They get bounty money from MADD look it up . Even if everything is cleared they get paid from them. They are ensentivized from non profet to make arrest.
Ticketing taxpayers is not only for state profit! If cops don't harass drivers, most officers would be in the back room taking turns napping on overtime pay! That's why they call the police station "Their House"! (It's the truth!) USMC (Semper Fidelis) SGT E-5 (5811)
@Nomadmandude It is not incompetence when the driver blows a .67, the limit is .08 and alcohol affects people differently. Just let all DUI drivers go then. See what happens when a cop lets a DUI driver go, and he kills someone. You also forget DUI includes drugs, not just alcohol.
I don't think he did in this case actually.... ----- This is one smart citizen. He knew he had been drinking and refused the field sobriety testing. Smart. At 12:16 AM his BAC was tested and it showed 0.067 under the legal limit at 0.08. The question is what time was he arrested? I am guessing he might have been 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. According to one website "The average body will metabolize between . 015 and . 020 BAC per hour" I am not sure what time the arrest took place but it is likely he was at 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. But if the time between arrest and the actual test was an hour....he could have dipped below the legal limit in that span of time. This guy wasn't fully sober he was right on the legal edge of DUI. Points off to the citizen for answering the have you been drinking question - always answer that with - I don't answer questions. I'll be honest - this officer appears to be a total tool but I don't think this is the type of case the news should focus on and I am surprised I'm the first person to point this out after nearly 900 comments. I hate to say this but the officer did the job he was hired to do in this case. I am also disappointed in the....investigative journalist....you're not very investigative. Fun fact - if this was Utah their legal limit is 0.05. He would have been DUI/DWI in Utah.
I've known plenty of local police officers, deputies, troopers and corrections officers. The number of them who are literally one tick away from being criminals themselves is alarming.
Which is exactly what MADD (Mother's Against Drunk Driving) does. They give awards, prizes (money, vacations, even new cars) to police officers simply based on the number of DUI arrests, not convictions they make!
" We, the police are immune to the law, but we love to force it upon you. The citizen" it's just a ridiculous notion that this officer keeps arresting people that are not drunk, and there'll be no accountability held for this officer. He'll stay on the street, continuing to arrest people for non crimes. This will continue with this officer until money comes out of his own pocket and stop extorting the citizens and the taxpayers for their money.
The only way to stop illegal arrests is if everybody starts suing the police or the sheriff department. Some cops could lose their qualified immunity also.
Suing is fine, it's the settlements before court is the problem. They settle out of court and nothing happens to the offending law enforcement officer and the citizens have to fork the bills.
Problem is, most lawsuits name the department & the person so that the department - or reality tax payers - are paying the funds. They're told to because lawyers want the biggest possible outcomes = they get more money. ..... To do things right you have to sue the police officer SEPARATE of their department - if it's even possible, some jobs you can - and then THEY will be paying the bill.
The cop that was so sure that guy smoked weed needs to pay out his entire pension to that guy before a single dime of tax dollars is touched. Like he needs to pay that suit out, he shouldn't get QI for that the guy was clearly sober.
@@WeBreakItAllDownRightHere A more complete response would have been "this problem is more widespread than just this one cop", sorry for the confusion.
Most don't have a "quota", as such. But you can be assured that the officers get regular performance reviews, and that a good performance review (and continued employment and promotions) are predicated on getting as many arrests, fines, and citations, as possible, for a given review period.
No you don't. You do what your parents and grandparents did and send them to g mnt controlled sku uls so they can be sl Ave s, just like you. Get back to work sl Ave.
@@dougmitchell5435 There is no state in the US where refusing an FST can be used against you. They are completely optional and you have a right to refuse.
@@dougmitchell5435 No it can't. You're probably confusing FST's for chemical tests (breath, blood, and urine) which you consent to when you get your license, it's known as implied consent. Most people confuse them for each other. FST's are Field Sobriety Tests, walk a straight line, touch your nose etc. They're 100% subjective and therefore completely optional under the law. ALL DUI attorneys will tell you to never do them. They are not used to help you in any way, the officer uses them only for probable cause to arrest you. There is no pass/fail. There can be absolutely no penalty for refusing. If they have enough probable cause to arrest you anyway they can still arrest you, but refusing an FST can't be penalized. If they arrest you anyway and you are found to be drunk via chemical testing, the prosecutor will argue you refused because you knew you would fail, but there's no penalty for doing so and at that point they have evidence you were drunk anyway. Attorneys will tell you it's likely always in your best interest to refuse. Edit: I said express consent I meant implied consent.
