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Saturday, August 28, 2010

The Truth about redlight traffic cameras They don't want you to know about

Knoxville Journal: Accused camera shooter says cops did it

98% of redlight camera tickets are for stopping then turning right on red, as allowed by TN Code.

90% of redlight camera ticket revenue is exported to corporations in foreign nations, such as Communist China, illegally bypassing US cops, US courts and US governments. Under US Code, the punishment for treason is death.

The following facts of law were censored this week by Knoxville News Sentinel and Chattanooga Times 'Free' Press, both from their 'news' stories and from Comments, as required by their propaganda contracts with Communist Big Brother's Fascist Police State:

"It is extremely easy to beat this type of ticket in court. Your easiest defense is to simply throw the ticket away. If it does not come with a return receipt that requires a signature, there is no proof that you actually got the ticket and they cannot prosecute you on that."
-Norman G. Fernandez, attorney at law, and Jes Beard, attorney at law in Chattanooga TN, free ebook: How to Beat a Speeding Ticket - Photo RADAR

"The city judge shall issue process on the complaint. He shall try no case until process has been regularly sued out, served and returned."
-Knoxville Code, Section 8-1, Issuance of process

Tennessee Rules of Civil Procedure - Rule 4.03. Summons; Return — (1) The person serving the summons shall promptly make proof of service to the court and shall identify the person served and shall describe the manner of service. If a summons is not served within 90 days after its issuance, it shall be returned stating the reasons for failure to serve. The plaintiff may obtain new summonses from time to time, as provided in Rule 3, if any prior summons has been returned unserved or if any prior summons has not been served within 90 days of issuance. (2)When process is served by mail, the original summons, endorsed as below; an affidavit of the person making service setting forth the person's compliance with the requirements of this rule; and, the return receipt shall be sent to and filed by the clerk. The person making service shall endorse over his or her signature on the original summons the date of mailing a certified copy of the summons and a copy of the complaint to the defendant and the date of receipt of return receipt from the defendant. If the return receipt is signed by the defendant, or by person designated by Rule 4.04 or by statute, service on the defendant shall be complete. If not, service by mail may be attempted again or other methods authorized by these rules or by statute may be used.

75% of AZ Drivers Refuse to Pay Photo Traffic Tickets

85% of TX Drivers Refuse to Pay Photo Traffic Tickets

Australian Photo Ticket Firm Redflex Approaches Zero Profit - Citizens refuse to pay bogus tickets to foreign corporation, Redflex fired by Knoxville for suspected bribery and contract fraud. Redflex announces propaganda counterattack -- "managed media interface" -- via paid bloggers posing as 'grassroots' citizens (astroturf), and 'news reporters' and their 'news' corporations on the payrole of scamera companies.

Cleveland TN sitting on $113,000 in unpaid traffic light tickets

The amount of money in unpaid traffic light camera tickets owed to Cleveland is about 10 times the amount the city made from the cameras when they were operational.

A little more than $113,000 from 985 unpaid tickets is owed to the city, records indicate. The city took in between $12,000 and $13,000 during the program’s 18-month life, city Finance Director Mike Keith said.

“Our plan is to evaluate what is the best route to go on collecting (the unpaid tickets), and whether we collect those in-house or whether we do turn them over to some sort of (collections agency),” Keith said.

He said there hasn’t been a meeting to discuss the unpaid tickets, and there isn’t one scheduled.

“It is one of the things we do need to work on,” Keith said.

Traffipax, a Maryland-based traffic camera company, began operating the cameras at five of Cleveland’s intersections in late 2008 and ceased its upkeep of the devices on April 1 because of revenue shortfalls.

The company collected a little less than $257,000 from the cameras, records indicate. But that’s less than the $275,000 the company billed Cleveland to operate the cameras, so Traffipax offered to run the cameras for free in their last two months of operation, Keith said.

Traffipax continued processing tickets until June 15, then handed all unpaid tickets over to Cleveland, records show.

Messages left with Traffipax were not returned.

Now that Traffipax is completely out of the picture, any revenue from the unpaid tickets will go directly to the city, Keith said.

All tickets were originally written for $50, he said, but late penalties raised the cost to $154.75 for 626 unpaid tickets that reached their intended addresses.

Legally, the city would be able to collect on the delivered tickets without being contested since the alleged offenders didn’t show up for their scheduled court dates, said Marty Kooperman, a Nashville-based trial attorney.

