good morning this is daniel from
copwatch tv and we are going to do
another live event this morning just
like we did last week what's really
important is the interaction with the
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while people are still coming into the
chat we did have some questions from
last week that either came in after the
live was over or during the live that
you know i just wasn't prepared to
answer so i do think that engaging with
the audience is
is um um
important so we do have answers to some
of those to some of those questions
so let me at least get to
one or two of them you know while people
are still still coming into into this
this live
so last week someone asked about because
we did post and the audience really
likes videos about people getting
arrested for driving while intoxicated
just the raw police body cam video for
driving while intoxicated arrests and we
have posted several videos about that so
someone asked a really good question and
it was why do police officers give the
standardized field sobriety tests why
not just go right to a breath test
that's a really good question and the so
what they mean by the standardized field
sobriety test that's essentially the
three different tests that officers give
on the side of the road the walk and
turn test the one leg stand test and
then the first test is the one where the
officer is tracking the eyes
so the reason is is because a breath
test machine which is typically used by
law enforcement agencies it's called an
intoxilyzer 8000 police officers can't
have those in their vehicles so that's
nothing that's portable so they're only
at the substation so in order for a
police officer to get a driver from the
road and transport them physically which
is a seizure under the fourth amendment
to a substation
in place that there would have to be
probable cause for an arrest well in
order to get to probable cause for
arrest police officers use these
standardized field sobriety tests to see
if there are signs of impairment so it's
once that investigation is over with and
then only if there's probable cause to
believe that someone is driving while
under the influence it's at that point
that a police officer can make an arrest
and take someone for breath test and
that is the reason why standardized
field sobriety tests are given and why
police officers just don't go right to a
breath test and again that is an
absolute excellent question
we do have a couple others that came in
after but if anybody has any in the chat
that they would like me to go over or
comments about past videos um i i
definitely like to
engage with that now so let's see what
we have going on here in the chat
uh so we do have some information about
or some people talking about the the
uvalde shooting so there isn't a
question on that but you know i think
that's still on everybody's minds and it
absolutely should be because it was a
horrible tragedy that happened
and we have a couple different entities
so we have the uvalde city police
department and then we have the uvalde
independent schools districts and the
school district has its own police
department and the chief of that is pita
aradando so pete arredondo he was the
incident commander when this incident
took place
he's the police chief of the school
district which has
six different schools so one interesting
thing about what's happening there is
that prior to
this incident happening
pete airdondo the chief he ran for city
council and he actually won he won a
seat on the city council
he got over 70 percent of the vote so
locally he was an extremely popular
person
and the swearing-in of the city council
was scheduled to happen one week after
the uvalde shooting occurred so
there was a lot of
questions about well is he still going
to be sworn in and there's nothing in
the texas state constitution or in the
local charter that would prevent that so
it wasn't widely publicized but in a
secret ceremony that i say secret
because typically these are public these
are public events but it was exactly one
week after the uvalde school shooting
pete arredondo was sworn in as a city
councillor
in the uvalde texas
so that is something that's kind of
interesting going on there
let's see if we have any other comments
questions in the
in the chat
uh
tom doerfler why are cops cowards that
is a that's that's
well i'm gonna
i don't think that's a great question so
if if you
if there's a specific incidence
about you think police officers did
something incorrectly or acted cowardly
if you want to put that in the chat and
then let's talk about a specific
incident the reason is is because
there's over seven
000 law enforcement officers so to say
that all police are anything probably
isn't accurate saying that they're all
cowards all heroic all good all bad that
just probably isn't an inaccurate
description to talk about a group of
over 700 thousand people but if you have
a specific incident that you want to
talk about
i'm more than happy to because the goal
of this isn't to make police officers
look good or police officers look bad
the goal is that of this is to be is to
be honest and to look at incidents and
when police officers make mistakes or do
something incorrect it is more important
to call that out and to talk about it so
we don't make the so police officers
either don't make that kind of mistake
