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[Music] This cop just ran over an innocent civilian, killing her instantly. Here is
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his coworker trying to justify his actions. I mean, he's going 50. That's not out of
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control. That's not reckless for a train driver. But she is dead. Even worse, he's just been caught
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laughing and joking about this girl being killed. All while he thought his body cam was off.
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She was 26 anyway. She had limited value. [ __ ] But cops get caught out like this all
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the time. Like when this cop was caught on her body cam ridiculing a mentally ill woman.
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I'm going to kick this door down and rip you out of there. I love my job. And this officer is so corrupt, he
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outright begged his partner to disable his camera with evil intentions. Are you recording?
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Yeah, we're hot. But let's first take a look at the cops caught for stealing thousands of dollars
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of property from an innocent man. The officers were supposed to be collecting his property as part of an eviction
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notice to return to him later. Sheriff Trailer Harris and Sheriff Banks were part of the team sent to help with an
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eviction in Missouri, but they decided they were just going to help themselves to the expensive watches and jewelry. To
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cover, they tried to turn their body cams off, but Officer Banks, instead of turning it off, she turned hers back on.
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Hold on. Don't come down here. No. Yeah. Let me see. She Okay, this put them in my shirt.
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Hey, G. Oh, we got some cocaine. Oh, damn. Everything here. Hold on. Yeah. Sheriff's office some more money.
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This is more like a burglary than an eviction. In order for law enforcement to become involved with an eviction, the
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landlord must obtain a writ of restitution that gives a tenant a certain amount of days to vacate the
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property. If they fail to leave, the cops get involved to assist in the moving process. We should be able to
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trust that they'll do their job and resist the temptation to help themselves. But for these cops, it was
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time to unload what they just looted. Hey, open your um open I need to go in your car for me.
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Huh? I need to go in your car for a minute. I think it's okay. I'm good. What you got?
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Some [ __ ] here. Put in your pocket. I can leave it. Just sit on the dry seat. Sit in the
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ground so you can take it. [Music] Where's the trash at? Oh, he got that. At this point, these cops have no legal
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base to justify their actions. During an eviction, officers may have legal grounds to remove personal items from
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the rental unit. However, they must follow certain procedures set out by law regarding storage and disposal of the
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property. In this case, however, all we see them do is take items with fiscal value. And considering the whispered
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tone of their conversations, these actions lack any legal justification, but it's what they do and say next that
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will be their ultimate downfall. That's the pistol. Okay. What is it? It's the [ __ ] I bought last
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night. this time. So would hate to sanitize it. You still in here? You find something
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else glasses. They all index uh car. Okay. low coke. They want they can come in and start
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moving. I said the two hours I guess will start whenever they come in to move. That's her purse. Look in it. I have
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nothing to do. Not only did these officers just rummage through and steal whatever they wanted.
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But now they're searching through the tenants's purse without any prior consent or probable cause. After
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treating themselves, they finally let the tenants back inside to remove their personal belongings. A week later, the
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owner filed a theft report, sparking the investigation that discovered the accidental body cam footage. In December
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2022, Trailer Harris was convicted on charges of theft by a public servant and was given 5 years probation and a
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$10,000 fine. Banks managed to make a plea deal for a misdemeanor charge to avoid prison time, and both have been
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fired from the police force. However, this evil cop ridiculed a mentally ill woman after threatening to tase her, all
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without turning off her body cam. You want to get tased? Don't do it. This is going to be so fun.
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When Tulsa police officers respond to a 911 call, they find a woman has locked herself inside a store's bathroom and is
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refusing to leave. Inside that bathroom is 70-year-old Ladonna, and she's in the
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middle of a major mental health crisis. Tell us, please, can you open the door? Ladonna, can you open the door?
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Well, no. So, if you don't open the door, we're going to have to bust it down. Okay. Oh,
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why would you do that? I'm going to do anything to you. I'm not They want you off this property.
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She's not like that. Mhm. She won't even talk. No. So, I tried. She won't come out. She
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won't open the door. We have a We have like a crisis team, but they're busy right now. They like handle in like
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mental health. The store manager has every right to ask the woman to leave, and her refusal now
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makes this a potential case of trespassing. But with such a mentally unstable woman involved, these cops need
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to try and avoid a confrontation. Unfortunately, that's not what Officer Croatia has in mind when she arrives on
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the scene with a big mouth and a bad attitude. How about let's get this out of here cuz
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that's not good for us. She's spraying air fresher. Look, you can see it. At any point in time, we got to be ready
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for her to open that door and be ready to fight cuz she seems pretty. The property owners want you to leave.
