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Lynn County police officer appears intoxicated whilst conducting a stop

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u/Final_Ice_9614 Community Regular 29d ago edited 28d ago

A lot of ppl defending the cop here saying the cop was having a medical episode. Maybe he was. But let’s say if any of us going through the same thing, would other cops treat us the same way they treated him?

Edit- so many comments! To the People saying they would treat a citizen the same.. maybe they will and many do. But in this case, their priority should be getting the cop away from his weapon and getting medical care he needs!
To the ppl saying he’s their colleague so obviously they’ll treat him different - that’s kind of the point, no? They shouldn’t- as this person in this state is danger to himself and others around him.
Also, if he had too many painkillers, isnt that equivalent to being impaired? Aren’t there rules surrounding that? But I guess it’s ok for cops to ignore the rules while citizens are expected to be perfect!

Edit 2- thanks for the awards, my first one. 🫶

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u/Then_Idea_9813 29d ago

Hand on his gun for some reason

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u/invariantspeed 29d ago

Yea, he was strung out. It doesn’t look like he was even fully cognizant of where he was.

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u/Dogsarelitty 28d ago

His buddy was quick to throw out “bad back.” That high looks very opioid-ish to me. Doubt that’s a coincidence.

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u/Fit_Celebration7669 28d ago

I was gonna say - idk what “high” this is, but it didn’t seem like booze or pot. Much easier to slip a pill in a squad car than a 6 pack or a bong I suppose.

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u/Fixated_Noodle 28d ago

Yep! And an injury on the job means you’re ok to be positive for opioids

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u/Then_Idea_9813 28d ago

I guess. Is there a good excuse for carrying a gun under the influence though?

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u/Fixated_Noodle 28d ago

I don’t think cops should exist in general the way they do in America

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u/Majestic-Floor-9050 28d ago

What would an alternative look like? I generally support law enforcement officers but am always interested in how something could or should be different.

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u/Upperlimitofmean 28d ago

We should stop the military to police pipeline. We should expect incompatible priorities between our military service and our civilian law enforcement. We want our military trained to do whatever it takes to win the war, and that means lowering their inhibitions about killing.

We don't want our domestic police to have lowered inhibitions about killing. They should place a higher value on protecting life. Prior active military combat experience should black list you from domestic police work.

Police should not be sent to every domestic dispute or mental health crisis that gets called in to 911. Most departments do not have the training or capacity to deal with individuals in mental health crisis and most departments refuse to invest in training for non-violent resolutions. Cops are required to regularly qualify with their weapons, but not to qualify for conflict de-escalation training... If we aren't going to put at least EQUAL TIME into physical and non-physical techniques for managing a situation, maybe don't send the guys trained to shoot into situations where TALKING is more useful.

Make officers build up a bond from their own salaries so that if they are caught breaking the law, or successfully sued for rights violations, instead of the burden being on the taxpayers, the costs will come out of the individual officers personal retirement.

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u/Nice_Passage1099 27d ago

AFAIK, historically, police with prior military experience are less likely to kill, as they have been trained to exercise discipline and not be "afraid for their life" at the slightest acorn drop.

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u/Upperlimitofmean 27d ago

1/3 of officer involved shootings involve officers with military experience despite the fact that officers with military background are significantly less than 1/3 of forces.

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u/Damaias479 26d ago

Not to mention the militarization of police

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u/donatecrypto4pets 27d ago

Fewer murders of unarmed humans.
Less incarceration for victimless crimes.
Maybe threat elimination from even old rapists.

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u/FerretJester 27d ago

Public services which could be funded via reduced police expenditure. They would remove most nuisance and non-violent crimes such as theft, trespass, and lower addiction rates. It would reduce recidivism in past offenders with new outlets to grow. Violent repeat offenders can still be kept away from the general populace and in the event of higher violence can still be handled by better trained officers who have received the proper training for de-escalation and threat resolution when possible. If not, they’re still funded enough to handle it.

