New York cops slaps citizen for not allowing him to search car

[scarystuffyo]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=290_1415427089

Saratoga County Deputy Shawn Glans had no idea he was being recorded as he tried to intimidate a man into allowing him to search his car, which is why he slapped him on the back of his head while yanking the keys out of his hand, tossing them to another deputy who searched the man's car and found nothing illegal.

But he does know now after Adam Roberts uploaded the video to Facebook where it began going viral Friday.

In a Facebook message interview with Photography is Not a Crime, Roberts explained that he and his buddy, Colin Fitch, who owns the car, had parked it at a business that was closed and walked to a nearby party Thursday night. They didn’t spend much time at the party but when they walked back to the car, they were confronted by deputies who had spotted a rifle in the back seat and wanted to search the car.

Firth had purchased a .22 rifle earlier that day and had left it in the back seat, Roberts said. When Deputy Glans asked to search the car, Fitch would not give him permission, insisting he had done nothing illegal.

Unfortunately, that slapping part was not caught on video, but the sound of the slap is loud and clear. But he followed it up by making more threats, proving to be the real asshole
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[Chakab]

1. Just a few bad apples.....

[WhiteTara]

2. Too be fair...

It's a BIG barrel

[rhett o rick]

15. To be further fairer, the rot quickly spreads thru out the barrel.

[WhiteTara]

16. True! And the thing stinks very quickly.

[Odin2005]

44. "...spoils the barrel". They always forget the relevant last part of the saying.

[FlyingFluck]

3. Glans was the subject of a $60 million lawsuit..why is this asshole still a cop?

What a dick...

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/11/you-wanna-fcking-resist-ny-sheriffs-deputy-caught-slapping-man-on-camera/

Glans was the subject of a $60 million lawsuit filed against both the county and the town of Wilton after he lost control of his patrol car and crashed into Douglas H. McEachron’s car in March 1996. Glans was driving at more than 60 mph at the time of the collision, three times the local speed limit. McEachron, a father of six, suffered a traumatic brain injury and lost his sight. One of his children was appointed as his legal guardian following the crash.

The Albany Times-Union reported in 1999 that the city and the county agreed to pay a $6 million settlement to McEachron’s family. Though a jury found Glans to be negligent, he was not required to pay any part of the settlement.

“If Doug had been in the sheriff’s deputy’s shoes, Doug would have been in prison now,” McEachron’s girlfriend, Melinda Dingley, said at the time.

[Chakab]

49. “If Doug had been in the sheriff’s deputy’s shoes, Doug would have been in prison now,”

It's amazing what these guys can get away with in uniform and be able to keep their jobs when most of their people would have their lives (rightfully) ruined.

[Cooley Hurd]

4. Saratoga County Sheriff's Dept is a rotten-to-the-core organization...

[adirondacker]

60. Upstate is rife. Stealin and dealin is part of their benefit package. nt

[GGJohn]

5. Suspended without pay.

Usually they get paid admin. leave.
Good for the Sheriff for taking swift action and taking this asshole off the streets, now, let's see if he's terminated or allowed to retire with his pension.
IMO, he should be terminated and charged with oppression under the color of badge.

[JaneyVee]

6. What asshole leaves a visible weapon in the backseat?

Lucky some 10yr old didn't find it.

[tkmorris]

9. True... and irrelevant

This story isn't about the wisdom of leaving a .22 rifle in your back seat. If that is the part of the story that strikes you as most worthy of attention, well, I don't really know where to go from there.

[NutmegYankee]

10. Isn't it amazing how people always focus on something other than the story at hand?

As if being bullied and having your rights violated is ever justifiable.

[JaneyVee]

11. Don't worry, I can multi-task.

[NutmegYankee]

13. The man didn't deserve to be assaulted nor have his vehicle illegally searched.

I don't blame victims. Not to mention that the car was locked, meaning your hypothetical 10 year-old would have to break into the car to get at it.

