Georgia Cops Use Coin Flip To Decide Whether To Arrest Woman
BY Herschel Smith
6 years, 4 months ago
A flip of a coin by Georgia cops determined a woman’s fate during a traffic stop in April, body camera footage showed.
The video showed Roswell police officers laughing as they used a coin-flip app to decide whether to detain Sarah Webb during a traffic stop, 11 Alive reported.
Officer Courtney Brown was heard asking Webb whether she knew how fast she was going. Webb apologized and said she was late for work, and Brown asked her to turn off the car and hand over her keys.
“The ground is wet and it’s been raining you’re going over 80 miles an hour on this type of a road. That’s reckless driving,” Brown said.
“I’m so sorry,” Webb replied.
Brown returned to her police cruiser to talk with fellow officers about whether to arrest Webb or just give her ticket.
“What do you think?” Kristee Wilson, a responding officer, was heard saying.
Brown said she “didn’t have speed detection,” but the other officer pointed out that the body camera recorded her cruiser’s speed, which would have shown how fast she was going to catch up to Webb.
Brown was then heard saying, “Hold on,” as she opens a coin-flip app on her phone. Wilson suggested that heads should mean arrest and tails should mean release. Brown agreee (sic) and flipped the coin in the app.
“A [arrest] head, R[release] tail,” Wilson said.
“OK,” Brown replied.
“This is tails, right?” Wilson asked.
“Yeah, so release?” Brown responded.
“23 [the police code for arrest],” Wilson replied.
“Michael Jordan?” Brown said while laughing. “All right, so I’ve got too fast for conditions, reckless…”
So one thing I’ll point out is that pointing to your own speedometer, or saying that you “had to drive so-and-so MPH to catch up” has no bearing on anything at all, and jurors who believe that are idiots. Catching up to a car isn’t the same thing as driving the same speed as the other car. I trust that I don’t have to perform calculus to demonstrate that.
Second, it appears as if this is the same thing we’ve seen before, i.e., hiring the lowest common denominator pathological morons to perform LEO duties. In this case it’s a little different in that these are “mean girls” back in a high school lunch room who didn’t happen to like the person they stopped.
Justice in Amerika.
On July 16, 2018 at 2:39 am, DAN III said:
ALCON,
Hell, former Westchester County, NY district attorney and Faux News celebrity Jeanine Pirro, recently got banged doing 119 mph in a 65 mph zone up there in the Peoples Democratic Republic of New York. Of course, with Pirro being a retired member of “The Only Ones” the NY State trooper issued her a speeding ticket. Arrest not even a thought.
Of course, different state. Different people. Nevertheless, it must be nice to be special.
“Justus” in Amerika.
On July 16, 2018 at 1:22 pm, RDB said:
Why do they have her in cuffs? Reckless driving here in NE doesn’t normally end with you being hauled down to jail in cuffs unless tried to avoid arrest.
And it takes 3 or 4 cruisers to provide backup to arrest this obviously “dangerous” young lady?
It won’t take much to neutralize the local LEO’s in the coming games….
On July 16, 2018 at 2:07 pm, moe mensale said:
@RDB,
Almost every traffic violation in GA is a misdemeanor and you can be arrested for any speeding infraction. Hence the cuffs. It’s a GA thing.
On July 17, 2018 at 12:21 pm, Shark said:
C’mon it was a hairdressing emergency!!! Take it to trial and go for jury nullification!
They couldn’t just give her a damn ticket? Unless she had a prior criminal record or outstanding warrant, this was just more of the heavy-handed police state BS against a cooperating, genuinely (at least reasonably) remorseful citizen. The cost of the RD ticket would have been MORE than enough punishment for this person. No need to add vehicle impoundment costs, lost wages, etc. So typical of the us-against-the-citizenry mindset of the “modern” police forces in this country.
As an aside, I love how the cops like to order you to do something, then lecture you, which requires your attention, and then get mad when you aren’t promptly complying with their prior order, etc.