Kentucky Trooper Sued After Arresting Mother

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A mother of three has sued a Kentucky trooper after he arrested her for allegedly interfering in a traffic stop. While that sounds bad, bodycam footage of the incident calls into question the trooper’s actions.

Watch an Arkansas trooper flip a fleeing BMW.

The woman was at home one night with her children when she noticed flashing lights through her window. Looking outside, she saw her mother had pulled into the driveway and a Kentucky State Police cruiser with its emergency lights active was behind her vehicle.

The trooper initiated the traffic stop for what he alleged were expired tags on the elderly woman’s minivan. When the mother of three stepped out and explained her relationship, the trooper condescendingly told her to go back inside the house.

But the woman went inside, grabbed her phone, and stepped back out to record what was going on. The bodycam footage seems to indicate she was standing quite a distance from the trooper, maybe a hundred feet.

That’s when the trooper marched up to her and arrested the woman, saying he was taking her away from her children. She was charged with interfering in government business and resisting arrest. However, those charges were dismissed in court for a lack of probable cause, reports LEX18.

We’ve seen people truly interfere with traffic stops before and it doesn’t look anything like this. We’ve also seen cops on power trips, thinking they can arrest anyone that even slightly annoys them. There should be consequences for doing that sort of thing.

The real icing on the cake is that the children, who were 2, 7, and 10 at the time were just left home alone, the trooper not making any arrangements for them. That’s crazy.

The young mother is not only suing the trooper but also his supervisor for violations of her First and Fourth Amendment rights, battery, malicious prosecution, false arrest, and emotional distress.

Image via LEX18/YouTube

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