Craziest cop video! I’ve seen in a while!

[USMC302]

Unprofessional Officer. Sad that it takes a civilian to get it on tape to validate a complaint.

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Originally Posted by USMC302

Unprofessional Officer. Sad that it takes a civilian to get it on take to validate a complaint.

and a tape recorder works pretty good, too. not just a camera.

[Mr 5 0]

This kind of thing happens quite often. Mix a young driver with a smirk and a cop with an attitude of entitlement and a false sense of power who expects lots of frightened looks and 'yes,sir, no sir' responses from anyone he chooses to stop, for any reason, and doesn't react sensibly when his latest target seems to (a) not be scared of his authority, and, (b) doesn't back down when threatened. This isn't what these kind of neurotics with a badge are used to and they immediately feel threatened when their usual bully tactics don't work. So, they go ballistic and, in this case, are filmed and caught. Now, the brass have to try and cover for the cop and hope this all blows over. I hope it doesn't. I've known a few cops and they hate these kind of whackados that make all cops look bad. Unfortunately, most police forces, large and small, are infested with them.

Although I have a sneaky suspicion that 'Brett" set this up, in a sense, the cop could have acted reasonably and the recording would be useless against him. Most professional law enforcement officers like the idea of a camera recording their arrests and traffic stops because it protects them from accusations of 'brutality' and so on and of course, knowing the camera is recording tends to keep most cops from going bonkers and treating a citizen, especially one not under arrest, with less than civility.

In any case, the cop in question should be fired - but he probably won't be. Expect him to be ordered to attend 'sensitivity training', 'anger management' and other touchy-feely 'classes' as his 'punishment' along with a period of suspension and, most likely, a stern talking-to by the Chief of Police. Yeah, that'll fix him.

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Just an update....

ST. GEORGE, Mo. — A suburban St. Louis police officer whose berating of a motorist was captured on video has lost his job.

Aldermen in the tiny town St. George voted 5-0 to fire Sgt. James Kuehnlein. The vote occurred Monday in a session closed to the public. Notice of the firing was posted Wednesday at City Hall.

Motorist Brett Darrow, 20, had a video recorder inside his car. He was at a commuter lot near Interstate 55 in the early hours of Sept. 7 when the officer approached the car.

In a video that got wide viewership on the Internet, Kuehnlein is heard taunting and threatening Darrow, sometimes shouting and using profanity.

Darrow had met with Police Chief Scott Uhrig after the incident to ask that Kuehnlein be fired.

"It's what I wanted the whole time," Darrow told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "The conduct was not forgivable."

Uhrig said he recommended that aldermen fire Kuehnlein based both on his language in the tape and because he violated department policy. That's because Kuehnlein should have been taping the encounter himself with his police car's camera.

No such footage could be found, though the camera is functional, Uhrig said.

The monthly board of aldermen meeting Thursday night was moved to a community center to accommodate the overflow crowd. About 30 people showed up, some defending their town and saying they were proud of their police force.

"This city needs to keep its own police department," said Mike Mosier, a former St. Louis police officer who has lived in St. George for 42 years.

But Alderman Carmen Wilkerson said she fielded dozens of calls from residents in recent days. She said many were from residents who said they were humiliated and embarrassed by the incident.

Aldermen said they planned to review how officers are hired and said the city attorney had looked into the cost of having St. Louis County patrol the city.

Kuehnlein's attorney, Travis L. Noble, said the officer received a letter Thursday detailing the reasons for his firing. Noble said he would review the letter with his client before deciding on a course of action.