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They said that you're banned. And so if you come out and leave, what have I done?
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Because you won't come out of the bathroom. They want you to leave. I have diarrhea, vomiting. Is that a
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sin? They said you've been here for 4 hours. Well, you know, time flies when we're
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having fun. Either you can come out and leave or you can come out and go to jail. So, you get
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to choose. Tell you what, go to LH. Ask me to escort me out. Gotcha. Okay. Well, I'm not getting LH.
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Yeah. You've been here since 11. So, either you leave on your own you Officer Croatia might have forgotten her
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every move is being filmed by another officer as she jokes and laughs about a mentally ill woman on the other side of
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that door. But they do have a way to solve this problem peacefully after Ladonna says she'll leave if the store
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manager asks her. The problem is she isn't on site, but the cops came up with an alternative.
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I love my job. You guys are going to need new air freshener. I hope you don't mind.
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Okay. Oh, it's unlocked. I can feel like the tension from her hand just holding it.
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It literally just bars through. Yeah. I literally Yeah. Once she runs out of air freshener.
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Yeah. When she runs once funny. I'm not laughing. Why are you? Because I want you to leave and I gave
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you the chance. You come out on your own or you go to jail. It's then discovered that Ladonna has an
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aerosol can and a cigarette lighter in the bathroom with her. And officer Croatia is convinced that she's going to
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use it to light the whole place up if they don't get her out of there soon. As serious as this is becoming, Officer
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Croatia seems to be enjoying herself a little too much. I'm going to kick this door down and rip
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you out of there. Jesus. Jesus. This is just what I wanted for the first damn call today. God dang it.
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Hey. Hey. Someone needs to use the restroom. Can you open the door for them to use
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the restroom? Okay. Yes. The cops are trying to kill me here. Can you believe that?
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I don't even know what this lady looks like. Is she white? I have no idea. What are you doing? Is that a battery?
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Open the door. But she's very careful. I don't want you. Okay. I don't want you to be hurt.
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How am I going to be hurt? Are you going to stab me? Do you have any weapons, Lona?
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We have not did that. What are you talking about? My weapons of war here are the strongest.
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So you don't have any weapons in there? What kind of weapons would I have? I don't know. He might have a knife and
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try to stab me. What? What? I don't know anything to me. But the approach officer Catia is taking
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obviously isn't working and is only making Lana's behavior even worse. And it's not going to get any easier when
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she threatens to unleash her taser. So you're going to get pepper sprayed and that's going to be a good time. And
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so just to let you know, either you open the door or you get pepper sprayed. Can
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you even like get it cracked? Yeah. Yeah. Right there. See, it's cracked plenty enough right here.
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Like Yeah. And spray right here. And there's going to be a lot of blood here. You're going to
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She needs to go to jail for arson. She's trying to start a fire. They're trying to kill me.
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You're going to have to shoot me now. We're going to have to go hands on and throw you to the ground cuz
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Oh, so nice. Finally. Now it's about time. That's the sound of reinforcements arriving at the scene. And it looks like
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Officer Croatia is about to get her wish and finally get her hands on Lana. It's
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only moments after another officer arrives that they're finally coming face to face with a desperate suspect.
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Okay. So, what's the plan? Going to bust it then spray or we're going to bust it
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and go hands on cuz we're going to have to go hands on. She's already like threat.
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Okay. So, let's just go hands on and not get not get OCD. Okay. Ready? Yep. All right.
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Why are you doing that to me? Stop it. Stop it. You're hurting me. Get your hands out of my pants. That is so nasty.
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Yeah, this was unnecessary. We didn't have to do any of this. I'm sorry. I'm really
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[ __ ] Can we cut out the blood? This is not right. It's not right, sir. This is not right, sir. It's not.
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We told you multiple times. Come on. Walk. You treated me a mean. It's not nice.
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I gave you the chance. I did 353. No, you cannot rest. I said sit down. Okay. Sit down.
