A white officer in suburban Detroit lied to a Black pedestrian by identifying an officer from another force as his supervisor during a 2021 police stop.

Brian Chaney says he asked for a supervisor during his arrest in Keego Harbor, Michigan, and Police Officer Richard Lindquist told him that another officer present was in charge. The problem: That second officer was not a supervisor or even a member of the Keego Harbor Police Department.

Lindquist was never disciplined and his chief says that while a suspect has the right to request a supervisor, what the officer did was OK.

“An officer can lie in the field when he’s not under oath,” Keego Harbor Police Chief John Fitzgerald said in a deposition in Chaney’s $10 million wrongful detention lawsuit.

  • ALQ@lemmy.world
    26·
    10 months ago

    I’m shocked that 43% of their respondents have such high regard and trust for cops, but the downward trend is becoming more rapid.

    • jjjalljs@ttrpg.network
      214·
      10 months ago

      43% is about the percent of the US population that leans Republican. Simple farmers. People of the land. The common clay. You know. Morons.

      • girlfreddy@lemmy.caOP
        61·
        10 months ago

        What surprises me the most is they allow their hate for the Democrats to dictate their vote for the GOP, instead of using knowledge and wisdom to decide for them … and then justify it by parroting Trump’s idea that he’s some kind of martyr and fighting for their rights.

        I just can’t understand how people can slide so far down the slippery slope of false belief without hitting some kind of bump that wakes them up.