This is not a new thing. People have won settlements many times in the past for being arrested for flipping off cops. In CA I think someone was awarded multiple millions of dollars for it.
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2024
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Step one: Become friendly with cop.
Step two: Cop friend pulls you over.
Step three: Flip off cop friend to get arrested.
Step four: Get settlement, get married to one another, and run off to Barbados together.
Step five: Argue about how the money went away too fast.
Step six: Get divorced, sell your body for drugs.
Step seven: Flip off a Barbados cop to get arrested.
Step eight: Spend the rest of your days in a Caribbean prison.
I was hoping for more of a Weekend at Bernies spin on this. Can we get a Step 6.5 where your dead ex is used in an insurance scam?
Step 6.5: Sacrifice the wrong kind of bird and now your dead ex will only dance their way to the buried treasure if you play the right kind of music
You missed the part where the cop husband beats you in the Bahamas after you get married.
Wanna talk about it, Sport 🥸
I mean, why do you need a friend-cop?
Just a one night stand will do.
They probably gave him a really good beating too of it was the LAPD
And every time, the taxpayer foots the bill. Until the funds start coming from police pensions, nothing is going to change.
Literally just watched this interaction on Audit the Audit. Highly recommend youtube channel.
Someone has to keep the pigs honest.
That someone must be doing a terrible job.
Wait, aren't the pigs who are supposed to be doing that
Yea, quacks and money changers also regulate themselves... how well is that going for us?
Ah yes, the tax payers have come to pay the bill of their abuser once again
FYI: A disorderly conduct charge is just “contempt of cop”, unless it makes sense in parallel with the other charges like DUI or public nudity.
Multiple cops have openly admitted in person to me that they use it for compliance where force isn’t justified. “Move along or you’re about to become disorderly”.
There's a few like that and 'Breach of Peace' clearly designed as a catch all for the "It never occurred to us someone would do that" scenarios.
It's definitely rife for abuse, even if it is often used for more banal things.
Let this be a lesson to you all: flip off the troopers.
Guy lost $75k since the last article I read.