expvideo
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I was watching COPS last night, and I saw a bit from Pittsburg, PA, where two undercover drug officers arrested a guy for possession of a crack pipe. The arrest was dirty from the word go. Here's what happened:
The guys are driving down the street to where they say is a drug neighborhood. They see a guy walk away from the window of a car. Cop 1 is driving and Cop 2 says "look, he just walked away from that window". The officers talk about how he was probably buying drugs. They stop the car and jump out, and say "Police, come here we want to talk to you". The guy says "Yeah, so what?" and keeps walking. They take him with force and toss him around a bit while he resists them. They cuff him and have him spread his legs. Cop 1 searches him and finds a crack pipe in his right pocket. They toss him around a bit more and he resists them some more. A uniformed officer shows up and they put him in the patrol car. Cop 1 says that when they saw the guy, Cop 2 said that he saw him with a crack pipe in his hand and told him that he saw the guy put the crack pipe in his right pocket.
Up to this point,I knew the guy could get the case dropped against him due to the illegal search (there was no probable cause to search him what-so-ever. He lived in the neighborhood and he was walking away from his neighbor's car window). But then Cop 1 lied and made up a story about how Cop 2 had seen the crack pipe, generating probable cause! I couldn't believe my eyes! This is how cops get charges like this to stick. They search and then claim that they had probable cause AFTER they find whatever the perp has!
I was so furious, but I had no idea what to do about this. These cops need to be off the streets! Please, can someone help me find out what can be done about this? I mean there is a very clear video that was played on national television that shows them lieing to generate probable cause, there has to be something I can do about this! I won't stand around and watch this happen in my country; it's unamerican!
I was watching COPS last night, and I saw a bit from Pittsburg, PA, where two undercover drug officers arrested a guy for possession of a crack pipe. The arrest was dirty from the word go. Here's what happened:
The guys are driving down the street to where they say is a drug neighborhood. They see a guy walk away from the window of a car. Cop 1 is driving and Cop 2 says "look, he just walked away from that window". The officers talk about how he was probably buying drugs. They stop the car and jump out, and say "Police, come here we want to talk to you". The guy says "Yeah, so what?" and keeps walking. They take him with force and toss him around a bit while he resists them. They cuff him and have him spread his legs. Cop 1 searches him and finds a crack pipe in his right pocket. They toss him around a bit more and he resists them some more. A uniformed officer shows up and they put him in the patrol car. Cop 1 says that when they saw the guy, Cop 2 said that he saw him with a crack pipe in his hand and told him that he saw the guy put the crack pipe in his right pocket.
Up to this point,I knew the guy could get the case dropped against him due to the illegal search (there was no probable cause to search him what-so-ever. He lived in the neighborhood and he was walking away from his neighbor's car window). But then Cop 1 lied and made up a story about how Cop 2 had seen the crack pipe, generating probable cause! I couldn't believe my eyes! This is how cops get charges like this to stick. They search and then claim that they had probable cause AFTER they find whatever the perp has!
I was so furious, but I had no idea what to do about this. These cops need to be off the streets! Please, can someone help me find out what can be done about this? I mean there is a very clear video that was played on national television that shows them lieing to generate probable cause, there has to be something I can do about this! I won't stand around and watch this happen in my country; it's unamerican!