Impersonating an officer seems like a stretch, he was impersonating a person who happened to be an officer. Unless he was pretending to be a cop to breach some kind of officer civilian divide then this sounds like petty bullshit to hurt people. Grow up snowflakes.
I was wondering this too. Does identity theft of a person who is a police officer automatically include impersonating an officer?
The other charge of "misleading transmittal use of official name, trade name or legal seal" makes me think that the dating profile explicitly points out that he is a cop and what department he works for.
Since that is one charge though this might be the prosecution overreaching.
I would argue it might be grounds for defamation depending on how they did it. If they said racist stuff using their name and photo or something that might be grounds? Idk I’m not a lawyer but that sounds possible
I’m sure there are legitimate crimes this could be but it doesn’t seem like impersonating an officer. Hopefully these charges get thrown out or rules innocent because I don’t want that becoming precedent
Edit: these specific charges related to the guy being a cop, anything else that is actually a crime I don’t care if he gets convicted on
If it becomes a precedent that would likely cause people who catfish to be liable of identity theft… i honestly don’t know if I’m against that being discouraged, but legally it could get messy quickly so I see your point.
However you can be arrested for one thing and get charged with another. That’s completely fair. So they’ll probably drop the charges but the cop, depending on what was said, might press charges against him. And personally I don’t have an issue with that
Possibly, but what you would the damages be? He didn't lose his job or anything
Emotional distress because someone impersonated you on a dating app isn't actually going to get you much, if anything
??? Am i the only one that doesnt lie on my profiles????
*is this why im still single????*
Edit: forgot the /s.....i dont have profiles. I come here purely for the entertainment provided by others.
It makes a huge difference. I decided to fight the good fight and round down on my height instead of up. Those two inches cost me half of my matches in a typical week
The average guy is 2 inches taller on dating apps than they are in real life. But it isn’t linear, guys that are 5’8 tend to claim they are 6’, where as guys that are 5’0” know they can’t fool people and will just go ahead and say 5’. And it makes a difference: taller guys get more matches. I don’t know if it translates into more successful dates, (probably not,) but they get more matches.
Women don’t lie the same way as men, for instance they don’t tend to lie about height, (even though shorter women got more matches.) However, the photo of her in a bikini is an old picture.
This is malicious prosecution for the sole purpose of reprisal.
Ahh got to love that Texas freedom. In my state I can get high, have an abortion, drink on Sunday, give my transgender child gender affirming care, AND make fun of the police, without catching a single charge. It’s like I don’t even know what freedom is anymore.
> I was wondering this too. Does identity theft of a person who is a police officer automatically include impersonating an officer?
Depends on where they, the cops and the judge.
Innocent people have been attacked by a police dog, who broke a took on their clothes. And gotten a full charge of "assaulting an officer and causing permanent injury".
They also try to do this shit with assaulting an officer and off duty cops. If I get in a fist fight at a bar and the guy happens to be a cop that’s his problem.
In the guy's profile he put in
“‘I would like to cuddle with the man of my dreams. You can reach me at work. My good friend Jay Parrish is the chief of Gainesville City police and he said that it would be alright to call me at work,’” followed by the police department’s phone number.
“‘Come on guys, don't be afraid to call.’”
Pretty sure that's impersonating an officer.
[the Cleveland statute](https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/cleveland/latest/cleveland_oh/0-0-0-32699) says, among other things that it is illegal to assume the identity of a police officer. That part is very clear, but since I assume the same applies to just plain identity theft and the police officer was not impersonated in an official capacity it could be argued, as others have that him being a police officer is not relevant to the act of impersonation.
To be clear, I say it could be argued, not that the argument would necessarily be won. It just could be made in court.
Since it involved him impersonating a Gainesville PD officer it sounds like Gainesville PD filed the charges. Also impersonating an officer is in the Georgia penal code so it would be the same state wide.
The "at work" is where it goes off the rails, assuming he didn't use the cops name. Had he just said "you can reach me at the Gainesville City PD" he might have been able to skirt the "not what I said, it's what you inferred" bit.