again or they can learn from that
mistake so that's the goal of this but
yeah if you have any specific questions
about an incident more than happy to
talk about it
um
how does this channel feel about actual
cop watchers well i can't speak for the
entire channel because we have
people here who do who do
research and production but
the way that i feel about cop watchers
and i've actually talked um a lot about
this incident and just just to be as as
honest as i can be when it comes to
channels like i'm gonna i'm gonna give
someone a shout out like long island
audits and channels like that
when i watch things like that
a lot of us you can just binge it
because it's just so interesting so i
love videos like that i think they're
interesting and most of the time and a
lot of the videos that i watch the cop
watchers are doing you know
constitutionally protected activity so
they will go into a post office and they
will just just record and then police
officers are called and really they're
essentially doing a test on the police
officers or an audit to see if the
police officers are going to violate
their constitutionally protected rights
so i i think it's they're absolutely
legal to do that and the videos are
interesting and you know from the side
of police what i when i watch and what i
hope for is that the police officers are
nice that they are polite they are
professional they give their name and
badge number and they do not violate
anybody's constitutional rights um so
those are some of my thoughts about
about the cop watchers or the or or the
auditors
let's see
all right so um when it comes to a
polygraph so we did get a question about
a polygraph and so a lie detector test
and whether or not a lie detector test
is admissible in court and the short
answer is no so lie detector tests are
not admissible in court they just don't
reach the standard that any court would
allow them in as evidence
now that doesn't mean that police
departments don't use them because they
do there are things where
just because a court may not recognize
it as part of an investigation into a
crime a police department uh detectives
with a police department might use them
as part of their investigation
just to see if they're on the right
track or wrong track
so
they are used by police departments it's
obviously it is on a voluntary basis
but the results no matter what they are
would not be admissible in court
so that's that's the situation when it
comes to polygraph tests they also use
polygraph tests in pre-hiring for law
enforcement so many police departments
do a polygraph test as part of the
initial battery of tests when hiring
someone to become a police officer
before the police academy so they are
not a hundred percent accurate can't be
used in court but law enforcement
agencies a lot of them do use them for
multiple different things
and we disabled patriots said police are
not liable for our safety by the law
that's absolutely correct and i think i
touched on this last week but just to
recap a little bit there are a couple
different supreme court cases the last
one i believe was in 2005 which
essentially said that police officers
cannot be held liable for not protecting
someone so there's no criminal liability
to police officers or civil liability to
police officers if they fail to act so
that is an absolute correct statement
there are a couple different supreme
court cases on that exact issue
we have a question from or comment from
kristin fe would you agree that police
officers should be
would you agree that police officers
should be required a lot more schooling
and training especially when it comes to
mental health so you asked about a
couple different things
so schooling
or and then training for mental health
so if we take those two issues a little
bit separately a lot of police
departments you know have in the past
required either 60 college credit hours
or a four-year degree
and that is
obviously not you know
what that hurts is is recruiting police
officers so when you look at different
police departments when they enact that
those types of policies the amount of
officers that they get hired
is less because the pool of people is
lower so i mean obviously that would be
up to each individual police department
whether or not they want to enact that
but if you can imagine a large
metropolitan police department that is
you know 300 officers short so in the
last two years the seattle police
department has lost 25 percent of their
officers they are doing everything they
can to recruit police officers from
around the country so in a situation
like that it probably wouldn't make a
lot of sense to have any kind of
educational requirement
but maybe for other police departments
that would now when it comes to mental
health training absolutely that is
something that all police officers
should have now it might be called
different things in different states but
usually it's called something to the
effect of crisis intervention training
and no matter how much of that training
you get it could be a 40 hour block or
an 80 hour block but no matter how much
training you get
from that a police officer is is never
going to be an almost never going to be
a mental health counselor so those types
of trainings are great police officers
should get as much of it as possible and
actually most states require it by state
