cop fired, pulled over daughter's boyfriend and threatened him with jail, "we'll make shit up"

[Demovictory9]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/24/youre-going-to-jail-officer-fired-for-abuse-of-power-after-pulling-over-daughters-boyfriend/?utm_term=.573ccec13fc9

The dash cam was mounted just below the police cruiser’s roof, in perfect position to capture the 26-year patrolman’s transformation from concerned father to authority-abusing police officer.

On that day in April, John Kovach’s 18-year-old daughter, Katlyn, was dating an 18-year-old her parents didn’t approve of named Makai Coleman.

She wasn’t responding to her father’s attempts to talk, so Kovach tracked his daughter’s computer to a friend’s house on West 34th Street in Lorain, Ohio, he told investigators. Then he sat in his patrol cruiser, waiting.

When Coleman’s silver Pontiac drove past, Kovach flipped on his flashing lights and initiated the traffic stop that would end his two decades with the Lorain Police Department.

“You can get out,” the officer told Coleman, according to a profanity-filled video of the interaction. “You’re going to jail.”

When Coleman asked why, his girlfriend’s dad told him: “Have a seat in my car. We’ll make [expletive] up while we go.”

[Sunlei]

1. Thank God for dash cams & that this officer didn't ask a fellow officer to go after the teen.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

2. Standard Operating Procedure (terribly often): "We'll make shit up."

Headline is badly written. It makes it sound as if the cop fired his gun. It would be so simple to use a colon character instead of comma. The comma indicates a sequence. A colon would indicate a reason for being fired.

[Bluepinky]

3. Wow, this cop is totally out of control.

I can understand the concerned father part, he’s worried and concerned about his daughter, but he’s abusing his authority as a police officer.

Glad he was fired, very poor judgement, not to mention unethical and bullying.

[Blue_Adept]

4. Yes, he's just so concerned about her dating a black guy

I can totally understand that concern.

[Bluepinky]

7. He's wrong on all counts, and he may be a racist as well as a bully.

It sounds like he’s worried about his daughter’s mental health, he says she told him she wanted to kill herself. It’s not clear that the episode only happened because she’s dating a black man. I think as a father he’s over the top, and as a cop he’s horrible.

[uponit7771]

5. "Don't get smart or I can do something to you even more" FUCKIN ASSHOLE

[BumRushDaShow]

6. The other part here should be a wakeup call for some DUers

From the OP article -

But Kovach’s dealings with his daughter and her boyfriend were not the only issues that investigators say violated department policy that day.

The officer also got into it with Gloria Morales, whose children were riding in Coleman’s car when John Kovach pulled it over. The officer asked to search her home for his daughter and accused Morales of hiding the teen. Morales accused him of abusing his authority to deal with family strife and using department time and resources to bully people into cooperating.

“You’re obstructing me,” he warned her in return. “This is your last warning.” When she walked away, threatening to call his superiors, he gave another warning: “If you call 911, you’re going to jail.”

In the end, Kovach managed to get his daughter, who had been hiding in the Pontiac, into the back of his cruiser. She cursed and shrieked at him, telling him that what he was doing was illegal and that he couldn’t detain her without cause. But Morales made good on her threat to call 911. Another officer arrived at the scene, and the department began to take a harder look at Kovach’s actions that night — and his inattention to actual police matters.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/06/24/youre-going-to-jail-officer-fired-for-abuse-of-power-after-pulling-over-daughters-boyfriend/?utm_term=.f613cc2f092f

Notably for the bolded part, according to some DUers, no matter how illegal or absurd, you are to "comply" with rogue cops and you are in the "wrong" if you don't. Of course "non-compliance" can become a death sentence as one can be summarily judged and executed on the spot.