This footage was submitted by Malik (full video here) showing him being stopped by Savannah Police over allegations that he wasn’t wearing a seat belt. He was getting out of his car when the officer jumped out of the police cruiser and immediately escalated the situation. Malik claims racial profiling. Fortunately, the officer was captured on his own bodycam explaining the situation to his supervisor. Does the footage match-up?
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Cop Grabs Kids at School | ACLU Fought a Year to Get This Video!
This incident happened near a high school in Nevada, involving school district police officers and students. Officers later claimed they were investigated reports of the presence of a firearm. But the video shows something else entirely. The government fought release of this video for over a year. Even after being sued by the ACLU, they only released it after a court order. The police union claims it exonerates the officers. What do you think?
Media report here.
Case law and discussion from my video on police handcuffing a child in school, referenced in my video can be found here.
Cop Caught LYING By His Own Camera | Charge DISMISSED
This happened in Texas. Brittany Trevino was driving down the road, when she saw a police officer whom she really disliked, so she gave him the middle finger. In obvious retaliation, the officer jumped in his police cruiser, sped down the road, and stopped her – allegedly for failure to signal a lane change. The only problem was, however, the officer was lying, as indicated by not one, but two, of his own cameras.
The protections of the First Amendment are not limited to spoken words, but rather include gestures and other expressive conduct, even if vulgar or offensive to some. For example, in Cohen v. California (1971), the Supreme Court held that an individual wearing a jacket bearing the words “F**k the Draft” in a courthouse corridor could not be prosecuted for disturbing the peace.
Consistent with this precedent, although “the gesture generally known as ‘giving the finger’ … is widely regarded as an offensive insult,” Bad Frog Brewery, Inc. v. N.Y. State Liquor Auth. , (2d Cir. 1998), it is a gesture that is generally protected by the First Amendment. See, e.g. , Cruise-Gulyas v. Minard (6th Cir. 2019) (“Any reasonable [police] officer would know that a citizen who raises her middle finger engages in speech protected by the First Amendment.”); Garcia v. City of New Hope (8th Cir. 2021) (“[Plaintiff’s] raising his middle finger at [a police officer] is a rude and offensive gesture but nonetheless, under current precedent, is a constitutionally protected speech activity.”); Batyukova v. Doege(5th Cir. 2021) (same); accord Swartz v. Insogna (2d Cir. 2013) (holding that giving the middle finger could not support arrest for disorderly conduct); see generally Ira P. Robbins, Digitus Impudicus: The Middle Finger and the Law , 41 U.C. DAVIS L. REV. 1403, 1407–08, 1434 (2008) (observing that the middle finger can express a variety of emotions—such as anger, frustration, defiance, protest, excitement—or even “possess[ ] political or artistic value”).
Brittany Trevino’s original videos, including her update, are posted here.
Cops ROUGH UP Cancer Patient | $300,000 Lawsuit
The City of Long Beach has agreed to pay $300,000 to a man who sued, alleging he was threatened, beaten and detained by police officers over an expired car registration in 2022. In a lawsuit filed in October, Johnny Jackson says he had just gotten out of the hospital after getting surgery to treat prostate cancer and had driven to Staples to make a copy of a doctor’s note for his employer when police pulled him over on the way back to his Long Beach home.
Cops Kick DYING Man Out of Ambulance!
This happened in Rochester. Cops arrived to the scene of paramedics requesting that their patient be ejected from the back of their ambulance. The man complains that he was “freaking out” because he couldn’t breathe. So they kick him out and he basically lays down on the sidewalk to die. They just leave him there for several minutes, flat on his face, on the sidewalk. Eventually they take him to the hospital. He died a couple of weeks later. The mayor has ordered an investigation. If police officers see someone in medical distress, do they have a constitutional obligation to help?
Cops Confront Upset Woman | In HER Driveway | Shoot 10 Times!
