Title: The Brett Darrow Case- Invoking Your Rights With Police Source:
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The Brett Darrow Case
Brett Darrow is a 20 year old from St. George Missouri, who decided to mount a video camera in his car after getting some traffic tickets. Watch the bizzare series of events that unfolds in September 2007 when Brett politely invokes his God given rights to privacy and Constitutional protections. Sgt. James Kuehnlein became outraged and began screaming like a lunatic, berating and threatening Darrow, saying he would find '9 different charges' to lock him up on. Darrow later posted the video online where it got international attention, and Sgt. Kuehnlein was promptly fired. Darrow had an eerily similar incident happen to him in December 2006, when he politely invoked his rights and told a cop at a checkpoint that he did not want to discuss his personal life. Both these are must-see videos. Kudos to Brett Darrow for standing up for his unalienable rights and privacy. We can all learn from him.
I am quite familiar with this, having lived in St. Louis. Darrow is not from St. George, which is a subdivision that should be decertified. He sets cops up, which is a good thing, and caught a bad one who worked for St. George and got him fired. Later, the mayor of St. George was arrested, I think for having child porn on his computer. The whole place is a speed trap and a joke. Even the people who live in it laugh at their police.
The Director argues that Uhrig's sexual advances are cause for discipline under section 590.135.2(6), which allows discipline for: Gross misconduct indicating inability to function as a peace officer[.] (Emphasis added.) Misconduct means "the willful doing of an act with a wrongful intention[;] intentional wrongdoing".33; .... We conclude that Uhrig's unwelcome sexual advances to a teenager, while on duty and under the guise of enforcing the laws, indicate an especially egregious mental state, show that he cannot enforce the law, and are cause for discipline.
Summary Uhrig is subject to discipline under section 590.135.2(6). SO ORDERED on February ____, 2002 ________________________________ KAREN A. WINN Commissioner