Fmr. MPD Officer Reveals Why He Left Force
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- Only on WCCO, Jennifer Mayerle talks to a former Minneapolis police officer about his decision to leave the department - one that dozens of other officers have made in the aftermath of George Floyd’s murder (4:26).
WCCO 4 News At 10 - May 13, 2021
What worries me is the good cops will leave. The ones coming in will either be happy to do much less, or they will be careerists who just kiss butt and don't care what happens out in the city.
Why did the good cops stand by in silence as their coworkers abused people ? This is their downfall
You mean like the mayor and the police chief?
@I win You lose Surely you can't be implying that IF Mr Floyd passed a counterfeit $20 bill, whether he knew it or not, the right way to handle that was to shriek at him, pull guns on him, try to shove him into your patrol car back seat, then put him face down on the asphalt, hands cuffed behind his back, and 3 cops sit on him till he died?
Surely you can't be implying that?
Yea if I were a cop as soon as someone says "I can't breathe" I'd let them run away and get away with anything. Just not worth facing a bum murder rap.
@@fishburitto3914 there are criminals in law enforcement.
Simply getting out for your kids is enough...
Did that 9 years ago. Tired of crack pipes walking out my door, random bullets, drunks all over the park, robberies in the park and my alley, homeless breaking into our building, etc, etc, etc. I want my kids to be able to be at the park without fear of harassment or exposure to crime, to be able to play independently like most kids do and I did growing up. It's just disgusting there. It was bad 9 years ago and it's reprehensible now.
I bet you even money these lamenting officers would wring their hands more fiercely over being perceived poorly or losing qualified immunity rather than over actual injustices committed by their colleagues and speaking out against it. That’s why i cant take this kind of testimonial seriously.
Every single cop should resign immediately. Give the activists exactly what they want.
I would LOVE that. Most cops are Chauvins.
Need to get the psychopaths out and start from the ground up.
@@expandhealthinc.1887 No, get rid of police all together & repeal the NFA. Problems will sort themselves out.
@@Razaiel Nah, we need someone to lockup the psychopaths loose on the street that used to wear blue.
Maybe they'll be too busy beating their (LITERALLY) BlueWives tho....
@@expandhealthinc.1887 Why lock them up? With no police we could deal with them quickly & save tax dollars.
That would be a bad idea
I think that it is real interesting that someone with so much integrity is so passionate about law in order don't speak up when cops are breaking laws.
Imagine working along the side of a cop that breaks the law... not only does this cause distrust and fear within the community they work in it also causes it within the police force!
Yep! Not a word!
200 cops have done what he did (20ish percent of the force) and Minneapolis is on pace to set a homicide record.
cOrrElAtiOn iS NoT cAusAtIon 🥴
@@jf3715 You have mad typing skills for no apparent reason. I hope you find a use for your aptitude. Maybe become a police officer.
Crime is up nationally. 2020 was a hell of a year. It was up under Trump and remains up under Biden.
@@Anthony-hu3rj r/whoosh
Crime is out of control. Less patrols, less proactive cops and criminals are getting more brazen. Hell look at what they're doing at night on the streets drifting. Cops even show they mess with the cops to prevent any captures and enforcement. It's lawless and the criminals and mob are now running the playground.
Your children and wife come above everything good on you
You didn't ask him what he thinks about Derek chauvin.
They don't want to know the real issues.
@I win You lose and so is chauvin
He probably would have said another druggy off the streets.
@@cheryl1231 make sure you go visit your KKK friend in prison.
@@cheryl1231 And another dirty cop off the streets. Its a win-win.
No they just want to go somewhere to do whatever the hell they want and get away with it
Wake up, child.
Exactly
The Officer left a toxic work environment of a big City Police Department and now is seeing the better side of life at a small town police department. God bless!
fuck you,... he went to where is racism can go unchecked again.
No not all police are killers and/or racists, but they have been accepted within your ranks for far too long. Everyone who is responsible for these events should take responsibility or nothing will change.
@I win You lose I think he was referring to neo-nazi skin heads, they love leo’s, get to drive around roughing up the “undesirables”
Defund welfare
Not sure how many people will want to join the police force these days. It's not an easy job to do, but when public opinion is largely against you it becomes doubly difficult. Abandoning the 3rd Precinct and seeing it sacked in the way it was looked like something out of a war zone. No wonder police are leaving the force in droves. Best of luck to Officer Dykstra.
How about this ? " im a cop and i quit bc i was disgusted by chauvin not taking his knee off a mans neck, a man who was handcuffed, a man who was handcuffed with 3 police officers on his legs, a man with 3 ARMED police officers on his legs while he was prone on his face! ". Thats why i left the police.
I've lived in Minnesota most of my life. And I can honestly say I have run into way more dirty cops than I have clean ones! I served in the military and they still tried to put bogus felony charges on me!!!
I wasrecently falsely arrested by some racist cops. They charged me with no id and that law was repealed frombthe state 25 years ago, i was found not guilty. They arrested me just to illegaly search my truck and tow it from its legally parked location.
The funny part is my situation was jusr like the military guy but there was no probable cause the racist cop got lectured by the judge.
@I win You lose I believe him. I care.
Zero confidence in his department started with theft, not with a coworker murdering someone. Very telling.
Exactly! They don’t give a shit about the murders. They’re just sad that they had to deal with some consequences for a change. Dude is gestapo trash.
Mayor Frey should have stepped down when he let the precinct get burned to the ground. He is a joke. He's a smart guy but this was a horrible weak decision.
No one cares what you think John.
How would anyone feel if it was their family member that they KILLED????
@@walkerruby4564 I don't know. I don't have family members who take Fentanyl, try to pass fake money, and then get behind the wheel of a car.
