Saratoga Springs city paid $50.000 to Adam Rupeka of Troy who got pepper sprayed and arrested after flipping off a police officer.
The city also released video that also shows Baker threatening to use a taser on a handcuffed Rupeka at the police station.
The video taken by Rupeka after getting pulled over by Baker shows the officer shooting pepper spray in the driver’s face when he did not get out of his car and questioned why he was being arrested.
Baker later resigned. At the time, Police Chief Gregory Vietch said the officer’s conduct was inappropriate.
“The job of a police officer is not to drive around delivering attitude adjustments to those citizens who show unmistakable signs of being in need of one,” Veitch said. “Obviously we want our officers to behave professionally and use force appropriately. In this case it was something we thought required termination or separation from the police department,”
He added that even if Baker had been provoked, his actions were inconsistent with the department’s policies, training methods and values.
http://www.legendaryspeed.com/cop-pepper-sprays-man-flipping-off-loses-job/
http://wamc.org/post/saratoga-springs-settles-pepper-spray-case#stream/0
For the full story from Adam himself, http://www.copblock.org/126581/copblock-contributor-pepper-sprayed-arrested-giving-cop-bird/ where he takes through step by step of what asshole cops are.... 1)ignoring the Supreme Court ruling that they can not arrest you for gesturing at them 2) not using a nuetralizing agent after handcuffing a suspect (remember, innocent until proven guilty by a court) 3) putting peppersprayed suspect in cop car without lower windows, turning on AC etc, just to further antagonize the suspect
"The job of a poice officer is not to drive around delivering attitude adjustments to those Citizens WHO show unmistakable signs of being in need of one,"...
ReplyDeleteGood line, though (and good riddance to Baker).
This is about 20 miles from me here in New York. I grew up in the area and some of the cops up there were just as bad 30 yrs. ago. On an unrelated subject once again the detail assigned to guard the tomb of the unknown soldier has refused to stand down due to a blizzard even when given the option foe safety reasons.
ReplyDeletethose are very remarkable military people at the tomb, and the jobs really sucks. I watched a documentary about it, you can probably find it on you tube, and they described all the ups and downs. In storms etc, they get down to very short rotations, like a 15 minute thing, instead of a normal couple hours. They worked out the best way to do that duty a long time ago
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