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Two Apopka police officers are accused of letting a suspected drunk driver go because the driver didn’t speak English. A witness said the driver was so impaired that he hopped the curb and took out some bushes outside a Family Dollar store on Park Avenue.
Body camera video showed Matthew McEachnie and Heath Wood trying to communicate with the driver, who spoke broken English. The officers found a cooler filled with beer in the man’s back seat, and officials said the man didn’t have valid identification. “(The driver) was obviously impaired, so I called 911,†witness William Gusler said. Gusler questioned why the two officers didn’t arrest the driver and instead told him to call for a ride.
“I would love to do a DUI, but I don’t feel like being (eaten) up with ‘Oh, well, he didn’t understand anything you were saying,’†Wood said moments before McEachnie appeared to shut off his body camera for nearly four minutes. “This is disappointing. We try to rise up a little higher in our professionalism in how we investigate crimes,†Apopka police Capt. Randy Fernandez said. Fernandez said the department wants to be hard on DUIs and not let them go.
On the video, Wood is heard telling a woman on the man’s phone, “He’s very intoxicated, he has a bunch of open containers in the vehicle, he said he’s been drinking (and) he has no driver’s license.†Police said the department has Spanish-speaking officers who can assist in such situation. Fernandez said that will be part of a department-wide review of training.
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Smh.
The illegal guy knew he was safe – he's the guy who does all the work for 1/4 of the price and these cops or their wives may even hire them regularly to get the odd jobs and babysitting done.
That,s strange man!
Speech 0
Luck 100
Perfect cops 👮â€â™€ï¸
Got it next time cops stop me “I no speak English†byyyeeeee. Damn you Obama
Do mexicans ever drive sober? Or insured for that matter?
I would've just popped in google translate and used to text to speech to communicate. Problem would be hearing his response since I don't speak an ounce of Spanish.
Did he say de donde eres he said tu hermana lol ahaha or am I wrong
deport that fucking guy!
this is bullshit , foreigners get treated better than the than we do by the police
Officer trying to speak spanish had me dead af
Lazy.
Fucking lock up this illegal piece of shit …wtf
I don’t think it’s too difficult in 2020 to get a Spanish speaking cop on scene… Hell I’ve even seen videos where there’s Russian speaking LEOs
Lazy ignorant cops
Just the other day I got pulled over belligerent and it just so happens that I pull over next to a bum and when they come to talk to me the bum starts yelling and cussing them out. Cop tells me to get out and find a ride.
Lol well he didnt understand anything you were saying 😂
If he had injured or killed someone, hopefully these two cops would be charged too.
Build the wall.
Keys have to be in ignition to be a DUI y’all are fucking retarded
Libtards have created this mess
Do we want more of this AMERICA?
Let's go APK!
If your job is to enforce the law then your job is to enforce the law. You can't just let people off for convenience. This kind of behavior from government officials is extremely alienating to working class people. Finally we need to build the wall and secure the border.
It's not racist. It's not bigoted. It's called Sovereignty. Too much of our country's resources have been wasted on Foreign Aid, Foreign Wars, and Foreign Industry. It's time to focus on our own poor, middle class people, and industry.
Good job scumbag officers
Pinche paisa por gente como ustedes todos la llevamos valen para pura verga
I love this cop hahah