Officer In Trouble Over Motorist's Video In South County

[Nomad559]

Video
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2715792117793977759&

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/EF3667C80165B68086257353001498DC?OpenDocument?referrer=reddit

A car-mounted video camera — more commonly used by police than against them — captured a loud and threatening confrontation in this tiny St. Louis County community that left an officer on suspension and the whole world able to listen in.

The picture doesn't show much, but the audio part of the recording, posted on Google Video and YouTube on the Internet, brought more than 300 protest calls to St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig.

"I was very displeased when I saw the actions on the video," Uhrig said. "My officers are not trained and taught to act like that."

He put Sgt. James Kuehnlein on unpaid suspension pending further investigation.

Uhrig said the officer's actions were not justified, and he insisted the episode is not representative of his department.

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Missouri: Police Threaten, Detain Motorist for Parking After Hours
http://www.thenewspaper.com/news/19/1961.asp

A St. George, Missouri police officer is caught on tape threatening to invent charges to arrest a motorist for parking after hours.

A motorist who refused to discuss his personal business with a St. George, Missouri police officer was threatened with arrest last Friday. Brett Darrow, 20, no stranger to unconventional encounters with police, caught a St. George Police Sergeant named Kenline stating that he had the power to invent charges that would put Darrow behind bars.

"Try and talk back... to me again," yelled Sergeant Kenline. "I bet I could say you resisted arrest or something. You want to come up with something? I come up with nine things."

The incident began at around 2am. Darrow was to meet a friend who was working late and was going to pick him up. Darrow headed toward a 24-hour commuter parking lot in an unincorporated part of Saint Louis County in his 1997 Nissan Maxima. He put on his turn signal and entered the lot which, aside from Kenline's cruiser, was essentially vacant. After stopping the car, the police officer approached and began questioning Darrow about what he was doing. When Darrow declined to discuss his personal business, the police sergeant exploded. Although the video clearly shows Darrow driving properly and using his turn signal, the police officer insisted that Darrow had broken the law.

[pacalo]

1. Wow.

Talk about anger issues. I wonder what, if anything, this young man interrupted by parking in the same parking lot as this policeman. He was angry from the start about his parking there. The young man was never disrespectful at all.

[msongs]

2. normal, typical and common behavior of most police in the USA - most are not

caught on camera or recorder doing such things. in many cases there is no difference between police and gang criminals.

Msongs
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[Stinky The Clown]

3. That's a fairly broad sweep of an indictment, isn't it?

[Riktor]

4. Sure there is...

... the police have shinier bling.

[msedano]

5. justice has been served already...

the pig was suspended without pay--how will he swill his family?--and has been made the laughingstock of everyone who listened to the tape. he has suffered enough, and will be reinstated with full back pay. and that 20 year old will be lucky to live to be 20.5 years old.