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And the truth comes out at 7:12 "I was assaulted by a cop and a grand jury dismissed all the charges and the city of St. Louis paid me not to sue". This kid is an opportunistic little hip hop thug wannabe, as evidenced by his lame azz Tokyo Drift music. Next time your taxes go up in the St. Louis area, blame this little punk driving around with his little hidden camera system trying to antagonize police and get another easy payday lawsuit. Sorry, but I ride with the cop on this one.
RUIN HIS CAREER? WTF.......This cop is out of line....he asked him about 20 times "what is his problem" .....that cop antagonized and provoked the whole situation beyond what it should have been.
The guy said 50 times, he did'nt want any problems.
They need to fire that fucing cop.. People please keep in mind that you cannot be a cop unless you have a low IQ..the choose ppl that are programmable and follow rigorous rules and don't think outside the box. You must have a low IQ to be a cop.
I hate when weak minded people always try to use reverse psychology and try to turn the tables on you and say you are emotional, have an attitude, or are angry. Cops abuse the law and citizens (Blacks) should have yet another reason to stop following the enemy and unite!
that's why i f*cks with hotbunny! My type of woman.
This is so old. The guy is 20 years old at the time. He had a camera in his car because another cop falsely accused him of assault. He won that case and ever since had a camera in his car. He was in a parking lot, waiting for his girlfriend to bring him his cellphone. The cop came and started messing with him.
For the idiot who posted about blaming the kid, you are dead wrong. It wasn't a trap. This poor kid has been harrassed by officers many times. They stake out his home, tried to put other tickets on him that were false. I don't blame this kid one bit and he deserves the money.
It's messed up that whever cops are the ones to blame,the system as well as the media always tries to justify their corrupt actions making them the victim when is the other way around...Why would anyone want this as a career anyways?..Yes,it may have been a very respectable job while serving/protecting communities @ one point..but things haven't been the same in a very long time!.
Suspension and firing of Sgt. James Kuehnlein
On September 7, 2007, Brett Darrow, a St. Louis City resident, created an Internet sensation after posting an online video of an encounter with St. George police Sgt. James Kuehnlein. In the video, Kuehnlein approaches Darrow while he waits in a parked car in a commuter parking lot. When Darrow asks Kuehnlein whether he did anything wrong, the officer orders Darrow out of the car and threatens to fabricate charges and arrest him.
Darrow told the news media that he pulled into the commuter lot to meet a friend. When the officer asked him for identification, Darrow said he didn't immediately present it because he believed the officer stopped him without probable cause. After the video gained popularity on the Internet, Kuehnlein was suspended without pay. In response, St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig said, "I was very displeased when I saw the actions on the video."
The press later revealed that Sgt. Kuehnlein had been previously arrested for assault and stealing, and in late September, he was fired by the city's Board of Aldermen in a 5-0 vote.
I am going to trial on December 14th because of a crooked cop who called my home and tried to blackmail my husband after we got pulled over in like February with expired tags. Don't trust the cops, the public defenders, the d.a., or a judge. Cops have too much power and they have become corrupt. F^ck the police for real.
My friend needs one of those cameras! He got a little over $3000.00 in tickets in 1 stop. cops were checking tags & licenses in the Freaking afternoon & blocking up traffic. My friend is on his way to work & got pissed off cuz they were causing the traffic & ran his mouth off BIG TIME. Well they wrote him 4 or 6 hefty tickets.
So some white boyz get treated like SH!T too by the police.
Aside: To my uncles & cousins who are cops or detectives, I LUV you.
Wow! Well I've never been pulled over by a cop but some cops are reallll shady. A few of my friends have been stopped by this one cop - he picks them up in his cruiser, drives them to this field, and makes them choose whether they want a 'beat down' or to go to jail. Some of them had some weed on them so they chose the beat down instead.. and end up all swollen, black, blue, and purple. What the cop does with their weed, I have no idea.
But I'm definitely on the kids side. Cop deserved to get fired!
FUKCING CLICKING SOUND IS DRIVING ME CRAZZYYYYYY. ne way he is a smart boy, these cops r fukcing psychos 4 real. whole demeanor changed after he realized it was being recorded but i'm suprised he just didn't beat the [EXPLETIVE] outta him and take the camera. but ppl who b tracking the cops know they have a quota 2 meet @ the end of the month and that is no holds bars so they go after EVERYBODY!!
@aaa9 I realize my initial statement makes it look like I support this particular cop's response, which I don't. People (especially cops) should be mature enough to respond to challenges without profanity and insults. I should have chosen my words more carefully. But if you think this kid just "accidentally" keeps stumbling into conflicts with police, that's ridiculous. This kid has had at least 4 run-ins with police from different departments. There's more to this than meets the eye. The kid also mumbled something outside the car that set the cop off.