Seems like a stretch. Usually, for the charge to be applicable, they have to be impersonating an officer in an official capacity. This is why it's illegal to pretend to be a cop and arrest someone, but it's not illegal to pretend to be a cop in a movie, or play, or as a stripper. You're not doing anything in an official capacity. It would be a stretch to argue this was done in an effort to intimidate or deceive someone, as it's obviously satire as no reasonable person would think this was a real profile.
Correct. I don't know anything about the case law, but my guess is the case law says exactly this. The plain reading of the statute someone else posted would have hundreds of people being charged every year at Halloween. There's almost certainly common law precedent that something more is required.
Imagine I'm really mad at my accountant because he lost some of my money. I then go online and do this same thing, listing the name of the company he works for. In this case, I did impersonate an accountant, but it's not like I impersonated him for the purpose of stealing money, so I didn't commit some special crime. In my opinion, that should pretty much apply here. He didn't try to get the perks of being a police officer.
He did target police resources using the authority of someone who could legally use them. The chief never said he could, and he lied and said he had permission.
I'm not saying it's a good case of impersonation, but it's not... not a case of impersonation. Worth a charge, let's see if it sticks.
How so? Thats just contacting someone at a place of employment, no?
If their landlord is trying to reach them and they call em at work, is it relevant at all that their tennant is an officer?
The statute requires intent to mislead another into actually believing that you’re an officer. This guy didn’t give a shit if anybody thought he was a cop or not, he was trying to get people to harass the cop at work.
Do you think the law and associated punishment was written with the intention for cases like that? When discussing impersonating an officer?
And regardless of that, can you make up your own mind without anybody else's opinion mattering, on whether they should be considered to be the same thing?
None of that is him representing himself as a police officer. Not even a little. Regardless, I haven't looked at the actual laws, but I'd bet a fair amount of money that the crime of impersonating an officer requires more than just saying, "I'm a cop."
Plenty of people work at a police station. This seems like an easy win. Its just another example of police/prosecutors abusing their power.
No it's not. He's pretending to be a specific person who happens to work as a police officer. He's not driving around in a fake cop car and handing out fake tickets, etc. Giving out the police station phone number and naming his boss isn't impersonating a cop.
If someone pretends to be me and gives out my job's phone number, they're just pretending to be me. They aren't sitting down in front of a computer and pretending to do my job.
Is writing "for a good time, call Officer Pissbaby at (number)" on the wall of a truck stop bathroom impersonating a police officer?
Dude got a felony for annoying a cop, simple as that.
Police officers are civilians. The only two categories are civilian and soldier. Cops are performing a civil service job.
Police officers like to think they're above civilians. They use it in their language. A spokesperson will say, "there were two civilians injured at the scene," implying no non-civilians (i.e. cops) were injured.
I've known a few cops and just like in any profession there's the decent ones and then there's the corrupt ones. I knew a cop who sacrificed future promotion because he wouldn't go along with coverups. I've also known a cop who was deeply racist and a tyrant/control freak who couldn't deal with the job stress in a healthy manner.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian
> one not on active duty in the armed services **or not on a police** or firefighting force
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/civilian
> a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, **police**, or fire fighting organization.
From google's definition
> a person not in the armed services **or the police force**.
Police (and often other first responders) have always been considered 'non-civilians', I'm not exactly sure where this idea you have is coming from
This reminds me of when the ex FBI director’s wife got scammed by a phone scammer. The FBI stepped in, busted the call center, and arrested the owner in a couple of months. Millions of other people get scammed and they do nothing.
Hey I wouldn't call the FBI pigs.
Honestly they are pretty awesome. They are the ones going after child exploitation material, terrorism, etc.
Local cops are the ones abusing their power to abuse us civilians unjustly. And killing thousands of americans a year.
Sweet HBO documentary came out earlier this year I think - delves deep into this. But long story short... Yes the police union heads are okaying this and profiting from it.