What other occupation can you repeatedly make serious mistakes, cost your employer(the taxpayer) tens of thousands of dollars, ignore policy and still keep your job? I know.. be a cop.
I Kept My "Comment" to MySelf in That First DUI Video with "Trooper Yates-Matoy"...But This 2nd Video *PROVES* He's *"TARGETING"* Drivers in His Community...& He's Nothing But a *BULLY With a Badge!* Those "Troopers" "Muting" BodyCamFootage Smells Like *CONSPIRACY* To Me!😒
This second case really doesn't. The guy in the video had a BAC of 0.067 at 12:16am. According to one website "The average body will metabolize between . 015 and . 020 BAC per hour" I am not sure what time the arrest took place but it is likely he was at 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. But if the time between arrest and the actual test was an hour....he could have dipped below the legal limit in that span of time. This guy wasn't fully sober he was right on the legal edge of DUI.
Happened to me at a state police DWI checkpoint. Requested a test under implied consent law and received an additional $2,000 bill for it. And for some reason it still shows on my record. They suspected drugs on a hunch and nothing was detected, not even marijuana (blood test). And NO I did not get off because I "lawyered up", I got off because I was innocent.
If they’re going to keep arresting innocent people for DUI then they need to expand their testing labs so that it doesn’t take months for these people to clear their names and get their lives back.
If they're not *sure* about impairment (breathalyzer), just don't arrest. We don't need a bunch of dubious cases in the system. There's an abundance of legitimate cases out there already.
The cops will ALWAYS keep a record of who was dui arrested, wrongfully or not. It will follow them the rest of their life. Even if you are found innocent, they see it as a criminal beating the system.
Field sobriety tests should always be declined. Make them draw breath or blood to make the determination. If they just haul you in on a hunch, it will be glaringly obvious the police officer was wrong. Then, go to court.
I agree, but on the other hand, if field sobriety tests are accepted by courts as evidence of impairment, they should ALSO be accepted by courts as evidence that the offender is NOT impaired, when the tests are passed! The first kid PASSED the tests, but because the dip addicted cop ‘knows his family’, he judged him to be high, so the passed tests were disregarded. That’s bullshit! If a person can pass those circus tricks, that person is NOT too impaired to drive, and should’ve been immediately let go without further charges, or testing, breath, blood, or otherwise
Or, you know, just refrain from arresting anyone based on a hunch. Seems wrong to put the onus on the citizen to have to suffer through a wrongful arrest and all the subsequent litigation just to get a just outcome. The just outcome is to let that driver go on their way, instead of massively upending someone else's life based on a hunch.
The problem is lots of people can lose their livelihoods while they wait to go to court. I know truck drivers that have gotten falsely charged and they lose their cdl and the ability to make money while they wait to have their day. What do they do now?? As long as it takes this much time to find misconduct they will get away with it. Lots of ppl sometimes just plea to move on with their lives even if it’s not something they’ve done. It’s messed up.
I'm a retired LEO. This trooper needs to be fired. It's not that difficult to determine whether someone is under the influence. To arrest a completely sober person shows that he has no idea what he is doing, other than giving his department a bad name. I hope both innocent drivers bring lawsuits.
What a disgrace. Now we know how he's been awarded the state DUI Trooper of the Year . Three different times in Tennessee. He said, "Being a State Trooper and arresting someone is instant gratification." He needs to be fired.
Every time they get sued for this type of thing, the money should not come from the public, it should come directly from sale of seized assets and if that can't cover it, DIRECTLY out of their pension funds. This shit would stop real quick if their retirement was threatened.
DUI arrests go a long way for neat little MADD certificates, commendations, raises, and promotions. This guy wants a promotion, and the truth or facts don’t matter. Dismissed charges are not enough, expunged charges are a good start. No DUI given by this clown should ever be accepted.
Great reporting Channel 4. Please don't let up on this. That Trooper Matoy as a danger to the community and needs to be held accountable. He is clearly going to kidnap someone again if not stopped.