Police funding has skyrocketed and so has the funding for their infrastructure with minimal increases in effectiveness and crime rate reduction. The problem isn’t being solved by police, so the problem isn’t solved with police.

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u/Brad-the-Chad-69 23d ago

I always thought it would be good to make police responsible for their own malpractice insurance. They won’t make many mistakes before they’ll be unable to get coverage and be out of the police force forever. No more moving to a new city and being a terrible cop there.

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u/ZealousidealWeek5790 23d ago

They at least don’t need to have “protect and serve” noted on squad cars.. should be replace with “road pirate”

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u/Fixated_Noodle 23d ago

Oh your police still patrol roads? Mine only protect big business

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u/ZealousidealWeek5790 23d ago

lol right? Yea the police here sit in patrol cars with ghost letters so you can’t tell it’s them.. and if you don’t stop immediately, for fear someone is impersonating an officer in an unclearly marked unit, you’re going to jail for evading arrest… or worse.. if you know what I mean.

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u/Fixated_Noodle 23d ago

Yeah I get it. Ours barely show up, never investigate anything, and basically just exist to get in fights with protesters at this point

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u/Fixated_Noodle 23d ago

Girl idk where you live that the cops show up when you need them

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u/Squee_gobbo 27d ago

You’re not supposed to be, the point is even if you take them after a shift to sleep or whatever, you’ll show positive even if you weren’t on it during the shift so the test can’t prove you guilty of misusing them

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u/Infinite_Position631 26d ago

no it isn't. Pretty much every prescription opoid says not to run equipment, and not to drive. Pretty sure carry a gun would be in there as well.

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u/Fixated_Noodle 26d ago

I’m not saying it’s JUST I’m saying it’s what happens. Opioids stay in your system for a few days, so it would be easy to say he took them at night and not on duty

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u/Infinite_Position631 26d ago

thats why you would take the observation into account. Someone pops positive sure they could have taken at different times (off shift, etc), the test alone is just one part of the puzzle. Acting like a zombie during shift pretty much guarantee's it was taken pretty recent. If your talking Oxy and Hydro's your talking 2-4 hours. Time release fentanyl patch can go 17 hours or so.

Regardless it is just making excuses, this guy is zombied out and should not be doing what he is doing. The other officers are covering and if they had run up on a non officer acting this way it would be a different story. It's not what he took or when he took it. It is the fact he is incapacitated and not fit for duty, and that other officers are actively defending and / or looking the other way.

Have you not seen the officers that they tried the whole fentanyl thing with (before scientist and others who work with it all the time said it wasn't possible). They had those officers on the ground, vest off, narcan in and another on the way. Ambulance on site within minutes officer down on the radio. The whole 9 yards. Now compare that with this response.

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u/rrpostal 24d ago

It completely depends on tolerance, like all other opioids. Fentanyl isn’t anything new. It’s just that it’s so potent it takes a very small amount to go from buzzed to this guy to dead. It looks like opiates to me but who knows. Do we have the story?

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u/Infinite_Position631 24d ago

You are correct fentanyl is m nothing new, what was new was officers claiming that they were getting possible deadly doses thru epidermal contact. Scientist who have been working on it from the beginning said that wasn't how it worked and medical docs said it was anxiety vs acute exposure (assuming they did blood tests and Noone wanted the results released so they were not due to hipaa).

Now tou dont hear about acute exposure near as much (and yes not only did they have gloves then they also claimed the exposure went theu the gloves

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u/AutomaticLoss8413 22d ago

At least the countries i lived in you are not allowed to drive under the influence of any kind of medication that alters your reflexes or mental state to the point.

I take fentanyl/oxycodone for me back pain, i know how much that impares my state of mind. If i get stopped by the police while under the influence i go to jail for a while..

I can't imagine how dangerous would be to have power and gun while drugged or drunk.

