Patriots linebacker Elandon Roberts says he was harassed at home by police

[XLIX]

He was told 3 times to get back in the car and told twice to close the door.

He was slow in complying both times.

Was he charged with Failure to Comply?

No but he came VERY close.

I don't understand why people think the officer is lying

This this this.

It may not exactly have been something that would hold up in court if Roberts was charged with failure to comply (which he wasn’t) but it was certainly close enough that we can consider the officer’s statement, made in the heat of the moment, as a good faith recollection of how the officer saw things, not some deliberate attempt to completely misrepresent what happened.

The people using this one single comment as proof positive the officer is a “power drunk liar” and a “lying douche” or that "he told a flat out lie" are out of line, and there is nothing in that comment that damages the officer’s credibility when he provides the reason for the traffic stop in the first place.

 

[RobertWeathers]

This this this.

It may not exactly have been something that would hold up in court if Roberts was charged with failure to comply (which he wasn’t) but it was certainly close enough that we can consider the officer’s statement, made in the heat of the moment, as a good faith recollection of how the officer saw things, not some deliberate attempt to completely misrepresent what happened.

The people using this one single comment as proof positive the officer is a “power drunk liar” and a “lying douche” are out of line, and there is nothing in that comment that damages the officer’s credibility when he provides the reason for the traffic stop in the first place.

Their PoV reminds me of Cartman in South Park.

 

[IllegalContact]

Given your posts in this thread, both parts of that conjoined sentence are rich with irony.

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You have a point

 

[shmessy]

You have a point

Big ups to you.