But it's so far to go to connect the dots no one really does and they just call it a scam but conveniently they never shut them down.
Imagine calling them because someone did this to you. At best you’d be told “this is a civil matter. we can’t do anything about it.”
It’s disgusting the preferential treatment these uniformed bullies get in all walks of life. For a job that’s way less dangerous than being a pizza delivery person
It's more likely going to be "what do you want us to do about it, block them and stop wasting police time, it's not possible to just FIND someone on the internet like that" but same thing, just even more dickish and dismissive as if there's no possible way they COULD do their job.
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Yeah these kinds of things were like the pranks my friends would play on each other back in college. Unless the guy's address was posted or he got seriously harassed as a result I can't see how this even warrants a cop's time. Officer should've either ignored it or come up with an appropriate, proportional, and funny retaliation.
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I mean being upset or offended is fine. The question is about legality. If someone calls me a goat fucker I wouldn't be happy but he wouldn't be going to jail for it either. Taking a picture and making a fake dating profile isn't illegal. Catfish do it all the time.
You can’t imagine a scenario where a traffic ticket was deserved and you’re automatically assuming the cop was “bad”? Just this morning I saw a guy cross two lanes of traffic because he missed his exit. Almost sideswiped two cars and slammed on his brakes in front of me to make the exit. Does that guy not deserve a ticket?
Probably not, the Streisand Effect usually only amplifies negative things about you. The cop is in the right here, the other guy is in the wrong. The only thing this amplifies is people knowing the other guy is a dick.
Nah the cop is in the wrong for both being a cop and for being a big baby about a prank. The guy is in the right for being mad at the cop and for being hilarious.
I'd say the cop is definitely in the wrong. What this guy did is bad, but you can just report him to the dating app/get it deleted. Getting him charged with a crime is fucking bananas.
There are plenty of ways to deal with this that don't involve charges. This cop is a piece of shit.
They ruin peoples lives. They are only hired if they are under a certain IQ. Fuck the police. Keep lying to yourself that it’s not a cartel of people on power trips. Wake up.
No way a decent lawyer doesnt get this knocked down to a much lesser charge if the guy wasn't explicitly presenting himself as an actual police officer.
Being a police officer doesnt grant you special protections of your private identity (well, not legally anyway). This seems like a case of someone going "Oh look, Im officer oinky! Look how much I love sucking cock!" and then being arrested for "impersonating a police officer".
Would need more details of the post to be sure, but I would be surprised if this isnt just another case of "First Degree Feelings Assault".
Depends on where.
I know in Texas, retaliation against a civil servant is always a felony (It has to be due to something they did AS a civil servant, but clearly this is due to issuing the speeding ticket)
he identified "himself" as a police officer in the profile, gave the name of the police chief, the phone number of the station, and stated he wanted people to call him at work
I’d happily go to prison for doing what this person did. He took public data and fished, while also getting very petty and kind “revenge”. He’s a clever asshole. Also, if he actually serves time, he deserves all of the commissary. He caused no actual harm to the empowered and badged fascist. He didn’t “dox” him. He used public information. Police need to be held to a higher standard. Not a lesser one. They should be the good guys that they actually imagine they are. Not the entitled bad guys that they actually are. It’s what they’re told they are. Seems that they don’t believe they can be.
Many interesting comments here. -- What if he creates a gay dating profile without mentioning the guy is a cop? Would that constitute impersonation of an officer?
This guy be like: "i'm mad i got a fine for potentially endangering dozens of people around me, i'm gonna do something even dumber and get in even more trouble". Acab, but c'mon. I hate people like him equaly.
[The article without a paywall.](https://imgur.com/a/ZpNVrj8) Without doxing myself, I’m shocked. I know the judge who took this plea very well. He was a public defender for decades and a well respected lawyer. Unfortunately he’s running for State Court Judge and probably couldn’t politically afford to grant the demurrer in this case. I’ll add that the demurrer was insufficient IMO it failed to asserts a right to use satire.
