Cop power trip to the extreme...

[widebody911]

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/southflorida/sfl-ccop29mar29,0,5004119.story?coll=sfla-home-headlines

How big of a prick can you be?

Lilliston said he contacted the hospital to verify Chidiac's story and also was told there was no doctor to step in to deliver the baby. Rather than release Chidiac at that point, Lilliston drove him to the hospital and marched the doctor to the maternity ward with his motorcycle helmet still on and his hands cuffed behind his back.

A nurse urged the doctor to hurry because the baby's head was showing.

But Lilliston would not let the doctor change into his scrubs, witnesses said, until he could at least show a driver's license. Chidiac said the officer had not previously asked for his license, although Lilliston said he had made the request several times.

[Joeaksa]

Some people cannot handle power, and it seems that this cop is one of them. This guy needs to be assigned desk duty for a long time along with some therapy to see if he is ever let outside again...

Can you imagine how he would treat a 911 driver going 25 miles over the limit?

JoeA

[bryanthompson]

Don't cops have to go through a psychological review before they actually become cops? You'd think they could spot these 'little men' with big guns. We had a game warden who was this way... He'd sit on the end of our refueling dock with binoculars spotting boaters who might be violating laws, and scaring away our customers. Eventually we got his ass fired, but it was tough. He didn't actually get fired, even, he got transferred to another lake.

[legion]

In my experience, these are exactly the kind of people that are attracted to police work. The letter of the law matters above the spirit, except when the letter conflicts with proving someone guilty.

[VaSteve]

If that was my baby being delivered, they would need another surgeon to remove my foot from the cop's ass.

[competentone]

I wonder if there was an in-car camera in the cops car? Their two stories seem to differ; what actually happened might be somewhere in-between the two accounts. The doctor could have had an "attitude" too and that contributed to the situation.

[Drago]

Sounds like the Dr. didn't pull over right away. Might account for the way he was treated by the cop. Clearly the cop didn't believe he was a doctor. Don't doctors carry identification?

[Jeff Higgins]

Always remember, our press is there to sell copy, not necessarily provide the fair and unbiased truth. Stories like this are written with the intent of outraging the readers, who will then share it with their friends, who will share it with theirs, etc. Seems to work, doesn't it? We have no idea what happened between these two. What did the good doctor say when he stopped; what kind of attitude did he display? None of this comes out in the story, except for a very subtle hint - the cop claims he asked for his license several times and the doc refused to show it. I suspect there is more to the story. It just didn't make as good of copy as the baby delivery/overbearing cop angle.

[legion]

I've fought a few tickets in court and had cops claim I did things that I didn't or that they had to ask me to do something repeatedly when they only did it once. From what I can tell, it's a common technique for justifying being excessively harsh...when the real reason was that their wife (or boyfriend) yelled at them before they left the house...or they got denied a promotion again because their boss regards them as a $*()#.

[COLDBASS]

I cant say too much against them. On two separate occassions they let me go when I clearly deserved a dui...then again this was approx 25 years when I did that sorta thing...

No one is perfect, one bad apple, ah you know...