[quote]prospa7 wrote:
cmon, it’s only for speeding[/quote]
And falsely identifying himself as a police officer. In my country it wouldnt have helped him one bit- Police must respect the speeding limits like everybody else except in situations of emergency when on duty. I guess he was going for that colleague sympathy(aka corruption)!
Sad really, Im sure he was a good police officer when he actually was.
[quote]Deus vult wrote:
prospa7 wrote:
cmon, it’s only for speeding
And falsely identifying himself as a police officer. In my country it wouldnt have helped him one bit- Police must respect the speeding limits like everybody else except in situations of emergency when on duty. I guess he was going for that colleague sympathy(aka corruption)!
Sad really, Im sure he was a good police officer when he actually was.[/quote]
I agree with this completely. I wish it was the same in America. Even if it is up to debate on whether Coleman is a real cop, he still tried to use being a policeman to be above the law. Prospa7 is right, it is corruption.
How can you blame the cop for this? Cops must be required to follow the laws like everybody else and when they don’t they should pay a severe price. I don’t care if they rely on each other do to a shitty, dangerous job. I don’t care if their lives are in each others hands on a daily basis. How that equates to lying for one another and allowing each other to break the law is beyond me. That is plain high school shit!
I personally know of cops who have gotten off abuse charges, assault charges, dwi’s out the wazzoo all because they are police and their “brothers” either coax, lie, or indtimdate the victims. When I was in high school, the daughter of the chief of police got hammered at a party (she was only 17) and proceded to smash her car into a telephone pole and destroyed it. Lucky for her she was fine but she didn’t see jack shit as far as any consequences.
Hell, she didn’t even have to pay for the damage she did which fell on the tax payers. And she was out driving the next week. So much for cops being tougher on their kids.
He was speeding. If I was speeding I would get a big fat ticket (money doesn’t grow on trees), points on my license which could lead to losing it, and a big kick in the ass from my insurance company which would take more hard earned money out of my pocket.
Fuck Ronnie, I hope they throw the book at him.
[quote]MaddyD wrote:
weird all over the place it says that at one time he was a police officer.
could this be a misunderstanding?
or was he really falsely saying he was an officer when he wasn’t
and i thought if you resigned under good terms you were always an officer just not working.[/quote]
Yeah I thought it was like the marines in that no one is considered an “ex-cop” or “ex-marine.”
How can anyone tell from the article that ronnie was trying to get out of something. Maybe the cop really just is a douscher. Maybe Ronnie was talking casually and said he was a cop.
If the people of a state wished for police officers to be exempt from traffic tickets, or other things such as DWI, etc., the Legislature could pass laws to such effect. In fact the Legislature, if it desired, could do so regardless of whether the electorate expressed any such specific wish.
So there’s a proper mechanism – as opposed to self-servingly taking advantage of a conflict-of-interest situation, namely a group charged with enforcing the law in an equitable manner instead systematically avoiding enforcement regarding its own members while frequently or always enforcing the law on other groups – by which police officers could legitimately and honestly be exempted from these things.
If it were what the people agreed with, whether specifically or via their elected representatives.
It has never been the case so far as I know, though.
In his videos it always shows him speeding. Like 95+.
photoshop
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Demo Dick wrote:
From the original post: “Dalworthington Gardens police Sgt. David Henderson said Coleman also produced a badge but that a records check indicated that he hadn’t been a licensed officer since 2003.”
Of course, the arresting officer could have said:
“Everybody wanna be a reserve cop, but nobody wanna keep their cop-ass license up to date…”[/quote]
LOL.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
You can go to jail for saying you are a cop when you used to be a cop and still are a reserve police officer as stated by your own precinct?
REALLY?[/quote]
…only if you are black.
On a related note: there are these two douchebag security guards that come into my local coffee-shop when they are off "duty" (wearing the full costume) who like to embellish their authority -- for example they swear they are reservists with the local law enforcement agency and are permitted to write citations while they are in "uniform." They love to show off this authority by whipping out their little carbon-copy notepads with their little scribblings written in them as if they do this for fun in their free time. I swear these guys are the "Guidos" of law enforcement -- if that isn't too much of a oxymoron.
Can someone please arrest them...? Really, its not so much that I am annoyed by them but rather I am embarrassed for them.fucking pigs
WTF? Bummer for Coleman. I bet the citing pig was a tiny 5’5 135lb piece of shit trying to one up the big man.
It’s pathetic that some cops, former or current, feel that they’re above the very laws they enforce. Holding that title does not entitle you to that. Cops who use their sirens and lights to avoid red lights fall into this category too.
Coleman clearly thinks that there exists a different standard for him when it comes to traffic laws.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
It’s pathetic that some cops, former or current, feel that they’re above the very laws they enforce. Holding that title does not entitle you to that. Cops who use their sirens and lights to avoid red lights fall into this category too.
Coleman clearly thinks that there exists a different standard for him when it comes to traffic laws. [/quote]
Or maybe he was just trying to get a break? Getting a ticket fucking sucks.
