Phillip Hamm was on the road with a friend in Paducah, Kentucky when he was pulled over by local police over a busted tail light. Instead of letting him go, the officer held Hamm for over an hour, during which time he forced Hamm to undergo a sobriety test, searched his person, and demanded access to his vehicle. When Hamm declined, the police brought over a canine unit and searched his car. Despite finding nothing, officers tested dollar bills from Hamm’s wallet for methamphetamine and then arrested him on felony drug charges. Police Accountability Report examines the footage of Hamm’s arrest as an example of how police routinely abuse their power to manufacture the outcomes they want. Phillip Hamm himself also joins the show to speak on his ordeal.
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Thank you for your hard work. We need this accountability, and a whole lot of it. Im terrified of run ins w police due past experiences. It causes major ptsd, and is not right. Police have been out of control since 911 imho
i wonder if scotus watch cop video on youtube
90 percent of U.S. money is laced with cocaine. Traces of cocaine taint up to 90 percent of paper money i
Go to hell! I am sick of hearing these cop excuses!
This traffic stop is so outrageous…I just want to scream!
A prolonged traffic stop is a violation of the 14th amendment of due process. Not that they'd know that 🤷ðŸ¼â€â™‚ï¸
I was once held by the Montgomery County Iowa sheriffs deputies for almost 2 hours during a traffic stop for a flickering license plate lamp bulb, which was never faulty in the first place… but they took their sweet time violating my civil rights, breathalyzed multiple times and illegally searched my vehicle and made me perform a strip search on the side of the county gravel road
We allow this type of behaviour. Qualified Immunity is eroding our constitution. Videos and cases like this is eroding Qualified Immunity buy generating more Clearly Established law. Thanks guys. Good job.
Called for a positive test kit to be organised ang bought to the scene? No drugs on site evidence fabrication?
You can test the bills in the judges pocket and get the same result. The bills world wide tend to get contaminated by the automatic bill counters in banks and bisinesss. One contaminated bill that get run through a counter contaminated thousands more in the vicinity of the machine. Drug detection dogs have been proven to no longer effective in some air ports giving false positives and subsequent searches coming up empty. Bottom line innocent people are getting caught up in the legal system.
Good show!
THE ORIGINAL CHARGES WERE NOT ANY OF HIS BUSINESS
ILLEGAL SEARCH AND SIEZURE. THAT COP ALREADY IS THAT COP! 4TH AMENDMENT AND 5TH
P I G S
Never do field test
Why are they so intent on wrecking the life’s of citizens
Police state alert: They made a career out of one guy. During the stop, they went from Rookie to SRGT. The pig was fishing to bait this guy into reacting so he can wrestle around and the ground with him – homophobic violent homosexual cop looking to feel b@lls. This steroid low IQ thug was creaming in his pants trying to flirt with / rack charges on these guys = sociopath.
A tag light stop is perhaps the lamest moving violation. It’s an excuse to harass..
Swerving in your lane is not a crime. There are many reasons to change your lane travel. (Debris in the road, chuck holes, animals..) You are within your rights to use any portion of the lane you wish.
For any LE agency to allow such an egregious disregard of this person's rights and dignity speaks of a toxic culture within its ranks. These officers need to be in prison.
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When are people going to learn that you do NOT have to do Field Sobriety Test !! They cannot extend a traffic stop without RAS.