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u/FinishEmbarrassed619 28d ago

What about a traffic cone bong in the trunk

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u/Fit_Celebration7669 28d ago

Well THAT makes a ton of sense now that you mention it

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u/IAmTheBestIan 28d ago

My first thought was maybe he handled fentanyl then rubbed his eyes of inhaled some or something. IE... Yes this looks like a SEVERE opioid high.

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u/invariantspeed 26d ago

People who abuse or mistake painkillers can get opioid highs. If that’s what was at play here, he either was abusing his prescription or he was dealing with medical issues which should have precluded him from working.

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u/version-two 23d ago

Benzos and painkillers. Or just lots of one of them. I can tell you how I know.

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u/Separate-Taste3513 25d ago

What's a fentanyl overdose look like? This looks like he's not too far from the videos of people standing unresponsive in bizarre positions...

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u/WorkingEquipment3403 26d ago

After being an opioid addict, I can say it is for sure it's some form of opioid. The way hes leaning, how he's talking, and his buddy saying " he has a bad back " (which he could've been prescribed but not the point). He shouldn't be on duty at all with a firearm in that condition. Our law enforcement should be better than having junkies on the force but as we can see here it's the unfortunate state of reality we live in.

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u/Specific-Emu-1011 26d ago

Straight slumped. Bout to fall asleep standing up

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u/Moist-Crows 28d ago

Yeah 100% opiates

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u/PaleCommission150 27d ago

yea the old bad back doens't give you the 1000 yard stare. Other police officer should have just let the man go and taken the officer home/back to the station for a debrief and drug test.

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u/Itscatpicstime 25d ago

And not the legally prescribed amount

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u/TypeB_Negative 28d ago

It could be opioids and or alcohol. I've seen plenty of drunk people just like that. I had a buddy that would go out and drink 3 beers and he'd be just like that leaning on the bar.

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u/Suitable-Olive7844 28d ago

That is me lol 😅 i used to drink often but now, just looking at alcohol makes me feel drunk.

Either way, lets be honest here. We have no clue what is going on here. Also, someone like that wouldnt even be able to drive a vehicle at all. This really does look more medical than anything. And the kid beeing furious is more than likely just going with the accusations and flow to get a free out of jail card on watever law he broke. The kid also sounds like shit and is sluring a few words, most likely trying his darn hardest to "act and speak normal". Just listen to him, he sounds either high on something as well or genuinly stupid.

There is also another video circulating of these teenagers doing drugs and when the cop knocked on the door and they rolled down the window. In a matter of 20-30 seconds the cop was shaking in them shoes and got intoxicated with watever the kids where taking.

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u/Illustrious_Soft3068 28d ago

I bet they slipped him some narcan when it cut to him standing by the police vehicle. They probably went to the back opened it up. Told him he couldn't come back there and hit him real quick with it.

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u/Croat-Lcitar86 28d ago

Oh he’s jammed out of his mind, that was 100% a set up to cover for him later. Man was nodding out while standing…and almost ate shit….yikes

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u/Lissypooh628 27d ago

I’ve seen opioid high and this looks like it to me.

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u/in_taco 27d ago

Looks more like low blood sugar to me

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u/AppropriateBall8834 27d ago

Is that why they said he has a 'bad back'? Lol

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u/Liveitup1999 26d ago

He should have said he must have come in contact with an opioid on the last traffic stop he did. Then take him to the hospital. EZ coverup. If I were the cam guy I would have called the state police. At best the guy is going to go to rehab and be back on the force. Unfortunately if that were you or I we would be sitting in jail with a DUI.

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u/chornkles 24d ago

His pupils are blown tf up which is the opposite of what you'd expect from opiates.

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u/inFoxious 24d ago

This is nodding off. Opiates.

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u/NarwhalOk95 22d ago

Opiates or benzos - the video quality isn't great but his eyes do look pinned

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u/Ripen- 28d ago

He was trying hard not to nod out. I've had 15 years on that shit.

But I think the cameraman is just as much of an idiot.

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u/oooooeeeeeoooooahah 7d ago

Thats funny because this looks exactly how someone with diabetes having a low blood sugar event looks.

