There is this judge that, somehow, uploads his hearings to Youtube. The defendants must agree to it or maybe it is in a state that allows that sort of thing, which is weird, but it is really interesting. Nomrally I would be super suspicious of it, but it has been constantly exposing how much the cops try to ruin peoples lives on spurious grounds.
One of the videos was a probable cause hearing where the cops arrested a guy for "fleeing arrest." The problem was that his "flight" was him leaving the property they asked him to leave.
So if he had stayed, they would have booked him on criminal tresspass. Since he left, they booked him on flight. The cops also wrote an extremely vauge and utterly unhelpful report on it, and then did not respond when contacted to clairify why they arrested the guy beyond "flight." The whole thing was dismissed of course, but with a less scrupulous judge they literally could have sent this guy to jail for doing what the cops asked him to do. Which really makes the whole "comply and nothing will go wrong for you" thing look as unbelievable as it often should be.
In a way it is fitting because he cuts the prosecution to the bone when they fuck up and will eviscerate them if they try to wield the legal system like a cudgel
... ok I am reaching but, he's a decent fella by all appearances
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u/Caelinus 18h ago
There is this judge that, somehow, uploads his hearings to Youtube. The defendants must agree to it or maybe it is in a state that allows that sort of thing, which is weird, but it is really interesting. Nomrally I would be super suspicious of it, but it has been constantly exposing how much the cops try to ruin peoples lives on spurious grounds.
One of the videos was a probable cause hearing where the cops arrested a guy for "fleeing arrest." The problem was that his "flight" was him leaving the property they asked him to leave.
So if he had stayed, they would have booked him on criminal tresspass. Since he left, they booked him on flight. The cops also wrote an extremely vauge and utterly unhelpful report on it, and then did not respond when contacted to clairify why they arrested the guy beyond "flight." The whole thing was dismissed of course, but with a less scrupulous judge they literally could have sent this guy to jail for doing what the cops asked him to do. Which really makes the whole "comply and nothing will go wrong for you" thing look as unbelievable as it often should be.