Matthew Hardin v. Eric Tollefson, Minnesota Case 34-CV-25-364 - The Bodycam Lawsuit

[AnOminous]

Nick said it himself that he got one over on the cops by dropping the coke he had on his person in the car when getting out, so they would not find it.

Imagine being such a stupid motherfucking cokehead that you literally publicly boast about how much coke you had and that the cops didn't find it because you were so clever hiding it (even though they did find the 25 grams or so).

I'm sure this will never come back to bite him in his scrawny, skeletal, gay, Balldo-encrusted ass if he blows his probation and ends up having to go to trial.

When someone tells you you never go full retard, this is exactly the full retard they're talking about.

Absolutely no reason to defy a court order unless the sheriff is trying to hide something that would show up on that footage. The entire county judiciary is freaking the fuck out because they know something happened.

People who have posted on this thread and who personally viewed the bodycam footage said the cops acted entirely within the law.

This is some spaz-out from a hick cop who is angry at being told to obey the law himself.

 

[RodgerDodger]

My theory is the Sheriff just didnt like being told what he can and cannot do with "his" body camera footage.

There are a number of Police Departments, and especially elected Sheriff's that view it as a matter of pure unwavering doctrine that nobody is allowed access to Police Bodycam footage for any reason. Just as Hardin is a government transparency absolutist, many officers view Bodycams as a gross, unethical, and in domestic view unconstitutional government surveillance of them. They can tolerate the bodycams, just barely, for their purpose of shutting down the Neverending bullshit accusations against them. But they are passionate in their belief that allowing these recordings to be treated as publicly accessible government records is a gross violation of the officers rights to privacy. And their argument is not without a certain degree of merit. How many of us would willingly want to allow the public to be able to view us every minute of every day? Just for the lulz?

This Sheriff looks to be one of these absolutists. He ain't releasing bodycam footage to anybody.

 

[AnOminous]

This Sheriff looks to be one of these absolutists. He ain't releasing bodycam footage to anybody.

He is the gayest faggot-ass worthless joke of a sheriff since Sheriff Chitwood in Volusia County.

Enjoy being the most notorious cuck sheriff in America, you worthless homo. Enjoy washing the Balldo. Fucking queer fake cop.

 

[John Andrews Stan]

This Sheriff looks to be one of these absolutists.

Does he have a track record of rejecting FOIA requests?

 

[McMitch]

And their argument is not without a certain degree of merit. How many of us would willingly want to allow the public to be able to view us every minute of every day?

Their argument has literally no merit. The body cameras are for when they are on the job as agents of the state, meaning they are even less entitled to privacy than a private sector public-facing occupation. The fact we don’t record 100% of government employees 100% of the time they’re on the clock was a logistics issue until recently. Police that don’t want body cameras are limp-dicked cucks that couldn’t handle the scrutiny of an open kitchen let alone a career that arms them with a weapon.

 

[Pelican Bones]

The thing that is weird is from what people could tell from the bodycam footage the cops did everything right and made no mistakes. It's hard to believe that the cops are simultaneously corrupt and also following proper procedure.

There were two people who did watch the bodycam footage. And neither of those people noticed the police not doing anything they weren't supposed to do. It was all extremely professional according to those people.

People who have posted on this thread and who personally viewed the bodycam footage said the cops acted entirely within the law.

This is some spaz-out from a hick cop who is angry at being told to obey the law himself.

No offense to those people that watched it, but they don't know what proper procedure is, and have no idea what was in that video vs. what did/didn't make it into evidence.

A hick DA and a hick judge didn't shit themselves and start Calvinballing the rulings just because a hick cop didn't feel like it.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Their argument has literally no merit. The body cameras are for when they are on the job as agents of the state, meaning they are even less entitled to privacy than a private sector public-facing occupation. The fact we don’t record 100% of government employees 100% of the time they’re on the clock was a logistics issue until recently. Police that don’t want body cameras are limp-dicked cucks that couldn’t handle the scrutiny of an open kitchen let alone a career that arms them with a weapon.

Ironically most police departments have discovered that far from causing reputation damage body camera footage has been great for showing the general public the absolute bullshit they have to deal with on the daily. And in the case of the Arkansas State Police has even turned various troopers into named heroes whose exploits are followed online as if they are the fucking Punisher.

Which is what makes Kandiyohi County wanting to hide the ball so strange.