One of the people Cleveland may ask to pay up is Glenwood, Minn., resident Brandy Warnock. Records show that Warnock’s vehicle passed through a red light on Paul Huff Parkway on March 27, 2009.

Warnock said the driver was her ex-husband’s brother, a Cleveland resident who borrowed Warnock’s vehicle.

“I told [Traffipax] it’s impossible for me to have gotten that ticket because I haven’t been to Tennessee in 14 years,” she said.

So Warnock decided not to pay the $50 ticket.

“I just hope if I ever visit Tennessee they don’t have a warrant out for me,” she said.

The city also has 359 tickets that came back as “undeliverable,” meaning the address that correlated with the vehicle’s license plate number wasn’t correct. These tickets are still valued at $50, records show.

“There would have to be some work done to collect those,” Keith said, adding that the cost of collection may be too high to justify.

Camera debate

Across the nation, the debate over traffic light cameras seems to show no signs of stopping.

Critics say the cameras infringe on motorists in a “Big Brother” manner, skip due process of law and are installed mostly to generate revenue.

Proponents claim they improve safety at intersections and allow patrol officers to concentrate on more pressing crimes.

In Dalton, Ga., the City Council voted unanimously in 2008 to deactivate cameras at five of the city’s intersections.

“I’ve never seen proof that cameras make intersections safer,” Mayor David Pennington said before the vote.

For Tennessee, Kooperman said that, in accordance with a 2008 appellate court ruling, traffic light cameras and the process in which they’re handed out is legal, even if the vehicle owner wasn’t driving the vehicle.

In spite of the ruling, Kooperman said, there are still a lot gray areas concerning traffic camera laws, which is why a small percentage of those receiving tickets take their cases to trial.

Red Bank and Chattanooga, which started using cameras in 2006 and 2007 respectively, are each tied up in $10 million lawsuits over the devices. The plaintiffs argue that the cities began using the cameras before the 2008 appellate court ruling.

The ruling notes that, before 2008, Tennessee Code said any traffic citation from a camera would only be for “a nonmoving traffic violation.” In July 2008, Tennessee law was amended to say all violations caught on camera are considered “nonmoving traffic violation(s).”

A hearing for the suits against Red Bank and Chattanooga is scheduled for Sept. 20 in Hamilton County Chancery Court.

Overall, though, people taking their traffic-camera tickets to trial is rare because they don’t count as points on traffic records and contesting them can get quite pricey, Kooperman said.

“You’re not going to get an attorney to come in for [the cost of a traffic ticket],” he said. “People will say, ‘But it’s a matter of principle.’ I often tell people, ‘Principle’s fine, but principle can also be expensive.’”

KNS Letters love the Police State: Red-light cameras local, not fed issue

Knoxville red-light camera citation database of paid tickets - Looks like only 10% are dumb enough to not throw the tickets in the trash, with 7,500 paid tickets per year out of 75,000 annual redlight camera tickets

Knox County deputy sheriff reported that a Knox County deputy confessed to shooting a redlight camera in Knoxville, Australian Redflex fired for suspected bribery and contract fraud, thanks to The Dragonator

Friday, August 27, 2010

Cops dressed as anarchists burn cop cars

Peaceful Protesters Attacked, Arrested While Cop-Car Arsonists Left Alone

An eyebrow-raising photograph of one of the anarchists who set fire to a Toronto police car during anti-G20 protests this past weekend shows him wearing Nike clothing, a potential indication that provocateurs dressed up as black-bloc “anarchists” were again employed by authorities to cause mayhem in order to justify a brutal police crackdown and crush free speech, as peaceful protesters were attacked and arrested while the anarchists who torched the cars were left alone.

The picture shows the two culprits who set fire to the police car congratulating each other and looking remarkably relaxed about potentially being caught by police considering what they had just done. One of the men is wearing Nike pants – the distinctive logo of the company can be seen above his left pocket.

Why would a hardcore anarchists so dedicated to his cause that he is willing to torch a police car be wearing clothing made by a company that anarchists universally abhor, and one that has routinely been targeted by anarchists for well over a decade?

The authorities certainly wasted no time in responding to the mayhem the anarchists helpfully generated for them with brute force. After anarchists torched four police cars, reporters and other peaceful protesters were targeted with rubber bullets, with another Guardian journalist being repeatedly punched and elbowed by cops.