DOJ needs to step in, Tennessee is a mess! I love this mother for stepping in. Sue these troopers, sue the State! Billy needs fired! All arrests under this guy for DUI/DWI his whole career need to be checked out. The news station needs to file a FOIA asap, and start digging, this one is deep-
@@ouroborisYes, they do, and I hate typos as well, but in this case nobody can be confused more than momentarily about it because .67 would never be considered "sober" and the most likely error made here (forgetting the initial zero) does fit the context (i.e., .067 is below the legal limit). (Although, after the first report about this officer, you might have reasonably thought that the error was actually that his BAC was .0067 🤔😂)
Let me tell you this that blue wall of silence is real I remember, when I worked at the sheriffs office, a homeless man who was standing on the sidewalk pissed off one of the Sargents and that Sargent arrested him for “a stolen shopping cart” one the cart wasn’t reported stolen by anyone and two he had no idea where the man got it from, yet everyone kept silent about it.
How do cops keep getting away with this??? Used to you could take a breathalyzer and if the suspected weed or something you'd go to the hospital piss or take a blood test and they'd let you go unless you were obvious obliviated on pills or something then you'd go to jail. Now your telling me they don't even do breathalyzers anymore and the cops just say yeah your messed up your going to jail, make bond screw up your entire life for a while, if you drive for a living your almost certainly going to be fired just for the arrest... not convection... Stuff ain't rite anymore when they can do what they want to you when they want to and you can't do anything about it. The punishment is the arrest and going to jail and making bond and going to court, they don't care if it gets tossed because that was the whole point. The Hassel
detainment either way, cooperative or not. They are going to handcuff you regardless and haul you to the jail to where the machines are, and observe your behaviors on bodycams so we can enjoy the uploads here on youtube. They are making REVENUE off arrests thanks to this platform as well.
In the report on the first guy, the trooper told his mother they don't do breathalyzers; and in a series of reports from months ago, they reported something like a 6 or 8 month wait time on processing blood tests. So, guilty for a long time until eventually proven innocent, in Tennessee.
@@akinpawsI remember that. I cannot understand how any state police agency in America does not use breathalyzers in 2024. Whatever answer they're going to provide to the question of why they do not use this time-tested, generally accepted technology, they're simply wrong. Institute breathalyzers immediately, and quit trying to arrest people who aren't over the legal limit. If you're "just not sure" if they're legally impaired -- for example because they only blew .067 -- *let them go*. Do we not already have enough criminal cases in our courts involving conduct that plainly, definitely violates the law? They need to stick to those instead of arresting people for DUI when they don't have objective evidence of presumptive impairment.
@@MudEDuck I know full well how it works .67 a person would be dead. .08 is the legal limit in alot of states. It is all according on alcohol intake, body size, as well as genetics. But normally, a person isn’t that intoxicated with a .08 in their system, though that’s a per se dui. I’ve defended clients charged with dui who were sober as a beat with a .12 bac. Of course, the law in my state makes it difficult to win those cases as it’s presumptively under the influence and there really isn’t a mechanism to rebut said presumption. I’ve had numerous clients and successfully acquitted them with blood levels below .08 who were dead sober, even with blood levels of .079. I’m not sure what nonsense you think believe, but it’s not accurate
These troopers should be sentenced five to ten years behind bars for these types of false arrests. They’d do their jobs better if their freedom were at risk.
Let me guess, the trooper is former military? Over aggressive hiring of veterans was found to be a major problem for overly aggressive policing in my state recently.
You officers perpetrating these false allegations should lose your jobs and pensions. Scary you’re able to lie and ruin good people. This ain’t California
This happens more than you think. There was an officer in Commerce, Georgia that was fired for arresting people for DUI when they were sober. And there was another officer in Loveland, Colorado doing the same thing, but he was allowed to resign. The victim sued for 400K and won.
If the blood test taken an amount of time after the stop came to .067, then it’s reasonable to believe the guy was over .08 at the time of the initial stop. Wouldn’t hold up in court, but this is quite different from the previous case where the kid had truly not drank anything.
Yates-Matoy.. needs to hit the unemployment line. Poor excuse for a trooper. He totally disrespectful of the badge that a lot of people have earned and deserve to wear.
This type of thing happens pretty often. Either fully false arrests or trumped up charges, it's rare that a police report is truly accurate. In order to keep their jobs they need to "create" crimes. The worse the crime, the better they look at their jobs, the more that they get paid. Just follow the money.
All lawsuit payments should come out of the police pension fund. Then maybe other officers would have more of an incentive to keep their fellow officers in line!
U guys can spend billions on your toys but can't spend money on a breath tester that most western countries have had for decades that rules on whether someone is above the limit in 8 seconds. I don't get it!