 

[Hantavirus]

I am not surprised at all that the Sheriff does not want to release the footage. The law in Minnesota is very restrictive, probably unconstitutionally so. How many cases go to trial or at least have bodycams entered into evidence in Kandoyohi County per year? How many of these are the subject of open records requests? I would guess the Sheriff probably just denies any open records request he gets, leaving petitioners to either put up with a lawsuit or shut up, and this practice has not bitten him in the ass until now. What is really shocking is the prosecutor and the judge colluding to change the record such that footage entered into evidence was actually never entered as evidence because the case never went to trial, and not giving Hardin a chance to respond. That and the fact that the Sheriff blatantly ignored the advisory board's binding opinion.

 

[AnOminous]

That and the fact that the Sheriff blatantly ignored the advisory board's binding opinion.

It isn't binding. An advisory opinion is simply advice, hence the name. It could be evidence of some sort, i.e. they couldn't reason their way around it because the opinion is clearly the correct interpretation of the law, hence why they did an end-run around it by changing the "facts" retroactively.

 

[Hantavirus]

Ah, my mistake. I was under the impression it was legally binding which I probably heard on MATI. Still though, my point still stands that this is probably uncharted territory for this fairly small, rural MN county where the laws strongly favor law enforcement discretion in releasing bodycam footage. It is kind of crazy that just two hours away is Wisconsin, home of one of the most famous bodycam Youtube channels on the Internet.

 

[BarberFerdinand]

But they are passionate in their belief that allowing these recordings to be treated as publicly accessible government records is a gross violation of the officers rights to privacy. And their argument is not without a certain degree of merit. How many of us would willingly want to allow the public to be able to view us every minute of every day? Just for the lulz?

The sheriff can eat all the shit in india. I work in a field where literally everything I do is recorded constantly and subject to FOIA. It is what it is. The asshat needs to just deal with it and move on, take the L.

 

[repentance]

The coverup going on here is more obvious than Watergate. Regardless of the outcome the damage to this county's legal enforcement body is already done.

Damage in whose eyes? I doubt the residents of the county are going to give a shit.

 

[IrishGuy088]

Damage in whose eyes? I doubt the residents of the county are going to give a shit.

I disagree. People in a community (when they hear about it) will remember people like the Rekietas and that will last for generations.

 

[Himedall All-seeing Waifu]

Imagine being such a stupid motherfucking cokehead that you literally publicly boast about how much coke you had and that the cops didn't find it because you were so clever hiding it (even though they did find the 25 grams or so).

I'm sure this will never come back to bite him in his scrawny, skeletal, gay, Balldo-encrusted ass if he blows his probation and ends up having to go to trial.

When someone tells you you never go full retard, this is exactly the full retard they're talking about.

If they truly wanted to send Nick down, they could have added that mass to his 24 grammes or so to get it about that magic threshold for intent to distribute. Asinine in the extreme.

 

[TEA 3HF]

t's hard to believe that the cops are simultaneously corrupt and also following proper procedure.

There are a number of Police Departments, and especially elected Sheriff's that view it as a matter of pure unwavering doctrine that nobody is allowed access to Police Bodycam footage for any reason. Just as Hardin is a government transparency absolutist, many officers view Bodycams as a gross, unethical, and in domestic view unconstitutional government surveillance of them. They can tolerate the bodycams, just barely, for their purpose of shutting down the Neverending bullshit accusations against them. But they are passionate in their belief that allowing these recordings to be treated as publicly accessible government records is a gross violation of the officers rights to privacy. And their argument is not without a certain degree of merit. How many of us would willingly want to allow the public to be able to view us every minute of every day? Just for the lulz?

This Sheriff looks to be one of these absolutists. He ain't releasing bodycam footage to anybody.

I think it's a bit of all these plus something else. In Minnesota, and especially back in the mid to late 20th century there was a heavy emphasis on normality or at least on the appearance of normality. Old families from that area were obsessed with appearing like everything was ok, everybody in the family went to church, all were sociable, were good neighbors, and good members of their community. Imagine your family is like that out in the vukojebina of Minnesota, in quiet little Kanidyohi county. You get the notice that somehow, some way, your little home has been plastered all over the internet as the haven of a filthy, junkie, dysfunctional, child neglecting faggot trust fund bum that regularly shits upon the moral ideals of your faith and culture on the internet for clout. Do you really expect that people like that won't try to SHUT IT DOWN as much as they can and as fast as they can? Of course they will? Do I hope they get fucked so I can laugh my ass off at Nick Rekieta turning his upper-middle class suburban home into a shithole? Of Course I do.