I' M A KENTUCKY STATE TROOPER & I CAN DO WHATEVER I F CKIN WANT. #police #cops #government #camera

When things go badly Who keeps the troopers in line? I hate to break it to you, honey, but this is the way they are trained Well, looky here Here's hayden killborn beating the holy hell out of robert kidd with a metal baton and his partner sitting there holding a taser on Kidd when he should have been using it on killborn Training that you're about to receive will be extremely demanding You'll be challenged Am I willing to make the commitment that is required to earn the title If you're not you can excuse yourself now Oh, you're trying to be empathetic Look at the mirror and ask yourself. Can I kill a kid? Can I shoot a grandma? Can I shoot a mom? Can I shoot a dad? Can I shoot a brother? Why is this so hard? You're in the wrong profession my friend if you can't live with that how many of you made that decision One out of seven. How many brothers do you have out here? How many sisters? They mean less to you than some a mental subject You go home you soul search and you figure it out. And if that question hasn't been answered tomorrow I suggest you don't come back. The absolute most important thing is officer I tried to ask the head of kentucky state police commissioner philip burnett He declined to go on camera, but he gave me a quote instead Ksp takes any use of force seriously and there is a review process to ensure accountability and training standards are being met wire How good of a job do you think ksp does investigating their own? They don't They don't do a very good job at all This is sergeant jeremy may trooper supervisor of post four He was not directly involved in the use of force, but was assigned to review the cases. He's not been accused of anything criminal Every officer involved in the use of force is required to let their supervisor Know the supervisor does interviews of those involved and writes down what happened on a ksp 42 form From there it goes up the chain Let's take a look at how that worked out for justin helgum. Hey justin, this is sergeant may with the kentucky state police Do you believe that you were mistreated? In any way? Absolutely I've got cuts and lashings all over my head And they're telling me to turn this guy to the face this way I want to see that in the face Just so he could get squared up with me and kick me I mean it was like a bunch of lines At their very first kill and for it to be police officers It just blows me away It scares me About a week later sergeant jeremy may gets the troopers tape. I grabbed him I escorted him to the ground Told him put his hands behind his back and he continued to resist I gave a couple soft blows maybe one or two You could tell he was resisting from that point forward Mabe never asks about the stomping or about those kicks to the head. Justin talked about 30 seconds Well, I can't think of anything More to ask you but if something comes up i'll get back with you. So we'll go ahead and end the interview It's a joke I haven't seen one of these question answer sessions that was more than 10 pages long Mabe writes that halcom resisted and noted the blood was from one small cut from hitting the asphalt Nobody has any business investigating themselves ksp told me that mabe wasn't an investigator, although he does make Recommendations in halcom's case. He didn't find anything wrong with what happened other than the stomps the other officers use of force Instead he asks this did you have any injuries? No, sir. I I had some of his blood on me Did you have any property damage? No, sir. Did he appear intoxicated to you or did you have time to observe him? I did not he kind of lays on his Side, but doesn't doesn't get on the ground and put his hand behind his back you use some soft empty hand techniques to Gain his compliance to get in here. Oh, did I leave anything out? No, like I said, it was pretty much from putting my hands on Ksp's internal affairs investigators agreed with mabe and only looked at zartorski's actions. They suspended him for the stomps No one else got in trouble. What I think is dangerous is too often. We are told by law enforcement agencies We'll handle our own discipline. We'll investigate ourselves You should all butt out because you know, this stuff is too sensitive for the public to be brought in Here's another case involving jeremy mabe. It's a speeding stop turn chase Adam sandage and cameron wright have their guns drawn According to the officers themselves. Brian pickerel had his hands on the handlebars when they grabbed him off the bike It's only after the beating that they remembered they were supposed to handcuff him Who's cuffing him here I can show you once Stop being a bitch Hell, I think you a punk bitch mabe blames pickerel for not getting off the bike and showing his hand He writes that pickerel had knives on him though. The troopers didn't know that at the time of the beating again All of mabe's interviews were five minutes or less. I don't have any other questions for you right now Questions not asked When did you see a knife? How was he resisting? Why didn't you handcuff him right away? And why did you call him a bitch? Mr. Pickerel? I'm sorry mabe with the state police I'm here to do a post-arrest interview with you mabe interviews pickerel at the hospital But before we play that recording know this the law is very clear about when officers can use force It says they can only use it when there's a threat They cannot use force to punish someone or because they're upset. Did you do what you were told to do? I was attempting to but Due to being restrained or whatever. I was unable to therefore What do you think under the circumstances all the circumstances that you're treated fairly? Absolutely not No, no. Well what I understand is that you left my troopers on a pursuit At over 100 miles an hour through two counties for several miles You don't think that That would have anything to do with it It might but I don't see where such force is necessary on somebody who pulled over. Well, what do you think was