What he means to say is that it’s better because he’s in a small town where there’s more white people and not so much diversity!!!
FACTS
In other words, when we kill someone, we should all just hold hands and talk about our feelings. Here is an idea, I know it’s a crazy one: Stop murdering people and this will not happen.
If you shoot - shoot to KILL !!!
The Mayor (at the time) was the problem. Why would you tell the officers to abandon the 3rd precinct? Just let the looters have it? To burn to the ground? SORRY MAYOR, YOU SHOULD BE REPLACED...THIS IS NOT THE RIGHT ANSWER.
If you replace Mayor Frier you'll just end up with another Democrat who will be just as bad.
Yeah, don't blame the people actually causing the problems. Typical
Shame on the department for allowing a Derrick Chauvin to exist preventing those that want to do their jobs from being cast in the light of a killer cop who was able to carry on his duties with impunity
Chauvin should have been fired a long time ago. They had so much red flag about him. The guy was a sociopath/psychopath. Now all officers are being put in the same file due to Chauvin.
Shame on city leadership for allowing criminals to control districts. It's not the police's fault that their inundated with lawless criminals and no support from city council or city management. You guys are gonna pay the price in Minneapolis theyll be no jobs no work and no business.
Ever consider that high stress, low community support and inadequate training creates problem officers. He probably has PTSD. We ask a lot from cops today.
@@adamsmith3413 The training was there and showed in court. I beleive Chauvin had 800hrs in training in the past few years and was CPR and First aid certified. Lets just say that Chauvin had a lack of training in restrain and crisis intervention. They saw Floyd went uncounscious, without any signs of life. Bystanders yelling at them that he's not breathing, to take a pulse. One officer took a radial pulse twice and state that he didn't feel a pulse both times. They had a male individual in there custady that went lifeless, vital signs absent and still didn't do anything. He didn't put Floyd in a recovery position to keep his airway open as they are train to do on a uncouscious individual, check for chest rise, breathing, check for a pulse and if none they are train to do chest compression. None of this was done. This is what protect and serve your community is. Not execute ppl on the street in front of men, women and children.
@@adamsmith3413 And if PTSD was to blame Chauvin's lawyer would of jumped on this matter like a wolf. To prove PTSD would be the cause, Chauvin would have to be assess by a psychologist which they didn't do because they had no signs of PTSD probably.
Thank him for his honesty. He has my full support and respect.Lean on your faith. I feel so sad at how lost the department has become. Shame on leadership.
Shame on the whole system.
I hope all these cops come to your area. Only then we’ll u see the real pic
They are quitters
Maybe if YOU stopped using inappropriate force and killing people you might have better support!
#1 dumbass comment of the day! Great job, I'll go out on a limb and guess you dont live in Minneapolis?
The force was only inappropriate because a crackhead died and a jury chose to send a message over the actual weighing of evidence.
How many Rodney kings have there been before we arrived here??????How have we arrived here?????
Not enough obviously. More nightstick, less back talk
Why the multiple question marks???????????????????????????????? Isn’t one enough?
I don’t know about you, but I took the Snelling Express via the 21A line to get here
I can't say that I blame him for quitting. It seems as though every job or career is getting harder to do. Some people just don't seem to care
Denise: even nursing has become politically influenced. People who start w the best of intentions find themselves becoming cynical and lose their passion.
You must be ashamed being held accountable for your actions
They ever arrest the people who burnt down the precinct?
I think they've sentenced about 3 of them.
Who cares it needed burned🤣
Let’s see... He doesn’t want to be killed or spend the rest of his life in prison. Not hard to figure out. We respect LEO’s here in Florida.
Florida lmao
@@Ky.H-i You wish you were here.
@@navvet4518 The septic tank of the US, overrun by boomers, twerking college kids and illegals on rafts? No thanks, enjoy your next hurricane 🤣🤣🤣
Twerk it.
@@navvet4518 With your boy DeSantis driving the state into oblivion, no thanks!
They all should have left.
Minneapolis will be in ruins soon.
Good luck citizens of Minneapolis.
I disagree
@@bnaicole32 good for you?
@@bnaicole32 why?
Please explain.
According to Ramsey County Sheriff over the last year Minneapolis police have done 92 percent fewer traffic stops than the previous year. As a retired Deputy from another state I can tell you that traffic stops is when we contact most people with warrants and recover firearms. The Police Chief making poor policy decisions along with Minneapolis elected officials are responsible for the large increase in firearms violence. The citizens deserve More but I wouldn't hold my breath.
They are ignoring traffic violations?
What does such a big drop mean?
@@eileencastillo6323 The way it relates is that traffic stops is how we contact people and be pro-active. Sketchy people are notoriously bad drivers and don't obey traffic laws. It is my observation over many years is that people hangout with people that have the same interests as them, if they like to knit that's who they associate with, the same is true with drugs. It's my guess that is a combination of policy by the Chief of Police and officers that don't want to deal with getting into a confrontation with irate citizens. I have heard that officers are limited to when they can pursue a fleeing vehicle. Since I have not been associated with Minneapolis PD you would need clarification from the Chief or another officer. The losers in this is the public.
@@zoomboy57
We, the public, have all these opinions but not even enough knowledge or facts to really base them on.
And you guys are tight lipped. 😏
Like anything else, you have to walk in the other guys shoes to know what's up or at least understand, right?
We have some officers who are overdoing it and we really don't know why. The officer here as shared some insight about how the good guys are suffering for it as well. We need help to know why.
