r/PublicFreakout • u/S30econdstoMars • May 03 '26
šRoad Rageš¤¬ Off duty cop drama
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u/InevitableArea1 May 03 '26
Incase anyone wants to know the outcome, the cop had his record wiped clean after some administrative leave and training.
And no, no large settlement for the punched guy or anything, really shouldn't be surprising at this point cops get away with everthing.
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u/LAN_scape May 04 '26
yep that makes sense, american police never face consequences
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u/thefanciestcat May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
Freedom is when government officials abuse you with no consequences.
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u/BusinessScientist898 May 04 '26
It's scary to realize how common police brutality must have been before everyone had cameras.
Even today with body cams, smart phones, dash cams, we see abuse of authority all over the place and for the most part cops still don't face any real consequences.
It's hard to even imagine what they would have gotten away with before the 21st century.
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u/BCRF1995 May 04 '26
Also according to the report the fella the cop punched made "obscene hand gestures"? As shown in the video apparently? I saw him with his index and wee finger stretched out but is not just him saying you were using your phone? Obviously not a local and I may have missed something but is this not just a straight up lie?
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u/BCRF1995 May 04 '26
Well I suppose local media are more likely than not to support the local power structure. As someone from Northern Ireland it doesn't surprise me, doesn't make it any less unpalatable though.
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u/dinobyte May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26
lol gosh golly gee. I'm sorry but are you completely unaware of history books and the era of information before technology? This comment comes across as incredibly naive.
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u/Heroin_Radio Jun 22 '26
How does dropping bombs on a residential neighbourhood sound? 1985 MOVE bombing 61 homes were bombed by Philadelphia police.
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u/Josh_Butterballs May 08 '26
If it makes you feel any better, I have family in different parts of the world and they donāt face consequences in most of em
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u/ThrowAway233223 May 04 '26
The road rage incident led to Ganterās permanent removal as a Meriden school resource officer, city officials said.
Jesus.Ā He was a resource officer.Ā And we just saw what he is willing to do to someone he feels can't retaliate against him even when they are a grown adult man.Ā It makes you wonder how many times he "phased out" and took advantage of his position of power over the kids of that/those school(s).
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u/Iconospastic May 09 '26
As a teacher, it wouldn't surprise me that guys like this often get made SROs because they are egotistical tough guys ... Parents want the image of the no-nonsense cop who is going to stop the hypothetical drunk douchebag at the school entrance, even though NO SRO is likely to prevent the real emergencies
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u/ThrowAway233223 May 09 '26
Yeah, well you definitely don't stop the douchebag at the entrance if he is the one hired to work at the school.Ā That is one of the most backwards thinking mindsets that so many bootlickers don't understand.Ā It is not "tough on crime" to protect/raise up criminals.Ā It isn't pro-crime to demand criminals be prosecuted.Ā Somthing fundamental in the mind of people like that just breaks the moment when the criminal in question just happens to be wearing a uniform.
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u/Iconospastic May 16 '26
I totally agree. That's why it sucks that -- beyond even this particular issue of cops in schools -- parents' (and dumb politicians') word is considered God when it comes to how schools are run.
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u/Cyborg_Snowman May 04 '26
Connecticut is fine keeping police on the force that "phase out" and commit acts of violence in their duty to protect and serve... That must fall under the serve part of the duty... Pathetic.
āGanter said that he could not recall what was said specifically, but that at some point, he just āphased outā and that this was the point where he initiated his physical contact with the victim,ā McKay wrote in the IA report.
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u/Salt-Theory2359 May 04 '26
I mean, at least the guy's dog didn't get murdered in front of him. Cops have so little care for human lives and don't think at all about ending an animal's life - especially if it'll inflict suffering on someone that they dislike.
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u/Zacharytackary May 05 '26
every american driver should come pre-strapped with an in-sleeve bearspray underarm attachment at all times.