inappropriate? The rough rough handling, okay Show us your hands is the get out of jail free card to these cops I have seen guys who Whose hands were empty? Taken to the ground And the hell being beat out of them While the cops were yelling Show us your hands show us your hands show us your hands when they had already seen his hands and they were empty Mabe does write down that the troopers didn't handcuff pickerel until 17 seconds After the strikes had stopped. He did note the way pickerel was mocked Which he thought was not according to ksp policy, but as for the force itself reasonable Reasonable force zap surprise anybody once again The leadership agrees no issues with the use of force as for the taunting the troopers got a talking to Everything that is done investigatively goes through the command staff And if the command staff deems that it's probably snitch across the blue line too hot for public consumption It's going to get a lot of work The investigation passes through several hands making its way all the way to ksp's top attorney Shauna kinzer and the commissioner himself. They give things a final seal of approval He has to say yay or nay. He has to get briefings from his command. He has to sign off on it His signature block is there So that means he has to have read it at some point in time unless he's signing things blindly He's the overall approving authority on all of it Speaking up isn't always easy. Their days are done. They're run off They're so they say transferred across the state at the commissioner's will So that threat keeps them quiet And I hate that for anybody who has to go through that because you have to see things that you don't want to see And you're experiencing stuff that is just absolutely beyond why you joined in the first place back to sergeant maine He was promoted to a lieutenant over investigations That's despite getting in trouble for not that's not following up on cases or complaints in 2017, according to his Violate rights get strikes who complained about his quote irate behavior in 2019 He was sued for barging into a home without a warrant the lawsuit noted He falsely reported the facts to quote cover his violent malevolent and unlawful behavior That case settled and then there's this lawsuit where mabe shows up on the scene after a use of force incident to document it I'm a state trooper and can do what the f I want three friends We're part of a tight road crew over 20 years with this one and about 14 for joey It's basically what you would call it like a family They were paving the highway when cynthia heard her co-workers scream at a car whipping by She was yelling slow down and telling us to watch out. I kind of looked back real quick I just seen this car coming up and then next thing I know he was slamming his brakes on so hard that he kind of Slid sideways the man gets out of the car and confronts them. I'm trying to call 9-1-1 He looked up and seen me with the phone and here he comes, you know Just barreling at me if this guy's a state trooper, there's no way he can be acting like this out here I walked up from behind him He just turned around in one movement about knocked me out there for a second because I wasn't some other flagger Said that he's reaching for his gun. Now. We got a real problem. I'm in full panic and i'm thinking Am I going home tonight or is he going to get a hold of a gun? Is he going to shoot one of them? Finally the other officers show up, but the crew doesn't get the reaction They expected they told us to go ahead and get off of them and immediately separated all of us They're over there laughing and joking And we're just kind of watching all this kind of unfold The lawsuit says that when mabe shows up he lines the crew up like criminals his response was Well, that's all hearsay. This says just don't worry about turn on the news because we streamed it to the news and that's when things change and that's when they come back up again, and he's like Can I get your phone and I said no i'll send you the video I said i'll send it to you if you want me to you're not getting my phone I felt like they were going to try to Erase my video, you know because it was all on my phone right there that night I kept my cell phone on I had it in my pocket. So I kept my video rolling. My name is sergeant made Kentucky state police He just pushed me like right just pushed me. I don't have I don't think I have any bruises or nothing Um, but yeah, he pushed me pretty hard what I saw from the video I don't like His behavior, correct. I don't have a good explanation right for you as to why He acted like that I don't care if you throw him in jail or whatever But at least arrest him and not let him drive out of here because that just backs up his statement I'm a state trooper and can do what the f I want and that just proves it right there. He said you realize You Detained or you tackle the police officer and things can go really bad. It made me mad Yeah, it really did because we weren't the ones doing anything wrong. We were just working Cynthia is frustrated. The trooper was allowed to get in his car and leave But state law doesn't mandate anyone be arrested for what would likely be a misdemeanor assault trooper Harrison was never criminally charged He was suspended for four days and moved to another post a couple of hours away The crew settled its lawsuit against trooper harrison for five hundred and fifteen thousand dollars As part of the settlement sergeant mabe's name was taken off the lawsuit as a defendant But years later ksp is still fighting who should pay it's a waiting game that they can play forever And I and i'm certain that they figured by this amount of time That this would be gone. They also didn't know that mabe was promoted he must have done. All right Good for him. He's a lieutenant now. Yeah I wish I'd done bad at my job and got a promotion Yeah He's over investigations now, too. Well, of course he is. Why wouldn't he be? Why wouldn't? That's great Does it really take 10 cops to beat up one person look like a damn gang to me y'all come back now? Yeah