“A newspaper photographer was shot with a plastic bullet in the backside, while another had an officer point a gun in his face despite identifying himself as a member of the media,” reported the Canadian Press news agency.

Journalist Steve Paikin of public broadcaster TV Ontario described the brutal beating of the Guardian reporter.

“As I was escorted away from the demonstration, I saw two officers hold a journalist. The journalist identified himself as working for ‘the Guardian.’ He talked too much and pissed the police off. Two officers held him a third punched him in the stomach. Totally unnecessary. The man collapsed. Then the third officer drove his elbow into the man’s back. No cameras recorded the assault. And it was an assault.”

Paikin noted how middle class, peaceful demonstrators were being attacked and arrested by police, while the anarchists who provided them with the pretext to do so were nowhere to be seen.

“The police just started arresting people. I stress, this was a peaceful, middle class, diverse crowd. No anarchists. Literally more than 100 officers with guns pointing at the crowd. Rubber bullets and smoke bombs ready to be fired. Rubber bullets fired.”

“I have lived in Toronto for 32 years. Have never seen a day like this. Shame on the vandals and shame on those that ordered peaceful protesters attacked and arrested,” added Paikin

Could the two men in the picture be cops dressed up as anarchists? It wouldn’t be the first time that cops had posed as protesters and deliberately staged violence in an effort to justify a heavy-handed police response.

We have documented numerous different occasions where the black bloc anarchists were completely infiltrated by the authorities to provide a pretext for a police state crackdown.

A recent example occurred at last year’s Pittsburgh G20 summit, where footage showed three burly older men who look completely out of place with black bandanas over their face walking alongside young protesters during a march against police brutality in a You Tube clip entitled “G20 Epic Undercover Police Fail”.

Would you like to know more?

Thursday, August 26, 2010

Warning to cops: Don't fuck with old folks

'If something isn’t done, there’s going to be bloodshed'

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Drunk cop in copcar kills biker, DUI & murder charges dropped

The Dragonator says: The current punishment for 1st-degree murder by drunk driving is death penalty or life in prison, and the legal limit for blood-alcohol is 0.00%...Unless you're a cop. Cops always hire the best criminal defense lawyers, or rather the FOP uses your donations to hire the best lawyers for cops. Note how the "news" fails to report that dozens of ordinary chemicals and bodily fluids give a false positive of so-called blood-alcohol tests -- a fact all cops know when it applies to them -- proving that "news" corporations are paid by the Police State to lie to you.

Outcry Swift After DUI Charges Against Officer Dropped

Indianapolis, IN. Aug. 20 – Questions about how Indianapolis police have handled a fatal drunken-driving investigation of one of their own officers became that much more pointed Thursday.

Marion County Prosecutor Carl Brizzi announced he would drop the most serious charges against officer David Bisard. Why? Because Bisard’s fellow police officers had botched the case.

The reaction was swift — and far-reaching.

An embarrassed Public Safety Director Frank Straub announced that the FBI will be brought in on the case. He also removed a lieutenant from his positions as commander of the department’s hit-and-run unit and coordinator of the multiagency Fatal Alcohol Crash Team.

One victim’s family called the dismissal a "travesty." A legal expert said the police ineptness leaves the public with little choice but to wonder whether the bungled case was more than an accident. And Mayor Greg Ballard has become increasingly frustrated as he seeks answers, as well.

"The people in the city are not the only ones wondering what happened at the scene," Ballard said. "I am, too."

Straub and Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Chief Paul Ciesielski repeated their insistence Thursday that Bisard received "absolutely no deference" from fellow officers Aug. 6 after he crashed his cruiser into two motorcycles that were stopped at a light.

The impact of the crash — which occurred while Bisard, 36, was responding to a request for help serving a warrant, with his cruiser’s lights and siren activated — killed Eric Wells, 30, and seriously injured two other riders.

Bisard surrendered after prosecutors learned a blood test had shown his blood-alcohol level was 0.19 — more than twice the level at which an Indiana driver is considered intoxicated.

But that arrest didn’t come until five days after the crash because of the lag in test results. The delay in arresting Bisard drew scrutiny from some — as did the fact that no officers conducted field-sobriety or breath tests of Bisard at the scene.

Or that nobody seemed to suspect Bisard might have been drinking. Officers who interacted with Bisard after the crash have insisted he showed no signs of being impaired.