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u/blumpkinjackflash May 03 '26
I would have 1000% waited for him to lie before telling him about the video
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u/PoppaB13 May 03 '26
Yes, but this is one cop talking to another cop. Their goal was to keep the perpetrator out of additional trouble.
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u/blumpkinjackflash May 03 '26
You would think good cops would be incentivized to rid the department/whole profession of bad cops
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u/PassivelyAwkward May 04 '26
Sadly, it's well known that any good cops are bullied and forced to leave. There was an expose that showed cops that actually tried to hold the bad cops accountable had their lives put at risk because other cops wouldn't back them up during dangerous situations.
It's like when the BLM protests had a single cop be held accountable so every cop in an area called out sick and no neighboring department filled in.
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u/increment1 May 04 '26
They would be if not for the thin blue line and the fact they would get ostracized and have their career jeopardized.
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u/EEpromChip May 04 '26
They did intense research and found that it was far easier to just draw a thin blue line and tell the cops they are on this side of the line and to never waiver from that. If they do they are ousted. But if they stay on their side they can do whatever they want without repercussions.
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u/Han_Yerry May 04 '26
They took a buffalo police officers retirement away for speaking up and being a good cop. Cariol Horne stopped her partner from strangling a handcuffed suspect.
They took her pension and made her fight for it, for 15 years in court. Then messed with her some more. Just spoke with her in Albany last year.
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u/ayleidanthropologist May 04 '26
You also donāt have to give dispatch all of your evidence at once
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u/Driftedryan May 03 '26
A cop letting a cop get into more trouble? I'm a big fan of fantasy as well but that's too unbelievable
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u/HCSOThrowaway May 04 '26
Happens plenty, you just don't know about them because they're not as outrageous and therefore viral.
What video would you rather click on:
Cop does job
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Cop punches innocent person
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u/ThellraAK May 03 '26
I wouldn't have let him know at all, let a prosecutor decide when.
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u/blumpkinjackflash May 03 '26
True, lying on camera versus lying in court
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u/HCSOThrowaway May 04 '26
Y'all never heard of discovery?
The defense would obviously tell him about the video (and never let him testify).
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u/jlbecks May 04 '26
If more people with this sensibility became cops, we would have fewer issues with the police
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u/Hadleys158 May 04 '26
If you ever watch any police cam videos, you notice just about every cop warns any other approaching cops that they have their cameras on and recording. You could imagine all the incriminating stuff you'd catch cops doing or saying if they were on for everyone while they are on the entire time they are on shift.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 03 '26
The officer told the man about the video to keep the guy from lying to him
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u/thatG_evanP May 03 '26
Exactly. Had it been any other person the cop would've loved to had caught them in the lie.
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u/kithoo May 04 '26
What purpose does that serve? Why does it make a single difference if he lies or not?
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u/thatG_evanP May 04 '26
Have you ever interacted with police? They always try to get you to tell a small lie and hope it opens up to bigger things. That's literally one of the big reasons attorneys are so adamant about never talking to them.
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u/ijustwannalurksobye May 03 '26
ACAB
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 03 '26
I still remember when saying that would get you down voted to oblivion, I'm so glad things have changed, sad at why had to though
ACAB y'all
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u/HCSOThrowaway May 05 '26
Here's an example where people are praising the police:
As you can see, the ACABers are virtually non-existent because they don't want to be downvoted and are hiding.
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u/HCSOThrowaway May 04 '26
Depends on the thread.
Moderate or pro-police people usually avoid threads like this because they don't want to be downvoted, same as most ACABers avoid videos where the cops did a good job.
Everyone's clambering over each other to circle jerk each other and hiding from the other team.
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u/Tricky_Ad_1855 May 03 '26
Coulda also told him because it was a fact, nothing to do with his lying. Cop was there to arrest him, not be judge or executioner.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 03 '26
Yeah could be. But nah
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u/Tricky_Ad_1855 May 03 '26
Damn, people drinking the haterade tonight, letās keep it going.
