• voracitude@lemmy.world
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      6 months ago

      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?

      … That’s her highest priority, right?

    • lemmy_user_838586@lemmy.ml
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      6 months ago

      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.

  • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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    6 months ago

    Do you mean, ‘I don’t remember’ like ‘I do that kinda shit so often I literally don’t remember that incident specifically’?

    • ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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      6 months ago

      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.”

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Not remembering something is not a valid excuse for corruption when there’s verifiable video evidence of it happening.

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    6 months ago

    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.

  • UnpluggedFridge@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    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.”

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.works
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    6 months ago

    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.

    • Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      6 months ago

      Prosecutor “So, is your lack of memory just because you do this so often that it has become a sort of muscle memory?”