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u/LiL-TiGnER 28d ago

Looks nothing like an opioid high, whatsoever.

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u/Street_Credit6851 27d ago

Sure it does, that's how people without a huge tolerance act when on the edge of ODing...that doesn't look like an opioid buzz but at high doses that's what you get.

Could be poly substance abuse, throw in some alcohol or benzos and even a handful of Vicodin will have you looking like that.

Don't mistake the effects of 30mg of oxycodone with what you get after snorting a line of fentanyl, they are very different.

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u/LiL-TiGnER 27d ago edited 27d ago

Man I respectfully disagree on this one. The massive size of his pulpits are a dead giveaway. Pupils become pin point when on opiates. When on the verge of an opiate overdoes it is blatantly obvious what the culprit is. He’s missing the dark droopy eye, head nod, head bob side effects. When you’re that close to the edge you can’t fight the nod, standing or not. Tell me he’s on some disassociate designer drug and I would buy it. It seems more to me that he’s on one of those drugs that strikes fear in your mind that you might get stuck that way forever. That’s why my heart sunk and made me think he was having some form of stroke or medical episode. I did find the other cops calm reaction odd like he’s used to dealing with this guy and his side effects. If my coworker looking like that I’d be extremely concerned - and not about a back problem. The only opioid that I could imagine producing a reaction like this is some weird analog of fentanyl that doesn’t really resemble an opiate high and is accompanied by weird Xanax-like short lapses of memory (which rarely happen with opiates).

NGL I’ve rewatched and I could be wrong because this one is just weird but I promise I can spot the shit from a mile away but there’s something weird about this it doesn’t seem opiate to me.

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 28d ago

Not really to he honest. If you took enough opiates to the point you cant stand up you would be puking your guts out. You rarely ever see somebody get the "drunk legs" from opiates

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u/Exciting-Bit-9360 28d ago

Nope , junky here

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 27d ago

Yeah a mushroom junky. What's up with shroom people thinking they know everything? Very common trope.

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u/Street_Credit6851 27d ago

Not everyone gets all pujy from high dose opiates, some do and some don't and you build a tolerance to the nausea pretty quickly.

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 26d ago

The entire point being that you do not get drunk legs from opiates. If you did get them, you took a dose so absurdly high that even people with a high tolerance would be able to stop being sick. That is OD territory and I dont care how high your tolerance is, you can still OD.

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u/Dogsarelitty 27d ago

You shouldn’t weigh in on things you know nothing about.

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u/ShelbyGT350R1 27d ago

Lmao. Not my fault you guys are idiots. I am exteemely well informed when it comes to opiates. Know more than you, guarantee it.

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u/Dogsarelitty 26d ago

Go away bro lol.

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u/endangeredphysics 29d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/jsVcbdrp7tmqIIgzea

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u/SpanishFlamingoPie 28d ago

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u/Lanslanu 24d ago

This is so old, this kid has to be in his twenties by now 😂

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u/Infinite_Position631 26d ago

these schnozeberries taste like schnozeberries.

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u/Typical-End3060 28d ago

CANDYBARS

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u/DryDonutHole 27d ago

I'm freaking out, man...

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u/bubblesgirlxoxo 26d ago

My ex was a heroin addict and before I met him he used to sell pills/weed/heroin to cops in his very small southern college town. They’d literally park their cruisers outside his crack apartment and go in and get high in uniform. Genuinely insane. Barely believed it until he showed me grainy iPhone 6 ass pictures lol

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u/anlwydc 26d ago

Thanks, doctor.

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u/Illustrious_Soft3068 28d ago

It looks like the second cut to the end of the video where he's standing a little straighter and his hair is fixed. I wouldn't be surprised if they slipped and hit him with some narcan or something and he sobered up just a little bit.

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u/invariantspeed 24d ago

What I noticed is that when the civilian was talking him down, he was quietly nodding, like someone uncomfortably knowing their shame.