Thanks. 😊✌
@@eileencastillo6323 don't you think the "walking in the other sides shoes" goes both ways? Citizens don't have the slightest clue everything a cop does. They do everything the city decides they don't want to deal with or pay for. Cops are the catch basin for all the political BS that rolls down hill. They don't go to school to be psychologist, drug counselors, marriage counselors, parents to kids other than their own, grief counselors etc. But, 99% of cops do all these things to the best of their knowledge. They have huge hearts and went into the career to truly help people. If that includes helping a criminal to jail in hopes of them straightening outt their lives, then so be it. Unfortunately, criminals do not want to comply. Today, criminals have pretty much a free pass to fight with the officer and not be held accountable. The cop on the other hand, is held accountable for every word and action. They deal complete disrespect and not a lot of support from superiors. They are only doing their jobs the way those superiors told them to do it. So who's left holding the shit bag for the outcome....the cops. Who should be held accountable for the cops actions besides the cop himself, anyone above the officer who approves and or defines his job description as well as defending or overlooking his past and previous actions. The pussy government that talks out of both sides of their asses are the ones that need the most reform. Those are the dirty ones in all this. Police(todays police) are just like the rest of us just trying to do our job, keep our family's safe and happy and get home to them knowing we did our best to be decent.
Can't say that much for the typical criminal type person today that has been allowed to do what they do best. Hurt ,steal, disrespect and shit on everyone or everything that doesn't matter to them. Its sad. How do we fix that?
@@goodiesgotit
It is pretty amazing that I should have to say this but, Black citizens sure as hell do not have free will to fight with cops and get away
with it.There would be no discussion here if that were true. Black citizens would really love the peace of mind of not thinking that just talking with a cop could end their lives. It is highly suspected that you are right about training in that regard. Something causes some cops to be so suspiciously unable apprehend a single unarmed and outnumbered Black citizen without killing them. You cannot just excuse that away.
It is not that hard to tell the difference between publicized incidents, when excessive force and gun fire is absolutely necessary and when it is absolutely not.
All those psychological issues is the exact reason behind the poorly named defunding issue. Funding for the right people that should be sent to settle those situations instead cops who should be dealing with actual crimes, has to come from somewhere.
Being a cop, means dealing with and seeing the worst
of what humans do.
Not a job for just anyone. I agree with how difficult it is.
He did the right thing. You go where you are appreciated.
I agree with the other comments, the good officers will leave, leaving the ones that the people deserve. Minneapolis and other big cities that have given up, deserve the population that remains
I'm so happy you were able to get out of the department that didn't stand behind you officers. I hope they can all get out of that city.
You could only do so much , glad he followed his gut . I can't imagine working in a toxic environment.
Who can blame them! Getting talked down to every day. Risking your life EVERYDAY!!
Bret if they didn't abuse citizens rights they wouldn't get talked down to, Adam 12 and dragnet are the only 2 cop shows i have ever seen where cops abuse people, adam 12 had one episode where a cop roughed someone up and the other cops gave him the cold shoulder, EVERY other cop show routinely abused citizens rights.
Adam 12 dragnet. Only show who DIDNT abuse citizens rights, i meant to say,
Blame KKKhauvin cop's for that.
I don’t blame anyone for not wanting to do the job anymore! Criminals are protected like they have their own union.
They do. It’s the United States Constitution gang. Bring them alive to a judge and deal with them there. That’s the job.
@Nazi Piglosi that’s true, but if a police officer does not have the legal justification to shoot someone, justice resides at the courthouse. Get them there ALIVE!
@@rosalynw.otieno1994 Damn, I know I am seeing this late, but your reply was PROFOUND.
Good decision and God Bless you & you’re family be safe
We the people have zero confidence in the police reform is good if your a cop and can't deal with reform then you should leave .
Good for him they all should quit and let the cop haters and politicians fend for themselves.
Millard Iverson;
👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Millard. It's so unfortunate that you were never taught to think.
@@karendegenerous600 And I guess you think of yourself as a Genius? He clearly is smarter than you.
left back in 2020, after i complained about the shady supervisor. I got bullied out, he got promoted... a year later he became chief, 6 months after he got fired because of the same thing he did to me, he did to a higher official. only then, was he fired. BRENTWOOD POLICE DEPARTMENT NH thanks
Pursuits are bad. I’m a cop and I don’t advocate pursuits at all. I’m all for getting bad guys but chasing cars is not it. You will lose more than you gain.
I do not mess with Minneapolis police. I've been taken into a juvenile delinquency center for walking to school because they assumed I was skipping and after about an hour of just sitting there they dropped me off outside my school and left me to explain why I was late. I've woken up to a gun in my face and my grandpa in cuffs because they were looking for someone. I've been pushed against the wall, had my wrists placed in the middle of my back and cuffed so tight my wrists was bruised for weeks. I don't have a record and have never been involved in any criminal activity and never acted aggressively towards anyone yet I have received brutal treatment from the police in not only Minneapolis but Minnesota in general. The number of times the police have followed my mom and I home only to speed off after what I can only assume is looking up information on her car is ridiculous.
Well at least you weren’t Shot !!!
@@sloppydog4772 you're setting the bar pretty low there
Feel your pain. Don't you see that when the people and not police, show there strength in numbers, they finally see they can't push people around anymore.
I mean I see the burning of the 3rd precinct as a punishment.Way out of line was the murder of George Floyd.
That backpedaling of the pursuit policy came after a chase ended with a car running through a playground, running over children. He is acting like these changes happened in a vacuum. Like everything the police did up to this point was perfect and for no reason everyone just turned on them. Chauvin allegedly has 17 or 19 previous performance reviews for questionable conduct. This was always investigated internally. I wonder if Dykstra ever saw or heard about any of those previous cases. Or if he questioned anything about what happened during the death of Jamar Clark or Philando Castile (This was not the Minneapolis Police, but the neighboring suburb). He talks like no one in a badge could ever be a bad person. If you are a good cop, who just ignores the actions of the bad cops, then you are part of the problem. To be honest, he doesn't sound like he has what it takes to be part of the solution. Change is hard. It was probably best for him to go to another precinct.
