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I found it funny that the only reason they even noticed him hanging out for a long time was because they were doing pretty much the same thing.

"L-o-i-t-e-r-i-n-g. Look it up." What a stand up thing to do. Insulting an individual's intelligence after violating their rights.

He was not loitering, he was legally talking on his cell phone while NOT driving

So, youre not allowed to drive while on the phone but, you're also not allowed to wait until your off your phone to drive, either. That makes perfect sense. That some great logic those officers have.

Being out in public with no apparent reason or aimlessly wandering about is an exercise of freedom.

So they said, "We sat and watched you and didn't see you do anything. Let me see your ID." The inherent mistrust of cops is well earned.

I wish i would have known my right years ago. Cop busted down my door for a body warranty so once they found the person they were supposed to stop looking. They tore my house apart, dumped my garbage on the floor along with any container in my house. It took me days to clean up stuff. I attempted to look for a lawyer but my mom talked me out of it. I shouldn't have listened.

It seems that the law requiring a person to explain their presence to dispel any alarm or concern is at odds with a right to remain silent.

"This area is known for narcotic activity..." Then arrest the area and leave the taxpayer alone.

That female Officer is Crazy, telling the man to go home. He could go anywhere he wants.

I gotta give it to the guy, despite being accused of all that stuff he remained pretty damn calm and non-defensive, just more so astonished and like wtf confused at what was happening.

The officer said “I believe you” when the Citizen said he lived there. If the officer believed him, then there shouldn’t be a reason for him to check his ID.

So let me get this straight. These cops suspect this man going about his business of dealing drugs while their chief of police actually was stealing and dealing meth? Wow man this shit's crazy.

This is the SECOND time within a year that Officer Nicole Pitts has been fired from a Georgia police department. In October of 2020, she was fired from the Clayton County Sheriffs Office for holding her gun to a mans chin that she had handcuffed because he wouldn't get into the back of her patrol car.

My go to when I need to make a call or do something on my phone that I can’t do while driving is to pull into a gas station. This is ridiculous, what has society come to that we are at a point where “using a phone while black” creates such alarm that they harass this person.

She was fired from another Police Department for excessive force before being hired by Locust PD. She was also fired from Locust PD for things she did off duty. It has nothing to do with this case.

Could’ve just walked up and told him he had a nice car and made sure he was good and didn’t need any sort of assistance. Crazy how hard community policing is so hard for so many officers

The man got out of his car to make a phone call. I'd much prefer that to him talking or texting on the phone while driving.

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The best response to that “unusual behavior” claim is that “I don’t drive while I talk on the phone.” Done.

What’s hilarious is that she basically admits at the beginning of the interaction they were doing exactly what he’s doing……sitting in the parking lot doing nothing for 30 mins. Something cops are famous for

How it should have went. Cops - Hey, youve been parked there for a while guy - Yea, Im on the phone Cops - okay, could you just park on the side if youre not getting gas at the moment so youre not blocking the pump guy - Sure, no problem Cops - Thank you Guy - Sure, have a nice day Cops - You do the same

Give me your papers, you know you can’t be out of your home without a reason

Dude parks at a gas-station pump and stands around talking on his phone for half an hour, and never gets gas. The cops watch a known druggie make contact with him and leave. These cops could have approached with a different tone, yes; but good on them for checking out the situation.

“Do your business and head on home”. They literally think they have the right to control what this man does with his time. 🤔

At the end, she STILL told him to "go home". She can't tell anyone to go home, or any other place. She just HAD to exert her authority over him, even in the absence of a crime. Glad she was removed from this job, the public deserves better.

Police chief was like finally now I have a reason to fire Ms buzzcut

If hanging out at a gass pump ain’t normal she hasn’t been outside before

Police: We noticed you have been parked here a while but, you’re not getting gas. Mr. Hellcat: Well, I was going to park up front, but there are 3 fucking police cars taking up all the spots.

"This area is known for criminal activity"... Then arrest the area. Leave the man be.

As someone who managed 1 gas station and has worked at 3 and currently works at one….people “hang out” at the pumps all the time lol

"you've dispelled the alarm and can go on your way"... Keeps explaining to him over and over so that he can't leave.

I love how when people invoke their rights cops say their “making this difficult”

Man: Peaceably minding his own business talking on his phone Cop: "I just couldn't let that stand."

She was actually fired for excessive force and held a gun to a handcuffed man’s head - she’s a bully and I’m So glad she’s fired

He said his dad was a retired sheriff... he taught him well. I give him an A+ too! Gonna sub to his channel!

IF these three LEO's know about a, *"party with a whole ton of drugs"* why are they harassing this man at a well lit gas station?

"So, what are you in for buddy?" ..." I was standing at a gas station next to my car too long..." -Coversations from Prison

Blocking a gas pump for 30 minutes is an asshole move

So they admitted they had been at a gas station longer than him but him being there that long means he was breaking the law.....

“Here’s the deal” Officer - if they commit a crime, arrest them. If they haven’t committed a crime, leave them alone. Is it really that hard?

