they came to my door to arrest me on false pretenses. they ask me to leave my house because my children died. they kept making shit up until they left.
Cruel@programming.dev 1 day ago
Important for those who don’t know: police can legally lie to you. Happens all the time when they’re trying to get a confession. In a discussion, they’ll be like “we have your fingerprints matched and we have video of you, so it’s better if you’re just honest with us.” But they often don’t have anything which is why they’re desperate for a confession.
Weird to me that people are taking issue with the cameras more than the police work.
The problem here is charges being made with weak evidence and officers legally allowed to lie. I had a similar experience, but she was smarter than me. I was 22 and naive, thinking I didn’t need to prove my innocence because they have to prove my guilt in court. The presumption of innocence is a lie. I had to learn the hard way, losing many years of my life.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world 1 day ago
MangoCats@feddit.it 22 hours ago
This is exactly the tactic the officer was employing here (for a sub $25 theft), not showing the accused the evidence so they don’t know what the police might or might not know.
At some point in the process, there is “discovery” where both sides share their evidence before trial to avoid going to trial for stupid stuff (like this.) But you usually have to engage thousands of dollars of legal services before discovery is available, again over a sub $25 theft allegation.
The officer sweating her for driving through his town on the day somebody porch pirated somebody else is really ridiculous.
ButteryMonkey@piefed.social 1 day ago
I got pulled over the other day. The reason given was a lane change violation (which was bullshit pretense, it was right outside a very rural, but very busy, bar so this was likely actually entrapment, tho I was for sure under the legal limit - I was there to check out line dancing because I’ve never seen it before, and only had one beer in the hour I was there).
I also had a very expired registration (haven’t driven much, and didn’t realize I forgot to renew it).
But I got let off everything with a warning..? I spent days trying to figure it out because it should have been a ticket.. he didn’t even seem interested in waiting for me to dig out my insurance info (which I had, just had to get it out of my wallet).
But I have a dash cam.. and it records sound. It would have proven I didn’t violate anything, and he was recorded saying why I was pulled over so no way to flub it and say it was actually the registration all along, and thus the pretense for pulling me over in the first place was void. I’m pretty sure that’s the only reason I got off with a list of warnings rather than tickets.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Honestly, he probably was looking for drunks, and when you clearly weren’t he just played it off (poorly).
frongt@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
Yeah. But that’s not entrapment. He didn’t coerce anyone into doing anything.
ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 hours ago
Well I never said it was, I said that was probably why “warnings.”
MangoCats@feddit.it 22 hours ago
Back in the days before dash cams I got let off with warnings a few times. Once in a while they actually are human beings, but that’s rare when they’re on a month end quota filling mission.
frongt@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
And that’s why you DON’T TALK TO THE POLICE.
If you are detained, do not talk at all, even if you’re nervous, even if you think you’re being helpful. Do not volunteer anything. If you are arrested, you say exactly this and nothing else: “I invoke my right to remain silent, and I invoke my right to an attorney.” Repeat that exact phrase AND NOTHING ELSE until you have your attorney present.