Be careful if you are a Canadian in the US!

Cummins12V98 wrote:

valhalla360 wrote:

Cummins12V98 wrote:
Let's remember this is ONE side of the story.

Exactly, and we likely will never find out what really happened as the police agency wants to get this PR issue gone, so they apologize in the hope that it goes away because no matter how right or wrong the cop was, it doesn't come across well in the press that loves nothing better than to run stories about evil police agencies.

The cop likely overstepped his bounds, possibly by a wide margin but I can guarantee, she isn't as innocent as the story makes it out to be. It's not logical to simply harass people for no good reason and an arrest over something silly is a lot of hassle for the cop.

I was Jury Foreman once and thankfully I had ONE person like you that sided with me on FACTS and not emotion.

I don't believe the police thought this was "something silly". She had a driver with a license from another country and was acting according to what she believed/was told was the right procedure. I suspect it's very likely she was taught that if you stop someone and they don't have a U.S. license, arrest them, they may be here illegally. If that's the case, I actually applaud her for not using ethnicity/license origin as a factor in her decision to arrest.

Of course, if that's the reason the woman was arrested, then it makes sense that the department would not speak out...