have stopped that vehicle? most likely not. and why not? an air freshener to me is just an equipment violation, and during the covid times, the high covid times, the department of motor vehicles was so offline that people weren t getting tabs and we were advised not to try to enforce the law for those things because the tabs were just not in circulation. potter faces 25 years in prison. another case coming to light from body cameras, this one in south carolina where a marlboro county sheriff and former deputy faces charges of assault and misconduct. the sheriff ordered the deputy to tase an inmate, tasing him three times inside a detention center. i want to warn you, the video is very graphic and disturbing. shut the door. there you go. there you go. get up.
wright during the traffic stop. he had a look of fear on his face. it s nothing i d seen before. we were struggling. we were trying to keep him from driving away. it just went chaotic. reporter: wright who officers learned had an outstanding warrant for a weapons violation was initially pulled over for minor offenses. pointed out by a rookie officer. we discussed a little bit of suspicious activity. he noticed a pine tree or air freshener hanging from the rear-view mirror and the tags were expired. potter revealing they would not have pulled wright over at all if she hadn t been training that officer. and why not? an air freshener to me, it s just an equipment violation. you did stop the vehicle, right? yes, part of field training is my probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day. reporter: that contact would turn fatal. i shot him.
that vehicle? most likely not. and why not? an air freshener to me is just an equipment violation, and during the covid times, the high covid times, the department of motor vehicles was so offline that people weren t getting tags it and we were advised not to try to enforce a lot of those things because the tags were just not in circulation. okay. but you did stop the vehicle, right? yeah. part of field training is that my probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day. and what happened after the stop, or if you remember give go ahead. before officer lucky stopped the car we ran the vehicle, confirmed that the registration was expired and that the registered owner had a petty misdemeanor type warrant for some type of drug offense.
on patrol, would you have stopped that vehicle? most likely not. why not? an air freshener to me is just an equipment violation and during the covid times, the high covid times, the department of motor vehicles was so offline that people weren t getting tags and we were advised not to try to enforce a lot of those things because the tags were just not in circulation. ok. but you did stop the vehicle, right? yes, part of field training is that my probationer would make numerous contacts with the public throughout the day. and what happened after the stop? if you remember, give go ahead. before officer lucky stopped the car, we ran the vehicle and confirmed that the registration was expired and that the registered owner had a petty
it s just an equipment violation, and during the covid times, the high covid times, the department of motor vehicles was so offline that people weren t getting tabs and we were advised not to try to enforce a lot of those things because the tabs were just not in circulation. part of the taser policy includes that all training should include performing reaction hand draws or cross draws to reduce the possibility of accidentally drawing and firing a firearm. that s part of the policy. right? that s what it says. and that s part of what you re trained to do. correct? we aren t always drawing our tasers from our holsters. a lot of times we re in plain clothes during training. your policy you re required to abide by that you signed off on required that you perform active hand draws. true? during training, yes. it also includes the reason? yes. so you reduce the possibility