But more problematic for Brizzi: The officers failed to follow proper procedures in collecting that blood sample — and it was the only evidence that Bisard was intoxicated…

"Everything else can be explained away," said Henry Karlson, an expert on criminal procedure and a professor emeritus at Indiana University School of Law-Indianapolis.

But add in the mishap with the blood draw by seasoned alcohol-crash investigators, he said, and "there’s only so many mistakes you can make before it starts looking like a plan."

Affidavit of Probable Cause - Drunk cop hit 3 RUBs on Harleys stopped at redlight, knocked them 125 feet

UPDATES - IMPD Chief Paul Ciesielski demoted three officers including his second-in-command following the case of Officer David Bisard. Authorities say a blood test showing Bisard was drunk cannot be used in court because the person who drew Bisard's blood did not have the right certification. Hundreds of people packed Monument Circle in downtown Indianapolis Friday night to protest the Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department's botched investigation of one of its own. A thunderous roar of motorcycle engines permeated the air as bikers showed support for three of their own, those killed and injured when Officer David Bisard struck them while he was on duty and intoxicated, authorities said.

North Carolina Review Finds Crime Lab Fixed Murder Cases - In March, North Carolina Attorney General Roy Cooper ordered an independent review by two former FBI agents of the State Bureau of Inspection (SBI), the state's crime lab, after an agent testified that the crime lab had an unwritten policy of excluding complete blood tests results from reports provided to defense lawyers before trials. The report was released today and it has shocking results. The independent review found that the crime lab omitted, overstated or falsely reported blood tests in dozens of cases. The cases involved three that ended in executions and another involving the murder of Michael Jordan's father. The report found that the crime lab repeatedly aided prosecutors in obtaining convictions over 16 years by misrepresenting blood evidence and keeping important notes and documents from defense attorneys. The report calls on the review of 190 criminal cases in which "information that may have been material and even favorable to the defense of an accused defendant was withheld or misrepresented." The report finds that the lab may have violated federal and state laws that evidence favorable to the defendants must be disclosed to their lawyers. At least four of those cases involve inmates that are on death row and one inmate whose death sentence was commuted to life.

Friday, August 13, 2010

SlayerHater meets Dragon

US129Photos.com was parked on the Dragon at Deals Gap TN as usual, catchin the action with a dead eye and steady hand on the trigger.

I believe the going rate for crash photos is FREE to the victim. But worth any penny.

Full face brain bucket was a good investment. Guess that's why them CROTrockets hang off, huh?

Racers teach to fall off like a rag doll, to save broken bones -- complied with. Rode it home. A bottle of hydrogen peroxide spray is a good $2 investment with your tool kit.

BTW Diamond Gussett makes Kevlar jeans, made in Tennessee. Mesh jackets are the best sunscreen.

It's a good idea for every rider to spend time running in circles in a parking lot, to check max lean angle before draggin on the Dragon.

Eagle-eyed photogs at US129Photos also caught Brittany failing to wear her gear:

THE DRAGONATER WINS IN TRAFFIC COURT AT DEALS GAP, RAISES SPEED LIMIT TO 65 MPH ON THE DRAGON - NOLLE PROSEQUI BY BLOUNT COUNTY ATTORNEY GENERAL. NO TESTIMONY, HEARING NOR TRIAL WHATSOEVER. 60 MPH SPEEDING TICKET DISMISSED WITH PREJUDICE, COSTS PAID BY THE STATE, IN BLOUNT COUNTY GENERAL SESSIONS COURT WITH JUDGE BREWER. THP TROOPER RANDALL HUCKEBY ADMITTED ON VIDEOTAPE DURING TRAFFIC STOP THAT ALL SPEEDING TICKETS NORTHBOUND ON US129 AT MILE MARKER 0.5 ARE FEDERAL JURISDICTION, NOT STATE JURISDICTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). HUCKEBY WAS ALSO CAUGHT ON VIDEO SPEEDING AT 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON, WITHOUT THE MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS AND SIREN REQUIRED FOR IMMUNITY FROM PROSECUTION (VIDEO BY THE DRAGONATER). TDOT ADMITTED IN WRITING THAT THE MANDATORY TRAFFIC ENGINEERING SURVEY SPEED AUDIT WAS NEVER PERFORMED, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, THUS THE POSTED 30 MPH SPEED LIMIT ON THE DRAGON REVERTS TO THE DEFAULT 65 MPH IN TN CODE. THE DRAGONATER ALSO MADE VIDEO OF TROOPER HUCKEBY SPEEDING UP TO 60 MPH ON THE DRAGON IN A 30 MPH ZONE, WITHOUT MANDATORY EMERGENCY LIGHTS NOR SIREN, IN VIOLATION OF TN CODE, AND PERJURY IN HIS PERSONNEL FILE, WHICH SHOWED HIS $100,000+ SALARY. 2007 TDOT SAFETY AUDIT REPORT CONFESSED THAT THP'S JOB IS TO BAN ALL COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES ON THE DRAGON, SO THP TICKETS INCREASED 11,400% IN BLOUNT COUNTY. THP'S STALKER RADAR OPERATOR MANUAL CONFESSED THAT RADAR CANNOT MEASURE THE SPEED OF VEHICLES WITHIN 18 MPH OF ACTUAL SPEED. WATCH THIS SPACE FOR FULL EVIDENCE FILE. UPDATE 7 MARCH 2011

