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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The problem, MBates, is that it is incredibly hard to believe that a cop was both doing 80 in the right lane and deliberately brake checked someone. You can complain about "blind police worship", but I'll counter with blind police hate.
More to the point, I've encountered a hell of lot more angry people who deserved their tickets making excuses for their behaviour than I have encountered cops deliberately creating dangerous situations on a freeway.
TBQH, I think Calgaryblood is full of crap.
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I guess I missed that the story is seen as false because of the history of the poster. I can't comment on that I just don't know individual people here that well as to make that judgment. Seems a little odd though to make up a story where you admit outright you were an idiot and in the wrong and are not saying the other alleged wrongdoing offers an excuse.
I don't hate police at all. I do think police should follow and respect the law the same as the rest of us. And I do not have the same difficulty as you in being able to believe an officer could behave this way.
I had a client acquitted at trial on a charge of causing a public disturbance. We proved it was the CPS officer who caused the disturbance and then when the citizen reacted he was arrested. In that case the judge actually found that if my client was not Asian he didn't think the officer would have ever even approached him let alone provoked him into a bad reaction.
I represented a client successfully who was dragged out of his vehicle at a traffic stop and beaten and maced by the officer for no reason. That is not my opinion but the findings of the solicitor general's official review. And in that case the officer deliberately deleted my client's recording of the incident. Wonder why he did that?
I could go on but then I suppose my listing of facts would support your contention I am a blind police hater. Incidentally, the current Minister of Justice, the chair of the Calgary Police Commission the current CPS Chief and at least two Deputy Chiefs disagree with you on that.