law
for the training that officers have to
go through that there is yearly updates
on that so as much training as possible
when it comes to mental health is
absolutely fantastic what a lot of
police departments have also done is
they have mental health crisis units or
they call it something similar and
essentially what that is is where a
police officer and a master's level
mental health clinician actually ride
together and once other police officers
have made the scene safe so it's not a
dangerous and dynamic situation that the
mental health that the police officer
who has
extra training in mental health
awareness and a master's level clinician
can both go ahead and contact people in
the field so progressive police
departments and um um some of
that's a really good idea for police
departments to do and a lot of the
departments are doing that type of thing
to help with this issue
okay so corey asked if police are not
liable for our safety what is the point
of their existence why have them around
so when i when i say they're not liable
for our safety that means in court
so if you want a police officer to you
know doesn't protect you or does
something wrong or fails to act or makes
a mistake
not protecting someone they can't be
held liable in court so they can't go to
jail and they can't get sued civilly now
that doesn't mean
that there aren't department policies
that they violate so even though if a
police officer fails to act
just because they can't go to jail or
get sued civilly doesn't mean that they
didn't violate any different
protocols and if there is an incident
like that a lot of times what happens
with police officers is that there is
still an internal investigation and you
know possibly
mental health
they might look into the mental health
of the officer to see if this is an
actual good fit for him or her so
just just because and you can imagine a
situation where if someone fails to
protect someone in a pretty significant
incident that the other police officers
who work with that individual might not
think it's safe to work with that
individual so there is a point to police
officers and just because they can't go
to jail for it doesn't mean that most of
them don't protect people on a daily
basis
let's see so
let's see we have
any other
questions here
coming in
let's see
okay
all right so we have questions about
amber heard which is which is great
everybody knows that johnny depp
won that won that trial i think he won
15 million dollars but it was lower to
somewhere just over 10 million and amber
heard
one two million so johnny depp should
net somewhere around eight million
dollars um but her attorney has said
that she's going to appeal uh the
judgment which she can do however if
there weren't
you can't appeal like the amount but
amber heard would be able to appeal if
there were any legal problems legal
issues if if a judge made a mistake with
not allowing some evidence in
those are the kinds of issues that amber
heard can go ahead and appeal
her attorney has said that she doesn't
have eight million dollars to pay which
which also
could be an issue and if she tried to
declare bankruptcy this is one of those
things where declaring bankruptcy
actually wouldn't do anything to the
eight million dollar debt because if she
was found it was uh because the the
libel and the the defamation of
character it was an intentional act so
declaring bankruptcy wouldn't help her
at all so that's on johnny depp and
amber hurd
so dewitt jeremy dewitt
we do have some questions about jeremy
deguitt jeremy dewitt and his videos are
all over
the internet uh i believe we've done one
on him on cop watch tv he is a
serial police impersonator out of
florida near osceola county and in
orange county i believe he's in jail now
his videos he runs a
he ran a
company called metro state
that
did funeral escorts but he would outfit
the motorcycles
and the uniform that he would wear
in an effort to essentially look just
like a police officer he would have a
badge he would have what looks like a
gun if you just looked at it it would
just look like a gun but it was actually
a pepper ball gun but there was no
yellow or orange indication on it and
that one of the last times that he was
arrested was for
having that pepper ball gun while he was
driving around so just really quick on
that one and i'm not gonna defend jeremy
dewitt because he is a serial liar and
police impersonator and he records
everything on his own body cam and the
videos are absolutely hilarious it's
kind of like the the
auditor uh the
videos about the police auditors once
you start watching it you just can't get
enough of
jeremy dewitt body cam video but one of
the last times he was arrested and he
actually had kind of a good point
because he had a pepper ball gun and it
was not concealed he was carrying it in
an outside holster and he was stopped
and by police and he was arrested for
carrying a concealed
weapon well
he was stopped for the weapon so if the
officer can see it then it isn't
concealed which is a pretty logical
argument and jeremy actually made it on
scene um what's interesting about that
is the the sergeant who made that arrest
i can't remember which county it was in
florida
but he's actually
been up for termination because of
the the department has accused him of an
unlawful arrest of jeremy in that
