A man filed a federal lawsuit Monday alleging he was paralyzed and needed his legs amputated after police officers in St. Petersburg, Florida, put him in restraints, placed him in the back of a police van without a seatbelt and then drove in a reckless manner.
Cuffed in the back of a van with no seatbelts. You can get a ticket for not wearing a seatbelt in your car.
“No, you’re going to take the ride today. I’ve decided that you’re going to actually go to jail today. Far too many problems with you,” she responded. “We’re getting all kinds of complaints. Can’t be doing this,” the officer said.
“You get tickets all the time. You don’t care. You don’t change your ways,” she explained.
In the body cam footage, Thacker remarked that any crime should be a felony after certain number of incidents. “A year in jail would probably settle it,” he added.
Yeah I dunno how anyone can hear these words come out of this person’s mouth and think this is anything other than “extrajudicial punishment”.
Talking about what “should” happen, rather than upholding the law.
Yeah I dunno how anyone can hear these words come out of this person’s mouth and think this is anything other than “extrajudicial punishment”.
Talking about what “should” happen, rather than upholding the law.