A Florida police officer met a woman on a TV set, surveilled her for weeks, stalked her, and nearly caused a head-on collision while chasing her to pull her over.

A police officer speeds 70 MPH down a two-lane highway running over a bridge in the Florida Keys. He passes a dump truck in a no-passing zone, then immediately does it again, crossing over a double-yellow line to pass another truck. He passes a third vehicle, nearly causing a head-on collision with a white pickup truck that veers away from him in the oncoming traffic. The cop keeps driving, and sees the SUV he’s been in pursuit of. He flicks his sirens and lights on and pulls it over.

The cop, Lamar Roman, wasn’t trying to pull over a suspected criminal. He was tracking and chasing a woman that he met and harassed on the set of the AppleTV+ show Bad Monkey, which he had worked a security detail shift on a few weeks prior to pulling her over. After meeting the woman, catcalling her and harassing her for her full name and Instagram details, the cop illegally looked up her vehicle information on DAVID, a Florida Department of Motor Vehicles database for law enforcement. He then put her license plate details on a surveillance “hotlist,” meaning he would get a notification in real time anytime she drove by an AI-powered license plate surveillance camera.

      • Eternal192@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        2·
        9 days ago

        Not all of them but unfortunately 90% are unqualified to work in garbage disposal let alone “serve and protect”.

        • robotElder2 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
          3·
          8 days ago

          Yes. All of them. They signed up to be the occupying army of a fascist state. They are at war with us. Their own training teaches them to think and behave so. Every day when they put that uniform on they decide of their own free will that they are not human beings but pigs. They must necessarily do so in order believe they have the right to murderremoved and imprison the humans they brutalize professionally. To continue regarding these self made pigs as human is foolish, immoral, and a denial of the humanity of their victims

  • JerryMerweather@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    9 days ago

    I worry how terrible this is, its enough how much stalking there is already, why make it easier for no benefit for the public at all?

    This new stalking technology doesnt help end crimes, drug dealers, murderers, NOTHING!
    But only increases stalking and harassment.

    • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
      7·
      9 days ago

      Well you see the tech bros want to control everything you think and everything you do. This is for that.

    • Rothe@piefed.socialEnglish
      1·
      8 days ago

      Knowing the location of everyone at any time is of enormous importance to big tech (big capitalism in general), a bunch of secret police and intelligence agencies as well as any other nefarious actors you can think of. So local politicians can earn a lot of bribe money if they consent to having these things installed in their areas.

      It being beneficial to local crooks and bullies is just an extra perk of their general dystopian shittiness.

  • homes@piefed.worldEnglish
    822·
    9 days ago

    In the United States, this is called treason… It’s treason that someone revealed the camera footage of this patriot cop, obviously doing his duty. Whatever the circumstance, this cop is clearly pursuing a drug smuggler or murderer, and for no reason, could he possibly be considered criminal in his intent. She must be arrested immediately. she would not be recorded on the camera unless she was a criminal committing many thousands of crimes!

    Obviously, criminal until proven otherwise. In fact, she should be executed immediately before she commits more crimes. Thank the Christian God who is definitely Jesus (if you deny this, then you should be executed immediately) that the cop escaped with his life! He should be given all of the awards possible!

    Praise the golden fattened god, Trump! And all of his diarrhea diapers!