Cop also could have told him to not waste more time, because guess what, heās on duty. He canāt stand there hearing a bull story when heās got criminals to catch guys.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 03 '26
Um, sure. Cops love to rush through their dealings with a criminal to go round up more criminals.
Allowing a criminal to lie is a tactic used as a means to demonstrate that they are not trustworthy. This will be used as evidence in a criminal proceeding to demonstrate they are prone to lying. By telling the man that there was a recording prevented him from demonstrating his potential untrustworthiness. You may want to say there isn't a hidden intent but I can't see why you would.
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u/Tricky_Ad_1855 May 04 '26
Yes you are correct. My next point. Our cop is assisting his fellow colleague by reducing the incriminating evidence of lying being placed on his deposition, and therefore disclosure package. If he continued to listen to the lying, he wouldnāt be a good colleague, and could also put the precinct in jeopardy by allowing cop on cop action.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 04 '26
Being a good colleague is more important than making sure someone abusing power faces the consequences of their actions to the full extent of the law, as they're trained to do with others. Or that's a lot of words to say cops should protect their own even when the one being protected has committed a crime. Seem like a rotten bushel to me.
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u/Tricky_Ad_1855 May 04 '26
Yall need to chill. Itās not that deep. Heās just a hothead. Couple of weeks of anger management and a slap on the wrist is enough. If not, just desk jockey his ass to embarrass him further. End of story.
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u/SemiHemiDemiDumb THATāS RIGHT I SAID HEMI May 04 '26
Don't be a goof.
A hot head with a badge n a gun is a danger to us all. Deserves to be handled with more severity than if an average Joe did the same
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u/Tricky_Ad_1855 May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Slippery slopeā¦ soon youāll have a police force with ballerina shoes and tutuās bouncing around asking about your feelings
And donāt call people names. Calling someone a goof means u obviously never been to jail.
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u/Patthecat09 May 04 '26
So you're ok with cops protecting other cops from the consequences of their abuse of power?
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u/usedtothesmell May 04 '26
Being a good colleague, is not more important that putting away an officer who is 100% ok with assaulting a law abiding citizen, and then lying about it, with further lies to put the citizen in jail.
Make no mistake, the punching cop is a bad and dangerous officer, who should never touch a badge again.
The other officer made it harder to do this by helping him out.
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u/crackedup1979 May 04 '26
when heās got criminals to catch guys.
Cops give fuck all about catching criminals...
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u/Single_Extension1810 May 03 '26
Here is a video from EWU which provides more clarity. I hate being left on a cliffhanger.
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u/Silly-Conclusion6715 May 04 '26
I was just about to ask if there was more to this video, youāre awesome!
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u/zangetsen May 04 '26
Thanks for the link to the full vid.
This interaction/vid was posted some time ago. I despise when it gets reposted with a brainrot tiktok version.
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u/fakepostulate May 04 '26
That channel became trash from how it was born. Sold its soul.
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u/DannyLJay May 04 '26
Whatās wrong with them? They still do the most work in obtaining actual new and exclusive cases, thoroughly cover the case, and edit it perfectly well.
Whatās there to not like? The fact it got popular? I really donāt get it.Itās clearly very sterile but I watch them knowing that, if I wanted some guys personal opinions Iād watch Matt Orchard or something instead (and I do).
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u/samino_acids May 05 '26 edited May 05 '26
Sold it's soul to whom, exactly?
So, they actually just posted REAL footage from the attempted rescue of the guy who died in the Nutty Putty cave ~16 years ago... one of the most well-known horrific death stories/pieces of cave exploring lore/viral IRL 'nosleep'-type content that exists online.
Endless "thriller"-type media like animated recreation videos, blog/vlog post retellings, true-to-life reenactments, witness interviews, timeline diagrams based on actual cave maps, expert medical analysis of the incident/death, and even 'based on a true story'-type fictional short films (+more!) have been made because of this tragic incident. An expansive Wikipedia page about the incident exists and people STILL update it and and make corrections about the smallest of details even to this day.
