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Bar owner is arrested after St. Louis police officer crashes into his business
(www.seattletimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 21 Dec 2023
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Fucking pigs.
Fucking nuts. There was NEVER a reasonable reason to detain him. Crashing into someone's house does not give you reasonable suspicion for an investigation. That's not how it fucking works. I don't understand why the prosecutor would even want to touch these bullshit charges.
Seems like if the owners are guilty of anything worthy of arrest, the pigs are guilty of property damage, assault and battery, attempted murder (all these add "with a deadly weapon" for the fact that they're armed and a 2000lb metal box is certainly deadly) , reckless driving, and a litany of other crimes that should land them in prison with life-crippling fines.
Statement from one of the owners:
“I feel like the situation has been handled horribly all the way around,” Pence said in an interview. He added: “All they needed to do was take responsibility, admit they had an accident and handle it differently.”
Hate to tell you buddy, but you've got a better chance of winning the lottery.
Statement from one of the cops (disputed by owners' attorney):
An officer identified in police records as John Pierce accused Morris of striking him “in the chest with an open hand,” causing him to lose his balance, according to police records.
How does a grown person use this to justify violence or arrest without feeling deeply ashamed at having taken a job as a cop despite being such an absolutely fragile human being?
How does a grown person use this to justify violence or arrest without feeling deeply ashamed at having taken a job as a cop despite being such an absolutely fragile human being.
They took the job because they're so deeply fragile and completely lacking in shame, why would they feel bad about it?
They definitely crashed the car on purpose. So they could beat the gay couple who own and live above the bar.
They were absolutely lifting it on the video and managed to get spooked by a parked car and swerved across the road.
It didn't seem intentional just very embarrassingly poor skilled.
Their first intuition told them to arrest someone.
Cunts
St Louis metro cops are fucked up on their own supplies.
Haha, I live in Seattle and I'm from St. Louis.