to his wearing headphones), MacPherson banged on the front door, and when Cash answered, yanked Cash out of the front door of his home and onto the ground, handcuffing and arresting him. Not only was no crime committed by Cash, but Deputy MacPherson admittedly did not have a warrant.

“Anabolic Cop” Gets Fired | New Video Shows Why He Left the Last Department (Probably)

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Elkins Police Department (former) Officer Christian Mayle has now been terminated, following my last video detailing his recent arrest. As promised, here’s new video footage showing the likely reason that he resigned from his last department, the Barbour County Sheriff’s Department, the day prior to being hired by Elkins Police Department. It shows then-Deputy Mayle trespassing onto an innocent homeowner’s property and confronting him during a deer-strike call that occurred in front of the man’s home. When the man asked the deputy to move is police cruiser so that it didn’t block his driveway, Mayle went anabolic…

Last Video: https://youtu.be/QKYN2rZ8-s8?si=znEtDw9HDp5-ZPIc

First Video: https://youtu.be/oLJsKVNH3Nw?si=G5-dM4bAJRtaB051

Cop Slams Disabled Senior Citizen Over Bicycle Law – Other Cops Laugh and High-Five

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On February 17, 2025 at around 9pm at night, a disabled senior citizen named Danny Winklman was riding his bicycle through a neighborhood in St. Augustine, Florida. He had a run of bad luck. He had been hospitalized with serious medical issues, and as a result was evicted, leaving him homeless. All he wanted was a meal, and he was on his way home to fix himself something to eat. But a local St. Johns County Sheriff’s Deputy saw that his bicycle was not equipped with lights. Within seconds, the officer would slam the elderly man to the asphalt for “not listening” to him. Was that justified?

Danny’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/a4914e7a

Jeff Gray’s interview of Danny at the site: https://youtu.be/AbRkYsjc638?si=Dl2zmrRlJr9u3TlS Jeff Gray’s original video on the incident: https://youtu.be/hCrNtTdNdu8?si=TakQd4iv0jLIDE7y

The bicycle law:

11th Circuit case law noting that the charged crime is not sufficiently serious to warrant a violent takedown:

Off Duty Cop Mistakes Cigarette for Drugs | Cops Tear Apart His Truck, Find Nothing

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In Marysville, Michigan, Jake Kidder was washing his truck at a self serve car wash. An off duty police officer claims to have seen a black man in a Cadillac hand a suspicious bag to Mr. Kidder. Assuming he handed him drugs, he called his on-duty buddies, who responded within minutes. They confronted Mr. Kidder, who responded that the black man was his coworker, who handed him a cigarette. This occurred in St. Clair County, Michigan.

Here’s the link to Jake Kidder’s raw YouTube videos with the full footage.

Arrested For Laughing | Lawsuit UPDATE | Officer Gets Qualified Immunity?

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You’ve probably seen the “arrest for laughing” case that has gone repeatedly viral over the past few years. I’m actually the attorney on that case. Just yesterday the Court ruled on the officer’s motion to dismiss and request for qualified immunity. The officer claimed that flashing headlights to warn oncoming motorists was not protected free speech, and that he was justified in handcuffing, frisking and detaining the driver after he laughed at him. What did the Court rule?

Here’s the full opinion:

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Cop Resigns (Again) After Barging In Woman’s Home | Lawsuit Results | Final Update

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Remember the video from about 8 months ago where the cop in Frankfort, Kentucky, barged into a woman’s home without a warrant and illegally arrested her while she was wearing only a towel? She correctly tells (former) Officer Larry “Gus” Curtis that he can’t do that – that what he was doing was illegal, due to the fact that he was acting without a warrant. Curtis tells her, “if it’s illegal, then file a civil lawsuit.” Well, she did file a civil lawsuit and it just settled. Was it enough?

Here’s my first video on the incident.

Here’s a media report about the settlement.

Here’s the complaint from the civil lawsuit filed against Curtis and the City of Frankfort:

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You sent me this viral Facebook Post about what cops did to this elderly veteran, so I showed up

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Many of my viewers from around the country sent me this viral Facebook post by the wife of an elderly, disabled military veteran (with severe type 2 diabetes) about three police officers abusing him in front of their home in St. Mary’s West Virginia. After she reached out to me, yesterday I drove 3 and a half hours up to the location of the incident to investigate the scene myself. Frankly, I’m shocked by what’s happening up there, and they can’t be allowed to get away with it.

Here’s the original viral Facebook Post:

Here’s the criminal complaint with the full report:

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UPDATE 3/20/25:

Lying Cops Troll Monkey YouTuber Across Rural Georgia (but their plan backfires)

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Why would two separate police officers from two separate counties in rural Georgia both happen to end up harassing this super nice guy, driving this super nice vehicle, who incidentally is transporting his super adorable monkey that he has a YouTube channel with? And what were the chances that both officers would pull the vehicle over for “following too closely” to a tractor trailer, where coincidentally, both of the officers’ dash cameras would show the claims to be completely bogus?

He Runs Away and Survives (but then encounters a police officer)

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16 year old Konoa Wilson ran for his life after being suddenly shot at by another teenager at the Sante Fe Train Depot in San Diego, California. Police officers were nearby – on the other side of the building – when the shots rang out. The teenager narrowly survived being shot by the other teenager, but as he fled through a corridor, he had no idea that in moments, he would encounter a police officer who would end his life.

Raw clip of the shooting (GRAPHIC):