Did you not hear the part of the story where his own leadership gave up control of the city/precinct to the violent mob? You like that kind of leadership? That kind of leadership is "part of the solution"? People like you are why he left.
@@tonyl3762 Yes I heard him say that. I have also heard that the protests were peaceful until the police started firing tear gas into the crowd. And the first "rioter" was actually a white guy who is a member of the Aryan Cowboys. The police have themselves admitted that the events of the day were peaceful until "Umbrella Man" started smashing the windows of that Auto Zone Store.
www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/28/896515022/minneapolis-police-reportedly-identify-viral-umbrella-man-as-white-supremacist
Who knows if the Leadership initially authorized the use of rubber bullets and tear gas. But instead of dispersing the crowd, it only made things worse. At that point, the only way to stop the crowd(which had now become a riot) would have been using lethal force. There was no easy decision at that point, but I am glad they chose to avoid a massacre. People are more important that buildings, always.
@@jonmaxton "People are more important that buildings, always." No, not if those people are arsonists. If someone was going to set fire to my house, I would shoot them, and it would be perfectly legal and moral. No, we don't have to stand by and let the mob riot and burn any building, no way.
What about the *people* who have to pay for the re-building (which is everybody in the case of public buildings)? No, we shouldn't talk about "people" generally; we should talk about good actors and bad actors and treat them differently.
"only way to stop the crowd(which had now become a riot) would have been using lethal force."
That's quite a claim and maybe it is true once the mob is committed to violence and arson. The level of defensive force must escalate when perpetrators escalate their violence. But if you aren't willing to meet destructive/lethal violence with equal defensive violence, then you are consenting to violent, arbitrary mob rule. You've lost law and order. You've lost everything. By surrendering then, you embolden and encourage such future acts of arson and violence.
He’s not suited to being a cop from what I can tell. He’s complaining about reforms that reduce the ability of police officers to run rogue on the public. Jacka$$. 😡😡😡
@@tonyl3762 I was watching Unicorn Riot's live feed when the precinct was taken over and remember being so relieved when the police pulled out. There was just way too much anger and resentment built up towards that particular precinct, law enforcement was horribly outnumbered, and the crowd was determined to make them leave. The fact that they deserted when they did was not a sign of weakness, but acknowledgement of reality. It stopped a potentially extremely violent standoff.
I drove a taxi in Boston for 15 yrs, so I’ve plenty of experience with the police there, state, municipal and city. Yes, there are a few good cops, but there’s definitely a culture of policing in Boston that leaves a lot to be desired. One year we had a police convention that drew police from all over the country. We drove them to and from while they were here. I had 3 of them in the back and one up front and remember one of them saying how he wanted to bulk up at the gym so he could bust people up. As far as I’m concerned police have a lot of house cleaning to do. This is a reputation they have earned and until they learn how to act I say good riddance. Get a job somewhere where you’ll actually have to be held to account.
That’s my complaint, too many simply act like thugs and we pay them to do so, even rewarding them!
The good far out way the bad.
@@weatherwatchTX then they need to speak up more and demand that the bad either change it leave. Being silent is being complicit.
@@jonmaxton I'm with ya there
what about when the CAPTAIN is the problem? He would corrupt the entire force.
This video is deeply disturbing. Basically WCCO giving airtime to a cop saying that the reason George Floyd's murder occurred was because police were limited in their authority.
I would have done the same thing that city will regret it soon may God have mercy on the law bidding citizens.
Quitter
The second the first politician hinted at de-funding that department was the second they lost Minneapolis.
I agree with everything he says. At the same time, I find MPD a very aloof and even "cold" organization. What I mean by that is, we almost never see them walking around despite the plans and rhetoric for "community policing" (I live downtown). They are in SUVs. When you do see them, they don't seem to want to talk (if you see them, they are talking to each other in groups and don't seem to trust "civilians" (I found the cops in St. Paul much more approachable). Into that void, people of course will fill a lot of things like "they are racists" or whatever (as a white older man, I find them aloof, and I bet when black people have the same experience they can attribute it to racism). If they got out and walked around and talked more people would see them more as human and realize they are not robots or cold "soldiers." My great grandfather was a cop in Chicago in the 1920s. I guarantee he walked a lot and everyone knew Otto and knew him as a human being (my mom still has recipes for pasta that the Italian restaurant owners gave him). Cops are not totally blameless here.
Police Officers are always talking amongst themselves. If you talk to them they talk to you. It is extra hard being an officer in Minneapolis right now.
Good observations.
They have been federalized & militarized.
They get supplemental training from Israel special forces in our US police academies.
When the DA’s & prosecutors let the dangerous criminals go through the revolving doors, the police feel why bother?
Yet, Keith Ellison was all over arresting Minnesotans for the mostly peaceful Capitol protest on Jan 6th.
@@anthonyfracchiolla2268 why is the onus on the people to initiate friendly relations with the police? Why isn’t their default stance to engage with the people they’re serving and protecting?
John,
What you are describing is the difference between a traditional "Beat Cop" policing system that originated in big cities such as Chicago or New York and the modern " Radio Car" system that became the model of modern policing with the LAPD in the 50s with DRAGNET and later,
became the example to the rest of America during the ADAM-12 era of the 1970s.
The LAPD model came out of the fact that LA was so spread out and that it would be more economical if the cops could be in cars
and show up when called vs walking a beat where nothing might happen in that cop's area. The drawbacks were the officers would be complete strangers to the public where ever they showed up and they would feel isolated and vulnerable because they were in an unfamiliar
area around unfamiliar people. This is where the whole "Us against Them" mindset began.
