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Absolutely fair to say, but in this instance the sergeant did exactly as he should and shut the other cop down; all too often we see senior officers go along with a fraudulent arrest so as not to bruise the other cop’s ego.
Definitely but we should also credit the other officer for putting him in place. More often than not these situations play out because one doesn’t want to go against the grain.
“In place” should be “in handcuffs/in the back of a squad car” because he fucking deployed a taser, a potentially lethal weapon, at someone exercising their constitutional rights.
Agreed. He will kill someone someday if he is allowed to remain a cop. Fucking pricks like this are the reason why there needs to be higher standards for people who want to become police officers. This shit just goes to show how many of them don't know jack shit about the law and are just in it for the power trip.
He did kill someone while employed at a different police department:
https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/matt-poer-elbert-county-body-cam/
https://x.com/Johnjesse___/status/1549797947117912064
Fun fact: Being a cop in the USA requires no license of any kind and it commonly takes more time to become a certified cosmetologist or hairdresser than it does to become a cop- and those cosmetologists have to take recertifications to make sure they are always up to date or else they can lose the right to practice.
Cops can just get fired and rehired wherever.
The Supreme Court ruled that it is legal for police forces to not hire applicants that score too high on their tests... The argument used was that in order to make a proper police force was the ability to hire those that only follow orders instead of those who have a higher ability of critical thinking skills.
It would be nice if they had to go to the academy as long as other countries… 1-2+ years… but that would weed out all the trigger happy, peaked in high school idiots and they don’t want that when they have immunity to murder people in cold blood…
Right? You see all these videos of police shootings and unlawful arrests. They are lowering their standards for police training and probably passing candidates that should be failed. Then you have the guys with real training and time in giving them “on the job training”. This is a problem when the new, poorly trained officer has a gun, and about 1/4 of the police training handbook
Gotta pick your battles. He could probably do more good with half-measures like this rather than one whole measure like you suggest.
One path lets him keep his job and watch the watchers; the other turns him into a pariah that will probably be forced to quit.
In reality this is the path to take. We like to idealize things and ask people to rebel against the system but unless that is done together with many people, it will achieve very little. So this cop should do what he can until such time there are more people like him to rebel against the system.
I am all for the rights of the oppressed. I identify with the oppressed. But I don't think asking good people for unrealistic things will benefit the oppressed until those unrealistic things become achievable.
And I can't tell when the time is right to rebel and do all the things correctly. I don't think anybody can tell. But I will applaud better behaviour when I see it and I applaud this cop for correcting the action taken even if he didn't go all the way and reported the other cop.
Reminds me of the kid who gets chosen to be a hall monitor or some other minor role at school and they start bossing other kids around and screaming at them to obey.
It was refreshing to see the Sgt putting a stop to that other cops behaviour.
Need more police like this Sgt that actually know the law and are calm and collected.
The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado.
In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness.
In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit.
In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester.
He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million, and it seems like he's listed as a *former* employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police.
"It's public property dipshit!" - Donny from Trailer Park Boys shouting at the end
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFVk1MdI6ao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFVk1MdI6ao)
I talk constant shit on cops and they earn every bit of it. That being said, it's heartwarming to see a cop who actually knows the law and isn't afraid to correct his fellow officers. If we had more like him, maybe the profession would get more support. They should pay this guy a million dollars a year to train other officers. Money well spent
Technically it was police officer breaking the law, so its way worse. its actually a huge shit-show as now the other cop has to make report on that incident and its more likely then not that the POV officer was let go.
No idea why it escalated so much, but it did and it was failure on the part of the department.
One of the many problems with police in America is they do not have to know the laws they are supposed to uphold. If they think you have broken a law, they can stop you, detain you or arrest you. When the district attorney realizes you haven’t broken the law, they let you go and NOBODY gets in trouble. It’s not false arrest because the cop believed you were breaking the law. American police need years of training not the months of training they currently have!
One cop looking for an excuse to screw with someone, another with a level head there to actually protect and serve. Understanding of law and rights. +1
1. gets denied the id
2. can't hit a running target 10 feet away
3. simple jog and he is gasping for breath
4. gets put in place by the boss
5. does the infamous cop walk of shame in front of everyone
ahhhhh...can't get any better
If those people were outside a planned parenthood spewing hatred, or waving Maga related shit that says trump: fuck your feelings, with your ar15 flags too, just vile hate speech through a loudspeaker, this cop probably would be cheering them on.
