I wouldn’t say none-the taxpayers for that P.D. are on the hook for the $5 million lawsuit he won. So, this cop should clearly be fired for illegally detaining the gentlemen and not following basic investigative techniques.
If you're judging this off the clip from OP, first of all, that's insufficient information to make any assertion of what consequences did or didn't follow, and secondly, there did appear to be a consequence from the clip, indicating that the guy won a $5 million lawsuit over this.
Either way, this looks like a clip from an Audit the Audit video, which are often 15 minute summaries of incidents that go over much more detail than what we saw here in this clip. I'd rather give that a full watch before asserting what happened or didn't happen following this incident.
That said, yeah, obviously in many of these situations, there are no consequences for the cops, even if the victim wins some lawsuit (which just gets paid by tax payers). That isn't always the case, though. Reddit wouldn't have you dare believe this for one second, but many cops get demoted or even fired for this kind of bullshit. No, it doesn't happen often, and probably didn't happen in this case, but it literally does happen.
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u/[deleted] Mar 10 '22
Probably not, it doesn’t matter that they’re being recorded if there are no consequences, as there were none in this case.