All I (very unsuccessfully) tried to say is that this kid is not representative of the typical innocent police abuse victim. He is an opportunist and shouldn't be placed on a pedestal as some kind of hero. He's just as conniving and slick as the folks who filmed the ACORN video, the Obama interviews in Harlem that were all over Howard Stern, or people who manipulate statistics or data to make it seem blacks are worse than whites. He has also posted inflammatory posts about police on a cop blog, including laughing at a post calling a black officer ambushed and killed in the line of duty a "monkey". This is your hero. F*CK HIM.
This is not real folks. Damn I would think black folks can see when shiit is fake when it comes to cops. The light was in the back window of the dudes car. Why u think the clicking sound was in tune with the spinning of the light and he only had a blue light and not blue and red and what car uno still have a spinning light? The dude is a bad actor and didn't know the law and tried to say the most dumb and corrupt things and couldn't think of shiit cuz this shiit happen to black men every day and these fools are making fun of it. If the cam is hidden then why did the dummy know about it?
that cop was jealous of his car, cuz they ALWAYS did that to this guy I was datin, cuz he had a real expensive car that was really fast & they'll just stop him for no reason and just talk smack to him, he just STOP drivin that car in that town and just drove a truck and he NEVER got pulled over again in that town..............SMH, just a sad situation!!!!!!!!!!! but good thing he had a camera
@neeceecole and dcstillhere Yes, I saw the whole video, his other videos, and read all the articles about him.... Years ago! This is not new. This is old news. Do you know what his being "messed with" by police was? He was driving reckless, pulled over by an off-duty cop, and pulled a baton on the cop who responded by pulling his gun. Then later, this kid was "so shaken" by his experience, he couldn't even speak to testify at the hearing (which was dismissed due to his "terror" being so believable to the grand jury). I'm not excusing bad cops, I just can't get with this kid.
THIS IS JUST A SMALL EXAMPLE OF THE RECKLESS BEHAVIOR... JUST LIKE THE STUNNED A 85YR OLD GRANDMA & PUT HER IN A CHOKE HOLD(COME ON NOW) NOW RESPECT FOR THE ELDERLY SO YOU KNOW THEY'LL GET RAW WITH A YOUNGSTER...PRIME EXAMPLE OF HOW SO MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE ARE DEAD NOW SEAN(DUDE FROM NYC) THE COLLEGE PROFESSOR THAT WAS ARRESTED FOR BURGULARY @ HIS OWN HOUSE THE LIST GOES ON & ON... THIS BULLY MANTALITY HAS TO STOP...
2YR AGO MY FRIEND & I WERE STOPPED BY THE COPS ON MY WAY TO THE AIRPORT DRIVING A S-CLASS BENZ.. THE COPS SAID MY FRIEND HAD A PARKING VIOLATION TICKET THAT WAS UNPAID & A WARRANT HAD BEEN ISSUED FOR THE ARREST B/C THE AMOUT HAD DOUBLED B/C PAYMENT HAD NOT BEEN MADE..THEY TOOK HER TO JAIL TOWED THE CAR & ALLOWED ME TO CALL A CAB SAID I COULDN'T DRIVE THE CAR OFF
THE FOLLOWING DAY MY FRIEND CALLED ME & SAID THERE WERE NO RECORDS OF HER CAR BEING TOWED...AFTER 2 ALMOST 3 MTHS OF INVESTIGATION THEY GAVE US A FAKE NAME OF A TOWING COMPANY THAT DID EXIXT BUT NIT IN THE CITY WE WERE IN & DIDN'T HAVE A LICENSE TO TOW IN THAT AREA...LONG STORY SHORT A GOOD FRIEND OF HERS WAS @ A MAJOR CAR DEALERSHIP & SAW A CAR THAT LOOKED EXACTLY LIKE HERS CALLED & SOME OF THE #'S ON THE CAR HAD BEEN CHG. THE COP WAS FIRED
I ALWAYS HAD MY DOUBTS ABOUT COPS BUT UNTIL I EXPERIENCED SOMETHING THAT WASN'T LIFE THREATING TO ME BUT STILL A DISGRACE TO THE WAY THEY HANDLE THERE BUSINESS CROOKED HASS PUT A BAD TASTE IN MY MOUTH...I'M SURE THERE NOT ALL BAD BUT UNTIL I SEE DIFFERENT IM GOING TO CONTINUE TO THINK THERE THE ENEMY
Sorry LoveyHowell, I won't stoop down and respond in kind with name calling on the net. Internet guts don't prove anything because I know you would never say it to my face, so why bother? I'm sorry that the fact that I have a differing opinion upsets you so much. Frankly, I don't see what the outrage is all about over me not supporting a RACIST trouble maker. This kid is not a victim. He is someone purposely out looking for trouble and then claiming the innocent victim defense. Have a nice holiday! P.S., yes the Yanks beat the Phils. Props to NY on the win. It's not really that serious.