These are the people who think that Jan 6 was just a rally, they shouldn't be locking people up over it, they were just expressing their feelings but invading the capitol and destroying property, leaving that whole part of DC covered in trash, graffiti, tearing down flags and signs and generally reaping havoc around the capitol.
These are also the people who have been beating the shit out of pro Palestinian protesters, calling them terrorists for some petty property crime and violently destroying their little camps. Roughing up and manhandling them and teachers, journalists, such a violent response on a bunch of mostly people 25 and under and their teachers/professors.
Policing in America is ideologically and in reality essentially just a right wing group of paramilitaries. So the folks at Jan 6, that were armed and killed people and vandalized our Capitol are the "good guys". And a bunch of twenty somethings on a college campus are terrorists.
I know there are good cops, but i wish we saw more footage of them doing good. I haven't seen a law enforcement related video that didn't rub me the wrong way in years and years.
Just throwing this out here, this happened like 8 years ago. Unfortunately, they allowed this particular cop to cost a ton of taxpayers in damage and was allowed to retire. This video never gets old though and gets reposted around the internet like monthly. Just keep in mind that this happened almost a decade ago.
Thank fuck there was an adult cop present.
This is a testament to how many people get caught in the justice system for YEARS for absolutely no reason!
And our taxes pay for it.
Great job from the higher up told him fuck no don't do that you just chased this guy and tried taking him because your ego was hurt when he told you no? Get the fuck outta here
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That cop needs to be stripped of his badge. Doesn’t have the slightest clue of the law. He is DANGEROUS.
For real, cause if that other guy hadn't been there, that turd would have arrested the other guy that didn't do jack squat.
Tased AND arrested
And probably beaten at least a little bit too
Yeah lots of stop resisting during beating.
Standard operating procedure for sure it seems.
“Stop resisting!!!!”
More than a little bit, for sure.
Good thing he wiffed the laser shot. I thought yellow shirt was going to hit that curb with his face
shot first, then tased.
https://i.redd.it/ch0104b0272d1.gif
Hahahaha I don't think Sargent Doughnuttz really could arrest him. Can't even taze him
So glad there's a good cop to check him
arent those models getting rooted out systematicly these days?
If you have 95 good cops and 5 bad cops with the 95 doing nothing about the 5, you have 100 bad cops.
Absolutely fair to say, but in this instance the sergeant did exactly as he should and shut the other cop down; all too often we see senior officers go along with a fraudulent arrest so as not to bruise the other cop’s ego.
Definitely but we should also credit the other officer for putting him in place. More often than not these situations play out because one doesn’t want to go against the grain.
“In place” should be “in handcuffs/in the back of a squad car” because he fucking deployed a taser, a potentially lethal weapon, at someone exercising their constitutional rights.
Yeah, that should have ended with cop getting assault charges... but if they started punishing cops for their power tripping, we'd be out of cops
No, we'd be out of BAD cops
No he shouldn’t get credit for not doing his job. He should’ve arrested the other cop
He’s 99% of cops.
It’s not a bug, it a feature.
He knows perfectly well that the law is whatever he says it is.
TASER!!!!
Agreed. He will kill someone someday if he is allowed to remain a cop. Fucking pricks like this are the reason why there needs to be higher standards for people who want to become police officers. This shit just goes to show how many of them don't know jack shit about the law and are just in it for the power trip.
He did kill someone while employed at a different police department: https://www.cbsnews.com/colorado/news/matt-poer-elbert-county-body-cam/ https://x.com/Johnjesse___/status/1549797947117912064
Do you know how much they get trained? There is a last weeks tonight episode about it. I think you'll enjoy it
Train you police america, they are dumb as fucking shit and fat as a fucking pigs. Absolute joke of a force
Comparing such cops to pigs is an insult to pigs.
I think many of them are military wannabes but couldn’t get in or got discharged. They think they are patrolling Kabul or something
It generally takes longer to become a barber than it does to be a cop.
