Deputies Ignore Call, Harass And Arrest Motorist Instead - April 22, 2024 from tomar more gee Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 4:24
✓ Published: 22-Apr-2024

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*Audio provided by Broadcastify, used under Creative Commons license*<br/><br/>In the early morning hours of April 22nd, 2024, sheriff's deputies in LaSalle Parish, Louisiana were dispatched to a nursing home in reference to two suspicious persons on bicycles who had been looking into employees' vehicles. Deputies arrived in the area, but quickly forgot about the call or looking for bicycles. One deputy ran the license plate on a random car (not a bicycle...), and decided to stop it. The driver continued through the residential area for less than a mile before coming to a stop, presumably at a well-lit location. (I don't blame him...) <br/><br/>The car had a cancelled/revoked license plate, so he did have legal grounds to make a stop, but remember that they were on a call and were supposed to be looking for bicycles, not stopping random cars. With that information it could be surmised that the traffic stop and everything that followed may have been unreasonable under the 4th Amendment. <br/><br/>They determined the driver had a suspended driver's license, and a K9 supposedly alerted on the vehicle (but interestingly, a deputy quickly told the dispatcher to disregard that transmission). They eventually called for a wrecker, and took the driver to the jail.<br/><br/>They did not find the bicyclists from the call (gee, I wonder why....) and simply called \