Deputy Misreads License Plate Twice, Makes Illegal Traffic Stop - May 15, 2024
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On the afternoon of May 15th, 2024, a sheriff's deputy/K9 handler in Caldwell Parish, Louisiana misread the license plate on a passing vehicle, causing the info to return to a completely different vehicle. A few minutes later he caught back up to the vehicle and misread the plate yet again, again causing the info to return to a completely different vehicle.
At that point he decided to stop the vehicle, described as a "single cab Ford blue, blue single scab blue Ford Ranger." Once he made that arguably unreasonable traffic stop, he then read the plate correctly. It's worth mentioning that he never called 10-8 from the stop, I guess he was so eager to get back out there and harass more people that he just forgot.
We don't know whether this deputy has dyslexia, has poor eyesight, or was simply in too much of a hurry and mis-spoke when reading the plate number. His description of the vehicle suggests the latter. The circumstances suggest he had no reason to go after the vehicle in the first place and that he simply ran the plate because he was nosy and/or eager to harass somebody.
This deputy has a VERY lengthy history of harassing motorists, misreading license plates, falsely claiming to be unable to read license plates due to trailer hitches or trailers, falsely claiming that vehicles don't have license plates when in fact they do, and making traffic stops that are either likely or wholly unreasonable. In other words, there is a clear pattern or practice of violating motorists' 4th Amendment rights with unreasonable/illegal traffic stops and vehicle searches. You would be forgiven for thinking the sheriff or the supervisors have enough integrity to reprimand him.
At that point he decided to stop the vehicle, described as a "single cab Ford blue, blue single scab blue Ford Ranger." Once he made that arguably unreasonable traffic stop, he then read the plate correctly. It's worth mentioning that he never called 10-8 from the stop, I guess he was so eager to get back out there and harass more people that he just forgot.
We don't know whether this deputy has dyslexia, has poor eyesight, or was simply in too much of a hurry and mis-spoke when reading the plate number. His description of the vehicle suggests the latter. The circumstances suggest he had no reason to go after the vehicle in the first place and that he simply ran the plate because he was nosy and/or eager to harass somebody.
This deputy has a VERY lengthy history of harassing motorists, misreading license plates, falsely claiming to be unable to read license plates due to trailer hitches or trailers, falsely claiming that vehicles don't have license plates when in fact they do, and making traffic stops that are either likely or wholly unreasonable. In other words, there is a clear pattern or practice of violating motorists' 4th Amendment rights with unreasonable/illegal traffic stops and vehicle searches. You would be forgiven for thinking the sheriff or the supervisors have enough integrity to reprimand him.