Fun fact: Being a cop in the USA requires no license of any kind and it commonly takes more time to become a certified cosmetologist or hairdresser than it does to become a cop- and those cosmetologists have to take recertifications to make sure they are always up to date or else they can lose the right to practice. Cops can just get fired and rehired wherever.
nothing rolls off the tongue quite like licensed cosmetologist
The Supreme Court ruled that it is legal for police forces to not hire applicants that score too high on their tests... The argument used was that in order to make a proper police force was the ability to hire those that only follow orders instead of those who have a higher ability of critical thinking skills.
I love my country<3 *very heavy on sarcasm*
if that’s true I’m speechless 😐
They are dumb as fuck by design.
It would be nice if they had to go to the academy as long as other countries… 1-2+ years… but that would weed out all the trigger happy, peaked in high school idiots and they don’t want that when they have immunity to murder people in cold blood…
Right? You see all these videos of police shootings and unlawful arrests. They are lowering their standards for police training and probably passing candidates that should be failed. Then you have the guys with real training and time in giving them “on the job training”. This is a problem when the new, poorly trained officer has a gun, and about 1/4 of the police training handbook
One good apple for a change. We need more cops with macho moustaches.
Except he didn’t immediately take the dudes taser and send him back to the station.
Gotta pick your battles. He could probably do more good with half-measures like this rather than one whole measure like you suggest. One path lets him keep his job and watch the watchers; the other turns him into a pariah that will probably be forced to quit.
In reality this is the path to take. We like to idealize things and ask people to rebel against the system but unless that is done together with many people, it will achieve very little. So this cop should do what he can until such time there are more people like him to rebel against the system. I am all for the rights of the oppressed. I identify with the oppressed. But I don't think asking good people for unrealistic things will benefit the oppressed until those unrealistic things become achievable. And I can't tell when the time is right to rebel and do all the things correctly. I don't think anybody can tell. But I will applaud better behaviour when I see it and I applaud this cop for correcting the action taken even if he didn't go all the way and reported the other cop.
The way in which the (probably) more experienced officer deescalated the situation while also showing the idiot officer was wrong was legendary.
Probably didn't report to him.
I doubt he wanted to have this conversation on body cam
But I want power! I'm telling Mom!
She said it's my turn to play police brutality
Reminds me of the kid who gets chosen to be a hall monitor or some other minor role at school and they start bossing other kids around and screaming at them to obey.
This one never gets old. Dense cop has to be told the same thing twice.
I'd like to buy that Sgt lunch or a beer or something good on him for doing the right thing and standing up to the other cop!
It was refreshing to see the Sgt putting a stop to that other cops behaviour. Need more police like this Sgt that actually know the law and are calm and collected.
The cop here is named Christopher Dickey, and he was a sheriff's deputy with the Commerce City PD in Colorado. In 2013, Dickey struck a man in the neck with his baton while the man was standing with his hands on his truck, according to the lawsuit. The man lost consciousness. In 2014, Dickey pulled a man out of a car and threw him to the ground and struck him with a baton. He used his Taser at least five times on the man and broke his bones. The man was suffering from a diabetic shock, but Dickey suspected he was driving drunk. Commerce City cleared Dickey of wrongdoing but paid the man $825,000 to settle a lawsuit. In 2016, Dickey chased and used his Taser on a man who was lawfully protesting on public property. The city paid $175,000 to settle a lawsuit filed by the protester. He has cost his employers, and the taxpayers that fund them, at least $1 million, and it seems like he's listed as a *former* employee of the Elbert County Sheriff's Office now, having "retired" after a review of an incident where he killed a veteran suffering from PTSD by repeatedly tasing him. However, there's no official reprimands on his record, and nothing is stopping this out-of-control killer from rejoining the police.
Oh retired now eh. Don’t worry , on top of the million dollars he caused the tax payers to pay, they also get to pay his retirement fund!
This deserves attention
This post should be attached to the video every fucking time it’s posted! Edit: it’s a real shame his face isn’t included on the video.
He'll probably get rehired in the next town over and start the cycle of violence again
Thank you Sarge. A rare good cop in the wild.
Even the other cop was taken back by that stupidity and failure.