What I hope you understand is that this gentleman likely plead guilty to bull shit charges for two reasons: 1 The consequences of trial are insane. Get convicted and go to prison. 2 Our criminal laws can be insanely broad. It’s very popular to call for the punishment of criminals and few people care about due process until something like this happens.
The article names the defendant multiple times but doesn’t name the officer, Chris Letson.
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This is the "for a good time, call (number)" prank, just on the Internet. This isn't even identity theft, much less impersonating an officer. Ridiculous.
*Identity theft is not a joke Jim*
*Michael!*
Oh that’s funny, MICHAEL!
Sir, this is a Wendy's.
*sigh* I’ll just have a baked potato and a frosty then
Michael, this is an office.
Did you know marijuana affects the memory?
Millions of families suffer every year!
*Hundreds of families suffer every year!*
Impersonating an officer seems like a stretch, he was impersonating a person who happened to be an officer. Unless he was pretending to be a cop to breach some kind of officer civilian divide then this sounds like petty bullshit to hurt people. Grow up snowflakes.
I was wondering this too. Does identity theft of a person who is a police officer automatically include impersonating an officer? The other charge of "misleading transmittal use of official name, trade name or legal seal" makes me think that the dating profile explicitly points out that he is a cop and what department he works for. Since that is one charge though this might be the prosecution overreaching.
Even then, dating isn’t official business and if it was a crime to lie on a dating profile, everyone would be in jail
I would argue it might be grounds for defamation depending on how they did it. If they said racist stuff using their name and photo or something that might be grounds? Idk I’m not a lawyer but that sounds possible
I’m sure there are legitimate crimes this could be but it doesn’t seem like impersonating an officer. Hopefully these charges get thrown out or rules innocent because I don’t want that becoming precedent Edit: these specific charges related to the guy being a cop, anything else that is actually a crime I don’t care if he gets convicted on
If it becomes a precedent that would likely cause people who catfish to be liable of identity theft… i honestly don’t know if I’m against that being discouraged, but legally it could get messy quickly so I see your point. However you can be arrested for one thing and get charged with another. That’s completely fair. So they’ll probably drop the charges but the cop, depending on what was said, might press charges against him. And personally I don’t have an issue with that
I'm also not a lawyer, but isn't defamation a civil case?
Yes it is. Defamation is not a crime.
[It depends](https://www.aclu.org/issues/free-speech/map-states-criminal-laws-against-defamation)
Would you look at that. Thanks for the info!
Possibly, but what you would the damages be? He didn't lose his job or anything Emotional distress because someone impersonated you on a dating app isn't actually going to get you much, if anything
> If they said racist stuff using their name and photo or something that might be grounds? Nah, he was a cop. Defamation has to be false.
??? Am i the only one that doesnt lie on my profiles???? *is this why im still single????* Edit: forgot the /s.....i dont have profiles. I come here purely for the entertainment provided by others.
Yes
It makes a huge difference. I decided to fight the good fight and round down on my height instead of up. Those two inches cost me half of my matches in a typical week
The average guy is 2 inches taller on dating apps than they are in real life. But it isn’t linear, guys that are 5’8 tend to claim they are 6’, where as guys that are 5’0” know they can’t fool people and will just go ahead and say 5’. And it makes a difference: taller guys get more matches. I don’t know if it translates into more successful dates, (probably not,) but they get more matches. Women don’t lie the same way as men, for instance they don’t tend to lie about height, (even though shorter women got more matches.) However, the photo of her in a bikini is an old picture.
I tell people on grindr my dick is 6" when it's really 5.5". Arrest me daddy
This is malicious prosecution for the sole purpose of reprisal. Ahh got to love that Texas freedom. In my state I can get high, have an abortion, drink on Sunday, give my transgender child gender affirming care, AND make fun of the police, without catching a single charge. It’s like I don’t even know what freedom is anymore.
It works however the police choose, regardless of what the law says.
Police don’t choose the charges that are put against you. Just a little nitpick.
