Thursday, September 27, 2007

I guess they haven't learned yet

You'd think that this story would be mostly over by now, but some thick-headed "professional" people down Missouri way appear determined to keep giving themselves black eyes.

It seems that ex-police Sergeant James Kuehnlein, dumped from the St. George, Missouri Police Department, has some buddies on the nearby St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department, specifically the two officers assigned to car 65 on Sunday, September 23. Brett Darrow, the motorist whom Kuehnlein was recorded verbally abusing as well as threatening with arrest on fabricated charges, had noticed that particular squad car just sitting outside of his home on that date, according to this story. Coincidentally, the story relates that Darrow's neighbor also appears to have noticed many other "drive-bys" in the last few days. Did I forget to mention that Darrow lives on a dead-end street? Here's what happened when Darrow left his home:

"'As I got into the car, he started to pull up the street and he and his partner just stared me down,' Darrow explained."

Darrow, filming while driving as usual, recorded the squad car going through some interesting maneuvers to duck away from being photographed.

I wonder if Car 65 was answering a legitimate call that day, or were they just watching real careful-like to make sure that a dead-end road didn't have any burglaries that day?

I want to find out. If you do as well, feel free to contact Chief Joseph Mokwa of the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department at 314-444-5624 and ask him, as I plan to, if systemic harassment and anonymous threats on online forums are standard procedure in his organization.

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