Cops saw themselves as potentially at risk from ambush or assault during any encounter with the public. Police were taught that you could depend only on other cops, beginning with your partner, and extending to other cops on your watch, to have your back.
Cops were taught that since they would be at a disadvantage in any encounter, due to being in unfamiliar surroundings, they needed to
both physically and psychologically dominate whatever space they were in.
That's where the "Officer Friendly" model gave way to "Officer Kick Azz"
It's simply more cost-efficient to have fewer cops patrolling larger areas with more citizens in cars vs having a much larger police force
where cops can work a small beat.
It's easier to show up at every call ready to fight and not need to, thus intimidating people into cooperation, vs finding yourself over your head.
Thanks for leaving!!! If you see wrong and don't do a thing we don't need you!!
Softball questions.. Ask him if he witnessed racism and police brutality in the ranks.
I’ll answer that for you. I was a Mpls street cop for 30 yrs. I worked 25 yrs on the Northside then my last 5 yrs on the south side.
I just left a few months ago.
I NEVER saw a single incident of excessive force and I NEVER saw or heard of a cop stopping or arresting someone simply because of their race without any other articulable, justifiable reason.
I DID see cops get hurt because they didn’t use enough force or didn’t use force soon enough in the exchange.
Before you make the claim that I must be one of the bad ones and discount what I’m saying you need to know that I left with a clean Internal Affairs record. I had zero sustained complaints against me including ones that went to the Civilian Review Board.
@Evincere if all you naive know it all’s rode along with a northside or south side cop on a busy summer evening you would have a different perspective. I had mental health professionals, doctors, professors, college students, judges, lawyers, a Russian province judge, dispatchers, pastors, counselors, teachers, small town and suburban cops ride with me over the years. All commented or wrote letters to me, my supervisor or the Chief talking of how impressed they were at how compassionate and quick thinking, the officers were that they observed. They were impressed at our ability to diffuse situations and our ability to not react negatively to the barrage of hate speech and physical attacks we endured just during their ride a long. That’s one shift out of 30 yrs of showing up every day and dealing with the same thing.
What would your response to the professionals be if you had heard them say they couldn’t do this job? If you were me at the time how would you have responded when these professionals asked how you could do this job and still be sane, stay married, not be a drunk or just beat the heck out of some of they people they saw you deal with just during that one shift? I had a female defense lawyer riding with me one day. I was arresting a guy for something and from the moment I encountered him until the moment I turned him over to the jailers he was taunting me, threatening my family, saying he would find me on the street and kill me. He called me every foul mouth name you could think of and it was nonstop for about an hour. I didn’t respond to him and the lawyer got so upset that she turned around and tried to calm him down. She didn’t realize that he didn’t need calming down. He was intentionally trying to aggravate me. He turned on her then too and she nearly started crying. When the call was over she was visibly shaken and said she was in awe of how I didn’t respond to this guy and wondered what long term effects this job has on cops.
So, if you can do it better, go ahead. I made a lot of money every year with only a 2 year degree. In fact, last year, the rioters helped me raise my pension payment, helped me buy my wife a new car and myself a newer vehicle all because of the overtime. Thanks criminals for giving me a lifestyle equivalent to doctors and lawyers.
@Evincere I had probably 5 complaints during my 30 year career. Criminals file complaints to get their charges dropped.
How many negative reviews has your favorite restaurant, bike repair shop, law office, roofer, etc been given. Every one of those is a complaint .
@Evincere ok buddy.
@Evincere what you need to
Understand is criminals file complaints against cops in order to get their charges dropped or lowered or because they are thugs and can’t stand getting caught so they retaliate by filing a complaint against the cop that arrested them, or towed their car or confiscated their drugs, etc.
One cold winter day my partner and I saw a guy, a white guy, crouched down alongside a house, rip a basement window screen off and throw it in the bushes behind him. We saw this as we drove by on a major cross street. Thinking he may be breaking in we turned around and he was sweating acting very nervous. He said he lived their but was very tense. We grabbed ahold of him thinking he may run. He was making very quick movements and looking quickly in all directions. He had no ID on him so it took us a minute to confirm he lived there and we released him.
He filed a complaint against us saying we were bullies and he has a right to rip screens off his own house if he wanted to. This went to mediation where I explained why we do what we do and how we thought his actions were suspicious. During the mediation he did nothing but belittle me about being stupid and not being able to recognize a burglar. After 6 hours of mediation with me listening to this jerk it ended.
Afterwards both civilian mediators told me they couldn’t believe how calm I stayed with this unreasonable jerk hurling insults for 6 hours. They commended me on my professionalism during the call and during mediation. They even sent a letter to my supervisors telling them how good of a job I did.
The guy that complained had paranoia issues.
This was a permanent complaint on my record. These are the types of complaints cops have when you hear about them.
The bright side was I made 6 hours of time and a half pay.
The problem is keeping problematic officers employed makes it difficult for those who do their jobs professionally dojt blame the cops blame the police unions for forcing police agencies to keep poor performing on the force like Chauvin until an event like the George Floyd incident occurs
Blame both.🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
Not only keep them, Chauvin was a TRAINING officer. So was the former officer now being charged who pulled a gun out instead of a taser.
It’s the higher ranking Officers that hide behind the Badge and protect the bad cops for their criminal actions. It’s been happening.
@@Harley08 💯💯💯
You are the victim of left wing fake news garbage. The problem is Democrats rolling out the red carpet for dirt bags. George floyd has a history of drug use and violence. Brought it on himself.
You get what you want in Minneapolis.. live just north and have no reason to ever go their again
Thank you for trying.