[JaneyVee]

17. I agree completely with all your points, AND....

I can point out the assholery of such an action as leaving a visible weapon in your car. And it's a car, parked in a dark, closed, parking lot alone. You don't need to be a master thief to pick up a rock and shatter a window.

[NutmegYankee]

19. No, but that would be an illegal act nonetheless.

I'm not going to attack the victim for doing something that isn't illegal. The gun wasn't left just sitting there for the taking. It was in a locked container. That police spotted it had more to do with the fact that they routinely investigate cars parked alone in lots, using flashlights to look inside. Normal people don't do that.

[sibelian]

63. Actually your single minded focus on instantly adopting whatever opinion

legitimises you behaving like a snot-spraying fucking on the Internet would seem to contradict that assertion.

[sendero]

14. Long guns..

... are legal to have in your car in most of the country. I doubt the car was unlocked.

[JaneyVee]

18. I'm not saying it's illegal, just dumb. And cars are made of glass.

[smiley]

38. Hunters do it quite often where I'm from.

It's only dumb if the gun was hanging in the back window, loaded, and the windows rolled down.

[rhett o rick]

20. Really? That's your take away from this article? I think he probably was illegally parked also,

and his girlfriend is a pole dancer.

[JaneyVee]

21. I have numerous take aways from this article.

Like, the cop should be fired asap. And guns should be locked away out of sight.

[ballyhoo]

25. So he should have put in the trunk and been charged with CCW? The gun was

just purchased. You don't know the timing or the details of that purchase. The driver did the EXACT right thing. He left the just purchased 22 rifle in open plain sight for anyone to see--including the screwball cop.

[hootinholler]

52. Um, the cop should be charged with criminal assault under color of law

The cop that searched his car after witnessing that the keys were snatched without consent to search should be suspended as well. Both should be sued, along with the department and the county.

[ballyhoo]

24. What! Is that what you thought this story was about?

[Odin2005]

46. I'm an asshole for leaving my hunting rifle in the back seat?

[True Blue Door]

7. "Glans"...appropriate name for such a prick.

The citizen should file assault charges. And crimes committed under color of authority should have enhanced punishments.

[lpbk2713]

8. Rights? What rights?

"You haff peppers?"

[Bonx]

12. He's not even sorry he did it

"Asked if he would have handled the matter the same way again, Glans said he would, but not if he knew it was being filmed. He acknowledged that he did not know the incident was being videotaped.

"I was concerned. It was a public safety issue," the sergeant said. "If I had to do it all over again ... I'd probably do the same thing. If I knew the camera was there, no, because it does look bad."

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Saratoga-deputy-suspended-as-video-of-slapping-5880169.php

What a D*ck.
He needs to be removed from any job interacting with the public right now.

[Odin2005]

48. Psychopaths being psychopaths.

[damnedifIknow]

22. Strokes their ego in some demented way to treat people like this

They can go off and brag about it like a ten year old later.

[KansDem]

23. So, when speaking to a cop, are we allowed to drop the "F-bomb"...

...as often as they drop it on us?

When did cops start using "fuck" so frequently when dealing with the public?

[Rex]

26. YAY COPS THEY ARE THE BEST!

[GGJohn]

30. In this case, the Saratoga County Sheriff was the best.

[Hulk]

27. To serve and protect...

Just trying to recall the part about insult, threaten, molest, intimidate?

This clown needs to be fired and banned from any police department. Exactly what is ruining the image and respect the public has of our constables today. Thugs in a uniform.

[bravenak]

28. Not ALL cops!!!

[GGJohn]

29. Seems the Saratoga County Sheriff is one of the good cops,

as soon as the video was brought to his attention, he suspended Glans without pay instead of the usual admin. leave with pay.
Kudos to the Sheriff.

[bravenak]

31. Good!!!

That cop needs medical marijuana for his anger management.

[Savannahmann]

32. Funniest line in the news story.

http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Saratoga-deputy-suspended-as-video-of-slapping-5880169.php

His wife, Carrie, who is a medical provider, said her husband has been under a lot of emotional and physical stress and that she's concerned how the video and any fallout may portray their family in the community.