To any officer and/or THP trooper who may be reading: I do not recognize your authority, and herby officially reject any authority your state legislature or governor has bestowed upon you. One can only assume from the evidence that your department has clearly been compromised and is operating using rogue officers. As such, it is impossible to tell by sight which officers are operating lawfully, and which are rogue officers. My name is the same as the name on this account. If any trooper with the THP runs my license plate, and sees my name as the owner of the vehicle, you are advised not to engage. I WILL NOT COMPLY.
Billy needs to be fired . He's not a police officer, he's a thug .
Arrested. Fired means nothing. Another agency will hire him no questions asked.
Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime, he belongs behind bars not just fired.
@@plutotechthis is exactly why the Brady List needs to be amended to include dishonorable behavior with the stipulation for No Rehire! *
he needs to be in jail. being fired is not being held accountable when you carry a badge and gun everyday
They get bounty money from MADD look it up . Even if everything is cleared they get paid from them. They are ensentivized from non profet to make arrest.
the blue wall of silence, corruption, and incompetence on full public display
To bad so many are still willfully blind
Ticketing taxpayers is not only for state profit!
If cops don't harass drivers, most officers would be in the back room taking turns napping on overtime pay!
That's why they call the police station "Their House"! (It's the truth!)
USMC (Semper Fidelis) SGT E-5 (5811)
Too many cops. Too many lies. Incompetent.
Stop equating maliciousness with incompetence. They are trained to do this...
@Nomadmandude It is not incompetence when the driver blows a .67, the limit is .08 and alcohol affects people differently. Just let all DUI drivers go then. See what happens when a cop lets a DUI driver go, and he kills someone. You also forget DUI includes drugs, not just alcohol.
Don't worry folks. They investigated themselves and found their officers did nothing wrong.
Right sad but true
You don't need to worry about an Oath
Gee, we've never heard that one before.
I don't think he did in this case actually....
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This is one smart citizen. He knew he had been drinking and refused the field sobriety testing. Smart. At 12:16 AM his BAC was tested and it showed 0.067 under the legal limit at 0.08.
The question is what time was he arrested? I am guessing he might have been 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. According to one website "The average body will metabolize between . 015 and . 020 BAC per hour"
I am not sure what time the arrest took place but it is likely he was at 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. But if the time between arrest and the actual test was an hour....he could have dipped below the legal limit in that span of time.
This guy wasn't fully sober he was right on the legal edge of DUI.
Points off to the citizen for answering the have you been drinking question - always answer that with - I don't answer questions.
I'll be honest - this officer appears to be a total tool but I don't think this is the type of case the news should focus on and I am surprised I'm the first person to point this out after nearly 900 comments. I hate to say this but the officer did the job he was hired to do in this case. I am also disappointed in the....investigative journalist....you're not very investigative.
Fun fact - if this was Utah their legal limit is 0.05. He would have been DUI/DWI in Utah.
SHOCKER!! Of course they didn’t
That trooper charged me with dui and I was sober spent 48 hours in jail without proof he needs to be fired and charged with unlawful arrests.
I personally know a TN state trooper, and I can 100% attest that his blood tests would come back far dirtier than either of these drivers.
rofl i was about to say the same thing
I've known plenty of local police officers, deputies, troopers and corrections officers. The number of them who are literally one tick away from being criminals themselves is alarming.
I know one that was drunker than shit, got pulled over for dui, and still works.
Omg I had to read this twice 😂 100% truth!!
Because he is a dirt bag cop.
He is a CLEAR DANGER to SOCIETY.
Till he come across the wrong man.
When you incentivize arrests for false charges this is what happens.
You have to add hiring morons with zero integrity to that mix.
Quotas have got to go.
"I can tell from the wad of cash and the promotion I'd get for arresting you, that you're under the influence."
Law enforcement has become another form of taxing citizens.
Which is exactly what MADD (Mother's Against Drunk Driving) does.
They give awards, prizes (money, vacations, even new cars) to police officers simply based on the number of DUI arrests, not convictions they make!
No accountability = no motivation to act with integrity
10 years in prison for civil rights violations , for the dirty cop.
That officer is a sociopath in the truest sense of the word. His actions align with the definition of the word perfectly.
100%
These cops should have there qualified immunity stripped. They also need kidnapping charges
They shouldn't have qualified immunity
There is no such thing
Their
Everyone in Tennessee has thick slurred speech.
😂😂😂 true... the cop has slurred speech!!