particular case and i believe that he
has his hearing uh coming up soon so
that's one of the interesting turns in
that
um
okay uh let's see so
so we have a lot of people ask you know
why we do this channel you know what are
some of the what are some of the goals
of this channel and you know before we
before we talk about that you know again
i just want to thank everybody for
watching everybody who likes this
channel and subscribes and comments and
again anything that we can do better
please let us know meaning if you want
videos on certain topics if you want us
to do live events where we cover certain
topics please let us know we definitely
would like to but the reason that we
started this channel in the first place
is because we wanted the interaction the
raw interaction that police officers
have with individuals on the street from
someone's best day of their life to the
worst day of their life
when that's captured on body camera it's
such an amazing thing to be able to see
and to witness i mean before body camera
almost never before can just regular
people be able to watch what the
interactions of police officers are so
that's why we do this is to just put the
information out there and again the goal
isn't to make police look bad or make
police look good the goal is to be
honest and to
put out raw video of police interactions
that isn't edited and then you know i i
do come in with a lot of videos where i
answer where i give my opinion on the
video or i talk about i answer questions
about the video but that's really the
goal of this is to just put out the
honest and raw interactions that police
officers have with citizens
uh kristin fe says do you think citizen
should be disarmed so that's obviously
that's a controversial topic and no i
don't think that citizens should be
disarmed i i could talk about this for
an hour but kind of like the one the
other questions we had today where you
know it says that you know the supreme
court cases where it says that police
officers don't have a legal duty to
protect well if police officers don't
have a legal duty to protect it it seems
like that would shade more in the favor
of citizens wanting to be armed now i
think that when people talk about
reasonable
or
common sense gun control laws
i i don't want to just say
be negative or positive to that
statement what i'm more interested in is
what is the law what is the idea so
let's talk about the individual policy
that is being proposed and then let's
talk about what's the goal of that
policy so if we know what the policy is
and we know what the goal is and then we
could say okay is this the best way to
get there and i think that's an
interesting conversation to have and if
anybody has ideas about different gun
control laws or laws that are on the
books that you don't like
definitely put them in put them in the
comments you know we can go through them
and address them because that is an
incredibly interesting topic especially
you know after what happened in uvalde a
couple weeks ago there are a lot of
calls for different gun laws to come
into place now it should be noted that
the shooter in uvalde he broke several
gun laws so it's illegal in texas to
carry a concealed handgun unless you
have a concealed carry permit which he
didn't have it's also illegal to
carry a gun onto school premises so he
broke that law too he also broke our
murder laws so he broke a lot of laws
that day but if there are any laws or
policies that might be enacted to
maybe make some of this stuff these
shootings either not happen or be more
difficult i think it's definitely
extremely interesting to talk about
individual policies and what the goals
of those are all right so let's see
um
we have a question about trudeau in in
canada um but i'll get that here in a
second dj smith says hi everybody i'm
new to the channel well welcome dj if
you have any questions about any topics
or anything you like please let us know
and let's see
what do you think about the trudeau
ordering citizens in canada to disarm i
know that's canadian politics but
overall do you think that's radical yeah
i i do think it's radical and i'll be
100 transparent i don't know anything
about
canadian law unless it's jordan peterson
talking about free speech issues
politics in canada i'm just not all that
familiar with so i
wish i could talk more about it on a
legal level i just i just don't know to
me it seems like a bad idea but
if we do have anybody from canada that's
a good question do we have anybody from
canada on here that that knows that
might be able to add in a comment or
give a little more more context you know
we definitely like to hear from some
subject matter experts on the issue from
canada if we happen to have any
um so we have human
uh human dancer i was told he bought the
guns illegally so i'm not sure who we're
talking about but if we're talking about
the shooter in uvalde he did not buy the
guns illegally so they were all
purchased at firearm stores through
firearm dealers he did go through a
federal background check and because the
shooter
he passed that background check so
because he didn't have any criminal
convictions you know he didn't have any
felonies on his record a court never
found him mentally defective and there
were no restraining orders um against
him so those are some of the things
where if you have
