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Officer Down! [updated with legal resolution]

Totally crazy. If that article is true, 'taking the old guy to lunch-to-be-friends,' yet tapes the conversation looking for incriminating remarks, AND with the other stuff, and what was the pc to pull the old guy over(?), running to the DA's to jail the old guy, this is one burned out popo that should best be fired without retirement or disability benefits. Go work at jack in the box.
 
I thought that pic was a funny haha staged thing at first. Even had a BMW in it, great attention to detail. Then I realized it was real and it was way, way funnier.
 
Police reports and witness statements show that a monthlong investigation by Redondo Beach Police into Hitchcock's background found no evidence of anti-police bias.

After that, Redondo Beach Detective Mike Strosnider invited Hitchcock to a let's-be-friends lunch at Subway on the pretext that the investigation was over. It wasn't. Strosnider secretly recorded the lunch in hopes of capturing incriminating comments, but came up empty, according to his own report.
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Fucked up
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Reminds me of the Maryland "wiretapping" case.
 
2strokeYardSale said:
They should be especially proud of the recorded private conversation. Stay classy, Redondo PD!
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Whether or not a conversation at Subway has an expectation of privacy is up in the air, but whether a "let's-be-friends lunch at Subway" is classy is definitely not in dispute.
 
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Check list of what not to do while driving.

1) Be a black person.
2) Wear a Hawaiian shirt.
 
Bunch of bullshit.


This guys got it right.

Retired L.A. County Sheriff's Dept. Lt. Roger Clark, an expert witness in hundreds of cases, who has no ties to Hitchcock or Parente, says police are trained in vehicle pull-overs to understand "that when the driver suddenly becomes aware of the siren, they sometimes stop in the middle of the road as an instinctive reaction. When you tailgate a driver, that's an obvious problem."
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First DA knew it was bull also

Undeterred, Strosnider asked Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley's office to pursue a felony charge of assault with a deadly weapon. Cooley declined. "We found insufficient evidence that Mr. Hitchcock intentionally stopped short," Jane Robison of the DA's office tells the Weekly.
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Without any kind of pre crash road rage going on, you'll never prove intent to short stop with malice. If you hit a siren right behind a convertible with the top down, they're going to hit the brakes. Cop wasn't prepared.
 
Cop should be prosecuted for perjury and anything else they can throw at him. City attorney for malicious prosecution.
 
mototireguy said:
#1 I hope the officer will be ok and recovers from his injuries.

#2 I hope the officer revisits his training on safe riding techniques and doesn't tailgate when initiating traffic stops in the future.
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#3 I hope the officer goes to jail for knowingly falsifying a police report.

#4 I hope the rest of the officers and prosecutors involved goes to jail for covering up, making false claims, illegally recording conversations, filing unwarranted charges, harassing a citizen, malicious prosecution, breaching the public's trust.

I also know that the above won't happen. They ruined a man's life for no reason, and they will get away with it. (At least they didn't kill him, yay!)

Nobody's watching the watchers.
 
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... because I know there will be at least one person to come to the cop's defense, let me add some preemptive rebuttals:

The siren might not seem so bad to a police officer, but to a driver who is not accustomed to hearing a police siren 50 times a day, it might be slightly more startling.

The driver was NOT wearing earplugs

The driver was in an open-top car

The siren points forward towards the driver

While I like to think I wouldn't have panicked if I was in the driver's seat, I have been involuntarily jolted by a fire truck siren activated while pointed directly at me from across an intersection. It damn near knocked me off my feet. Granted, it's probably louder than a moto cop siren, but the principle still applies.
 
Wow this is America.
The state attorney general ought to look into this.
The Police Officer is wrong and trying to cover up.
I hope he can find some way to sue the city after he is found not guilty.
RC
 
would have been hilarious if he would have driven forward and pulled to the curb first. and bonus points to ask his passenger to put on his seat belt...
 
Who's going to pay for the guy's car? Aren't tailgaters in rear-end accidents usually at fault for not giving enough buffer, even if the car abruptly hits their brakes?

Btw what's a case where the person who rear-ends a vehicle and is NOT at fault? (besides being a cop, in this case)
 
i really hope to see a follow up story on this. that cop is a douche

far too many times to i see cops tailgate unnecessary close; like 3 to 5 feet from someones rear bumper kinda close. hopefully the outcome of this case will cause them to back of a little
 
I was going to suggest that the officer involved was a bit of a wanker, for a very poorly executed stop. But I guess with the "soft tissue injury" that he probably insnt anymore. :teeth

In one sense jsutice has been partially served :thumbup
 
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