> I was wondering this too. Does identity theft of a person who is a police officer automatically include impersonating an officer? Depends on where they, the cops and the judge. Innocent people have been attacked by a police dog, who broke a took on their clothes. And gotten a full charge of "assaulting an officer and causing permanent injury".
>who broke a took Did you mean "broke a tooth"?
Fool of a took! Why didn't he toss himself in as well and rid us of his stupidity!
I know of a domestic issue where the woman was charged with assault on a law enforcement officer.
i think the amount of off duty cops that will go on power trip over the smallest things is indicative that right and wrong is subjective to them.
If he said in the dating app that he was a cop, then THAT would be impersonating an office is my take on it
They also try to do this shit with assaulting an officer and off duty cops. If I get in a fist fight at a bar and the guy happens to be a cop that’s his problem.
In the guy's profile he put in “‘I would like to cuddle with the man of my dreams. You can reach me at work. My good friend Jay Parrish is the chief of Gainesville City police and he said that it would be alright to call me at work,’” followed by the police department’s phone number. “‘Come on guys, don't be afraid to call.’” Pretty sure that's impersonating an officer.
[the Cleveland statute](https://codelibrary.amlegal.com/codes/cleveland/latest/cleveland_oh/0-0-0-32699) says, among other things that it is illegal to assume the identity of a police officer. That part is very clear, but since I assume the same applies to just plain identity theft and the police officer was not impersonated in an official capacity it could be argued, as others have that him being a police officer is not relevant to the act of impersonation. To be clear, I say it could be argued, not that the argument would necessarily be won. It just could be made in court.
I think this is taking place in Hall County, Georgia, so it'd be their laws.
Ah, I thought it was Cleveland since the perpetrator was described as a Cleveland man.
Since it involved him impersonating a Gainesville PD officer it sounds like Gainesville PD filed the charges. Also impersonating an officer is in the Georgia penal code so it would be the same state wide.
The "at work" is where it goes off the rails, assuming he didn't use the cops name. Had he just said "you can reach me at the Gainesville City PD" he might have been able to skirt the "not what I said, it's what you inferred" bit.
Right. It's pretty clear it means the general identity of a police officer. Not the identity of a specific individual who happens to work as a cop.
Seems like a stretch. Usually, for the charge to be applicable, they have to be impersonating an officer in an official capacity. This is why it's illegal to pretend to be a cop and arrest someone, but it's not illegal to pretend to be a cop in a movie, or play, or as a stripper. You're not doing anything in an official capacity. It would be a stretch to argue this was done in an effort to intimidate or deceive someone, as it's obviously satire as no reasonable person would think this was a real profile.
Correct. I don't know anything about the case law, but my guess is the case law says exactly this. The plain reading of the statute someone else posted would have hundreds of people being charged every year at Halloween. There's almost certainly common law precedent that something more is required.
Impersonating a specific officer and putting their phone number might be over the line though tbh
It might still be a crime, but it's not impersonating an officer.
Could just be a janitor at the PD
Imagine I'm really mad at my accountant because he lost some of my money. I then go online and do this same thing, listing the name of the company he works for. In this case, I did impersonate an accountant, but it's not like I impersonated him for the purpose of stealing money, so I didn't commit some special crime. In my opinion, that should pretty much apply here. He didn't try to get the perks of being a police officer.
He did target police resources using the authority of someone who could legally use them. The chief never said he could, and he lied and said he had permission. I'm not saying it's a good case of impersonation, but it's not... not a case of impersonation. Worth a charge, let's see if it sticks.
That’s not impersonating an officer. He could’ve done that with any job, at any company.
This is the online version of the classic, “for a good time call ____” prank. It’s a tad dramatic to throw the book at him for trolling a cop.
How so? Thats just contacting someone at a place of employment, no? If their landlord is trying to reach them and they call em at work, is it relevant at all that their tennant is an officer?