This footage comes from Rancho Grande, California, where the Sacramento Sheriff’s Office responded to a set of 911 calls regarding a woman with a knife who was looking for her dog, which she believed to have been stolen. The woman was reported to have a butcher knife. When the cops found her, she was sitting in her driveway in her muscle car. She refused to get out of her car and attempted to speed away. However, the two cops collectively fired ten rounds at her.
Cops Paralyze Handcuffed Man and Mock Him | He Later Dies!
This poor guy was arrested on suspicion of public intoxication and then had his head slammed into concrete while handcuffed. One of his family members sent me the raw bodycam footage that was just recently released. His mother has now filed a wrongful death lawsuit. In the video, you can see that the man, Anthony Silva, tries to tell the officers that he’s paralyzed. But they tell him he’s fine, and mock him. Apparently he spent nearly a year in the hospital, ultimately dying as a result of this.
Former Sheriff NOT Arrested After “Thorough Investigation”
The former sheriff of St. Johns County was not issued a ticket or arrested after he was pulled over with 8 grams of marijuana in his vehicle. David Shoar, who served as sheriff from 2004 to 2021, was pulled over at Pope Road and A1A Beach Boulevard about 9 p.m. after failing to stop at a red light before making a turn, an incident report from the St. Augustine Beach Police Department states. Was he given special treatment?
This is the statement released by the St. Augustine Beach Police Department:
On Dec. 15, 2023, at approximately 9 p.m. officers from the St Augustine Beach Police Department conducted a traffic stop on a motor vehicle for a minor traffic infraction near the intersection of Pope Rd and A1A Beach Blvd. The driver of the vehicle was identified as David B. Shoar. Officers detected the odor of burnt marijuana emitting from the vehicle.
Upon approaching the vehicle, officers saw what they believed to be marijuana visible inside the vehicle. A roadside investigation and interview were conducted by officers. No driver impairment was detected during the interview/investigation. After a search of the vehicle, three marijuana cigarettes were seized for destruction. SABPD officers conducted a thorough investigation adhering to agency policy and standard operating procedures. The driver of the vehicle David Shoar was subsequently released.
Watch the bodycam footage and see for yourself this “thorough investigation.”
Doorbell Arrest Video | NO Warrant | COPS RESPOND on Youtube!
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Ring doorbell video surfaced showing the arrest of a man at his own front door, after he refused to provide identification to police officers in Clayton County, Georgia. The footage showed officers arresting the man without a warrant. After the footage went viral, the police department then made their own Youtube video responding to the footage, as well as the allegations. But the issue remains: can cops constitutionally arrest a homeowner at his own front door without a warrant?
The Fourth Amendment guarantees the “right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.” The constitutional protection of people in their houses extends to the “curtilage” of the home, which is “the area ‘immediately surrounding and associated with the home.'” Collins v. Virginia, 138 S. Ct. 1663, 1670 (2018) (quoting Florida v. Jardines, 569 U.S. 1, 6 (2013)).
Subject to a few exceptions, the Fourth Amendment prohibits law enforcement from entering a home or its curtilage to conduct a search without a warrant. United States v. Walker, 799 F.3d 1361, 1363 (11th Cir. 2015). United States v. Stephen, No. 19-12172 (11th Cir. Aug 06, 2020)
The original video used by the “We The People” Youtube channel here.
Arrested For Knocking on Cop’s Window | OUTRAGEOUS Bodycam
I literally received hundreds of requests for my take on this outrageous bodycam footage that was originally uploaded by Lackluster, showing a lady being arrested in Kentucky, after she attempted to criticize a police officer for his poor driving skills. Well, you were right that I would be interested in this incident. Here’s my take on it.
Here’s Lackluster’s original video. It’s fantastic, by the way.
Here’s the police report narrative:
Here are the relevant Kentucky statutes (I mistakenly used disorderly conduct in the first degree in the video, but the operative portions are identical):
Here’s her GoFundMe link.