Don’t act like you wouldn’t pull out anything you had to try to not get a ticket.
I’m still not clear on if he just sort of asked to be let off because he WAS a cop and pulled out his badge to show he was or if he tried to act like he’s currently a cop.
One’s a crime, the other is asking for a friendly gesture since he used to be in the same line of work.
I can only imagine what the holding cell looked like when they were bringing Ronnie in, everyone moving to the other side I am sure.
[quote]MaddyD wrote:
weird all over the place it says that at one time he was a police officer.
could this be a misunderstanding?
or was he really falsely saying he was an officer when he wasn’t
and i thought if you resigned under good terms you were always an officer just not working.[/quote]
Once you resign you are a civilian. There is a grace period when you leave where if you get another job your license stays current but I’d had enough.
I didn’t know Ronnie was no longer a cop. I used to train at Metroflex occassionally. Ronnie was kind of quiet but if you said hello he’d say hello back.
My first job out of law school was defending traffic tickets. I was the new guy so I got to go to Dalworthington Gardens. I’m not defending what Ronnie is accused (remember innocent until proven guilty) of doing but DWG is a notorious rat hole of a speed trap. They would tow cars for the slightest reason. They would not put the appearance dates on the tickets then they would cite people for failure to appear. Several of the more prominent traffic attorneys will not work there. I avoid the place at all costs, I refuse to drive down their streets, eat in their restaurants, or support the local business.
And to answer one other gentleman’s question there is such a thing as a hospital police officer in Texas. The Tarrant County (where Arlington is) Hospital District has licensed peace officers for security. They have arrest powers but rarely use them. Several of the schools (TCU, UTA) have campus police departments too.
[quote]Ghost22 wrote:
abcd1234 wrote:
It’s pathetic that some cops, former or current, feel that they’re above the very laws they enforce. Holding that title does not entitle you to that. Cops who use their sirens and lights to avoid red lights fall into this category too.
Coleman clearly thinks that there exists a different standard for him when it comes to traffic laws.
Or maybe he was just trying to get a break? Getting a ticket fucking sucks.
Don’t act like you wouldn’t pull out anything you had to try to not get a ticket.
[/quote]
That would still be a situation of someone using their influence to get away with something that an average man wouldn’t be able to. It’s an elitist dick move that people in power, whether they be in Washington, Wall Street, or your local police precinct, do. The severity of the crime is not an issue.
[quote]SteelyD wrote:
Of course, the arresting officer could have said:
“Everybody wanna be a reserve cop, but nobody wanna keep their cop-ass license up to date…”[/quote]
Hahahahahaha!
You are the man.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
Ghost22 wrote:
abcd1234 wrote:
It’s pathetic that some cops, former or current, feel that they’re above the very laws they enforce. Holding that title does not entitle you to that. Cops who use their sirens and lights to avoid red lights fall into this category too.
Coleman clearly thinks that there exists a different standard for him when it comes to traffic laws.
Or maybe he was just trying to get a break? Getting a ticket fucking sucks.
Don’t act like you wouldn’t pull out anything you had to try to not get a ticket.
That would still be a situation of someone using their influence to get away with something that an average man wouldn’t be able to. It’s an elitist dick move that people in power, whether they be in Washington, Wall Street, or your local police precinct, do. The severity of the crime is not an issue. [/quote]
This is about a fucking traffic ticket, not car theft or murder. Your ivory tower is very beautiful though.
It stopped being about a ticket once he said he was a police officer
[quote]zarrs wrote:
It stopped being about a ticket once he said he was a police officer[/quote]
He was a police officer (licensed apparently through 2003 and currently on reserve as he has mentioned before in interviews). He didn’t do anything different than what no doubt many military and cops do when pulled over for a minor infraction like this. The fact that people are even defending the time and tax payer money to put him in jail for something like this when this could have been handled by the cop on the side of the road is what is ridiculous here.
He was not some random stranger claiming he was a cop when he never had been. This was someone who put his life on the line as a cop for several years (even when he didn’t need to anymore and was making more money through competitions) who from what we can tell from this article simply stated he was a cop at a traffic stop.
[quote]abcd1234 wrote:
Ghost22 wrote:
abcd1234 wrote:
It’s pathetic that some cops, former or current, feel that they’re above the very laws they enforce. Holding that title does not entitle you to that. Cops who use their sirens and lights to avoid red lights fall into this category too.
Coleman clearly thinks that there exists a different standard for him when it comes to traffic laws.
Or maybe he was just trying to get a break? Getting a ticket fucking sucks.
Don’t act like you wouldn’t pull out anything you had to try to not get a ticket.
That would still be a situation of someone using their influence to get away with something that an average man wouldn’t be able to. It’s an elitist dick move that people in power, whether they be in Washington, Wall Street, or your local police precinct, do. The severity of the crime is not an issue. [/quote]
And beautiful women get away with this every day. Is that okay - or should everyone be made ugly ala Harrison Bergeron so no one can get out of a traffic ticket? Seriously, we’re dropping all common sense here.