Aug 24, 2015 Posted by AGA Editor

Unlawful Arrest: Confrontation between a Dallas County Sheriff and a motorcyclist with a helmet cam.

Christopher Moore, who was riding southbound on Stemmons Freeway near Inwood Road when he was pulled over and eventually arrested by Deputy James Westbrook. Watch the video. It should make your blood boil. This happens everyday. However, not every one is caught on camera.

“The reason you’re being pulled over is because I’m going to take your camera, and we’re going to use it as evidence in the crimes that have been committed by other bikers,” Westbrook told him.

Moore, who said he wasn’t with the other bikers, responded: What crimes?

Eventually Westbrook came up with one, accusing Moore of having a partially obscured license plate. “That was indeed a strange charge for [Westbrook] to make,” says the suit, “considering that before he stopped [Moore], he had radioed his police dispatcher telling the dispatcher the license plate number of [Moore’s] vehicle which means the license plate was obviously not obstructed.”

Eventually a Dallas police officer showed up, they removed Moore’s helmet (with “unreasonable force and violence,” says the suit), and he was taken into custody. Moore spent eight hours in jail, though the charges against him were eventually dropped.

Long story short, Westbrook violated Moore’s constitutional rights. And had it not been for the camera who know what lies they would have spun.

Always record police. They cannot be trusted.

Are you awake Yet?