Orlando Police Department’s Tactical Anti-Crime Unit is led by Lieutenant Chad Ochiuzzo. The group – “TAC” for short – operates out of a variety of undercover vehicles, primarily making pretextual traffic stops. The kind that routinely uncover drugs and guns.
In 2018 TAC recovered 98 crime guns and 57 stolen vehicles, seizing 368 pounds of cocaine, 10,360 pounds of cannabis, and 194 pounds of heroin in the process.
Yes, those are all supposed to be pounds. No, the numbers are not anomalous.
In 2017 the unit recovered 107 crime guns, 70 stolen vehicles, made nearly 600 felony arrests and seized thousands of pounds of drugs.
But on November 2, 2017, TAC made an unusual stop. They stopped a Direct TV installer… who had some fun trolling them.
Note: In 1996 the United States Supreme Court ruled that pretextual traffic stops are not inherently unconstitutional. In that case, Whren v. United States, a unanimous Court held that as long as officers have a reasonable cause to believe that a traffic violation occurred, they may stop any vehicle. As long as an actual traffic violation occurred, the ensuing search and seizure [read: traffic stop] of the offending vehicle is reasonable, regardless of what other personal motivations the officers might have had for stopping the vehicle.
Fourth Amendment protections have since been further watered-down. In Herring v. United States a 5-4 Court held that a criminal defendant’s Fourth Amendment rights are not violated when police mistakes that lead to unlawful searches are ‘merely’ the result of isolated negligence and “not systematic error or reckless disregard of constitutional requirements.” In cases where the mistake is ‘just’ a result of isolated negligence, evidence obtained is admissible and is not subject to the exclusionary rule. The real home run, however, came in the 2014 case Heien v. North Carolina. In Heien, an 8-1 majority held that ignorance of the law actually is an excuse, provided the legal error is reasonable. Oh, and only if you are a police officer.
Under Whren, a traffic stop was reasonable as long as there was any violation of traffic law, no matter how insignificant and even if the police really were stopping you for some other reason. But there had to actually be a violation of the law. Not anymore. The court ruled that the officers who stopped Nicholas Heien for a broken taillight were justified in their subsequent search of Heien’s car, even though North Carolina law says that having just one broken taillight is not a violation of the law. So the cocaine they found couldn’t be suppressed, even though the reason for the stop was a law that didn’t exist. There is no longer a known baseline of daily activity that anyone can be assured will not result in their being lawfully — mistakenly — seized.
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This dude needs to shut the hell up. You make every black person look bad. These cops are playing his dumb ass and he wants to clown. Young black men, this is a prime example of pure ignorance.
Crunts with attitude, badges and guns, but no PC.
An ordinary day in USA 😂
This making my blood boil SMDH 🤦ðŸ½â€â™€ï¸ they really violated this man constitutional rights 🧠why do we as BLACK FOLKS gotta go over and beyond to prove we are innocent when we getting VIOLATED anyway 🧠they know darn well during a traffic stop this BS is UNACCEPTABLE meanwhile we get called the N WORD but clearly their the ones that plays the part VERY WELL ‼ï¸
Not the cop at the end guilting him for being clean “why you ain’t say that†face ass
Why is there 10 cops there for a traffic stop??
Police need to be held accountable.. this type of stuff should lead to suspensions, harassing people and just fishing for him to act out or any little thing..when is enough enough..
You all pay attention to all the distracting, multiple talkers secondary questions. The more they spin you around the more they hem you up. Don't answer questions to multiple cops, tell ONE officer to deal w the stop. THEY ARE NOT YOUR FRIENDS, SHUT UP!!
Take the 5th just give required paperwork. No you can't search.
This is the “war on drugsâ€. Black kid in a relatively nice car, “are you SURE there’s nothing in throat carâ€.
No other crimes happening in that area because it looks like the whole precinct is at that stop 🤷ðŸ»â€â™‚ï¸
I'm late but it's "funny" that there are meth labs, kids shooting each other for weed, and all types of crime going on 24/7 in Florida and these guys think they needed to pull over random brothers for circling the block a couple times.
Dude talks way too much….
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It’s funny how the dogs hit on every vehicle they stop every single one that’s amazing
How can police wonder why people hate them?
I don’t like this. This isn’t how I want us policing our citizens.
The black cop is the worst one, asking dude if he smokes anything and then walks away while he answers the question, some black guys get a little power and then think they are better than other black men, kiss my ass.
No crime commited nor any victims yet you have about 6 clown pigs for one man! Useless pigs…. Now if he was a whitey, no backup would have been called, as a matter affect he would've gotten a gift card to Chick Fil-A instead of a ticket! 😂😂😂
I wish he would have just shut the hell up… He prolonged the stop by engaging the cops in unessercary conversation, which sounded as if he was rambling… If talking, make your responses clear and concise… He assisted their ego, with his ego
Why are there so many damn police? This is straight harassment! I'm embarrassed for the cops!
Damn I wonder if they need a couple more cops
Waste of money
I like how the cops say “ if you just gave us your I’d you’d be out†but they be doing the extra shit smh 🤦â€â™‚ï¸
We all know this is a female right?
Keep working and take video luvs. Citizens outnumber them by millions. Stand up!!!!!!!
Police are out of control
Our country is sick.
Is this supposed to be a propergander video for TAC
Idiot cops blaming him for their meritless treatment and decision to search him.
How is he trolling them?
Lesson: Don't go to popeye at night!
pretextual adjective constituting a pretext dubious or spurious: The very definition should be enough to prove that it is not a decent excuse to violate someone's rights. It is a pretext fake excuse to do so.
Never let police search your vehicle without a legal justification, they could plant anything in your vehicle
From the aggressive stopping tactics and questions and lack of leadership and manor of questions. Profiling stop! Because he drove in a large circular pattern.
What a shit show.
Funny how them uncles toms want to be brothers after the fact. Come on brother why you not let us search your car
The cops are way too many in this city!
This is what happens when Jeremy Dewitte becomes a cop. Jesus.
Abolish the police 👮!