Abuse of power at its worst

[Subrick]

Here's the video.

http://gannett.a.mms.mavenapps.net/mms/rt/...ject=1021811607

Things like this absolutely disgust me.

A state trooper stopped a Hudson man and arrested him for evading an officer. But the man says he was simply looking for a safe place to pull stop with his kids in the car.

Sam Salter was packed in his mini-van heading home to Hudson after at family New Year's Eve party in St. Paul.

Salter was headed eastbound at about 10:30 p.m. when a trooper put on his lights and sirens behind him. He was in the far left lane and immediately signaled to move to the right.

He says he got to the far right lane and there was nowhere to pull off because the shoulder was ice and snow and he wanted a safe place to pull over with his kids in the car, and it was dark.

He immediately got on the 61 exit and at the end of the exit takes an immediate right to a road. The trooper, Sgt. Matthew Gray, thinks he is evading an officer and does a PIT maneuver on him (rams his van) to force him to stop.

He then and jumped out screaming, "What are you doing? I have kids in the car."

With his gun drawn and pointed at Salter, the trooper then pats him down with screaming kids in car and takes him to squad car to inform him he is under arrest and going to jail for the felony of evading an officer.

The kids stayed in van until mom arrives to pick them up.

Salter was taken to jail where he stays for almost two days. His kids ages two, three, six, all saw the altercation with the trooper and are traumatized.

Salter was not charged with the felony by Ramsey County because the county attorney said there was insufficient evidence that he was fleeing.

He was left with $1,500 damage to his van, a ticket for illegal lane change and a $140 towing fee.

Matthew Gray is not on paid administrative leave and has been a trooper for 11 years

[Jonny]

Things like this is nothing new...

[Niles Jansen The Third]

And he's back...

[Aero]

boooooo! bye bye slightly improved board, hello subrick

[Joe =/]

*waits till somebody notices*

[Thom]

If you think that's an abuse of power, what about that time Aero banned The Don for like, NO reason except The Don called Aero gay?

[Aero]

im pretty sure that wasnt me

[Fozy]

wow, abuse of power at its WORST? lol. go away subrick, seriously.

[Subrick]

You see, this is why I left. Because every single fucking time I say anything, the topic degenerates into "Let's bash Subrick and talk about pointless shit". It was getting fucking old and annoying. Like it or not, I'm staying. So pull your heads out of your asses and actually read my posts without automatically saying "A post by Subrick? Let's flame him!"

[System of a Daan]

Well, maybe it's because your topics and replies are usually retarded and deserve to be flamed.. Now please stop your whining as it can't be that bad else you wouldn't superglue yourself onto this board.

[RingMaster2001]

*waits till somebody notices*

I can't believe noone else has noticed.

I'm surprised Matt didn't climb onto his bonnet and nail a Swanton on the car, killing the kids in the back and paralysing the father. Don't mess with the Gray.

Edited February 5, 2009 by RingMaster2001

[Joe =/]

Well to be honest subrick, people do read your posts but find them slightly irritating because every topic seems to contain a link to a video and a pasted article.

"Let's bash Subrick and talk about pointless shit".

Lets be real here... every topic on this board turns into us talking about pointless shit. Staying on topic around here is as hard as a porn star.

In short; CHILL.

[Aero]

you didnt really leave for long either... were you actually just on holiday for 2 weeks or something?

[Subrick]

No. I've been fiddling around on Scorehero for the last 3 months. I've been making Youtube videos as well.

[Fozy]

I did notice, I just decided to say something to subrick instead, lol.

so yeah, go back to being gone, did you not see the thread that everyone agreed it was better without you here? seriously. real topic, go find it. read it. bye.

oh btw, you left on my birthday, 16 december. seriously thought it was the best birthday present ever, now it was just you being internetless for a while because your a cunt and your mum disallowed you to go on.

[Fozy]

however, your drumming is great, congrats.

[Smacktalks]

Someone call 999/911, the flames!, there everywhere!

I'm suprised they didn't suspend the police officer, it was pretty obvious the guy wasn't speeding away.

The worst part is that a police officer would leave 2 young kids in the car alone, in the middle of nowhere.

That said, one thing can explain her actions.... "Woman Driver".

[Subrick]

3 kids. With the door open. To quote from a user on Scorehero by the name of FMBrider86:

Where the fuck is RoboCop when all of this is going on?

[Nemo]

the guy is lucky he didn't catch a swanton through some boxes.

[Aero]

oh.... so ur just stealing things from score hero and bringing them here.... cheers

[ALL STAR]

Im just putting this out there which came to mind looking at the title 'Abuse of power at its worst''

So state trooper is worse than Hilter

[phil]

Gotta agree with the aforementioned comments on how this wasn't surprising. There are tons of police officers, like politicians and other important / highly regarded figures, that are indeed cunts who need to be beaten with an oar from dusk 'til dawn, but who's actually gonna take the time to correct this one cop and discipline his actions? Likely no one.

[Joe =/]

Paul could suspend his account on smacktalks ...

[Fozy]

the worst video i've seen recently is the one where theres someone taking a video on their camera and 3 guys are getting arrested, but they ain't sure what for and one starts struggling, and a police officer pulls out his gun and puts it to the back of his head while he's face down and boom.

it looked horrendous.

[Joe =/]

That kinda rings a bell, how recent was that ?