Turns out that the dash cam video that state and Tampa Police Department said didn't exist, exists

[KamaAina]

Ruh-roh, Rorge!!

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/08/24/1415036/-Turns-out-that-the-dash-cam-video-that-state-and-Tampa-Police-Department-said-didn-t-exist-exists

34-year-old Liz Vargas, mother of four children, was pulled over in the morning this past fall. Tampa police officer Kevin Fitzpatrick said that her license plate was tinted and therefore "obscured."...

The following day, she asked the police to investigate the incident and specifically policeman Fitzpatrick. Her attorney Brett Szematowicz asked for the dash cam video of the stop and was told by both the state and the Tampa Police Department that no video of the incident existed.

“They lied about it,” Vargas said. The state attorney’s office told 8 On Your Side that it became aware in April, that the video existed.(my emphasis)

But Szematowicz still had to file a motion to compel order—in June. How clearly guilty is this department of malfeasance or at the very least criminal incompetence?

[Rex]

1. For some, cops lack the ability to lie or be corruptable. Sadly those some are fellow cops and DA.

And only they have the power to 'clean up' their profession and so far many seem unwilling or unable to do so. It is a dire crisis for both LEO and civilians that seems to be getting worse.

[hobbit709]

2. It's not incompetence, they knew exactly what they were doing.

[Warpy]

3. Good cops protect bad cops because

they've all been sold on the idea that they're an army of occupation and we the people are the occupied. It explains so much about their conduct over many decades, ever since Nixon started to militarize them to get around Posse Comitatus and go after those scruffy hippies.

The DOJ has got to step in on some of these really outrageous cases of traffic stops becoming excuses for 'roid rage in cops. There has got to be a crackdown on steroid abuse, along with all the other abuses. The police have got to be demilitarized.