I can only hope and pray that the family sues the police dept. if I was a juror, I would award them the money and fire that damn cop for being a pussy.

They all make me sick to the pits of my stomach.

And did you notice the finger gesture he gave the camera man after he refused to talk to the reporter and got in his car?

A real model of professional decorum, this guy!

Not that many people can dial 911 and say with a straight voice: My father is having a seizure. May you please send an ambulance to my house at (address)? Thank you very much.

Demand Sgt Robert Mcfarland be fired over this incident!
-Lincoln Park, Michigan contacts:
Chief of Police, Thomas Karnes
email: tkarnes@citylp.com
(313) 381-1800
-City Manager,Steve Duchane
sduchane@citylp.com
(313) 386-1800 EX 231
-Police Department
1427 Cleophus
Lincoln Park MI 48146

Fuckin Pigs!

If there were any justice the guy would be fired, brought up on charges of false arrest, fined, sentenced to 8 or 10 months of jail time and be required to pay the girl 20 or 30 thousands dollars.

Until there are serious consequences for misbehavior of those in authority their attitudes and actions won’t change.

http://www.wxyz.com/mediacenter/local.aspx?videoId=15163@wxyz.dayport.com&navCatId=16

This happened last fall … here’s the full story (with transcript of the video): http://www.wxyz.com/mostpopular/story/WILSON-Emergency-Aid-Delayed/8UXeuN7eFkytW0KGC5IDKg.cspx

I don’t care how many commendations he has, nor how few negative personnel actions; that says nothing about how many investigations he’s been under, nor how many were sustained. How many times have we seen officers promoted after egregious abuses? The promotion “proves” that they were right all along.

I bet my dollar against yours that this guy is a known problem, known to his department and his chief, which is why he’s making $62,000 doing what non-sworn personnel do in most departments, for a lot less money.

Because we live in a police state.

1. Cops don’t swear. Everyone knows that. And if they do, one admonition from a citizen is all it takes to get them to apologize and clean up their act. This explains why the 911 cop and the desk cop were so unprepared to deal with the girl’s use of the explicatives. To them, the use of fowl language is nearly the same as a physical assault. As Oliver Wendell Holmes specifically said, “You no more have the right to say FUCK to a cop than yell FIRE in a crowded theater.”

2. The officer had a clean record. That is proof positive that this officer has never had any behavioral problems in the past because, as we know, all complaints are properly investigated by a disinterested third party and if it were determined that the officer acted inappropriately, they would, without exception, have punished him severely. Any future behavioral infractions would have resulted in even more severe punishment, most likely loss of his job and a charge of disorderly conduct. And we all know how prosecutors love to go after cops. So, who are you going to believe? This 911 tape or the word of a distinguished police officer who has never been in trouble in his life?

3. Cops don’t make up laws and they don’t lie. There was just a misunderstanding. The woman probably offered to go in the back room and begged to be arrested and they were merely trying to accommodate her, being the good public servants that they are. Then she probably tried to bribe them into not telling anyone about her using the F-word and flew into another tirade when they stubbornly refused to take whatever she was offering (probably sex and money). But you don’t hear the cops making a big public to-do out of that aspect do you? Nope. Because cops respect citizens and don’t hold them accountable for little things they do when they’re upset.

4. Cops should never be approached by news men. Cops have privacy rights just like the rest of us and all the news does is twist the facts (of which this entire case is a perfect example) and make cops look bad when, if people heard the real story, the cops would be totally vindicated.

5. Despite this woman’s repeatedly hanging up on the 911 operator, he heroically persevered until he was able to discern that that an emergency might be happening and sent help in the form of rescue squad and another copy of himself to the scene to ensure that the woman would receive that personal one-on-one interaction that cops are so famous for. Aggressive lessons in citizen-to-cop etiquette would have most likely been administered if she had been there when they arrived. And let’s not leave out the fact that this valuable instruction would have been provided free!

6. A life was saved. What more is there to say than that? If the cop hadn’t been able to bring to bear all of his 20 years of police experience to calm the hysterical woman down and get coherent information from her, her dad might be dead now. How ungrateful it is that no one appreciates that the cops are always there when we need them and very often even when we don’t need them.

So there. Don’t you all feel just terrible now?