A police cover-up in America?! What a surprise. NOT!!!!
@@Al-Rudigor Blue line privilege. We deserve better for our tax dollars.
I don’t understand why people think this is an American thing… corruption at a police level is world wide, and much more prevalent in other countries..
Stop electing politicians who don’t take police accountability seriously
The chief of police needs to be arrested and charged with tampering with evidence, obstruction of justice, among other charges.
The voters need to hold their elected officials accountable in this country. Vote out anyone who doesn't hold him accountable. From the prosecutor who doesn't charge him to anyone who doesn't fire him.
It has become like this because we are easily manipulated. The American public has short memories. We know nothing of the law so believe whatever bullshit we're sold.
Everyone whines about stuff like this but this is the voter's fault. We long ago weaseled out of doing our duty.
He won't. WORST case scenario for this jabroni...he retires with a pension.
@@Tom-zi9xwworst case scenario is he will be put on a 5 day PAID suspension!! 🤦🏽♀️ This AMERICA!!!!
(in my Kendrick Lamar voice)
Our Heroes... A bunch of blue-line criminals.
@@MichaelJones-rn2pq all places...there are no "good cops" when they witness the wrong doing of the "bad cops" and do nothing
and this is why police officers in any city should not be able to mute their audio on their cameras nor have access to their bodycam footage!
Agreed but in this case the audio wasn't muted, it was redacted. One might argue that redacting the information was even more criminal.
This is why you ALWAYS record the police yourself. Requesting their body camera footage is unreliable when the police department edits and redacts the footage in their favor before it's released.
Oh but why ? Since the availability of BWC and social media platforms LEO'S have gotten away with creating their narrative to cover their asses way to many times as we have seen. Their qualified immunity and entitlement of falsifying police reports just proves that cases like this are like that of a Mafia Criminal full on enterprise beyond the norm.
Any cop that muting thier body camera should be given a written or reprimand they should not be able to do this. They are just merely covering their butts, so they can lie and do whatever with no proof.
Body camera should be remotely controlled from a very, very mild's length. Forget arms length will go with a miles length so corrupt. Cops can't influence them to tell them to shut it off or do whatever.
So they fired the two lovebirds to throw everyone off the trail off the coverup... With cops like these we don't need criminal syndicates..
Its becoming more and more known that we the people know they are the Criminal Syndicate. Americas own Blue Line Mafia.
What a shocker, the chief protecting his son, but having no problem listing all the other underage children.
Body cam is exposing all the criminal police organizations. This is why departments fight to not have body cams. Muting or turning off a body cam should be a crime in itself. A badge doesn't give you a free pass to commit crimes.
Well, it shouldn't, but it sure does in this country. And then WE pay for THEIR crimes. Sweet racket they have going for themselves.
News flash, haven't met an officer yet that doesn't want BWCs. They have exposed BS complaints WAY more that showing corruption. Yes, it has revealed police misdeeds and that's great, but by far it shows police acting correctly.
@@winstonsyme5899that is why police departments advocate FOR body cams, not against.
To ALL "peace officers:" You want your respect back? THEN EARN OUR TRUST BACK! Here's more proof why NONE OF YOU DESERVE ANYTHING!
You do realize it's Police Officers who are suing in order to prove the chief is corrupt right?
@@mindystorsin-erbele9680 Good, see, this is a challenge to all "good" cops to HELP CHANGE THE WHOLE CORRUPT SYSTEM! Thank you for your concern.
Crooked cops committing crimes, covering it up, and then investigating themselves. This sounds like standard business.
95% of police officers give the rest a bad name.
Damn crying SHAME at LEAST 95% of P.D.'s are staffed with THUGS,LIERS,THIEFS,BULLIES & COWARDS.
Looking like 100% nowadays! The entire system needs to be disbanded. There are 10's of MILLIONS of us well trained/armed veterans who can police this nation at no cost to our fellow citizens!
This is why police hate smart phones they can be filmed anytime anywhere 1st Amendment Right.
The vast majority of police support the use of cameras and smart phones on both sides. I don't know where the information is coming from in the claims being made, but they are wrong.
@@rbarnes4076
The information is coming from thousands on social media videos as well as many TV stations articles where we see cops get upset by people with cameras. I bet they would not be upset if everything they did was lawful and correct and footage was used to recommend them for an award or promotion. .
