it’s really too bad you can’t wash them, I dropped mine and now it has cat hair all over it

Ahhh of course. Because if there were no blood test, there would be no way of proving him innocent of driving while intoxicated. That’s how the legal system works, right? Guilty until innocent? These heroes just needed to make sure he wasn’t going to be found guilty of DWI because there was no blood sample proving his…

Nietzsche was a monkey who wore pants. Just like everyone else.

He was the victim in the crash. Once they probably found out he was “on the job” they wanted to draw his blood and run it for drugs and alcohol. If it came back negative they would have kept it so he could use in a lawsuit or to prevent being sued. If it came back positive it would have just “disappeared” or become…

They believe they can break the law because they can.

To everyone replying here...ffs. I wasn’t defending this asshole. You cannot deny that tidbit isn’t an objectively interesting piece of this story. If it had been mentioned above, you wouldn’t be faulting the author of this post. So why are jumping on my ass?

thank you for your cooperation, citizen. the police are always right and your government needs patriotic, understanding, and intelligent people like you to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.

That literally makes no sense, whatsoever. You’re bending over so far to arrive at the preconceived conclusion that the police are Always Right. Drug and alcohol levels decay over time, so if, as you say, the officer was trying to protect the victim, he would have either delayed a blood draw to secure a warrant or not…

Also buried in the story... he’s an ass

Already done. A copy is floating around the internet. She was described as “combative” and “angrily cut officer off when he attempted to explain their legal right to draw blood”.

Of course there are. Now go back to spiking your hair up, troll.

There’s another part to this story. It was in response to this accident

You’re literally just assuming.

I regret to note that there likely be no lasting repercussions beyond forcing the city to bilk taxpayers even more persistently than before. Once he is found to have violated policy a civil hearing will find that his actions exposed the city to liability and whoever their municipal insurer is will once again have to…

From the SLT article linked:

On any given day, in any police department in the nation, 15 percent of officers will do the right thing no matter what is happening. 15 percent of officers will abuse their authority at every opportunity. The remaining 70 percent could go either way depending on whom they are working with.

What we’re seeing here is essentially the law enforcement version of “affluenza”. Now that we have 2 derelict leaders (Trump/Sessions) providing agencies across the land with unparalleled senses of entitlement and shown little real consequence for bad actors, it’s inevitable that more and more LEOs will embrace their…

LOOK AT THOSE OTHER COPS STANDING THERE. I want everyone to remember that every time people start talking about how cops that do things like this are just “a few bad apples.” Remember that the rest of that saying is “ruin the whole bunch.” They stood there and did nothing, just like the cops who were on those planted…

Do we though? Truly? Or do we really already know?

if only Kinja had negative stars