A police officer arrested two innocent children at gunpoint. Now they are asking the Supreme Court to hold the officer accountable.

Rarely a day goes by that Americans don’t hear news of police wrongfully arresting someone. In many ways, Americans have grown numb to the fact that police and other government officials routinely violate our Fourth Amendment rights. But today, an Arkansas family working with the Institute for Justice (IJ), a nonprofit public interest law firm, has asked the Un­­­­ited States Supreme Court to reaffirm one of this country’s most important founding principles: that when government officials violate our constitutional rights, citizens can hold them accountable in court.

The case started in January 2018, when Haden and Weston Young—two boys, aged 12 and 14—were heading home from their grandparents’ house after a family dinner. As they approached their home, a police car came around the corner with its lights on. The car stopped and the officer emerged with his gun drawn. He had no reason to believe that two boys who were walking calmly toward his car posed any threat. And yet, within moments, the officer—who was looking for two grown men who’d fled from police earlier—shouted “get on the ground,” handcuffed the boys, and held them at gunpoint.

The boys’ mom, Casondra “Cassi” Pollreis, watched the scene unfold from her front yard. She rushed to the scene and pleaded with the officer, “They are my boys!” The officer ignored her pleas, pointed his Taser at her and shouted to get back inside. For six terrifying minutes the boys lay face down on a sidewalk while the officer paced around them with his gun pointed at their backs. Eventually the officer’s sergeant arrived, assessed the scene, immediately realized a mistake had been made and let the boys go. The officer got back in his car, closed the door, and said to himself “duuummb.” He knew that what he did was wrong.

The incident didn’t end that night. Cassi and the boys talked with a lawyer and decided to file a federal civil rights lawsuit against the officer for making a wrongful arrest. The district court agreed and found that the officer had violated the boys’ Fourth Amendment rights, writing that “handcuffing two boys laying facedown on the ground, at gunpoint,” was “more intrusive than necessary.” But the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in a divided opinion, found that the boys had never been “arrested” at all. Instead, it said that what constitutes an arrest “can be hazy,” and that the officer’s conduct did not violate the Fourth Amendment.

Now, with the help of IJ, Cassi and her boys have asked the United States Supreme Court to take up their case. Today they filed a Petition for Certiorari asking the Court to rein in the ever-expanding doctrine of “stop and frisk” and make clear that the Fourth Amendment protects citizens from being arrested without probable cause.

Police brutality caught on tape and victim wins

Marcus Jeter talks to the Morning Show about his encounter with the Bloomfield’s Police and his road for justice.

Ignorant Police Officer thinks he can “Educate” Citizen

  • My take from all of these I watch is the badge carriers are trying to intimidate the auditor to let them know what’s going to happen whenever they do this and also discourage others by powering down on anyone whoever chooses to do this. Major kudos to those who’s calling is being an auditor, not everyone can do it professionally. Those who are called to this are a major part of bringing in a whole new better breed of policing to our communities.

 

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  • I believe leo learns only traffic violations, disorderly conduct, interfering, and obstructing for which they can either raise revenue or put you in cuffs. Why leo believes that anyone that knows laws has to be a lawyer is so telling on how ignorant they choose to be.
  • This is why the silent treatment is the best. They’ll either arrest you illegally or they’ll leave because you’re not breaking the law
  • The 911 dispatchers need to be trained and have the ability to shut these calls down and issue a fine to the caller for misuse of the emergency system.
  • I spent four years learning law and watching these cops makes my brain hurt. They don’t have knowledge on penal code or case law.
  • The cop doesn’t want a conversation he is bored and wants to harass the public.
  • Thankfully, “Making people uncomfortable” is not a crime! If it were then every other cop would be in jail!🤔🤣
  • Dude , you’ve touched on exactly what i comment about when i view so many videos and the interaction between auditors and public servants ! Will there ever be a requirement for Leo’s and other other government servants to have basic knowledge of laws and constitutional rights before being approved for employment .
  • Lol . The irony of the cops statement ” Do you want me to educate you or are you going to keep being ignorant”
  • I keep waiting for one of the Auditors to start telling cops “I got a call” when they ask what they’re doing.
  • You are exactly correct. I had to do two years if schooling and eat two years of shit paying my dues until I racked up enough hours to take my electrician journeyman test. The same goes for every trade in the construction business. Why after only six months academy school do they hand these guys a gun and a badge?
  • I would know more valid law info from a day of Wikipedia than any cop.
  • I noticed the citizen called him officer and the cop says “It’s corporal”. This shows a mentality that he believes he is above the citizen and that the citizen should acknowledge his rank.
  • “I got a call”. The prelude to violating your rights.

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