😂
Man, Good thing he doesn't patrol around pikeville or dunlap. He'd have half the city in for dui if his basis is slurred speech 🤣
There's way more than 2, this is only the 2nd that has come forward
" We, the police are immune to the law, but we love to force it upon you. The citizen" it's just a ridiculous notion that this officer keeps arresting people that are not drunk, and there'll be no accountability held for this officer. He'll stay on the street, continuing to arrest people for non crimes. This will continue with this officer until money comes out of his own pocket and stop extorting the citizens and the taxpayers for their money.
It’s a cash 💰 cow for a lot of PDs
PD's, courts, lawyers, etc. It's big business.
@@jeremyweems4916 exactly
Policing for Profit.
@@777Skeptic yee
@@777Skeptic jails too
Arrest these criminal revenue agents.
The only way to stop illegal arrests is if everybody starts suing the police or the sheriff department. Some cops could lose their qualified immunity also.
That doesn’t do squat.The taxpayers pay the settlement and the department denies all wrongdoing.The officers won’t face any punishment.
Suing is fine, it's the settlements before court is the problem. They settle out of court and nothing happens to the offending law enforcement officer and the citizens have to fork the bills.
Problem is, most lawsuits name the department & the person so that the department - or reality tax payers - are paying the funds. They're told to because lawyers want the biggest possible outcomes = they get more money. ..... To do things right you have to sue the police officer SEPARATE of their department - if it's even possible, some jobs you can - and then THEY will be paying the bill.
Only way to stop it is to abolish qualified immunity especially for egregious errors. This country needs to get back to common sense.
@@BrooklynBallalook up what qualified immunity and then report back chap. If they lose qualified you can sue them personally.
The cop that was so sure that guy smoked weed needs to pay out his entire pension to that guy before a single dime of tax dollars is touched. Like he needs to pay that suit out, he shouldn't get QI for that the guy was clearly sober.
If the citizens of Tn. allow William Yates-Matoy to commit these crimes.....
Then the citizens of Tn. deserve to pay the lawsuits....
Facts
Well nobody but the citizens will pay anything
@@jondoe406right. Randizimo is an idiot
Time for an investigation into this so called law enforcement officer with the Kermit the Frog voice.
It's deeper than this cop in that state.
@@DavidBourgoisFTWterrible attempt at a joke. What the hell was that?
@@WeBreakItAllDownRightHere A more complete response would have been "this problem is more widespread than just this one cop", sorry for the confusion.
Makes you wonder if this department has a quota for arrests, tickets, DUI.
Most don't have a "quota", as such. But you can be assured that the officers get regular performance reviews, and that a good performance review (and continued employment and promotions) are predicated on getting as many arrests, fines, and citations, as possible, for a given review period.
I know for certain at least one department has a monthly quota.
OMG! The Trooper need to be arrested , this is criminal offense. He is playing the God of the streets.
We use news like this to teach our children not to trust the police.
Right
No you don't. You do what your parents and grandparents did and send them to g mnt controlled sku uls so they can be sl Ave s, just like you. Get back to work sl Ave.
Cops will tell your kids to trust the police. Cops will tell their kids never trust police, don't answer questions without a lawyer present.
As you should. Great parenting
If he is protected by qualified immunity he will do it again and again and again
End Qualified Immunity
Refusing a field sobriety test isn’t grounds for arrest!!!
That depends on State law. It is admissible here.
@@dougmitchell5435 There is no state in the US where refusing an FST can be used against you. They are completely optional and you have a right to refuse.
@@robwiljas It can in Washington. I don't do DUI prosecution, and even I know that.
@@dougmitchell5435 No it can't. You're probably confusing FST's for chemical tests (breath, blood, and urine) which you consent to when you get your license, it's known as implied consent. Most people confuse them for each other. FST's are Field Sobriety Tests, walk a straight line, touch your nose etc. They're 100% subjective and therefore completely optional under the law. ALL DUI attorneys will tell you to never do them. They are not used to help you in any way, the officer uses them only for probable cause to arrest you. There is no pass/fail. There can be absolutely no penalty for refusing. If they have enough probable cause to arrest you anyway they can still arrest you, but refusing an FST can't be penalized.
If they arrest you anyway and you are found to be drunk via chemical testing, the prosecutor will argue you refused because you knew you would fail, but there's no penalty for doing so and at that point they have evidence you were drunk anyway. Attorneys will tell you it's likely always in your best interest to refuse.
Edit: I said express consent I meant implied consent.
It is in some states … there hundreds of body cam videos here on UA-cam of cops doing the very same thing 😅 of people getting arrested for refusing
What other occupation can you repeatedly make serious mistakes, cost your employer(the taxpayer) tens of thousands of dollars, ignore policy and still keep your job? I know.. be a cop.
