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Originally Posted by Hard8s
I see differing aspects to this, yes the cop went to far...but so did the person going in. The cop should have given them a complaint form, but the person should not be afraid to tell this Sargent the complaint. If as in this story there was no real complaint, there is nothing for the guy to tell the Sargent. With this person being evasive, it would have thrown up all sorts of red flags. Remember that cops are paid to get to the bottom of things, and are suppossed to check into suspicious activity. When the guy just got even more evasive, and left, I think it was his duty to make sure nothing else was wrong with him. Where he stepped over the line again was in provoking the man at the end of the tape.
Don't act suspicious and the cops don't get involved. How many episodes of "Cops" show them just driving down the street and someone takes off running? When they chase that guy down, they find wants and warrants, or drugs, etc. Now if these guys didn't take off running, they most likely would never have been chased.
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With the stories of police corruption/tapes of police beatings we see in the news, (yes, i know it's not nearly as bad as the Shock Media would have me believe) I would be a little reluctant to tell an officer's sergeant my complaint. IMO, and I think the Constitution would agree with me, the sergeant has no right to know who the complaintant is unless he's the one being accused. The whole point of having Internal Affairs is to prevent situations like this from occuring.
If nothing else, the sergeant shouldn't have followed the guy out the door and threatened him. I like how the sergeant said "it's a free country" when the tester asked him why the sergeant was following him, then turned around and said something to the effect of "take one step closer to me and see what happens" when the tester was 10-20 ft away.