"What my husband did and how he reacted wasn't the correct way to do it, but there were circumstances that came about beforehand," she said. "He's had a very hard year."

The cop has had a hard year, and that gives him the justification to smack a suspect, and conduct an illegal search and seizure.

If the cop killer in Pennsylvania has had a hard year, is that reason why we should be understanding? He's had a lot of stuff going on, and it's been a hard year man.

[KingCharlemagne]

35. Oh, how I would love to get killer cop Darren Wilson's spouse on the stand and under oath to

testify to their family life for the past year.

[GGJohn]

36. Why?

What would you expect to hear?

[KingCharlemagne]

37. I'd like to hear about any financial or job-related stressors that Wilson

had been experiencing from being shit-canned from the Jennings force. And about any prescription meds or illegal drugs he might have been taking.

[GGJohn]

40. Except a wife can't be compelled to testify against her husband,

so, that's not going to happen.

The whole Jennings police force was fired because it was disbanded, that doesn't mean that Wilson was fired for any misconduct.
And any prescription or illegal drug use is purely speculation on your part.

[KingCharlemagne]

41. Well, I guess we know where you stand with regard to killer cop Wilson, now don't we? Aren't

you just the slightest bit curious though to learn whether killler cop Wilson had a meth or speed habit or was using steroids?

[GGJohn]

42. I stand with the Constitution, you know, that pesky little 5th Amendment?

The one that confers upon a person a presumption of innocence, you do remember that don't you?

It's the same thing you would insist upon if you were in Wilson's shoes.

Besides, this thread isn't even about Wilson, it's about Glans, so why are you jacking the thread?

[KingCharlemagne]

45. You're tiresome. Go away and have a nice life now. - nt

[GGJohn]

47. And you have just conceded my point, thank you.

You have a nice life also, I am in my retirement.

[NutmegYankee]

50. Whoa whoa whoa

Defending a basic principle of law isn't a defense of Wilson. The prohibition on being forced to testify against a spouse is a fundamental part of a Democratic Free society.

[KingCharlemagne]

51. Yeah, I wasn't saying I wished Wilson's spouse compelled to testify, merely that I would like to

hear about life in the Wilson domicile around the various variables I suggested (job stressors, substance abuse, and so on). No spouse should ever be compelled to offer testimony against the other spouse. Sorry if I wasn't clearer.

I was keying off the wife's comments in this case:

"What my husband did and how he reacted wasn't the correct way to do it, but there were circumstances that came about beforehand," she said. "He's had a very hard year."

[NutmegYankee]

53. The wife is in a denial mode.

She doesn't want to accept that her husband acts like a Nazi Brownshirt while on duty.

[NOLALady]

56. From his attitude,

there's a possibility that she may be abused, emotionally if not physically.

[KingCharlemagne]

57. I assume you're referring to this spouse and not to Wilson's spouse (from whom I have

heard absolutely nothing since Ferguson blew up).

Rather than denial, it sounds like 'rationalization' to me (referring to the spouse in this story).

[NutmegYankee]

58. The NY wife.

Having read NOLALady's take above, I think she nailed it.

[tblue37]

59. That man was NOT a "suspect." (What was the crime he was a "suspect" for?)

He was merely a citizen doing nothing illegal, and the cop was on a fishing expedition. That doesn't make the guy a "suspect."

[braddy]

33. Prison for the sheriff

This sheriff should be in prison, and his partner should be facing charges for assisting him and hiding the crime.

[GGJohn]

34. The Sheriff is the one that suspended him without pay,

so, why should he be going to prison?

[braddy]

61. Deputy Sheriffs

I'm sorry that you interpreted it as meaning the head of the Sheriff's department, but no, it meant the deputy sheriffs that the thread is about.

[GGJohn]

62. Ok.

[Odin2005]

43. Fuck the pigs.

[Liberal_in_LA]

54. kick

[Liberal_in_LA]

55. suspended without pay. good.