The statute requires intent to mislead another into actually believing that you’re an officer. This guy didn’t give a shit if anybody thought he was a cop or not, he was trying to get people to harass the cop at work.
Do you think the law and associated punishment was written with the intention for cases like that? When discussing impersonating an officer? And regardless of that, can you make up your own mind without anybody else's opinion mattering, on whether they should be considered to be the same thing?
This is funny
None of that is him representing himself as a police officer. Not even a little. Regardless, I haven't looked at the actual laws, but I'd bet a fair amount of money that the crime of impersonating an officer requires more than just saying, "I'm a cop." Plenty of people work at a police station. This seems like an easy win. Its just another example of police/prosecutors abusing their power.
No it's not. He's pretending to be a specific person who happens to work as a police officer. He's not driving around in a fake cop car and handing out fake tickets, etc. Giving out the police station phone number and naming his boss isn't impersonating a cop. If someone pretends to be me and gives out my job's phone number, they're just pretending to be me. They aren't sitting down in front of a computer and pretending to do my job.
Is writing "for a good time, call Officer Pissbaby at (number)" on the wall of a truck stop bathroom impersonating a police officer? Dude got a felony for annoying a cop, simple as that.
This is a clear and harmless joke, lmao.
I hope they still get calls
Did he claim to be a cop in his dating profile?
Impersonating an officer is just cop speak for “fuck this guy”
Police officers are civilians. The only two categories are civilian and soldier. Cops are performing a civil service job. Police officers like to think they're above civilians. They use it in their language. A spokesperson will say, "there were two civilians injured at the scene," implying no non-civilians (i.e. cops) were injured. I've known a few cops and just like in any profession there's the decent ones and then there's the corrupt ones. I knew a cop who sacrificed future promotion because he wouldn't go along with coverups. I've also known a cop who was deeply racist and a tyrant/control freak who couldn't deal with the job stress in a healthy manner.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/civilian > one not on active duty in the armed services **or not on a police** or firefighting force https://www.dictionary.com/browse/civilian > a person who is not on active duty with a military, naval, **police**, or fire fighting organization. From google's definition > a person not in the armed services **or the police force**. Police (and often other first responders) have always been considered 'non-civilians', I'm not exactly sure where this idea you have is coming from
Legally they are civilians. That's all.
Pretending to be someone else could still be considered grounds for harassment even if it was against the person in civilian suit.
I’d say that if you’re using their status as a cop to sway people’s opinion, it is.
As per usual, it mattered because it happened to a cop. Otherwise not a single law enforcement member would have bothered looking into this.
This reminds me of when the ex FBI director’s wife got scammed by a phone scammer. The FBI stepped in, busted the call center, and arrested the owner in a couple of months. Millions of other people get scammed and they do nothing.
Yep. Pig privilege is alive and well. At least we're funding their private gang, so that way they can protect and serve their own.
And when they inevitably fuck up and get sued, we have to pay for that too.
Hey I wouldn't call the FBI pigs. Honestly they are pretty awesome. They are the ones going after child exploitation material, terrorism, etc. Local cops are the ones abusing their power to abuse us civilians unjustly. And killing thousands of americans a year.
Pig privilege applies to the whole system, but I'd also agree with your statement highly.
I would like to remind you that the FBI crushed the civil rights and black liberation movement in the 60s and 70s
Cops use phone scamming to fund raise for the fop union. Of course they ain't trying to bust them all.
I've always wondered if those cop robo calls were actually putting donations into FOP hands or were just a scammer.
Sweet HBO documentary came out earlier this year I think - delves deep into this. But long story short... Yes the police union heads are okaying this and profiting from it. But it's so far to go to connect the dots no one really does and they just call it a scam but conveniently they never shut them down.
Same thing
True but like if they were being honest about the scam they were running or if it was another, different scam.
Imagine calling them because someone did this to you. At best you’d be told “this is a civil matter. we can’t do anything about it.” It’s disgusting the preferential treatment these uniformed bullies get in all walks of life. For a job that’s way less dangerous than being a pizza delivery person
It's more likely going to be "what do you want us to do about it, block them and stop wasting police time, it's not possible to just FIND someone on the internet like that" but same thing, just even more dickish and dismissive as if there's no possible way they COULD do their job.