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I will. I will. Okay. You okay? Please. Please don't hurt me. When the footage of this arrest went
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viral, it caused outrage. But although the police department said the officer's conduct was highly unprofessional, no
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action was taken against anyone involved. Thankfully, there were other officers around to keep officer Croatia
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from getting out of control. Unlike this next case where a deputy decides to frame an innocent woman for possession
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of narcotics when he thinks nobody's looking. All right. So, you are going to jail
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today for possession of methamphetamine. What? Officer Wester is no stranger to controversy. And this is one of three
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cases that landed him in a world of trouble and proves precisely why many people don't trust the police. Wester
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pulled over a vehicle containing a couple and three kids. For seemingly no reason whatsoever, he decided he was
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going to frame someone in his car as a drug addict and concoct a makebelieve story which will all be captured on his
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own body camera. He's going to say he's found evidence of meth inside the vehicle while the couple's three
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terrified children are crying in the back seat. On the outside, it seems as though Weser is playing everything by
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the books. But when he gets back to his patrol vehicle, he reveals on his body cam exactly what he's really thinking.
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I love it when they don't pull out the road, man. I mean, she is tripping out up there, son.
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Hey. All right. Um, I found your stuff. Look, we make traffic stops out here for
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drug introduction purposes. Okay. Is there anything illegal in the vehicle? Any concern? Bombs, hand grenades,
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anything like that. Okay. Do this for me. I know it's hot, but switch the car off real quick and just, man, as soon as
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he finishes, you can turn it back on. It's just that that'll mess up the dog's nose if he smells the the fumes. I'm
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going to keep the traffic off since we're a little bit in the roadway and let him do his thing. Y'all do this
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because the Alabama's tag or N I I do this 20 30 times a shift, man. Make traffic stops. We deploy the K9.
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It's nothing personal at all, man. [Applause] Boy, Morat. In Florida, police don't necessarily
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have the right to search your vehicle, but if a K9 unit was to detect the sense of drugs, then that gives cops the
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probable cause they need to perform a search. But there's an argument about the reliability of K9 units and the
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ability for cops to simply lie and say that the dog flagged when it really didn't. And that's exactly what Wester's
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plan is. All right, man. Look, that was a positive alert to the odor of narcotics
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emitting from in the from the interior of the vehicle. That that does give me probable cause to
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search the vehicle. Okay. All right. And I know we've got some babies back there,
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and I know it's hot outside. Um I am going to search the vehicle. Um how hard would it be for y'all to get the kids
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out and hang out with them real quick? No. All right, that's fine. Hop out. Follow car.
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That's right, man. By the cop car. Y'all just hang tight. That pill bottle is what is going to use
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to set this couple up. It's a legitimate medication, but Wester's about to test the substance in a bottle and completely
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fake the results on camera. Man, it's hot. Both of y'all use Eedin. She does because she's had headaches
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here lately. Hey, you don't mind? Take this gentleman and the kids just up to the van up
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there. I need to have a conversation with this young lady right here. Yeah, abs. Absolutely. And they can turn
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the air on. That's fine. Um Okay. Westerers just performed a field drugs test. The test came out pink and it was
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picked up on his body camera despite his efforts to hide it. Pink signifies a negative test and now the couple should
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be free to go. But he's about to lie and actually become a criminal himself. Do you recognize this bottle right here
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that was in the trash bags? Yeah. Don't worry about how long ago. Okay. All right. Um, look at at this
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point you are detained. Okay. All right. I ain't going to put you in handcuffs in
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front of your kids or anything like that, but I need to ask you some questions. Okay. That white little
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eedrin bottle. Yeah. Okay. Bottom corner with the way it was positioned. I opened it up. There is a
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crystallized substance in the bottle of that bottle in the bottom of it. Okay. I
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tested it there. It did return a presumptive positive for methamphetamine here on the side of the road. So my
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question is, right, so my question is, first of all, is it yours? Second, do you know where
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it came from? Yeah, he bought it. He bought it. Okay. I have migraines. Okay. When did you put that bottle in
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the bag or did you put the bottle in the bag? We just put it in there today. Is there anything on you? Any No
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narcotics, anything like that? Nothing. Nothing. I don't do anything. I smoke cigarettes
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and drink pepper. All right. So, you don't you don't use any kind of narcotics or anything? Okay.