any of those things on your record that
you know most of the time would make it
so you can't buy a firearm
i'm sure someone will correct me about
the restraining order thing that could
be state to state but you know those are
typically at least some of the elements
that are looked at and are sometimes a
barrier to purchasing firearms so he
didn't have any of those on his record
um
so reasonable question to ask is well he
was 18. so you know if everything from
his juvenile record is essentially
sealed the window of time from when he
turned 18 to when he bought the guns was
like a couple days so well of course
there isn't anything on his record so if
that's the question or the criticism i
think it's reasonable
uh let's see um
okay s m c g cops are only responsible
for enforcing the laws not give judgment
not punish someone but to write
paperwork and control situation they're
out of control yeah i think that's fair
um in in in the the
i spirit of police officers investigate
crimes but it's up to attorneys and
prosecutors to prosecute those crimes
and then judges to or jurors to
determine if someone is actually guilty
behind a reasonable doubt yeah so that's
that's absolutely fair
let's see what else we have going on
here
in the chat
where did he get the money so that was a
dj smith thank you where did he get the
money so that's a good question and i've
actually looked into that and as best i
could just trying to see what different
media outlets have said about that
because he was working at wendy's part
time and i the estimate of at least one
of the firearms that he purchased was
you know over two thousand dollars so
where did he get the money um that's a
good question no one as far as i know
has an answer to that yet um but he was
working a part-time job at wendy's so
who knows what other funds he might have
had but he bought expensive high-end
firearms and it seems like you know he
was a situation where he wasn't making a
whole lot of money but he was living at
home so who knows if he was paying rent
or had a car payment uh but
that that's a great question that we
just don't know yet where where he got
the money for that but he didn't put him
on credit card the reports are that he
didn't buy them on credit cards that you
know he actually paid in full for these
for the firearms and the ammo
let's see
polk county sheriff grady said openly
said we go in and yeah as we talked
about last week that's that's standard
operating procedure when there's an
active shooter police officers go in
there is no there's no waiting there is
no waiting till you have eight of your
best friends there to go in if there's
an active shooter whether it's at a
school a grocery store
any type of active shooter where there
is shooting going on the training and
the best practices for all of law
enforcement that i'm aware of is to you
go in as fast as you can towards the
gunshots and you take out the person
who's causing the harm as quickly as
possible
that's that's the standard that's the
training anything other than that is
law enforcement not doing their job so
yeah sheriff's like sheriff grady he's
on the news all the time he has a lot of
really good and interesting statements
and yeah he came out almost right away
and he made that statement which is a
good thing to do so let's see what else
we have
all right
let's see so one other question that we
had from last week is the jalen randall
shooting in houston so i was asked about
that okay so i'm going to talk about
that for a second so
not to get anybody's hopes up but i i
don't have an opinion on that shooting
yet but i have a lot of questions about
it so jalen randall in houston
the video the body camera video from
multiple officers are on
line on different different channels i
believe the houston police department
even came out and did a statement about
it but essentially it was a someone who
had a felony warrant there was a car
chase
jalen was the passenger the driver of
the car fled the police officers used a
pit maneuver to stop the car which is
for lack of a better term police
officers you have to be trained and
certified to do this but essentially
officers crash into the car
and
disable the car from moving forward once
the car was disabled jalen got out of
the passenger side and if you can
imagine it the officer pivet who was the
officer i believe i'm saying his name
right officer pavette who was the
shooter in this incident if you can
imagine it he was pretty much head-on
with the car that jalen was in so jaylen
exited from the passenger side and
officer pevet i believe also exited from
the passenger side so there are so
essentially the hoods of both of their
vehicles are kind of in between as jalen
exited the car he had a couple things in
his hand he had a bag and he had a shoe
as the officer was giving him commands
pretty quickly the officer fires one
shot
as soon as the officer fires a shot he
says oh
that was a fatal shot to jalen
they did find out later on that in that
bag there was a firearm
it was in the bag it wasn't he wasn't
holding the firearm
except that it was in the bag so he had
a bag and then a shoe in his hands
and
that's that's that situation so until we
know
so a reasonable question to ask is when
there's a police involved shooting if
after the officer shoots the officer
yells or says oh well that should
uh that should make reasonable people
