James Pence says police handcuffed both him and co-owner Chad Wick — and then arrested Wick

I don’t know about y’all, but to me this sure sounds like a drunk police officer crashed their car and arrested the witnesses.

  • @givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
    27•5 months ago

    Article explains why:

    Pence says the police officer who ran into the bar told him that he had swerved to miss a dog in the middle of South Broadway. Pence says he does have security camera footage of the crash, though he is not making it public at this time.

    Cop made up a dog as an excuse, and the bar has videotape that likely shows no dog.

    And when cops are challenged, they arrest and beat people.

    Which is likely why an owner was sent for medical treatment after the arrest despite not being injured when the cops took him away

    Seems like a good bet they tried to violently coerce him into deleting it or at least to stop talking about how it proved the cop was lying.

    • @TuEstUnePommeDeTerreEnglish
      9•5 months ago

      Why would the cop make up such an unbelievable story?
      If there was a dog in the road, they would swerve to hit it.

      • seahorse [Ohio]AEnglish
        2•5 months ago

        Had me in the first half, not gonna lie

    • @PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5•5 months ago

      Yup, that’s my bet. Cops can bury dashcam and bodycam footage, but can’t stop someone with a CCTV system from releasing their tapes. So instead, they arrest and beat the owner until he agrees to turn over the tapes and say the cop was blameless.

      And they’ll get away with it, because the police are a legal mafia.

  • @TheDoozer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10•5 months ago

    So a cop crashes into a building (dog or not, the cop’s fault), and then demands ID from those inside, arresting someone who refuses? Beyond the absolutely inappropriate and corrupt way to handle that as a police officer, what a piece-of-shit human to nearly kill people, cause extreme damage, be completely at fault, and then be anything but fiercely apologetic.

    And then assaulting and arresting someone for video taping the car that crashed into their business is just the chef’s kiss. That’s the correct and appropriate thing to do after an accident! And it’s not like the police had any claim of privacy as they were inside the business owners’ business and home.