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Never have. No. No. Okay. I like I said, I don't mess with that stuff. You've never messed with it in the past?
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No. It's no wonder the female passenger looks stunned as she has no idea what Wester is talking about. Either she came
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into contact with meth through someone else or this cop is lying. Do y'all I mean have y'all ever had
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anybody ride in the vehicle with you at any any chance? Because because I'm going to be honest with you. Here's
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where I'm at right now. Right now you are in constructive possession of methamphetamine. my brother and my
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sister, him and my sister, um, they used to do it, but since she had her kids taken away, I mean, they
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live in Wasaw, right? So, I just went over there to pick up some money for my mama and was going home. That's all I
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was doing. So, let me ask you this question. The driver of this vehicle, I'm guessing
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that's your husband. Does he use methamphetamine? No. Does he use any kind of illegal
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narcotics? No. Doesn't smoke weed? Nothing like that. Okay. All right. Wester must have thought he was home
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free when she mentions she just visited family and they've had problems with drug addiction in the past. He's going
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to use this to his advantage and tell this innocent woman she's going to jail while trying to blame it all on her own
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family. If she was found guilty of possession of meth, she could face 5 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. All
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right. So, you are going to jail today for possession of methamphetamine because it was on your side of the
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vehicle. It was on the bag. Whenever you were looking for your ID, you would reach in there. You would touch the bag.
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Okay. So, you are in possession of that today. All right. Don't do nothing. What I'm going to do, though, since that
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young little boy is looking back, I'm not going to put you in handcuffs. Okay? Nothing on you, right?
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No. I swear to God nothing on me. All right. Going to have a seat in the back of my car right here.
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Look, man. She's going to jail for possession of methamphetamine. And that Exedan bottle that y'all saw me
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pull out. Okay. There is a crystallized substance that tested here on the side of the road. tested for something
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positive for methamphetamine. How's that? Two drugs a day in her life. It was in the bag that I saw her
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fiddling with whenever she was looking for her ID. Okay. Now, with all that being said, by no means am I saying
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she's a bad person. Understand that's not where I'm coming from. The state of Florida entrusts us to be a factf
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finder. Okay? So, right now she is in constructive possession of methamphetamine. Now, she told me after
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I read her her rights, I'm not going to read you your rights. I have no reason to because you're not detained. You're
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not under arrest or anything like that. But I do want some clarification if you can help me out with something. She told
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me that y'all were just out of residence in Walsaw. We was with people that use methamphetamine.
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Yeah. That would be her sister and her sister's old man. So my advice in the future, don't let
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people that she's going down for that. Yes, sir. And and let me explain. It's a felony in the state of Florida. I don't
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really have discretion in the state of Florida, brother. Okay. Wester is clearly loving every moment that he sets
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up these two innocent people and he wants to be there until she's locked away in her jail cell.
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Never been there before. I'm going to let the jail staff know whenever I get there. Actually, I'll
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walk in with her and I'll let them know that she's upset and she's scared and they might be able to do something. Put
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her in her own holding cell or something for tonight. They might be able to work
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something out. I've never been there before. Right. Listen, man. I want your word
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that you'll be careful you lit around that damn vehicle been in the car. Okay. We're not going back over there no more.
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Okay. We're not going back over there no more after this. Get your insurance squared away.
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I'm take care of that right now. All right, man. Y'all free to go. Hey, if they give you a drug test, you're
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going to pass it, right? Since you don't have any kind of criminal history. Sometimes what they can do is they can
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give you what's called PTI, which is pre-trial intervention. That if you can go like a year with random drug test,
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it's like the charges go away. Now, by no means am I saying that's what they're going to do because after I drop you
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off, it's kind of out of my hands. The biggest takeaway I'm telling you is, you know, you told me that you were around
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the people that use methamphetamine. You got kids in the car. Got to be careful.
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You can't let other people do that. The woman was arrested for possession, but the charge was later dropped. Wester
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would eventually get caught out for his extremely underhanded tactics and faced justice in a courtroom a few months
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later. It turns out this wasn't the only time he'd done this exact thing. And he
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was sentenced to up to 12 years for trying to put a series of completely innocent people in jail on fake charges.