"We've never met you." So, guilty until proven innocent.

Bored, self righteous, overly eager to prove oneself, and not too bright!!! That's a dangerous combination to unleash on the public in the form of a rookie cop.

I love how the cops kept saying they were done and then just. Not leaving or otherwise ending the interaction. Like given how cops so often operate, the dude they accosted can't safely end the interaction himself, so he's waiting for the cops to do so, and they just weren't willing to walk away

I can't believe loitering is even considered a thing these days. Literally standing around doing NOTHING can be a crime.

I find it hilarious when a cop says "I've never met you before..." like that's supposed to be a bad thing! 🤣

Wow man if this is the same officer Nicole Pitts, she was fired from her previous job at the Clayton County Sheriff's for holding a gun to a handcuffed man's head. These cops are freaking psycho and they just get shuffled to a different department.

Finish your call and get home?? I can't believe this is supposed to be freedom. These cops are horrible at explaining what law he has broken. We need to justify our presence and this is scary.

No one can talk in circles better than a police officer.

Telling him to go home after their interaction was the kicker for me. You’ve investigated, found no alarm or crime, so why do I have to go home? Am I not free to remain innocent? Wankers

So disgusting. They all should be fired

Immediately I noticed that the officer said they had been there 20 minutes. So it's apparently ok for them to "hang out" but not anyone else? The individual could simply say that they had to make a phone call and didn't want to be on the phone while driving; since non-hands free operation is now illegal in many places.

These cops have never met him because he's a law-abiding citizen. Ridiculous.

Her telling him to finish his buisness and "head on home" is incredible.

When the one cop spelled out "Loitering" for him, it was clearly meant to be disrespectful and demeaning. This really had me fuming. Almost as if he needed to get in one last sentence because he can't accept what a total ass him and his cronies just made of themselves. You can see he is genuinely distraught when he realizes he won't be arresting that gentleman for simply being at a gas station. Take that badge off and that cop is nothing but a sad sack of $hit. Id personally love to give that cop a piece of my mind.

Idk. Maybe I’m old fashioned because I’ll only stop at a gas pump when I need gas or every other parking spot is filled. I get in and get out. Why, out of an entire town, would you just stop and wait at a gas pump, and not just leave when the cops asked him what he was doing.

12:42 Love how cops NEVER have business cards or have the courtesy to write their name a badge # on a piece of paper but at the same time a cop will immediately ask for ID when they make contact.

The officer starts right out with a scolding or confrontational tone. No matter what the words are, when you do that, a human being will nearly always go into defensive mode. It's just natural.

When I worked at a gas station, pretty much the only people that 'loitered' there were cops!

Something that isn’t mentioned here: QT gas stations have signs posted around the parking lot that say “safe space”. They are places that are monitored by security cameras, and meant for people doing things like what this guy was doing… Stopping to talk on his phone.

This was her 2nd time being fired by the way, she was previously fired by clayton county PD for pointing a gun at a handcuffed man.

The cop that demanded ID should be fired too, not just that teenage boy cop

After I paid for gas and lottery tickets, I filled the tank and got in the car, scratched some tickets off and the cashier came out and asked me what I was doing . I showed her the ticket and she said I would have to park in the designated area because their pump area was on a timer...never heard of that , but I immediately moved from the gas pump area.

That's not law enforcement, it's domestic terrorism.

People that block gas pumps really get on my nerves, but this situation seemed like a gross misuse of law enforcements time.

“That’s why we asked you instead of just immediately throwing you in handcuffs” like what?!?! “Immediately thrown in handcuffs” these people are out of control and it’s legit scary. As hell.

Loitering is the criminal act of being in a public space without spending any money

I find it odd that the rookie cop was fired when her two superior officers stood by and neither one was reprimanded; only her. That one superior officer did explain things to Mr Hellcat and the other one remained silent. If what the rookie cop did was wrong, why didn't they intervene instead of that one officer explained the situation? She was out of line to tell him to finish his business and then go home, as if she had the authority to tell anyone to go home. Maybe that's why she was terminated. If would be interesting to know more why she was fired and whether the other two officers were punished.

It’s not even weird to stop at a gas station and take a phone call seeing how it’s illegal to drive and use a cell phone

"you're making this super difficult" when he's already told them what he's doing..

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that must be a very safe town for that many cops to be able to just hand out at the gas station loitering and harass people

Speaking as someone who worked at a gas station when I was a kid, this is less an issue of drug soliciting and more an issue of a guy inconsiderately occupying a gas pump for an excessive amount of time. Don't recall that being illegal, just douchey.

"I apologize for being responsible and parking while I'm on my phone, officer."