LOL, All of a sudden he was Mr. Nice when he found out a camera was in the car.
This cop got some serous MENTAL issues. LOL, I'm getting a camera in my car too and On-STAR so I can call the cops on the cops.
This is like the 100th cop they have caught on camera harassing people and threatening to mess up there life, something has to be done.
Young man taunted by policeman wants officer fired By Georgina Gustin ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH 09/12/2007
St. George — A young St. Louis man who videotaped a police officer's angry taunts during a traffic stop, and later posting the footage on the Internet where thousands of viewers have watched it, said Tuesday he wants the officer fired. Brett Darrow, 20, met with St. George Police Chief Scott Uhrig for more than an hour Tuesday afternoon and also filed a formal complaint against the officer, Sgt. James Kuehnlein.
During the meeting Darrow asked to see the videotape from Kuehnlein's police car. But according to Uhrig, that footage, inexplicably, is nowhere to be found. "That's the million-dollar question," Uhrig said. "Our policy says any contact the officer has with the public has to be on tape."
Darrow had pulled into a commuter lot at Spokane and Reavis Barracks roads at around 2 a.m. Friday, when Kuehnlein approached and asked him what he was doing. When Darrow questioned why, Kuehnlein launched into a series of taunts and threats. "The attitude escalated when he thought I was questioning his authority, but I was just trying to figure out what he was doing," Darrow said Tuesday. "I was really scared. He was up in my face, spit coming in my face." A camera in Darrow's Nissan Maxima captured the incident. Darrow, a St. Louis Community College student, said he put the camera in the car about a year ago after getting a speeding ticket. "I got a ticket I didn't feel like I deserved," he said. "I was thinking tickets, not this." In the footage, Darrow can be heard citing his Fourth Amendment rights — his reasonable expectation of privacy — to Kuehnlein. He said Tuesday he's familiar with the law, through "reading statutes, reading constitutional law, reading case law. It's just something I'm interested in." He said he was not trying to entrap the officer. Kuehnlein could not be reached for comment. After the incident, Darrow posted the footage on the Internet, where news of it spread quickly. He maintains he did not contact news media and had no idea the matter would get so much attention. "I didn't mean for it to be what it was," he said. Darrow said he was in the lot at that late hour because he had just left his cell phone at his girlfriend's house, and the two decided to meet there to hand off the phone because the location was convenient. Kuehnlein has been an officer with the department for about two years, and had come from the Riverview Police Department. Uhrig said Tuesday that, perhaps, Kuehnlein was not accustomed to having someone question him as Darrow did, with a camera recording his responses. "Most officers aren't used to being questioned like that," Uhrig said. St. George, a city of about 1,300 people, sits along Interstate 55 at Reavis Barracks Road. Its police department has four full-time officers and three police cars. An officer can patrol every street in the city in about 20 minutes, Uhrig said. Uhrig said he has worked hard to cleanse St. George of its image as a speed trap with a police department staffed by unqualified novices. He said he has implemented new, more stringent hiring policies and expanded the department's policy manual since becoming chief two-and-a-half years ago. "We have a reputation for being traffic enforced," he said. "It's not true. My officers are told to enforce the law. I want quality, not quantity. I want the drugs, the impaired drivers. Those're the things that make a difference." Uhrig said he would submit a report on the incident to the city's police review board and the St. Louis County prosecutor as early as this week.
I keep my digital camera in my ride at all times specifically for this reason. Cops are becoming more foul these days. The corrupt cops patrolling these streets where I live like to harass the young individuals rollin in nice rides, and it don't stop there. They'll go as far as confiscating the vehicle claiming they found some illegal substances in it!! Illegal substances that somehow appeared there on their own. A lot of cops aren't right doin the corrupt things they do hiding behind their badge. It's getting bad out here, but not as bad as the people in L.A. have it. Now that's a scary place
WTF HE SAID YOU WANNA TRY ME U WANNA TRY ME LOL. YO F^CKED COP. HE SOUNDS LIKE SOME1 THAT WAS A NERD IN HIGH SCHOOL. SO THIS IS PAYBACK. OMG HE SOUNDS ANNOYING. I WOULDVE SHOWED THIS TO THE LOCAL NEWS N PUT THAT COP ON BLAST, DESPITE NOTHING WOULD HAPPEN TO THE COP. NOW THE COP CALMED DOWN TOWARDS THE END BECAUSE HES BEING TAPED LOL
@AZ480 YES COPS DO SOME GRIMEY SH!T. MY THING IS IF THEY GO AS FAR SETTING UP PEOPLE N STUFF. THEY CAN EASILY TAKE THE CAMERA OUT THE CAR SO THERES NO EVIDENCE. BUT LOOKING BACK AT HISTORY (RODNEY KING ETC) EVEN WITH EVIDENCE A COP GETS A SLAP ON THE HAND ANYWAY. ITS F^CKED UP. I NEED TO DATE ME A DETECTIVE LOL HAVE SOME INSIDE PEOPLE 4REAL
THROW THAT F-CKING COP IN JAIL. THROW THAT F-CKING COP IN JAIL. THREATENTING FALSE ARREST, THREATING BRUTAL HARM, THREATING CUSSING A YOUNG KID.