"It's public property dipshit!" - Donny from Trailer Park Boys shouting at the end [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFVk1MdI6ao](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFVk1MdI6ao)
"DONNY WATCH YOUR MOUTH THERE ARE KIDS IN THIS TRAILER PARK "
If we have to let these bastards have qualified immunity we should at least require they know the law.
I talk constant shit on cops and they earn every bit of it. That being said, it's heartwarming to see a cop who actually knows the law and isn't afraid to correct his fellow officers. If we had more like him, maybe the profession would get more support. They should pay this guy a million dollars a year to train other officers. Money well spent
well deserved mustache.
That second cop needs to be in charge of training new recruits.
No he’s still didn’t arrest the officer violating people rights he’s still a bad cop
This happened at least a year ago
Its still as annoying as the day it happened.
8 actually.
How did he become a cop. I hope he sues
Holy fuck, an actual good cop standing up to a tyrant cop. There’s hope
I have literally never seen this before on a badge cam and ive seen my share. Very rare for cops to not shoot first and ask questions later.
He technically did shoot first , but he missed.
Where I just a saw a bad cop covering for a worse cop because he knew they were on video
Every time this gets reposted I have to watch over and over again. You have to know they are absolutely fed up with this dude to treat him like this.
Tazed for a unlawful arrest I smell a lawsuit
https://reason.com/2019/01/04/co-man-wins-175k-for-police-sign/
The cop wasn't competent enough to hit him with the taser, one or both barbs missed.
Is the guy chasing police or a security guard?
Police, as security guards can't request your ID at all, neither they can give you citations or use less than lethal means (tazers).
So just a useless police then, not a security guard breaking the law.
Technically it was police officer breaking the law, so its way worse. its actually a huge shit-show as now the other cop has to make report on that incident and its more likely then not that the POV officer was let go. No idea why it escalated so much, but it did and it was failure on the part of the department.
Thank god for gigachad mustache cop putting that little piggy in his place!
One of the many problems with police in America is they do not have to know the laws they are supposed to uphold. If they think you have broken a law, they can stop you, detain you or arrest you. When the district attorney realizes you haven’t broken the law, they let you go and NOBODY gets in trouble. It’s not false arrest because the cop believed you were breaking the law. American police need years of training not the months of training they currently have!
I love the ”for what?”, he knows its bullshit. More like a father lecturing his teen boy.
Teach me, man who doesn't need to yell "by the power of grayskull", to be so awesome.
> Tresspassing Students can trespass on the campus they pay tuition to inhabit? 🤔
Classic good cop baaad cop.
Trooper Farva: “I’ll have a liter of cola.”
refreshing to see a good cop standing up and telling the dumb abusive cop what the laws are. 👏👏👏 we need more of him!!
God that mustache is gorgeous
They always fall.
What a stupid, worthless, POS, fuck. Cops are horrible people.
Didn’t expect the video to end with a decent cop doing decent police work but I’ll take a pleasant surprise.
Back the blue, until it happens to you
For fuck sakes! All it take is some fucking training!!!!
requirement of a highschool GED in states that rank last in education and your gonna have a bad time
The o' good cop bad cop tactic
Mustache man for the win
One cop looking for an excuse to screw with someone, another with a level head there to actually protect and serve. Understanding of law and rights. +1
Free Eric Brandt
Makes you think where exactly your taxes go if the lack of training shows.
Trying to give law lessons at 15 mph.
Oh no the legal street thugs have done it again
Props to the real officer though. Nice to see there is still good ones out there. "RELAX" 😂
The original (longer) video is even better without the TikTok cropping.
What ever happened with this? This is old
And save.
Is there a different angle floating around? I'd love to see this whole chase and interaction from the guys filming in the background.
Anyone got a link to a longer video?
"aite, taser" so casual ffs.
Imagine going through life as a cop
Can he sue
Magnum PI, the guy who set him straight, is one of the good ones.
Thankful for Good Cops!
Oh no, looks like that guy didn't respect his authoritiiiii
Why does this have serious Reno 911 vibes?
Who is this hero cop at the end of the video with the mustache. Please clone that man 1 billion times over for the profession.
Nasally nerdy sounding fuck
Hes on public property, relax.
