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Police office resigns after roughing up driver for throwing speeding ticket out the window

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http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=4655187
October 12, 2006 - A Toledo woman claims a routine traffic stop turned into a case of police brutality.

She says an Ottawa Hills police officer pulled her from her car after she threw a ticket out the window.

It happened last month at the corner of Secor and Edgevale in Ottawa Hills and it was all caught on tape.

"One of the advantages of having the cameras in the cars, is the facts are clear police dash-cam video shows it all."

Officer Mark Deters says he pulled Brown over for speeding. Deters asked Brown to step out of the car to take a breathalyzer test. Deters' report suggests Brown was argumentative and refused to cooperate.

Several days later, Ottawa Hills police conducted an investigation, which included a review of the dash cam video.

Nearly a week later, Officer Mark Deters resigned, citing family reasons.

Ottawa Hills Village Manager Marc Thompson says, "This is not the type of behavior we expect of our people. Certainly our preference would be not to have it happen and it is embarrassing."

Thompson says all citations against Brown have been dropped. He says this is a one-time incident that will not happen again.

"The officer's behavior was not something we tolerate; it was unnecessary, intolerable."

Today Brown's Attorney Richard Mitchell released this statement:
"It is saddening that one must wonder how different a scenario this might have been had Ms. Brown not been African-American."

"The officer's behavior is wholly repugnant without regard to race. These are the types of incidents, however, that set back race relations and efforts at improving them for decades."

Thompson does not believe race was involved in this incident. "The behavior of our officer was inappropriate regardless of race of person involved."

Ottawa Hills manager says Brown did pass her breathalyzer.

Brown's attorney says she is considering filing a lawsuit.

This isn't the first time there's been an investigation into racial profiling accusations in Ottawa Hills.

In 1998, Ottawa Hills police arrested Suron Jacobs, an African-American construction worker, while he leaned on a village fire hydrant. Police had charged him with obstruction of justice and resisting arrest. A judge later dropped the charges because of a lack of evidence.

Jacobs claimed officers violated his rights and filed a civil lawsuit. Jacobs' attorney says the case was settled and Ottawa Hills paid the settlement.
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Originally posted by: archiloco
well, at least the cameras are doing their job.
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The officer went from "Drive Safely" to "Let me throw your ass around mode" in like 2 seconds 😀
 
I think the b1tch deserved it.

WHY the fvck would you not blow? Then on top of that, disrepecting him by throwing the ticket out the window.

If I was him, I'd be thinking, "man... that was sooooo worth it, lol."
 
I tend to agree with the "she deserved it" crowd.

Was he out of line? Absolutely. Was a forced resignation the right move? Probably.

But boy did she ever have it coming.

Viper GTS
 
Originally posted by: state 08
I think the b1tch deserved it.

WHY the fvck would you not blow? Then on top of that, disrepecting him by throwing the ticket out the window.

If I was him, I'd be thinking, "man... that was sooooo worth it, lol."
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What she DESERVED was for the officer to tell her to get out of her car and pick up the ticket (or be faced with a fine for littering), then tell her to go on her way.

She didn't deserve to get thrown around for that.
 
It's a shame cops like these color the brush all cops get painted with. As with most groups, the average cop isn't like the ones we see on the news.

I've been hassled by cops. I wasn't happy about it at the time. Then again, I deserved it. I knew it then, but wasn't mature enough to admit it - even to myself. It sounds like this woman didn't deserve it, but I just can't stand the anti-police flamefests these posts end up turning into. Cops are people too - people that are keeping your house from being robbed while you're at work; people that work every day of the year; people that work all hours of the day, and generally don't make a great living doing so. Does that give them a free pass on stuff like this? Not even close. Should it mean that the average cop busting your ass for the dime bag on your front seat you didn't even try to hide deserves your derision because you broke the law? No.
 
I hope she files a lawsuit and the Ottowa Hills PD goes after the cop to pay for the settlement. That kind of behaviour is intolerable.

Pig :thumbsdown: (just that cop)
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: state 08
I think the b1tch deserved it.

WHY the fvck would you not blow? Then on top of that, disrepecting him by throwing the ticket out the window.

If I was him, I'd be thinking, "man... that was sooooo worth it, lol."
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What she DESERVED was for the officer to tell her to get out of her car and pick up the ticket (or be faced with a fine for littering), then tell her to go on her way.

She didn't deserve to get thrown around for that.
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Truth.

 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: state 08
I think the b1tch deserved it.

WHY the fvck would you not blow? Then on top of that, disrepecting him by throwing the ticket out the window.

If I was him, I'd be thinking, "man... that was sooooo worth it, lol."
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What she DESERVED was for the officer to tell her to get out of her car and pick up the ticket (or be faced with a fine for littering), then tell her to go on her way.

She didn't deserve to get thrown around for that.
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QFT

I see no reason she should have been dragged out of the car like that.
 
Yep, a decent cop would have just given her a ticket for littering. The "she deserved it" crowd are a bunch of idiots.
 
Remember the video of the state trooper who acted so calm even when the man he stopped for speeding went ballistic? (The man also got a littering citation when he ripped up the ticket and threw it at the trooper LOL!)

I guess this was the other end of the spectrum although not exactly the same scenario.

Here's a video of that other incident
Calm trooper
 
The lawyer is pulling the race card (see the quote from the slideshow). I wish the cop would beat his ass to for that. If she wasn't black, wahhhhhh cry me a fvcking river, red, white, pink, blue, or orange, he was going to snap one way or another.
 
Originally posted by: Unheard
The lawyer is pulling the race card (see the quote from the slideshow). I wish the cop would beat his ass to for that. If she wasn't black, wahhhhhh cry me a fvcking river, red, white, pink, blue, or orange, he was going to snap one way or another.
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We can't live in a color blind society if lawyers are playing the "race" card.
 
Originally posted by: forfor
I hope she files a lawsuit and the Ottowa Hills PD goes after the cop to pay for the settlement. That kind of behaviour is intolerable.

Pig :thumbsdown: (just that cop)
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They made the guy resign, what more do you want from them? They can't go back in time with their newfound knowledge and fire him before it happened. The taxpayers of the town shouldn't have to pay so she can get rich for being a bitch.

Sue the officer, maybe, but not the town. I hate how people look at anything bad that happens to them as a get rich quick opportunity. I don't have audio, but I didn't see anything on that tape worth suing over.
 
That fvcking bitch deserved to get thrown to the ground. I would have tazed her.

Fvck her and his disrespect.
 
Originally posted by: BlancoNino
Originally posted by: Unheard
The lawyer is pulling the race card (see the quote from the slideshow). I wish the cop would beat his ass to for that. If she wasn't black, wahhhhhh cry me a fvcking river, red, white, pink, blue, or orange, he was going to snap one way or another.
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We can't live in a color blind society if lawyers are playing the "race" card.
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Too bad playing the race card works most of the time 🙁
 
Originally posted by: forfor
I hope she files a lawsuit and the Ottowa Hills PD goes after the cop to pay for the settlement. That kind of behaviour is intolerable.

Pig :thumbsdown: (just that cop)
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A lawsuit for what? I doubt she was injured. They probably threw out her ticket and that's pretty damn generous.
 
Originally posted by: state 08
I think the b1tch deserved it.

WHY the fvck would you not blow?
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Well my attorney says that if you're guilty, you should refuse all tests. Including the blood test @ the station. By the time they get a court to force the test on you, you will be sober.
 
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