Body camera footage shows police surveillance abuse is common: “We’ve told them over and over again: ‘You see a hot chick, you don’t look them up in a database.’”
In Moeller’s police station interview with Roman, he admits to “hitting on” and “flirting” with the victim on the Bad Monkey set—“she was kind of teasing,” he said. (The victim told Moeller that she was deeply uncomfortable the whole time, and that he was harassing her.) Roman says after he met her he looked her up in DAVID and MNI, another police database, which he knew was illegal: “Right when I did that, I was like, ‘fuck, what did I do?,’” he says.
“When you pulled her over, did you know it was her?,” Moeller asks him.
“Yes,” he says.
“Did you have a legal reason to pull her over?” Moeller says.
“No,” he says.
When asked what his “goal” with the hotlist was, Roman says “I think just meeting someone like that, getting the high from it. She was leading on. It was one of those things where, she was kind of pushing it.”
Later in the interview, another cop walks into the room and sits out of camera shot and tells Roman to “not let it get to you,” and said “of all the people I expected to be sitting down with here, it wasn’t you. I thought you were pretty good out there, so I wasn’t expecting this. It caught me off guard by a long shot. Nobody’s perfect. Everyone has their own issues no matter who they are.”
Before the interview ends, Roman says to Moeller and the other officer, “I just apologize for you guys having to do this. I mean, I saw a shiny thing, teasing and all that. I knew that when I put that [into the system], I was like ‘Fuck,’ and I stopped right after and nothing else.”
Doesn’t even view women as human beings.
“I saw a shiny thing”
The vast majority of the police force is the bottom 10% of your graduating high school class. These people are fucking morons.
“i SaW a ShInY!!”
Personal standards of morality and ethics are a separate issue from intelligence.
You can be dumb or smart and do the wrong or right thing. Plenty of moral dumb people and immoral smart people and vice versa. It’s not necessary about intelligence.
You’re right, cops are stupid and lack morals/ethics. Thanks for helping me clear that up.
My dude, these assholes are law enforcement which is complicated as fuck.
What’s rape culture tho?