@@rbarnes4076 Possibly the tens of thousands of readily available news and auditor videos showing otherwise. We will just forget evidence though and listen to you, right officer?
Wow, he chief needs to resign and leave the law enforcement profession.
Only difference between a cop and a criminal is qualified immunity.
Is there any cities in America that doesn't have any open lawsuits against their police force?
Not sunce 2020 when they were given carte blanch to do whatever they feel like
@@shawnclawson890why 2020? If this is a Biden reference remember it is Trump who wants to indemnify the pigs
@@shawnclawson890 PIGGIES been trampling on the Constitution FOREVER.WITH NO END IN SIGHT!!!
Lexington KY police caused the city last year to pay out $40 MILLION in lawsuits! We cannot afford these low IQ TYRANTS!
Rules for me but not thee . OUR Tax dollars at WASTE....
Whoa that is some good reporting, catching the audio coverup,,, someone needs to go to jail over this coverup.
This is what heros look like. The journalists, I mean, not the LEOs featured.
I wonder why there's been such a massive loss of public trust toward law enforcement? Maybe because they're constantly committing perjury with no consequences?
That's what you get when your courts say that cops can lie whenever they want, and never hold them accountable, even in cases of clear perjury. Cops are not only the most cowardly among us, but are also the most dishonest. WE go to jail if we lie to them, they get rewarded for lying to us. Cute, huh?
So they tasted a guy that wasn't a threat because they could, scared police officers should not be working with deadly weapons if they have no control
Tampering with evidence or cover ups should be an instant dismissal and an appointment with the local Judge.
Busted, the chief should resign immediately
Great reporting by this news organization. Appears that there is not any reason for anyone to not believe this police department is nothing more than a den of organized criminal activity. Remember, it always starts at the top by the criminals who lead the department. These departments hate any transparency with the public who fund them.
These crooked P.D.'s SHOULD be facing federal RICO charges! THEY ARE A RACKET & SHOULD BE CHARGED AS SUCH!! THEY use/abuse the authority/power WE THE PEOPLE entrusted THEM with & THEIR conduct SHOULD be held to a HIGHER STANDARD!! Hence, no qualified immunity,any convictions,sentence is AUTOMATICALLY DOUBLED!!!! NO IF's,ANDS,BUTS or MAYBES!!
Open questions to police - why are you so corrupt? Why do you think you get to skirt the laws that everyone else follows? And why do you attempt deceptive cover ups when you know the public is going to find out the truth?
The reason is you have one part wrong, they don't usually get caught, no matter how brazen. Then when they are - there's no consequences, or incentives even when they get caught. Look at Daniel shavers murderer, the cop got a PTSD retirement, then sued to get the rifle back he executed the kid with while giving himself PTSD.
"nothing to see here folks"just government employees serving themselves as usual.
Why do they immediately cover it up?? Just admit you hire bullies and idiots then poorly train them. 🙄👍👍
In case the idiot cops haven't figured it out, the cover up is always worse (99% of the time) than the bad act that was done...
I love the transparency where in order for the chief to try to stay out of trouble he throws his officers under the bus!
Training schools teach the new recruits not the law, but that they are protected by qualified immunity along with judicial immunity for prosecutors and judges. Abolish Qualified Immunity!! Tampering with body cam evidence.
And don't forget that they can LIE to us whenever they want. It's an "investigative technique", or so they say. I say it's just plain dishonesty in the name of destroying our way of life.
1. End qualified immunity
2. Require Malpractice insurance. The more offenses the higher the cost to insure oneself.
3. Create a National Brady List, so LEO can’t just move and go to another city, county or state. Gypsy Cops.
4. All incidents causing injury, especially lethal or requiring hospitalization, must be evaluated by independent outside Authority (federal perhaps)
5. Create a Federal code to follow like US Military UCMJ "The Uniform Code of Military Justice has Article 93 Failure to report an offence"
6. Any LEO that witnesses incident and does not report it is an accomplice.
7. Initiate frequent testing for drugs and steroid use with automatic discharge of failure. End steroid rage.
9. Train LEOs on the constitution and settled law regarding stops, ID, and searching.
10. Immediate termination for turning off cameras or falsifying reports!!
You people should look up what qualified immunity actually is 🤣 it has nothing to do with criminal prosecution 🤡🤡🤡
How many "bad apples" do we gotta hear about before everyone realizes the entire orchard is tainted?
