Bike ride turns to fearful encounter with police

[Sunlei]

Fear led to more fear Thursday morning as Kelsey Pierce was riding her bike to work at the Tower Theater on NW 23rd Street.

A sudden encounter with Oklahoma City police officer James Herlihy at NW 21st and Dewey led to what Pierce described as “complete fear” when the officer handcuffed her and placed her in the back of his patrol car.

She told him she was stumbling with responding to him at first because he startled her.

“Obviously you weren’t, that’s why you are in handcuffs in the back seat of the car, because you were throwing stuff at me,” Herlihy said. “You handed the ID card to me like you wanted to use it as a weapon and throw it at me.”

https://freepressokc.com/bike-ride-turns-to-fearful-encounter-with-police/

[Angry Dragon]

1. the cop was a real ass

[bagelsforbreakfast]

2. Rookie cop? or just an assh*le? n/m

[stonecutter357]

4. No just a typical cop..

[alfredo]

3. She didnt throw her ID, he lied.

[MiniMe]

5. I didn't see her throw anything at him.

She just didn't understand why she was being stopped.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

6. What an asshole.

[Demonaut]

7. he needs to lose his job

[LuckyCharms]

8. In all fairness, she did commit a felony.

"Looking in driveways" is a felony.

It's right there in the penile code.

[alphafemale]

11. That is the thing I had to hear four tmes.

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Looking at driveways

[Solly Mack]

9. That piece of shit accuses her of "exaggerating" when he lies about items being thrown and

possibly used as a weapon?

Damn

[pokerfan]

10. Note that he cuffed her after she dug her wallet out of her backpack...

He can't open the backpack himself but if he claims that "he feared for his safety from her ninja-like skills with her ID card he had no choice but to place her in custody" then anything that it is in full view is fair game. The backpack, your honor? It was already open. She opened it.

Notice how careful he was to not go digging around. Just tilt it one way and then the other and take a good close look. This cop knows the rules. And he knows that all he has to do is claim that he feared for his safety and then it doesn't matter what the bodycam shows. All he needs are those magic words.

[no_hypocrisy]

12. "Take care"?

Next worst thing to have said would have been "Have a nice day".

[oasis]

13. The cop clearly falsified his report. Standard operating procedure.

Oh well.