He wants the right of free range to do anything. He said policies are being strip, and they don’t have the free range. Never commented on bad policing or complying with human policies. It’s doesn’t sound like he was there to serve and protect.
"The People" are sick of Selective Enforcement. Good Cops wont expose the Bad piggy.
@I win You lose We're sick of you!
Arrogant media.
Good cops will not run from terrible police being regulated to be unable to be unjust, corrupt, racist, or violent. What’s actually happening is good cops are being pressured to leave in “solidarity” with terrible cops who are murdering and maiming unarmed citizens and lying about it in court.
It's crazy how many people have so much faith in God to save them but they don't have enough faith in God to help save others.
This is fascinating. If you believe in God you must have some proof or evidence of its existence. If you do I'd like to know about it. Or do you just believe whatever religion you were indoctrinated into like a sheep?
@@luckycatnip3667 Oh stop with the "sheep" crap.
@@luckycatnip3667 far far FAR from any religion I would have been indoctrinated into. My life transformation is the proof of God.
AMEN!!!!! Isn't that the truth.
OK...that makes absolutely no sense.
Even from a crybaby social media idiot!
(here's a hint: form a cohesive sentence)!
Good Job Minneapolis (Insert sarcasm)-- "The Inmates are now running the Asylum".
A good cop wouldn’t run off because a true good cop has nothing to hide. Let those dirty cops go! Just make sure their pensions don’t go with them!
It appears that he left because he wants the brass to uphold and defend brutalizing citizens and dishing out street justice with a badge to protect him and his ilk. He’s not for change. He’s for maintaining the status quo. Good riddance! 🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
@@rosalynw.otieno1994 Agreed. These bullies always eventually show themselves for the cowards that they truly are the moment that pressure or the threat of exposure comes.
This man should not be a cop anyway.
It’s sad to see this happening but I can only understand the feelings. I hope all big cities can get through these trying times & that the good police are out there trying their best
Basically he wanted to go somewhere where HE CAN HAVE CONTROL & HIDE 😂😂... Just be honest dude you want POWER INSTEAD OF BEING CONTROLLED
Moron
They all say I just wanna do my job, but when you ask them to tell you what's their job they go silent.
“I want total power without accountability, so I’m a “victim,” and I will leave.” He is WEAK AS HELL.
Don’t blame him or others for leaving. Zero support from Jake The Snake 🐍 and a laughable City Council. They should all be ashamed of themselves. Thanks for your service, MPD.
Stop Killing BLACK MEN FOR BEING Simply Being BLACK GOOD RIDDANCE I HOPE SOME MORE QUIT HE JUST WANTED TO KILL AND GET NO JUSTICE FOR IT GO TO FIND DJT HE WILL GIVE A JOB AND A PARTON
@@ondriawinfield1938 Next time you need the police and a social worker shows up be sure to let me know how that works out for you, Ondria.
BTW, “PARTON” is spelled p-a-r-d-o-n. Mom was an English major😉
Ondria, give the “waaambulance” a call. Dummy. So sick of this nonsense.
I agree 100% with you. Respect to the MPD and all officers for their help and protection. They have a hard job. Minneapolis city council needs to wake up!
@@ondriawinfield1938 why don't you take that sermon to the ones that kìll the most. No? Don't wanna look in the mirror or berate a cousin, uncle or nephew? How many blks were kìlled this week by police vs blks kìlled by blks? Have ever noticed if you don't break the law, your interactions with law enforcement is almost zero? There are far more law breakers than bad cops.
nicely said. Do not blame yourself.
so do YOU blame YOURSELF white boy?
I'm lead to believe YOU'RE part of the problem too...white boy!
Don't celebrate quitters
@@mpls1982what can you do if you have no one left to support you?
Saint Michael the Archangel, Patron of Police, please pray for and help the good police. Please keep them safe from harm, malice, chaos and anarchy.
Valerie Duncan. And please, St Michael, keep them from murdering any more citizens.
@@helenhunter4540 .....and ST. MICHAEL please have Helen Hunter keep providing us with all her EASY answers, even though she's full of HATE TOO!🙏
Helen Hunter 🤮
Come to my town, you'll be appreciated. By the way, media is a big reason why our country is the way it is now.
*our
dump is the reason the country is in this SHITTY shape.
It takes real courage to want to make a change so others can enjoy the same liberty you so want for your wife and daughter. PROTECT AND SERVE
@Evincere pretty sure the 55 shot and 11 killed in Chicago over the weekend and the 3 children shot in three weeks in Minneapolis are soooo worried about the police.
If the community doesn't back there officers then there is no need for him to protect and serve that community. Just leave and go to a community that appreciates the work officers do along with state officials who back there officers, eventually if things go south in the community where they told the cops to get out then people will revolt and push back against those who lead the community to the current situation they find themselves in.
@@jacksonthompson7099 that's not how this works. It's the responsibility of the police to build trust with the community first, always.
@@mpls1982 Okay well I disagree, the community needs to respect the rule of law first (there is a reason why police officers are called "law enforcement") And those that break the law need to be outed but that's snitching and ass the old saying goes snitches get stitches and I'll also add put in a body bag or they will be outed from there own community.
If you have a community that doesn't respect the rule of law or those that enforce the law then there is no need for the police to police that community anymore you can't build trust in a community like that especially where crime is some times a way of life and gang life is touted as best of the best. Why force a way of life upon of group of people who don't want to live that way. It's a no win situation so the police should cut there loses and leave as a result the community will either thrive or be stacking there neighbors bodies in the city cemetery.
Either way the only people to blame will be the community for the result of there current situation and i say let'em cause there is only 2 ways the situation will go.