ask questions like was this intentional
or was this not intentional so if we
just take a second to go down both of
those rabbit holes so if it was
intentional
then we need to hear from the police
officer about why he shot so in order
for a police officer to use deadly force
their head they have to be able to
articulate an immediate deadly threat to
themselves or someone else so what was
the perception from the police officer
on why he fired the shot in that moment
we don't know what that is so it's hard
to make a judgment on
the police officer state of mind now if
it was an accident then it's more of a
kim potter thing where
the officer wasn't doing it
intentionally so if an officer uses
force especially deadly force and it's
not intentional well there really isn't
an excuse for that
and we know what happens to police
officers who use deadly force on
accident
i mean kim potter just got
a little over two years well she got two
years but i think after the time already
served 16 months so it's it's i'm not
saying that you know when it comes to
anyone being convicted we can't say that
but it's definitely in the realm of
a criminal investigation if a police
officer uses deadly force
on accident or is is negligent in doing
so
so ben crump is the is the attorney for
the family he's made a lot of statements
recently obviously he's saying things
like he says in most cases which
if you're a good attorney represent ben
crump or attorneys who represents not
just victims of police shootings but any
attorney anywhere if they are doing
their job they are zealously advocating
for their client so they're not
necessarily worried about the truth or
being fair or being honest or being now
they can't outright lie but those aren't
the top concerns and they shouldn't be
the top concerns so they i mean they
can't outright lie but they have to
zealously represent their client i i may
disagree with a lot of the things that
ben crump says because i i don't always
think they're true but
he does a good job representing his
clients and he's been successful in
representing his clients which as as an
attorney
he does well as an attorney in that
respect anyways he is representing the
family in this case and he obviously
wants the police officer he wants the
police officer fired and he wants the
police officer charged with a crime he's
called for that publicly also
this officer pivet there was an incident
in 2017 where he was charged with either
assault or aggravated assault against
another individual so ben crump brought
that up as well the officer's history
now the the history of the officer has
most of the time is going to have very
little to do with the incident we're
talking about but that has been brought
up even though the charges against the
officer were dismissed in 2019 so that's
a little bit on the that's a little bit
on the uh
jalen randall shooting you know when we
have more information i can talk about
it more but it's it's it's hard to give
any more
opinion on it without having some more
information though the body cam is
available okay uh dj smith says what is
nd
i'm not i'm not sure we're talking about
north dakota i don't i don't know um
uh
or
so okay so i guess it would be negligent
discharge so nd so typically in
you know when when people are charged at
different things uh negligent discharge
of a firearm would be nd okay so um as
meg said has anyone ever asked you this
have you heard of policemen and normal
citizens working together and having a
cop beat someone and the citizen collect
money and share it with the officer no
i've never i've never heard of that i
said there are hundreds of thousands of
police officers some of them aren't good
so
i haven't i haven't heard of that but if
you have a situation where that happened
please let us know we can go ahead and
talk about it
and i just want to thank you so much for
asking that that question that was a
super chat question and um if you have
any more
on that please put it in the chat we'd
be more than happy to answer
unfortunately i just i haven't heard of
that happening it seems like if that
smcg it seems like if that did happen
that would be criminal on the part of
the police officer so not only would the
police officer most likely violate
internal policies but that officer would
likely be prosecuted as well and also
probably be prosecuted on the federal
level for civil rights violations so if
you have any information about that
happening let us know we'd love to talk
about an individual incident but nothing
that i can think of
that has ever happened
so pittman new dj smith's pit maneuvers
should be illegal yeah that that's
that's uh that's a good point so just
really quick on pit maneuvers
every department has different policies
on that but if a car is going over 30 or
35 miles an hour police officers
typically aren't permitted to pit unless
deadly force force is authorized and so
let's just walk through this just just
for a second here you have an individual
who committed some type of crime you
know typically a serious crime if the
police officers are chasing well police
officers have a couple different options
in order to stop somebody so they can do
a high-speed police pursuit through the
city in in broad daylight with lots of
people around
i think we all agree that's a bad idea
that's dangerous for whoever they're
