‘Welfare Check’ on Couple Sleeping in Car Ends in Arrest
Lakeland Police get a call: two people are sleeping in a parked car. The caller requests a welfare check.
No crime was even suspected. Cops arrive and confirm, yep, just a young couple and their cat, sleeping in their car.
But instead of letting them go back to sleep, or even asking them to leave, the cops start barking commands at them, demanding ID.
Knowing that they had done nothing wrong, the couple did not want to be detained and interrogated by these officers. So they assert their constitutional rights, and they ask questions.
But the officers mock them and curse at them, and they detain them anyway, and even arrest the husband, just because they got a call, even though that call didn’t allege any criminal suspicion.
Who was right here? Did they have to ID? Or should they have been left alone, or allowed to leave?
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Lakeland cops …. say no more.
Why do the cops want to screw with people. most folks do not know how much this sort of thing happens.
Why do the cops want to screw with people. most folks do not know how much this sort of thing happens. get help.
Cause they have to make money 💵 so they bothered that couple because they could send them to Grady’s BNB, he gets a cut off of every inmate!
Where is the GoFundMe page for these people? I would like to help fund their lawsuit against the police force that trampled their civil rights.
OK John Morgan or Dan Newlin, whose ads we are constantly bombarded with day and night – take this case pro bono and take the City of Lakeland to the cleaners. Show us you really are “For The People”, John.
Found the Go Fund Me – just search for Lakeland and it will be one of the first items returned. As of last check it was fast approaching 50K. Get off your wallets, people.