- hegemonic-policing
- police-power-trip-id
- police-power-over (2)
- police-state
- police have a compulsive need for ID to exercise power over (2)
- cameras are perceived as a threat to authority: police are called
- they hate cameras because they hate accountability and the exercise of rights: “The first Amendment, all that crap….” That’s fascist talk.
- Violate 1st Amendment by ordering handcuffed person to stop speaking. “If you don’t cooperate, I’ll tow your vehicle.”. Aim flashlight at camera. Tell cameraman to leave. Threaten cameraman with jail. Citizens suffer. Police suffer no consequences.
- tase those who don’t give you the respect you think you deserve
- Plan to tase someone in the rest of the shift is someone prior didn’t give you the respect that you deserve.
- contempt of cop/retaliation (2) (3) (4)
- Illegal traffic stop: Put down that camera! (contempt of cop power trip + dash camera)
- power trip: you have a bad attitude, escalate: bow down to me (2) (3)
- threaten to punch arrestee who they retaliate against, but don’t have reason to charge and they claim they must identify for “his safety”
- Power Tripping Cop Targets Same Driver Every Day At Same Address, Leaves With Just A Warning
- abusive and disrespectful
- Retaliate for asking why they were pulled over
- Don’t tell me what to do (don’t ask them to follow the law or cite the law justifying a arrest). Claim his is their police building. Suppress video evidence.
- escalate unnecessarily (Ego), if in doubt arrest and drop charges later
- Retaliate against those who prove them wrong (they are innocent) as a power trip
- power trip: threaten to arrest if they don’t get ID, search truck
- Petty Power Over: harass for bogus littering fishing charge, refuse to investigate, littering charge disproved, but still insist on ID, retaliate, and secure gun “for my safety”, misrepresent as a traffic stop to coerce ID, copsplain and let him off on a warning to prevent a lawsuit. Never admit they were wrong.
- Massive Retaliation if told “No”
- threaten made-up charges to get ID feed to the system as punishment, trump up charges as retaliation (narcissism? ego. although auditors got caught in mimetic complaining)
- Police refuse to identify and give CAD number because they have a power trip – they must be the one in charge, with power over
- Bring charges over a false arrest and threaten to break finger, then drop them the day before the jury trial begins.
- If you want to talk to our supervisor, you can, but you will be in handcuffs
- You know you’re being harrassed when you feel the need to invest in a dash camera.
- ego: driver laughed at the officer’s absurd and trumped up charges | start looking up violations when ego hurt
- want to ensnare you in the legal system and see you pay lawyers fees: the legal process is part of the punishment
- Abuser: blame victim for causing the problem.
- racial profiling: withdrawing cash from your own account using debit card and ID
- Photographic Impunity: High Ranking Police arrest photographer for photographing police building from sidewalk and use bogus interference charge to preserve immunity.
- Don’t want to extend the same rights to us as they reserve for themselves. (Travis)
- cascading (illegal) arrests: tape suppressed (arrest who Baltimore neighborhood)
- Police feel need to control cameraman by threatening arrest for failure to ID
- militarization of police
- retaliatory escalation over cameraman providing transparency
- escalate trespass against deaf elderly woman, sending her to jail, breaking her arm, then defended their actions
- Should not deal with people with mental illness. They are trained to escalate the use of force.
- Target those to protest their unlawful treatment
- Don’t know how to deescalate power trips, including power trips by private security guards
Police abuse loitering and prowling laws to bait and escalate an encounter by a harassing and bullying a Miami pedestrian.