Or the current President
or the former President.
I Kept My "Comment" to MySelf in That First DUI Video with "Trooper Yates-Matoy"...But This 2nd Video *PROVES* He's *"TARGETING"* Drivers in His Community...& He's Nothing But a *BULLY With a Badge!*
Those "Troopers" "Muting" BodyCamFootage Smells Like *CONSPIRACY* To Me!😒
He's a criminal and needs to be arrested and jailed for his crimes.
18USC241 and 18USC242
To be fair, he's signing his death warrant - he's going viral with target on his back...
Darwin award right there
This second case really doesn't. The guy in the video had a BAC of 0.067 at 12:16am. According to one website "The average body will metabolize between . 015 and . 020 BAC per hour"
I am not sure what time the arrest took place but it is likely he was at 0.08 or higher at the time of arrest. But if the time between arrest and the actual test was an hour....he could have dipped below the legal limit in that span of time.
This guy wasn't fully sober he was right on the legal edge of DUI.
Happened to me at a state police DWI checkpoint. Requested a test under implied consent law and received an additional $2,000 bill for it. And for some reason it still shows on my record. They suspected drugs on a hunch and nothing was detected, not even marijuana (blood test). And NO I did not get off because I "lawyered up", I got off because I was innocent.
If they’re going to keep arresting innocent people for DUI then they need to expand their testing labs so that it doesn’t take months for these people to clear their names and get their lives back.
If they're not *sure* about impairment (breathalyzer), just don't arrest. We don't need a bunch of dubious cases in the system. There's an abundance of legitimate cases out there already.
100% right.
The cops will ALWAYS keep a record of who was dui arrested, wrongfully or not. It will follow them the rest of their life. Even if you are found innocent, they see it as a criminal beating the system.
It's intentional, they have no intention of shutting the money faucet off.
I don’t think you can leave the blood test sitting for a year.
The paperwork took a year
Why does this guy still have a badge? Dude should be in jail
Field sobriety tests should always be declined. Make them draw breath or blood to make the determination. If they just haul you in on a hunch, it will be glaringly obvious the police officer was wrong. Then, go to court.
I agree, but on the other hand, if field sobriety tests are accepted by courts as evidence of impairment, they should ALSO be accepted by courts as evidence that the offender is NOT impaired, when the tests are passed! The first kid PASSED the tests, but because the dip addicted cop ‘knows his family’, he judged him to be high, so the passed tests were disregarded. That’s bullshit! If a person can pass those circus tricks, that person is NOT too impaired to drive, and should’ve been immediately let go without further charges, or testing, breath, blood, or otherwise
Or, you know, just refrain from arresting anyone based on a hunch. Seems wrong to put the onus on the citizen to have to suffer through a wrongful arrest and all the subsequent litigation just to get a just outcome. The just outcome is to let that driver go on their way, instead of massively upending someone else's life based on a hunch.
The problem is lots of people can lose their livelihoods while they wait to go to court. I know truck drivers that have gotten falsely charged and they lose their cdl and the ability to make money while they wait to have their day. What do they do now?? As long as it takes this much time to find misconduct they will get away with it. Lots of ppl sometimes just plea to move on with their lives even if it’s not something they’ve done. It’s messed up.
@@JoshSmith2020they aren’t going to stop doing that as long as they are incentivized to do so and can get away with it
Didn’t you watch the video?
They did do a test, it just took them a year to drop the charges
This trooper needs to be in jail this cop is disgusting
these journalists should be fired for not mentioning ITS A CLASS C FELONY TO MUTE OR TAMPER WITH BODYCAM
What a shock; this cop has more than one victim...
I'm a retired LEO. This trooper needs to be fired. It's not that difficult to determine whether someone is under the influence. To arrest a completely sober person shows that he has no idea what he is doing, other than giving his department a bad name. I hope both innocent drivers bring lawsuits.
These cops are rewarded for making DUI arrests. Not convictions, arrests.
Never admit to one drink. Never do a field sobriety test.
Don’t worry, they’ll investigate themselves and determine no wrongdoing, as usual
Can we start jailing these thugs with badges please?
Take this criminal off the force. NOW!!!
There is much more than two.
Stupid cop takes his job personal and doesn’t conduct himself in a professional manner; par for the course.
This trooper clearly isn't competent to assess sobriety.
What a disgrace. Now we know how he's been awarded the state DUI Trooper of the Year . Three different times in Tennessee. He said, "Being a State Trooper and arresting someone is instant gratification." He needs to be fired.