I am going to write the president on this. THIS IS F-CKING BULLSHYT. THIS IS WHY COPS GET A BAD RAP. The cop had no right. We will ruin your career and life??? taht is the ultimate threat to the kids livelyhood. This cop needs to be in jail getting his ass broke in by Bubba. THE KID DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG. SEE HOW HIS ATTITUDE CHANGED ONCE HE KNEW THE KID HAD A CAM. I NEED A F-CKING CAM IN MY CAR. EVERYONE GET A CAM FOR UR CAR
WTF do you mean just do what the cop says. The cop had no cause or justification to pull that kid over. He used his turn signals, he wasn't driving irradically as the cop claimed, it is all bs. You have a right to know why you are bebing stopped. Don't listen to good villian, that kid was lucky to have evidence. Most don't, so that is when you listen. but you have a right to know why you are being pulled over. THAT COP COULDN'T EVEN GIVE THE KID A REASON. HE HAD NO JUSTIFICATION B/C THE KID DID NOT GIVE ANYTHING INDICATION HE WAS BREAKING THE LAW IN ANY SHAPE OR FORM.
They need to put this on CNN on the local news. The law should not be backing criminals. THis cop is a criminal. He is making idle threats, threatening someone's life, the law should not be backing gang members. This man needs to be fired immediately. No second chances, so paid leave. I want this man gone.
CHICITY81--YES...THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT. That fool needed to be fired immediately and a badge of shame placed on his record so that he could never work in any other police department again. COPS ARE THEIR OWN ENEMIES. Cops like this are the ones risking the lives of other cops b/c the public stops trusting cops. One bad apple. A public servant cannot threaten to ruin someone's life. Imagine how many people have gone to jail b/c of cops like this. How many lives have been ruined ie. life in prison, death and so on.
Where did he get that camera? I want one of these, because I get stopped a lot because I am black and that would be really helpful. I need some free money every now and then LOL! What is even more interesting now white people are starting to feel how we feel all the time when we get stopped for no [EXPLETIVE] reason.
He was Rogue, until he was made aware of the camera. He Then thought of threatning the guy with jail to deter him from possibly using the tape against him.He KNEW he was in hot water, with all the "Above The Law" threats he made toward the guy. Can you imagine how many BLACK people he threw 9 different things at for....NOTHING?!....Wow.Arrogant White Men!
keishadastarr Flag post If he was African American he would have been shot about a thousand times by now. This is just sad. It shows you how some of these police officers feel that they are God. They basically hold your life in their hands and they take it forgranted. Sad... soooo sad! **** SMH you know!
WTF @ Big_Moose U SOUND STOOPID! DAT COP WAS AN A**HOLE! DAT BOY COULD'VE BEEN IN THE PARKING LOT MEETING UP WITH SOMEBODY, HE HAD NO RIGHT MESSING WITH HIM, TALKING BOUT STEALING CARS,WTH HE IN A CAR ALONE SO HOW WAS DAT GONA HAPPEN?U PROBABLY A DAMN COP,MARRIED 2ONE OR KNOW ONE TO SAY SOME IGNORANT SH*T LIK DAT!DID U HEAR HIM?TALKN BOUT MAKN UP 9THINGS 2CHARGE HIM WIT COME ON NOW DATS JUST WRONG!I BET WE WOULD HAVE LESS PPL BEING ARRESTED AND GOING TO COURT IF MORE PPL HAD A CAMERA IN DEY CAR.WUT A WAY 2WASTE MY(TAX PAYERS)MONEY, HE READY 2TAKE DIS BOY 2JAIL,4WUT? CUS HE IN A PARKN LOT!
Cops in chicago are crooked [EXPLETIVE] you will ever see they control every lawyer in the state I can prove with over 200 emails and faxes i sent to them, they control the crooked media they can get away with anything, these crooked retards are trying to setme up up for a 10 year convict male prostitute , they are brain dead racist [EXPLETIVE]. im sure they setup thousands of hispanics and blacks they are th dumbest racist [EXPLETIVE] you will ever see.