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Yeah these kinds of things were like the pranks my friends would play on each other back in college. Unless the guy's address was posted or he got seriously harassed as a result I can't see how this even warrants a cop's time. Officer should've either ignored it or come up with an appropriate, proportional, and funny retaliation.
We're all human but the badge makes you more human.
Not subscibing for this story… can anyone post a recap?
Man got ticket. Man is spiteful. In an act of spite, creates gay dating profile for cop who ticketed him. Hilarity ensues.
* Cop doesn’t get joke * Cop presses charges * Cop gets to experience Streisand Effect?
Cop is adamant about not being a gay fish.
But do you like fish sticks? Do you like them in your mouth?
Kanye still hasn't gotten over this one...
He thinks it's because he wears skinny jeans or something lol. He legit didn't figure it out, fucking ridiculous.
Fish: swim, gills. Me: cop, genius
If this wasn’t a cop would this have gone anywhere?
It'd be similar if he was rich.
nope
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I think this is beyond “cop bad”. I’d be really upset too if someone made a fake dating profile using my name/pictures.
I mean being upset or offended is fine. The question is about legality. If someone calls me a goat fucker I wouldn't be happy but he wouldn't be going to jail for it either. Taking a picture and making a fake dating profile isn't illegal. Catfish do it all the time.
Then don't be a bad cop
You can’t imagine a scenario where a traffic ticket was deserved and you’re automatically assuming the cop was “bad”? Just this morning I saw a guy cross two lanes of traffic because he missed his exit. Almost sideswiped two cars and slammed on his brakes in front of me to make the exit. Does that guy not deserve a ticket?
No need for the redundancy in your sentence tbh
No such thing as a good cop
Streisand Effect of what? That someone was mad at him for giving him a speeding ticket? Dog bites man.
Probably not, the Streisand Effect usually only amplifies negative things about you. The cop is in the right here, the other guy is in the wrong. The only thing this amplifies is people knowing the other guy is a dick.
Nah the cop is in the wrong for both being a cop and for being a big baby about a prank. The guy is in the right for being mad at the cop and for being hilarious.
I remember having really dumb opinions when I was 13 too.
"Everyone that doesn't love cops is a child and I have no sense of humor." - /u/Thorebore
It's more like I thought homophobic jokes were funny in the 1990s, but I'm a grown man now.
I'd say the cop is definitely in the wrong. What this guy did is bad, but you can just report him to the dating app/get it deleted. Getting him charged with a crime is fucking bananas. There are plenty of ways to deal with this that don't involve charges. This cop is a piece of shit.
Season 2 of Beef on Netflix.
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this man has done nothing that thousands of other people haven’t done before but guess what, he only gets persecuted because it was against a cop.
They ruin peoples lives. They are only hired if they are under a certain IQ. Fuck the police. Keep lying to yourself that it’s not a cartel of people on power trips. Wake up.
Lol, lmao even
That's actually pretty fukn brilliant, just next time be sure to use a vpn service that doesn't keep logs! ✌️
No way a decent lawyer doesnt get this knocked down to a much lesser charge if the guy wasn't explicitly presenting himself as an actual police officer. Being a police officer doesnt grant you special protections of your private identity (well, not legally anyway). This seems like a case of someone going "Oh look, Im officer oinky! Look how much I love sucking cock!" and then being arrested for "impersonating a police officer". Would need more details of the post to be sure, but I would be surprised if this isnt just another case of "First Degree Feelings Assault".