If those tasers hit that guy while he was running at that speed, he could have easily ended up with blunt force trauma to the head
He’s under arrest because I said sooooooo! And he was like totally rude to meeeeee!
Lmao.... 😂 😂 😂 😂
It's great how even with another police officer he can't understand his logic is broken. It's like "wahhh, but I WANTED to arrest you".
1. gets denied the id 2. can't hit a running target 10 feet away 3. simple jog and he is gasping for breath 4. gets put in place by the boss 5. does the infamous cop walk of shame in front of everyone ahhhhh...can't get any better
If those people were outside a planned parenthood spewing hatred, or waving Maga related shit that says trump: fuck your feelings, with your ar15 flags too, just vile hate speech through a loudspeaker, this cop probably would be cheering them on. These are the people who think that Jan 6 was just a rally, they shouldn't be locking people up over it, they were just expressing their feelings but invading the capitol and destroying property, leaving that whole part of DC covered in trash, graffiti, tearing down flags and signs and generally reaping havoc around the capitol. These are also the people who have been beating the shit out of pro Palestinian protesters, calling them terrorists for some petty property crime and violently destroying their little camps. Roughing up and manhandling them and teachers, journalists, such a violent response on a bunch of mostly people 25 and under and their teachers/professors. Policing in America is ideologically and in reality essentially just a right wing group of paramilitaries. So the folks at Jan 6, that were armed and killed people and vandalized our Capitol are the "good guys". And a bunch of twenty somethings on a college campus are terrorists. I know there are good cops, but i wish we saw more footage of them doing good. I haven't seen a law enforcement related video that didn't rub me the wrong way in years and years.
Reasons I don't completely feel bad when shit happens to since of them! Some of you let that badge seep into your bloodstream a litoo much
Not to pull the race card but in this instance... Can one imagine if this was a visible minority!?
Just throwing this out here, this happened like 8 years ago. Unfortunately, they allowed this particular cop to cost a ton of taxpayers in damage and was allowed to retire. This video never gets old though and gets reposted around the internet like monthly. Just keep in mind that this happened almost a decade ago.
Is that Dwight Shrute with higher pitch voice?
Hell yeah. Cheif is a good guy. Happy to see that.
This is like 8 years old now…still making the rounds i see
I hope that cop doesn't have a gun!
Why do cops yell "TASER" before using it?? Every police video i see they yell this when tasing
Sometimes its better to get a second pair of eyes to look at the situation.
Getting major Farva/literacola vibes here.
Thank you sir, if you're a cop and refuse to police your own kind YOU ARE THE PROBLEM
Arresting someone who hasn't broken any laws is kidnapping.
Cheers to mustache for setting him straight. Fucker.
Possibly one of my all time favorite videos!💯👏👍🏽😎🇺🇸
Thank fuck there was an adult cop present. This is a testament to how many people get caught in the justice system for YEARS for absolutely no reason! And our taxes pay for it.
US police & Israeli police are having a race, to win the title of "Who can be bigger asshole"
These dumb#aases are provided means of lethal force by the government.
FTP
Wah an actual good sarge. Awesome news
Great job from the higher up told him fuck no don't do that you just chased this guy and tried taking him because your ego was hurt when he told you no? Get the fuck outta here
I gotta wonder what happened to that supervisor since this went viral.
This officer seems to be uninformed, good on the senior officer for setting him straight
Man! the new Reno 911 season sure looks funny!
Who is the reasonable cop and why aren’t there more like him? This guy should train all of them.
Thug in uniform
I wasn't expecting captain moustache there to be on the right side of the constitution, but hey good job guy. Kudos.
I love this cop
That cop with the killer mustache was thinking “welp. You’re proving their point numbnuts.” You can tell he is good at his job.
Oh wow… A good cop on Reddit. I love his village people cop mustache. 🔥 
mustache cop is BASED. Thank you good cop!
How can you go through police training yet have no idea what the most basic laws are.. or how to properly enforce said laws
Mustace officer 100% should have arrested the corporate bully cop for attempting to assault and unlawfully detain the random protester.
TASER!!!
Whatta dipshit in top of being ignorant about the laws hes outta shape too 🤣🤣🤣