Ever notice that when 'stuff' (Gov Misconducts) like this happens..it only makes Local News.?
1. End qualified immunity
2. Require Malpractice insurance. The more offenses the higher the cost to insure oneself.
3. Create a National Brady List, so LEO can’t just move and go to another city, county or state. Gypsy Cops.
4. All incidents causing injury, especially lethal or requiring hospitalization, must be evaluated by independent outside Authority (federal perhaps)
5. Create a Federal code to follow like US Military UCMJ "The Uniform Code of Military Justice has Article 93 Failure to report an offence"
6. Any LEO that witnesses incident and does not report it is an accomplice.
7. Initiate frequent testing for drugs and steroid use with automatic discharge of failure. End steroid rage.
9. Train LEOs on the constitution and settled law regarding stops, ID, and searching.
10. Immediate termination for turning off cameras or falsifying reports!!
True. And it only makes the local news because those are the only news organizations with actual journalists, instead of "moderators" or "spokespeople." We need real news mandated back to the public sphere! If it's jot mandated, no one will produce it because there's easier profit in sensationalism.
@deadave100 That is an excellent list. Honestly, it wouldn't be a bad idea to write this down as a petition, get it signed by a few local folks, and submit it to your local politicians/representatives.
Our family was planning on travelling to the Twinsburg Twin festival this summer. Hmmm. Maybe not.
Yeah that thin blue line is as wide as a freeway, double standards are only part of the problem. Bad cops hate cameras.
Thank you for actually reporting news … corrupt cops need exposed.. too many cops don’t know laws
Think the Chief needs to be drug tested. No one is that stupid. It shows motive.
Thin blue line gets thinner everyday
It’s no different than any other gang of thugs, they just wear a uniform. Will all look out for their own. Incidents like this and the cowardice in Uvalde expose it.
@@12time12nah they definitely different. They are the biggest gang, highest scoring, most violent, most criminal, most feared
Fun fact, the "thin blue line" comes from the 1988 film by the same name. It centers around police corruption.
I would expect nothing less from a trained, tax funded liars. They hate the people they swore to protect and serve. Lying is what they do best. They cover up for their wrongdoing and criminalize others for virtually nothing. End qualified immunity.
It's not the crime its the cover up. Had it been my son he'd have been fined and grounded. Just that simple 😮
Wow just imagine if Americans still had a little self-respect and just did the right thing from the beginning like if he's so embarrassed by his son being at a party with alcohol maybe he should have just resigned from the beginning and made it a lot cheaper on all the citizens of that town, instead they're going to pay out use of force claims and they're going to have to pay two police officers that he obviously tried to get rid of because they were going to tell his little secret
I don't think he'd needed to resign because his kid was drinking - that's on the kid. The coverup however is different - that IS on him and the officers that went along with it.
That"self respect", should read "integrity"!!! Piggies don't know the MEANING of the word!!!
My suggestion Fire no pension and prosecute
Corruption.
why hide his son's face. It is already known to the community. The Chief is being protected because the city mayor or city manager and chief are corrupt
And even if found guilty, it will be business as usual, once the spotlight is off the department in question.
The founders are rolling in their graves for what we put up with public officials getting away with
Corruption at the top.
Bet those records were altered by the city
No surprise.
This type of cover up requires full cooperation from the entire force. ACAB
Dont hold out for anything. Poloce and city will cover their behinds becuse they dont care about cost if theu lose. Citizens better hurry up and trll council that the chief is putting the city in a bad place.
Ahhhahaha - LOVE IT!
Corrupt police; so typical...
The mayor needs to fire the chief and clean house
the cops could find NO victim so they once again made these people their victims!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Everybody!! fired!~! Everybody!!!
Crookeder than the crooks
A few bad apples in a rotten bushel.
Thank God we can count on the Police department to be honest, transparent and can be fully trusted by the public they are sworn to protect and serve.