chasing
the police and the citizens
any traffic on the road that's not a
great idea well we could wait till later
until you know this person who you know
maybe has felony warrants or has been
violent well we could just wait till
they get home well then police have to
go in and do a no-knock warrant
or a high-risk warrant and we've seen
how police are not only are they
criticized for that but you know people
ask why are you doing this this high
risk warrant and there's a lot we can do
a whole show on that one day and i and i
think we should but you know police are
criticized for that so when we use a
pitman when police use a pit maneuver
you have to think okay it's a situation
where they have they have to get this
person into custody so if the person is
driving 10 15 20 miles an hour and the
police officer can use the vehicle to
disable it it stops the chase makes sure
all the other citizens are safe they
don't have to go in later with like a
no-knock warrant like is this a
reasonable thing to do so i think in
some situations yes in some situations
no um the situation with jalen randall
it's you know i from what i can see is
the pit maneuver wasn't the issue
the issue is obviously at the exact
moment that the officer fired the shot
that we're all going to have some some
questions about um someone said amber
heard oh my goodness uh 120 mile pits
are pretty epic yeah and if you pit uh
let's say typically police officers
cannot use the pit maneuver for over 35
miles an hour i think unless deadly
force is authorized so pitting at 120
miles an hour would be deadly force
police officers also aren't allowed to
pit motorcycles again unless deadly
force is is authorized so
the idea of police officers pitting
people for um jaywalking warrants at 50
miles an hour
not a thing that typically happens and
it and it shouldn't
let's see so let's go one more one more
question here um
and then you know we'll probably wrap
this up but before we do i just want to
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us know any topics maybe even if you say
we have a bunch of people who want to
hear just about no knock warrants and we
could just do a whole topic on that and
talk about some of the main cases that
have been in the news about no knock
warrants or any other topic um this show
is really for you and to have a sounding
board to discuss these really important
public issues so one more one more
question or comment here let's see what
we got
uh
we have information about
pits
living car in general
um
thanks for the discussion awesome
content that's so nice thank you so much
amber heardsbad turd thank you
uh let's see
okay well i'm not seeing any other any
other questions um in the in the chat
but you know some of the other so
there's the one the last thing i'm going
to say is and we can get into it more
next week when we do this that i i think
is an important case that's going on
around is the tony timpa case in texas
so in 2016 tony tempeh had an incident
with dallas police officers
and he was involved in a mental health
crisis police officers
he was already handcuffed by security
police officers kept the handcuffs on
they
shackled his legs and
he was kind of thrashing around and
essentially they put him face down in
the prone position with his face in the
grass for 13 minutes one of the officers
had his hands on the upper shoulders of
tony and anin is back for almost the
whole 13 minutes while they while
paramedics were arriving on scene and um
mr timpa ended up dying so this was
before george floyd but it
eerily similar mr timpa died in in a
similar in a similar fashion
and uh there were initial charges
against the four dallas three or four
dallas police officers however the
charges were dismissed and this week
with what's interesting is that this
past week the supreme court so the
family obviously wanted to sue the
police officers and there are there is
qualified immunity both on the federal
level and in texas so
the
they took it the family challenged it
all the way to the supreme court and
last week this earlier this week the
supreme court said that the police
officers in this case cannot claim
qualified immunity that
they can be sued civilly and personally
so that that was a ruling that that just
came out so that trial will be happening
so again this isn't going to be
criminal charges against the officers
this is the civil charges but it's
qualified immunity and the last thing
i'll say about qualified immunity and a
lot of people have a lot of problems
with it and this is another great topic
to talk about but with qualified
immunity when police officers do
violate
clearly established constitutional
rights which i think happened in the
tony timpa case police officers cannot
hide behind her or not hide behind or
use qualified immunity as a defense so
this is an instance where we can look at
it objectively where police officers
didn't do the right thing and they're
not able to use qualified immunity and
this is pretty much how this system this
judge made law qualified immunity was
made it's to protect police officers in
dynamic situations who have to make
split-second decisions but not to
protect police officers who are acting
poorly and violating clearly established
rights
okay so that's how we're going to end it
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