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But begging a fellow officer to turn off his body cam is significantly dumber than what Wester tried.
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Yeah, we're hot. It all starts with a 911 call about a trailer that's been reported stolen in
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broad daylight. This trailer is worth $10,000 and its size makes it easy to spot. But what makes it even easier is
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the damage it sustained as it crashed into a gate during the escape, causing visible marks to one side of the
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trailer. An alert is sent out to the local police and the trailer is found in no time at all. Hey,
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step out. Step out. Put your hands on the corner. This trailer is showing stolen.
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Oh, I didn't steal it. Okay. Well, that's what you got pulled over for. That's why you're detained
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and I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Okay. This guy said I could stay in this
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trailer right here. I don't know nothing about it. All right. We're trying to get your ID.
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We're going to walk back here. We're going to have a seat in my car for just a minute and we're going to get this
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figured out. Understood? Okay. All right. So far, everything is being done by the
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books. And these cops have probable cause to pull the driver over, who denies stealing the trailer at all. This
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traffic stop is about to become very personal for one officer who could face some seriously difficult questions for
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turning his body camera off while at a crime scene. Male driver, female passenger.
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Turn off your body. Can you record me? Yeah, we're hot. Turn it off. We can't shut it down. We got 105s.
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It's okay. Everything good? Just check it out for a second. Somebody shut it down and talk to me
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real quick. All right. Well, everything is it is it the Is it the victim? What's the problem? Shut your [ __ ] down
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and talk to me, please. Tim, will you stand right here with her? Yes, sir. I sure will.
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All right. Turn it off. We can't shut this [ __ ] off. Put it on my head or something.
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I need to talk to somebody real quick. Okay. Is there something screwed up with the case or is it something personal?
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It's personal. Okay. Body cameras are not only crucial in providing evidence in court, they are
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key in maintaining transparency and trust within communities. But it's unusual for a cop to make a request like
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this. But his fellow cop refuses to comply, only putting his body camera down to find out what the problem is.
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Okay. All right. We'll handle that. That That's not a problem. That's personal. We'll handle that.
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That's nothing to do with the case. All right. Let's go up here. Let's slow it down and let's go get a statement from
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him. We'll deal with that in a minute. Okay. I ain't shut my damn body camera off. He
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He can kick rocks. I ain't doing that [ __ ] I was here during the 2017 debacle. I ain't shutting that [ __ ] off.
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It was never confirmed exactly why the cop wanted the body cameras turned off so much, but some people think it was
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because he knew the suspect and wanted to tell the officers to call the search off. That cop did everything he could to
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avoid being caught on camera. Unlike this next one who forgot to turn his camera off, and made some truly
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horrifying comments. She went up on the hood, hit the windshield, flew off the car, but she is
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dead. This is officer Otterer laughing and joking about a woman who's been innocently killed by police. This
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footage was captured a day after a traffic incident in Seattle where a woman in her 20s was killed by a police
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car speeding to an emergency. The accident itself was nothing more than a tragedy as the officer driving was doing
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over 70 mph responding to a call that was described as high priority. Um I'm sure uh Oh, he's good. He says,
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"Well, normally we don't give voluntary statements." And I I said, "Hey, you're going to have to decide if you wanted to
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give a statement or not, but it does not seem like there's a criminal investigation going on." He's going 50.
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That's not out of control. That's not reckless for a train driver. Initially, he said she was in a crosswalk. Uh
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there's a witness that says no, she wasn't. But that witness could be different because I don't think she was
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thrown 40 ft either. Even though it was nothing more than an accident, the officer involved must go through a drug
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test, and that test was conducted by Officer Otter. This appalling lack of humanity from the officer was captured
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the day after when he was caught on camera showing his true colors while talking about the case.
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I think she went up on the hood, hit the windshield, then when he hit the brakes,
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flew off the car. But she is dead. [Music] No, it's a regular person. Yeah, just
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write a check. Yeah, $11,000. She was 26 anyway. She had limited value. Officer Otter's views are pretty clear,
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but not if you ask him. The video was later discovered by an employee within the Seattle Police Department and turned
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over for investigation. David later justified his comments, saying that they were intended to mock the lawyers that
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will be involved in the case. His fate remains unknown at this time. Last we heard, he was pulled off duty and it was
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recommended he would be fired.