They don’t care if they are guilty they just count the arrest !!! They blame the system when something gets tossed out it’s never their fault
Right sad but true
Have you not heard, they have QUOTAS to keep.
Even though innocent when refusing to take a breathalyzer they will still suspend your license for 6 months and not return it until the time is up.
It’s bad enough to get arrested for when your guilty but when your sober it’s humiliating.
Every time they get sued for this type of thing, the money should not come from the public, it should come directly from sale of seized assets and if that can't cover it, DIRECTLY out of their pension funds. This shit would stop real quick if their retirement was threatened.
There's no such thing as a good and honest cop and the thing known as Trooper Matoy demonstrates that fact.
Everything in this country is broken.
The fact that this happens more than once, from the same pig, shows the problem..... No accountability.
Don't help them collect evidence against you...
This is going viral nationally. Follow the money.
DUI arrests go a long way for neat little MADD certificates, commendations, raises, and promotions. This guy wants a promotion, and the truth or facts don’t matter. Dismissed charges are not enough, expunged charges are a good start. No DUI given by this clown should ever be accepted.
Great reporting Channel 4. Please don't let up on this. That Trooper Matoy as a danger to the community and needs to be held accountable. He is clearly going to kidnap someone again if not stopped.
"Former Tennessee State Trooper charged with rape & misconduct." ~WDEF, Sep. 25, 2024.
This cop is corrupt as hell. He’s also going to cost his state a lot of money.
The real scandal, is they're still on the force.
Why is this trooper still employed, he should be fired!!
DOJ needs to step in, Tennessee is a mess! I love this mother for stepping in. Sue these troopers, sue the State! Billy needs fired! All arrests under this guy for DUI/DWI his whole career need to be checked out. The news station needs to file a FOIA asap, and start digging, this one is deep-
The DoJ is essentially the Stasi now and the biggest abuser of rights.
So when are they going to fire this Trooper hold him accountable?
And cops wonder why citizens hate them...
these cops are criminals.
Time to lose their qualified immunity! Let the officer pay for their own legal fees and law suit, not the state.
So power drunk that he should be disqualified to be a trooper.
Ya think..
They get bonuses for arrests not convictions. It's pretty easy to understand their motivation.
you do not have to do FST!
Abolish qualified immunity. These officers won’t be so quick to try and look good to superiors
0.67? No, that was .067. Fact is 0.67 would have killed him. Good reporting? No, that was bad reporting.
and bad editing to let that get aired
Obviously they meant 0.067. Nobody thinks .67 is legal to drive.
@@JoshSmith2020 Then they should've said 0.067. Details matter.
@@ouroborisYes, they do, and I hate typos as well, but in this case nobody can be confused more than momentarily about it because .67 would never be considered "sober" and the most likely error made here (forgetting the initial zero) does fit the context (i.e., .067 is below the legal limit).
(Although, after the first report about this officer, you might have reasonably thought that the error was actually that his BAC was .0067 🤔😂)
Let me tell you this that blue wall of silence is real I remember, when I worked at the sheriffs office, a homeless man who was standing on the sidewalk pissed off one of the Sargents and that Sargent arrested him for “a stolen shopping cart” one the cart wasn’t reported stolen by anyone and two he had no idea where the man got it from, yet everyone kept silent about it.
How do cops keep getting away with this??? Used to you could take a breathalyzer and if the suspected weed or something you'd go to the hospital piss or take a blood test and they'd let you go unless you were obvious obliviated on pills or something then you'd go to jail. Now your telling me they don't even do breathalyzers anymore and the cops just say yeah your messed up your going to jail, make bond screw up your entire life for a while, if you drive for a living your almost certainly going to be fired just for the arrest... not convection...
Stuff ain't rite anymore when they can do what they want to you when they want to and you can't do anything about it. The punishment is the arrest and going to jail and making bond and going to court, they don't care if it gets tossed because that was the whole point. The Hassel
The sheep don't seem to mind.
detainment either way, cooperative or not. They are going to handcuff you regardless and haul you to the jail to where the machines are, and observe your behaviors on bodycams so we can enjoy the uploads here on youtube. They are making REVENUE off arrests thanks to this platform as well.
In the report on the first guy, the trooper told his mother they don't do breathalyzers; and in a series of reports from months ago, they reported something like a 6 or 8 month wait time on processing blood tests. So, guilty for a long time until eventually proven innocent, in Tennessee.
