Caught on video: police ding car, then arrest man for sitting without a license.

[pnwmom]

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, ‘How’d 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 didn’t 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]

1. Not only should these two be discharged from the force,

but prior charges that rested on their unsupported evidence should be reviewed by an independent body.

Just disgusting, but it happens.

[Mariana]

4. They should also be arrested and prosecuted. nt.

[Yo_Mama]

5. I agree, false charging should carry at least the same penalties as perjury

But you know it won't happen!

[FreakinDJ]

2. Cops are making personal surveillance cameras in cars VERY Popular

[Yo_Mama]

7. Which is why they hate being recorded so....

Think about why that is. It cannot make anyone with half a brain feel good.

[louslobbs]

3. If there are no consequences for bad behavior, the bad behavior continues and tends to escalate in

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]

6. I could not agree more

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]

8. All of my cars have dash cams for my protection and for the protection of those I love who drive my

cars. I think they should be factory installed options.
Lou

[Donald Ian Rankin]

10. Check the facts before fulminating

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.