Sitting in front of a gas pump for 30 min is pretty disrespectful for other ppl lol

I was arrested Dec, 27th last year in Fort Worth for playing guitar on a public easement that is at least 20 feet wide and a grassy area it is raised up and not on the same level as the roads around it. The cops explantation for the reason for the initial detainment was from several noise complaints forwarded from dispatch. I explained that the local fort Worth noise ordinance was divided into 5 main sectors and the decimal limits in each of the 5 sections differed that some areas allowed up to 50 decibels, another was 60 decibels, and the last of the 5 geographic sections allowed 70 decibels these were considered business districts and not zoned by fort Worth to be residential areas, in which residential areas were subjected to a lower decibel limit of 30 decibels during the day. I asked the officer if she had a decibel limit reader to determine if I had been in violation to the ordinance and explained that just because I'm playing guitar on an amplifier doesn't mean I'm automatically in violation of the noise ordinance. She then began to demand my I.D. I cited Texas Penal code 38.02 states that under section A. I don't have to present an officer with I.D. in the State of Texas until I'm lawfully arrested. Subsection B. States that if I'm a witness to a crime and give the officer false information like a fake date of birth or name was not applicable to me nor the other subsections under section B. Because I'm not a witness to a crime. The officer called for back up. Before the back up arrived I asked to speak to a supervisor she said she is a supervisor which was later determined to be a lie. When back up was arrived I was placed into handcuffs and told that I was only legally detained and not under arrest. I told them I don't consent to unlawful searches or seizures. The primary female officer told the back up units to search my pockets and get my I.D. I knew I had a possible warrant in green oaks for a traffic infraction from the previous year. I was on felony probation and my probation got revoked before my notice to appear in court in September for the traffic infraction. Because I was incarcerated for my probation revocation and in custody at the time of the court date I wasn't able to appear. I had my fiance take proof of my incarceration up to the river oaks to try to get time served. They refused and said I had to write a request and mail it to them. So a warrant was active when they ran my I.D. it showed up while I was placed into the back of the police car. I was never once told I was officially under arrest or mirandized and the charge I was being arrested for. They simply just drove me to jail. When I got out I found out the charge listed was private use of a sidewalk.

Prisoner 1 ”What are you in jail for? Murder?” Prisoner 2 “No I took a phone call. You? ” Prisoner 1 “I slowly drove through a parking lot”

"Finish your phone call, go inside finish your business and head on home." (9:23) Talk about asserting imaginative authority!!

For the life of me, I don't know why cops don't read the gas station and shut up.

You never even explained why she got fired. Why didn't the other officers get fired?

So if the cops “hanging out” for 30 minutes watching Mr. Hellcat, wouldn’t they also be guilty of loitering??

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"He's just standing there.... Menacingly!

How was the girl free to run up and say hi to him if she was caught earlier after a party in possession of narcotics? She's doing all that and still free but they are harassing him for clogging a fuel ⛽

I was stalked by a cop for almost a year. I recorded every encounter, and so did all my friends. He was fired, and jailed for 5 years.

We “loitered” as kids in parking lots all the time. It was how we got away from parents and spent time with friends. As long as we weren’t doing burn outs, or donuts, or fighting, or drinking the police left us alone. Occasionally they would drive by slowly and we would wave and they would wave back. Things are changing.

god you can't even just relax in public and do nothing without being bloody harassed by dirty cops looking for trouble.

So it this how it works...? "We think you might be dealing drugs" "Here's my ID" "He's got an ID everybody, that means he's not dealing drugs. Let's go"

When it involves reasonable suspicion u know it’s gonna be good

I love how law enforcement tends to escalate a situation. Why not just ask him to move his car?

So if you see the cops and leave, you're suspicious, if you stay you're suspicious. If you talk on the phone while driving, it's a crime, if you talked while not driving, it's a crime

Mr. Hellcat gets a B. Because, while he exercised his rights, and the cops were out of line, he was naive enough to think he could park and hang out for a half hour in front of a gas pump. He could have easily drove off to the side and hung out, or went home.

Georgia has a hands free stature when making phone calls and citizens are encouraged to pull into a parking area to use the phone...therefore I give the police an (F)

There was an incident last week in Bethany, MO involving Travis Heinze (he has a KZfaq channel) in which it appears he was arrested in violation of his 4th amendment rights and detained for 24 hours. When it went before a judge, it was immediately dismissed with no explanation. It was also reported that the Bethany PD deleted their Facebook page and turned off their non emergency phone line. I'd like to see a future AtA episode addressing not only the police overreach but their shutting down methods of communication in the aftermath for what appears to be for the purpose of avoiding criticism.

I can't believe that idiot gave them his i.d that pissed me off so bad watching an American man give up his rights with no questions

As a former cashier at many gas stations, I like and respect customers that stay outside and finish their phone call BEFORE entering the store. Nothing more rude than a customer coming through the door or standing at the register and yelling at the phone.

Loitering laws are usually used to get rid of people the cops don't like.

This video is a good example of one of the myriad problems with the "war on drugs." It's a wide-open invitation for police to go fishing. It allows the invention of suspicion over the slightest thing, whether a casual greeting to a stranger, or merely being in a particular neighborhood at all-essentially granting police a canned RAS they can invoke 24/7 to harass anyone in an area, including local residents.

Whenever ANYONE exercises their rights, it's always met with "you can make this difficult if you want" "so you wanna play games?" Etc. Like no, just leave us the eff alone!