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I have seen the footage of that stop alongside body cam footage from the officers on YouTube, but I hadn’t seen the version released by galanakis. Even without commentary, it looked like a bad arrest to me. The officers refuse to use a breathalyzer at first, choosing a field sobriety test (which is known to have many problems) first. At one point the officers said something to the affect of “he’s a smartass” as part of their decision to arrest.

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IIRC Galanakis uploaded the publicly available body cam footage and that's what he was sued for. Which makes it even more egregious.

Well, he uploaded the video plus his commentary on the video.

But in the USA, anyone can be sued for anything. This is how the system is designed. I could sue you for posting this comment and claim that it's defamatory to the Pope, and I would get my (hopefully extremely brief) day in court.

But you can’t sue the cops, they have immunity.

Well you can certainly sue them but you are right in the sense that QI is rarely stripped

You absolutely can. It will probably be thrown out, just like most counts in this case.

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