Cop: 'Lemme Murder the Guy With the Camera'

That story I blogged two days ago involving the rogue St. George, Missouri police officer? Well, it gets curiouser and curiouser. It seems that one or several of the man's colleagues have been anonymously threatening to kill whistleblowing motorist Brett Darrow. They even put it in writing!

In an unrelated development, the Newspaper reports that the St. George police chief, Scott Uhrig, was investigated by the State of Missouri Administrative Hearing Commission, which concluded that "Uhrig's unwelcome sexual advances to a teenager, while on duty and under the guise of enforcing the laws, indicate an especially egregious mental state, show that he cannot enforce the law, and are cause for discipline."

As regular readers of this blog know, that kind of behavior on the part of those we pay to protect us and our kids is more common than most people think.

As for traffic stops or any other involuntary contacts with police officers: Ladies and gentlemen, start your video cameras. Oh, and don your bullet-proof vests, of course. That's what I'd be wearing, anyway, if I were Brett Darrow.

[hat tip: Billy Beck. Also see reader Peter Parker's interesting comments here.]

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[George Arndt]

As the old saying goes; "If the cops protect us from the criminals, who will protect us from the cops?"