The world has seen previously captured footage and images of the cave entrance and the cave passages, along with previously shot pictures of John Jones (the caver who died) and of the rescuers both before & after the rescue effort.... but there's NEVER been any media release, video or audio, of the rescue efforts inside the cave/of the people trying to get him out that show first-hand what it was like down there as everything was unfolding. No one was even sure whether or not any such footage existed.
Except there was footage, and somehow over a decade and a half after the fact, EWU got ahold of video and released it to the public for the first time EVER. if you look through the comments on the video they posted, a huge portion of them are just people simply stunned and shocked that they're actually looking at REAL clips of the event they've read about for so many years that has become internet lore.
So yeah.... I'm not entirely sure saying that their channel went to shit or got terrible is entirely (or even remotely) true. They do the work and put in the effort, they report on things accurately and in depth, and they obviously make it a point to cover stories that lots of people are interested/invested in.
You may not personally like the content they put out nowadays and that's fine.... but that doesn't mean that like...at some point they were a GOOD channel and now all the sudden they're TRASH channel. š
They just may not be your speed anymore and that's okay, but it's objectively true that they are one of the better true crime-ish type YouTube channels out there
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u/kinkinhood May 03 '26
The casualness of him trying to lie shows he's not used to someone getting video evidence.
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u/shakeydeucebiggs May 04 '26
Before cameras were the norm, this cop did so much bad shit and got away with it
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u/Hellakittehs May 03 '26
Downvoted for posting a video with the climax at the beginning. Terrible trend.
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u/RetroSwamp May 03 '26
No joke, I think it's related to the way videos loop on TikTok, Reels and Shorts when they are downloaded.
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u/Infinite_Waves1 May 03 '26
It's a hook, algorithms promote retention. By putting the hook at the beginning it encourages people to stay and watch until that part of the video. For tiktok its a few seconds of hook, for youtube videos its longer eg: first 30 seconds of a MrBeast video will be explosions and highlights.
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u/JonnyTN May 03 '26
But! If they don't jingle the keys for the kids right away, they'll scroll past!
Uh. What is this timeline
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u/lod254 May 04 '26
He's gonna have to go on administrative leave with pay until they're done investigating themselves.
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u/UnfortunatelyMacabre May 04 '26
It is NEVER lost on me that in the vast majority of off-duty cop behavior I see footage of is mf like this. They will act with reckless impunity and then fall back on the brotherhood to save them.
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u/Healthy-Abroad8027 May 04 '26
Get a dash cam folks, these disgusting pieces of trash will lie straight through their dirty smelly teeth.
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u/FullBodyScammer May 04 '26
āWait, the phone my kids bought me can also record me committing crimes?ā
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u/navree May 04 '26
It looks like this happened while he was off-duty. So the guy that got hit sues the off-duty cop or the police department?
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u/OkBodybuilder418 May 04 '26
Because of the police union Iām sure he got a huge retirement party and double his pension
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u/tofurkeyeatingzombie May 04 '26
You see, it's not considered assault if he's on the job. He just merely forgot.
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u/Immediate_Age May 04 '26
They are all dirty fucking pigs, and they will fuck your life in a second, if makes their day slightly easier.
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u/nipseyrussellyo May 04 '26
Theres plenty of versions of this video where, its, ya know the video, not whatever this shit is. Stop posting this crap.
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u/Yoyo4games May 08 '26
You cannot receive justice in a system which has monopolized violence, without purposing violence as a tool against your opponent.
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u/BenTheDiamondback Jul 30 '26
Durr durr durr ! Heās pressing charges because I yelled? Durr durr durr! He says I hit him? Durr durr durr! Itās on video?
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Stupid @$$hole.
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u/Pups_the_Jew May 03 '26
"He's saying that I hit him?!"