I lived in south Minneapolis for some time, the police in that area where really shady. An honest person doesn’t have a chance with the gangs and the police that act like gangs. It’s them vs them vs you, and it gets hard when your by yourself. If you need help from the police, they don’t come, when you don’t need them and are doing normal stuff than they show up to get in your business. It seems like they will mess with you but leave the gangbanger alone. I’m glad I moved out of that neighborhood when I was able.
Yeah the system want gang to kill more blacks for them.
Thats a sad way to exist, good cops leave like this guy. You should if you can move away, police unions are the problem, notice all of the cop issues with black communities are in democrat ran cities with limp wristed mayors. Red states dont have problems to this level
My friend near the 3rd precinct had cops tell them they can’t do anything about the gangs because they can afford too good of lawyers.
So what do we really need them for? Taking reports?
@@joedyer5486 yea cause there in big cities lol most red states are country Midwestern states
The 3rd precinct was dominantly a native community, a poor neighborhood but less crimes than North Minneapolis. The gangs are smaller than north Minneapolis and there are less shooting than north Minneapolis. But the cops will focus more on south Minneapolis because there too afraid to mess with north Minneapolis. But 3rd precinct is very shady on how they deal with the neighborhood. They seem not to mess with the gangs as much as they do with the regular people.
This cop sounds disingenuous to the core. He should not be trusted and it is good that he left. He never mentioned one thing about the terrible actions of co-workers who were responsible for Floyds death.
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
WCCO too, is a very biased news organization equivalent to Fox News
and yet these news stations keep blaming everyone except the politicians. point the finger in the right place.
What a wonderful man. God is with you.
Interesting… MPD has had some issues for a while.
Decades
The UNITED STATES law enforcement have a lot of issues and need to start over from the ground up.
@@whitediamond5230 Agreed
Funny how he didn’t mention the countless kills/deaths/complaints from citizens about MPD nor he he mention the PAGES of overlooked incidents with the officers just being shuffled to a new precinct to cover for them. Just bad press though huh? Right…….
@I win You lose yeah I lived 6 blocks from that department, the officers themselves have issues it’s not only the city council and citizens. And our complaints are not taken seriously about the bad cops but go on. Unfortunately this was only in the making, the department has been so shady shit for a while.
When you cut the light of responsibility on, they seem to scatter... Imagine not mentioning one word about the senseless murder that started all of this. Bye!
I wonder if he lived in Minneapolis while he was working there? I also wonder if he lives in the small Iowa community he now polices? Police need to live where they work! Its proven.
Where is it proven?
Where is it proven.
Why in the world went anybody live in Minneapolis. Even 20 years ago it was Called murder apolis. Nothing changes with big democratic run cities. You've killed the city's you've killed the jobs you've killed the restaurants you killed the concerts nobody's coming downtown anymore
Well, they sure would have a lot more of an investment in the community.
It’s like many come to town to break heads and escape to the burbs at the end of the day.
@@Mockduck2020 you are foolish to believe that
Fire Walz, Frey, and Ellison. They are actually criminals
I feel for this guy. However, I feel some cops are better off in smaller more reserved communities. If you fear the community you serve or you don't have a great rapport with them, bad things can happen.
It's not so much fearing the community as it is having no confidence in your department or civil government leadership to have your back
when the inevitable "ugly" incident occurs while trying to enforce the laws and policies they create on people who are high, desperate,
and unwilling to go with the program. Everybody talks about race but nobody seems to want to deal with the reality that a large section
of the AA community is trapped in a cycle of social and cultural dysfunction that results in generations of lost souls who feel they are entitled
to disobey societies rules and live a life of pretty criminality that leads to increased chances of negative police contacts.
Floyd was on his way to being a three-time loser for fraud and drug possession. It was worth taking the chance of resisting arrest in the hope
of being released to the hospital by the cops as just not worth the trouble.
Police your own community
I would say this as a Minnesota resident for most of my life to this officer. It got to this point because of the lack of accountability of some officers to police a few bad officers on their own. I support the police fully but it's very disturbing to see some of the actions by the Minneapolis Police and other departments when video shows them standing by and not confronting the abuse by these few. Pulling out of the precinct avoided more injuries on both sides and human life is worth more than any monetary item anywhere.
Too bad we lose good officers because of this situation but maybe they need to look inside as well as outside for the problems that caused this.
U have no clue!
Disagree, you have a massive group of people who don't hold there side accountable if there is no accountability on both the police side and side of the citizens then this situation is going to happen it's just unavoidable. So far from the dozens upon dozens of body cams and dashcam footage i've seen all across the country. How a police interaction is going to go is started from either the 911 call or the citizen actions and its also the same story for me when i've had interactions with police getting pulled over as well. Cops in extremely rare cases set the tempo of how a interaction is going to go. Police interactions are very dynamic and can change from 100-0 or 0-100 in a second.
Pulling out of that precinct was stupid. Nothing good will ever come from giving in to the cockroaches. Idiotic.
If they don't side against the bad cops then they are bad cops, themselves.
It's disingenuous to say the ones who commit murder are the only bad when there is always another cop or more present who never testify against the cop charged.
In this environment there are no good cops and no reason to support law enforcement.
Our cops lock up more people than any other country. We are 5% of the world but have 20-25% of the world's prisoners. Our cops kill an average of 1000 citizens/year. This number dwarfs all murders by mass killers each and every year.
England killed by cop is always around 10-20/year.
We are a police-state. There is nothing patriotic in the support of this. It is exactly how Nazi Germany rose to power....gullible boot-lickers who thought it was patriotic to support the destruction of human rights up to and including murder.
A police precinct building is not a sacred building, therefore you can't "desecrate" it!
Excellent!
Not murder, overdose of George Floyd
Sounds like he ran from responsibility...
