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| The detainment of Lt. Caron Nazario | |
| 2021-04-12 | |
Allahpundit via HotAir
The good news about this incident, unlike most other clips of police traffic stops that go viral, is that no one dies. In fact, no one was arrested: Caron Nazario, the officer who was pulled over and then pepper-sprayed, was let go at the scene. The video is circulating because Nazario filed a lawsuit in Virginia this week accusing the two officers of having violated his constitutional rights by treating him the way they did. I watched it before I read up on what happened and was struck by how aggro the cops were from the start. What could Nazario have done behind the wheel to freak them out so much that they had guns drawn when he pulled over? He’s so calm when he finally speaks with them that he seems almost sedate. But there’s a reason for that, it turns out, and it’s not that Nazario is preternaturally chill. He’s clearly scared out of his wits that one of these amped-up cops is going to flinch and blow him away by misinterpreting something he’s doing as threatening. It’s happened before, as I’m sure he’s aware. Let’s pause here so you can watch the clip. The first 90 seconds are just footage from inside the police cruiser while they’re in pursuit; the encounter begins at around 1:30. ...Sounds like they thought they were in pursuit of a stolen vehicle. A car thief in a situation like that, on the brink of being caught, might panic at the prospect and do something desperate to try to evade arrest. There are problems with that explanation, though. First, according to the lawsuit, Nazario’s car didn’t lack rear plates. It was a new car and had a temporary plate taped to the back window, which the cops should have been able to see as they got closer. Nazario wasn’t really "eluding" police either. Crocker’s own report admitted that he was traveling at low speed; this wasn’t a chase at 100 mph with the driver frantically trying to outrace police. The reason Nazario didn’t pull over immediately, it seems, is that he didn’t want his encounter with the cops to happen on a poorly lit roadside — a not uncommon response according to one of the cops involved: ...Some cohort of people believes that when a police officer gives you an order, reasonable or not, you obey that order and if you don’t then anything that happens to you is your own fault. That was my expression when I lived in USA (well, New Mexico actually, but it's almost the same. 😊 | |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #7 ^😊 |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 17:00 |
| #6 Too funny, g(r)omgoru! I told Mr. Wife, who also immediately said, “Lost tribe?” which hadn’t at all occurred to me. I just remember sitting in an outdoor café in Baden-Baden, listening to the Israeli tourists chatter at the next table as my Hebrew returned to active memory. We’re everywhere, donchaknow. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2021-04-12 16:38 |
| #5 Steve gets the snark of the day! |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2021-04-12 16:30 |
| #4 #3 Neh, deputy was just a summer job - his dad was sheriff - he was student in TAU (New York M. D. program) |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 13:08 |
| #3 I was also stopped once by a reservation deputy who started talking Hebrew at me. Probably from one of the Lost Tribes... אוסנארק 'דיי |
| Posted by: SteveS 2021-04-12 12:18 |
| #2 ...Well, one bit of good news is that one of the POs has been fired, but with this statement: "The Town of Windsor prides itself in its small-town charm and the community-wide respect of its Police Department," the statement said. "Due to this, we are saddened for events like this to cast our community in a negative light. Rather than deflect criticism, we have addressed these matters with our personnel administratively, we are reaching out to community stakeholders to engage in dialogue, and commit ourselves to additional discussions in the future." ...I'm just going to say this: when you get outside Richmond into southern and western VA, it's a whole lot less cosmopolitan. LT Nazario may well have been simply minding his own business, but there are a lot of cops (and civilians) in that part of Virginia who don't cotton to those uppity outsiders. Make them military, and it's worse. Mike |
| Posted by: Mike Kozlowski 2021-04-12 06:50 |
| #1 ^"expression" ---> "impression". p.s. Mind you, I was also stopped once by a reservation deputy who started talking Hebrew at me. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-12 05:25 |