@@akinpawsI remember that. I cannot understand how any state police agency in America does not use breathalyzers in 2024. Whatever answer they're going to provide to the question of why they do not use this time-tested, generally accepted technology, they're simply wrong. Institute breathalyzers immediately, and quit trying to arrest people who aren't over the legal limit. If you're "just not sure" if they're legally impaired -- for example because they only blew .067 -- *let them go*. Do we not already have enough criminal cases in our courts involving conduct that plainly, definitely violates the law? They need to stick to those instead of arresting people for DUI when they don't have objective evidence of presumptive impairment.
600 sober drivers arrested for DUI in Tennessee… they’ve uncovered 600 of them.
.067 BAC is not "falsely charged with a DUI." It's drunk.
That’s not drunk lol, the legal limit is 0.08 and even then a person may not even be close to drunk
@MetalGunNut that's not how it works. Do you want an explanation, or are you comfortable remaining ignorant?
@@MudEDuck I know full well how it works .67 a person would be dead. .08 is the legal limit in alot of states. It is all according on alcohol intake, body size, as well as genetics. But normally, a person isn’t that intoxicated with a .08 in their system, though that’s a per se dui. I’ve defended clients charged with dui who were sober as a beat with a .12 bac. Of course, the law in my state makes it difficult to win those cases as it’s presumptively under the influence and there really isn’t a mechanism to rebut said presumption. I’ve had numerous clients and successfully acquitted them with blood levels below .08 who were dead sober, even with blood levels of .079. I’m not sure what nonsense you think believe, but it’s not accurate
These troopers should be sentenced five to ten years behind bars for these types of false arrests. They’d do their jobs better if their freedom were at risk.
Let me guess, the trooper is former military? Over aggressive hiring of veterans was found to be a major problem for overly aggressive policing in my state recently.
The entire policing industry is rotten to the core with criminals
You officers perpetrating these false allegations should lose your jobs and pensions. Scary you’re able to lie and ruin good people. This ain’t California
Our policy: Do what you want!
Good reporting, keep pressing, shouldn’t be harassing your own people who aren’t even breaking the law. No matter what your budget situation is.
the justice system needs to be gone through and the bad cops put in jail
They don’t see a problem with this trooper
I read somewhere that Tennessee doesn't have breathalyzer tests. Is this true and if so how can it be legal.
In TN you have the lawful right to resist an unlawful arrest. Including taking the offending officer's life in self defense.
This happens more than you think. There was an officer in Commerce, Georgia that was fired for arresting people for DUI when they were sober. And there was another officer in Loveland, Colorado doing the same thing, but he was allowed to resign. The victim sued for 400K and won.
i bet they have to nail so many dui's in a month.
its all about the tow truck kick back
I used to respect troopers, not anymore!
If the blood test taken an amount of time after the stop came to .067, then it’s reasonable to believe the guy was over .08 at the time of the initial stop. Wouldn’t hold up in court, but this is quite different from the previous case where the kid had truly not drank anything.
Did the citizens of TN forget what happened in Athens in 1946?
Breathalyzer??? What’s so hard
So in Nashville the cops are who we should look out for not criminals (welp in this case they are the criminals)? Damn….crazy.
Yates-Matoy.. needs to hit the unemployment line. Poor excuse for a trooper. He totally disrespectful of the badge that a lot of people have earned and deserve to wear.
This type of thing happens pretty often. Either fully false arrests or trumped up charges, it's rare that a police report is truly accurate. In order to keep their jobs they need to "create" crimes. The worse the crime, the better they look at their jobs, the more that they get paid. Just follow the money.
Billy, you’re relieved.
Seems like the Troopers are being rewarded for this.
All lawsuit payments should come out of the police pension fund. Then maybe other officers would have more of an incentive to keep their fellow officers in line!
Call and write complaints write mayor … all should sue !! Yates should be fired .. police ruin lives
Trooper needs to be fired now and sued period
U guys can spend billions on your toys but can't spend money on a breath tester that most western countries have had for decades that rules on whether someone is above the limit in 8 seconds. I don't get it!
To any officer and/or THP trooper who may be reading: I do not recognize your authority, and herby officially reject any authority your state legislature or governor has bestowed upon you. One can only assume from the evidence that your department has clearly been compromised and is operating using rogue officers. As such, it is impossible to tell by sight which officers are operating lawfully, and which are rogue officers. My name is the same as the name on this account. If any trooper with the THP runs my license plate, and sees my name as the owner of the vehicle, you are advised not to engage. I WILL NOT COMPLY.