It may seem like a crafty dodge, but her inability to recall will end with a motion for summary judgement because there will be no dispute to the facts she has "forgotten."
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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Not remembering something is not a valid excuse for corruption when there's verifiable video evidence of it happening.
She isn't in an orange jumpsuit so what does she have to fear? She knows the system is rigged and is doing the things she was coached to do.
Burn the witch.
The banality and misrememberance of evil
Do you mean, 'I don't remember' like 'I do that kinda shit so often I literally don't remember that incident specifically'?
It's so funny too because cops will come into court 6 months and 800 traffic stops after giving you a ticket and claim to perfectly recall everything that happened during the stop just as long as it all contradicts your defense. The worst part is that judges usually take their testimony as gospel and irrefutable facts while your own testimony isn't seen as truthful because "you're just trying to get out of a ticket."
"I can't remember."
Judge: "Oh ok then"
one would remember, if it was an unusual extraordinary moment, but if one does this all the time, the human brain will only remember that this is a thing one does in general.
Prosecutor "So, is your lack of memory just because you do this so often that it has become a sort of muscle memory?"
Well, the camera remembers...
Which is weird, since the body can video of her literally pouring out liquor says otherwise.
She's clearly not that smart to begin with.
Well, yeah, she's a police officer.
If an officer says "I don't remember" to planting drugs on someone (alcohol is a drug), I think the courts should take that as acknowledgement that the drugs were in fact, the officers, and the fact that they don't remember if they planted the drugs or not means, they were probably using said drugs at the time of arrest.
I think it means she planted evidence so often she couldn't keep track.
Well you know, human memory is fallible and all that. Good thing we have this helpful footage to clear things up! I'm sure she'll be relieved when it's entered into the record at trial; as an officer of the law, getting to the facts of the matter is her highest priority, right?
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... That's her highest priority, right?