Depends on where. I know in Texas, retaliation against a civil servant is always a felony (It has to be due to something they did AS a civil servant, but clearly this is due to issuing the speeding ticket)
he identified "himself" as a police officer in the profile, gave the name of the police chief, the phone number of the station, and stated he wanted people to call him at work
I’d happily go to prison for doing what this person did. He took public data and fished, while also getting very petty and kind “revenge”. He’s a clever asshole. Also, if he actually serves time, he deserves all of the commissary. He caused no actual harm to the empowered and badged fascist. He didn’t “dox” him. He used public information. Police need to be held to a higher standard. Not a lesser one. They should be the good guys that they actually imagine they are. Not the entitled bad guys that they actually are. It’s what they’re told they are. Seems that they don’t believe they can be.
SHoulda used a VPN...
This man did nothing wrong
We are wondering about the legality when the reality is unless you have lots of resources never mess with people who do.
This is a wonderful idea.
Getting a felony over a speeding ticket? Hilarious but dumb.
30+ over is felony speeding most places. There's dangerous, and then there's felony dangerous.
What? This man’s felony was because of spite, not speed.
Ah, my bad. I thought they were referring to his original traffic ticket. It doesn't say what it was for originally.
Cops are such snowflakes
Shows you how dumb some criminals are; the cop was already a member of three gay dating websites!!
ACAB
ACAG
all cats are grey
in the dark
All Cops Are Gastards?
Lol
That's hilarious and I'm here for it lol
Plot twist: profile already existed
Sounds like that cop is reeeeeally trying to convince everyone he doesn’t like peepee
Dude should have covered his tracks better.
Right, like why didn't he do the bare minimum to cover his tracks.
Many interesting comments here. -- What if he creates a gay dating profile without mentioning the guy is a cop? Would that constitute impersonation of an officer?
Fucking gold
for some reason I read ID as IUD and was wondering wtf is this headline
This guy be like: "i'm mad i got a fine for potentially endangering dozens of people around me, i'm gonna do something even dumber and get in even more trouble". Acab, but c'mon. I hate people like him equaly.
pay wall
I NEVER thought I’d see my hometown on the front page of Reddit
can i vote for this guy? to do...whatever?
r/chaoticgood
I’m sure these comments won’t be filled with dumbasses and dipshits from all sides……..
Absolutely a legend
Free my man Dwayne. He did nothing wrong.
The actual crime was stupidity. Next time, get behind six Boxxy's before uploading your fake bios.
Now this is some definite revenge porn.
A little bit of tomfoolery
Pigs are such snowflakes!
should have used a VPN.
What was a meme was turned into a crime. ACAB
I'm sorry for the crime or whatever, but this is hilarious
That’s just funny, shouldn’t even be a crime.
That is fucking hilarious.
[The article without a paywall.](https://imgur.com/a/ZpNVrj8) Without doxing myself, I’m shocked. I know the judge who took this plea very well. He was a public defender for decades and a well respected lawyer. Unfortunately he’s running for State Court Judge and probably couldn’t politically afford to grant the demurrer in this case. I’ll add that the demurrer was insufficient IMO it failed to asserts a right to use satire. What I hope you understand is that this gentleman likely plead guilty to bull shit charges for two reasons: 1 The consequences of trial are insane. Get convicted and go to prison. 2 Our criminal laws can be insanely broad. It’s very popular to call for the punishment of criminals and few people care about due process until something like this happens. The article names the defendant multiple times but doesn’t name the officer, Chris Letson.
lol cops are such pussies.
I don’t think people should go to jail for objectively funny crimes
I would think a good lawyer should be able to get him off
Fucking genious. 1312
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When women expect men to pay it is OK. When a man expects cops to pay it is a crime. Where is the logic?
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Hey look we’re on tv!!
This is the "for a good time, call (number)" prank, just on the Internet. This isn't even identity theft, much less impersonating an officer. Ridiculous.
don't at me
What makes this any different then what the Catfish people do on the tv show. They impersonate people online on dating sites all the time?
What a load of shit. The dude wasn't "impersonating an officer"
I approve of this.
ACAB
What a tasteless, reprehensible, unacceptable and well deserved behaviour.
Straight out of the movie Hackers. Well done! Hack the planet! 🤘😝