Well said ran all the way to Iowa to fight crime in a town that only has 12 police officers sounds like there's no crime going on there
Funny he never said anything about the murders of black people though because he doesn't think it even happened 😡😡
Wow...what a shocking report. Treat the brave people that keep us safe like garbage and you wonder why they leave. What's next, 2 + 2 = 5.
To all of the good cops if you see something say something.
Proud of this dude, they should all quit
Respect to this man. It’s bullshit how the Minneapolis police have no support and are supposed to be trashed by the trashy people there. I don’t blame this man and the other officers who are leaving or who have left the department. They have no one backing them. Their own department throws them under the bus. Wrong. I would like to hear from more of the officers.
I hope we can get to a point where we understand eachother and callout the wrong doings of people
force the oinkers to "callout the wrong doings of people" then. Cause they seem incapable of doing it without a little push.
"Stopping bad people from doing bad things..." Does that also includes the police?
Yes, as it should. Every profession has bad employees that need to be purged. Now go fight to change the mindset of those who are really killing people in communities of color because it isn't the police. Yes police reform is needed, but facts don't lie, people do. You need to fix your own problems at home before you can tell others how to fix theirs.
@@Dave-hl7bv I will gladly fix the problems in my community if you will do the same within your community with the Cedric Fords and the Mark Bartons (mass shooters) of your community.
@@terry_moorer What does that mean? Cedric Ford is black and Mark Bartons is white. What is my community?
Sir, if you are trying to compare the amount of people killed in mass shootings to the amount of people killed in communities of color, you really need to research the facts. May I suggest FBI website on crime statistics. The numbers are staggering and do not reflect what you tell yourself or want to believe.
I've worked in and around the Public Safety sector (Law Enforcement specifically) for 20+ years and the vast majority of individuals I know become police officers because they like the pay, the benefits, and the early retirement. The two conversations I heard among sworn officers the most were about how much overtime they were getting and when they were going to retire. I can't recall one conversation about serving the community. That being said, the vast majority of those serving are decent people, even if a good percentage are a bit lazy and feel entitled. This can be said for most government employees I have worked with. We should try to attract and retain highly qualified and motivated individuals in all areas of government. I'd rather have a much smaller government, much smaller staffs, but employ individuals that are at the pinnacle of their fields and pay them more. In recent months we have talked non-stop about police reforms....... we need government reform. We don't have "systemic racism", but we do have systemic incompetence and failure across all levels of government. I hope we can expand this conversation.
What type of conversations would you like sworn officers to have with each other?
Well said!
@@thetatv1339 : Well, I've been around many professionals in many disciplines. Most of those conversations do not revolve around overtime discussions and retirement discussions. I've been around many programmers whom mostly talk about how to improve the software they are working on and making the customer experience better. I've been around landscapers that talk about the latest lawnmowers and tools they use in their craft. I would expect that many discussions amongst a group of professional peers would eventually discuss their job, how to improve it, what is working and what isn't working........ I can't recall many, if any, conversations like this in law enforcement. Just stating what my life experience has shown me.
@@MNDrummer
Were you sworn? Did you work the street?
@@thetatv1339 : This has nothing to do with the conversation. I'm simply stating what I have seen in my career as I have engaged with different types of professionals. I'm not saying everyone in law enforcement is bad. There is nothing inherently bad about pursuing money and wanting to retire early. I can say that I can't recall many conversations about how to improve investigations, how to improve interactions with citizens, how to write better reports, how to improve securing scenes for forensics investigations, etc, etc. I did here a lot of conversations about who is pulling in the most OT and how it is going to help their High 5 for retirement. Most people I have known went into LE for great pay/benefits and early retirement. The few that did "want to serve their community" end up talking about OT and retirement several years into their career. Just the facts on the ground from my experience. It's not good, it's not bad, it's just my experience. I personally think the entire pay/retirement for LE needs to change. It is completely absurd that many retire in their early 50's with anywhere from 80-120% of their salary. Completely absurd. Same with fire fighters. The system is broken and it takes advantage of the taxpayer. My opinion. Have a great holiday weekend, God Bless America!
Smartest move he made was to leave minneapolis
im 45 yrs old , and have never not once needed a cop, not one time! And still dont
And?
@@tomdragon5272 no ands, ifs or buts!
Hey you get what you ask for so no complain Minneapolis, NYC or Seattle. As those cities burn and murder rates go up. Blame yourself.
God Bless!❤️
Amazing how law enforcement says that they want to "help" people!!! All law enforcement does is make people's lives more miserable!!! There is NO situation that law enforcement cannot make WORSE!!!
I thought maybe he was disturbed by the murder of George Floyd but I guess not
Why would anyone be disturbed floyd was a junkie resisting arrest.
@@maxrshelltrack7443 he was a human being
Any human being would be.
George created his problems & suffered the consequences of his actions...
What an amazing guy . Integrity
Yeah, so amazing he bailed
@Evincere Exactly! The ones who abused their authority high tailed out of there before THEY were held accountable! They should all be investigated!
@Evincere people have no clue what police have to deal with . What give a thug a cookie ?
@@Artfulessence Oh give me a break. Especially when the thugs turn out to be the ones in uniform.
He wouldn’t know integrity if it walked up to him and slapped him in the face.🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️🤷🏽♀️
God bless you and your family officer, and welcome. We do appreciate you.💙
speak for yourself
Becoming a Police Officer will definitely go down. I understand how this officer felt when they vacated the police station, but I believe they did it for the safety of the officers.
They did it because the Mayor didn't want to do his duty of enforcing the law and maintaining order in his city. He was trying to buy time
thinking he could talk the mob down from further violence. Defending the station would have meant authorizing the cops to use even greater force against the very people the Mayor is counting on to reelect him.
He chose to keep his political prospects open over doing his JOB.