RULES FOR THEE BUT NOT FOR ME
Holy Crap that old Folk Law about Johnny Appleseed didn't say anything about all these bad Apples he reseeded in all our Police Departments?
It's starting to look like any good cop just hasn't had the opportunity for corruption yet.
anytime you give somebody power over another, they WILL abuse it....... without fail
Cops
Aaaa.....give us some time to get our stories straight.
Oh but 'back the blue!" Not
accountability is snitching to those who can't mind their own damn business anyways. proud of these two officers.
That chief looks crooked as hell
If you believe this is only an isolated incident with cops you are in for a very rude awakening.
You as a news organization needs to start asking for every weeks, body cams for the past week and go through them, and I bet you will find much more cover-up than this, and also violations of personal rights. I’m giving you a challenge.
Let's see the "rats" jump ship. Chief and half will retire. Full pension. Third will resign and already have jobs somewhere else
Oh boy
Daddy's gonna pay
BUSTED!!!!
"Rules for thee, not for me"
Its great when they themselves have to deal with the behaviour they use against the public every day without any concerns
The people need to be outraged and the numero uno needs to be fired.
Corruption is rampant in most police departments!
Just the Blue line of Terrorism doing terrorist stuff.
So disgusting! They should be charged!
Yoooo is that a major crime altering body cams in anyway?!?!?!? And tasering an unarmed person? Probably suffered a concussion from that fall!
Someone’s going to lose their job and someone’s going to get reinstated with back pay. We’ll see how this ages!
He was tazzed by police while his hands were up. Police Brutality 100%
How dare they obstruct or impede an investigation.
Don't cops arrest people for that?
Just give them the name.
Don't make things difficult.
That is why cops hate cameras that are not their own.
End Qualified Immunity and start holding law enforcement officers accountable for their criminal wrongdoing and lying.
I love to see videos where corruption is exposed. Great job!
See ya Chief
It's not what you know, but who.
I feel like that boy has gone through life getting away with just about anything you can think of.
Not surprised should be outraged not surprised this is a police state
Corruption in the police force? No. 😂😂
Busted 😂😂😂
Disgraceful misuse of power shown by the chief and lack of honorable integrity within the department just to protect his son who knew better.
If this is the kind of illegal machinations they are willing to use against their own, just what do you think they are capable of doing against their enemies.....you know.....us?
You have the typs of cops, corrupt, complicit, and the good that are forced out.
Cams should NEVER be adjusted .. if there then the cop needs x amount of days off WITHOUT pay.
now that's journalism at its finest, go get em and don't back down, good job
Excellent reporting 19, "took a screenshot" wow!!!!! Great investigation, congrats.
Keep up the good work!!
Shocking, Cover-up, chief , never😮
Revolution is needed
Just a few bad apples..... in every dept.
They want everyone to face the full punishment of the law except for themselves, family and friends.
The law has nothing to do with it. These are nothing but morons and sadists. The constant use of the TASER shows that. They are trained that we are all terrorists who want to steal their guns and shoot them, and THEY must be able to go home at night, to hell with US being able to do so. They are trained to have nothing but contempt for we, the citizen, and that their own word goes, no matter what it is. They aren't trained in the law more than you can learn on You Tube, which is why so many of the auditors know the law so much better than they do. In fact, it takes 4 TIMES the amount of training to be a hairdresser in this country than it does to be a cop. 2 years VS 6 months. And we don't give hairdressers qualified immunity, guns, and badges. Messing someone's hair up is a big deal, killing them for a busted headlight is just business as usual.
And they wonder why people aren't happy in this country. This is what happens when you let the right wing do what they want with your society. None of this started before Reagan. Since, it's been nothing but.
Didn't you know about the special dispensation scheme many police departments use? They give their friends and family special tokens, like a card or something, and if they ever get pulled over by another cop they just hand that to them and they get a free pass. This was in the news a few years ago and numerous former cops came forward to back it up and say they knew about it. Miraculously, that story just faded out of existence without any federal investigation at all. Funny how that happens, isn't it?
DUI's can just be made to "go away" if you have a friend or family member in uniform, because it's a criminal gang and not a police force.
yeah, but that's because they need special training to not act like monsters.
@Blaze, Exactly
@byronshepherd8415 No they don't. They know full-well what they are doing.