Cops kill biker in snuff video

Police state death squad runs over biker on sidewalk

Murder a Kid, Plant a Gun — Take a Vacation

Victor Steen, a 17-year-old high school senior from West Pensacola, Florida, was murdered while riding a bicycle home from a post-Homecoming Game party last October 3rd. His murderer, Jerald Ard, ran him down in an automobile. According to eyewitnesses, Ard dragged the victim a considerable distance, nearly severing his body in half.

Ard had endangered other drivers and pedestrians as he veered into the wrong lane and even drove onto a sidewalk in pursuit of Victor, repeatedly attempting to shoot the teenager with a lethal weapon. After he ran down the youngster, Ard tried to cover up his crime by planting a gun on the victim.

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Ard is a police officer. Nor should it be considered unusual that he will suffer no significant punishment for his act of vehicular homicide: After it was established last April that Ard’s actions had exposed Victor “to unreasonable risk of harm and injury” — gee, ya think? — Capt. Jay Worley suspended Ard for two weeks without pay.

In a coroner’s inquest last February, Escambia County Judge John Simon blamed the victim for his death.

“Mr. Steen desired to avoid apprehension on October 3, 2009. That desire led to Mr. Steen’s ill-advised decision to ignore a lawful command.”

What about Ard’s reckless driving? According to former police officer Dave Klinger, a use-of-force expert who examined the case, Ard was driving with “one hand on the steering wheel and looking out the window when he [fired] the Taser, which [meant he didn't] have complete control over the car.” This not only led to Victor’s death, but placed other lives at risk.

Judge Simon says that “Officer Ard violated no traffic laws in light of the fact that he was actively pursuing Mr. Steen.”

All of this depends, of course, on the assumption that Ard had just cause to be pursuing the 17-year-old — and he’s never told a straight story about his reasons for doing so. He initially claimed to have seen the young man at a construction site and suspected that he may have stolen something. After an eyewitness testified that Victor had passed the site without stopping, Ard changed his story, claiming that there was no reflector or light on the bike Victor was riding.

Given Ard’s equivocal description of his reasons for pursuing Victor, he clearly had no “lawful” right to detain the young man, let alone assault him with a Taser — thereby directly precipitating the victim’s violent death when he lost control of his bike.

Dashcam video recorded by one of the police cars that arrived on the scene showed Ard unlocking the passenger side of his cruiser and retrieving an object, then crawling under the car. He stayed there for more than a half-minute. When paramedics arrived two minutes later, they found a silver-and-black 9mm semiautomatic handguns in one of the victim’s pockets.

“Lab tests showed the gun had been wiped clean,” reports the St. Petersburg Times. “No fingerprints were on it — not Victor’s, not anyone’s.” Either the mortally wounded teenager — despite being nearly cut in half by Ard’s cruiser — managed to wipe the gun clean in the seconds before he died, or Ard planted a “drop gun” to provide a retroactive pretext for his pursuit of the teenager.

After seeing the video, an investigator for the Florida Department of Law Enforcement asked Ard if he had planted the gun. The subject was promptly dropped when Ard denied that he had done so.

According to Klinger, Ard’s use of a Taser in these circumstances was impermissible: “You don’t Taser people in circumstances that increase the likelihood of injury unless they’re a suspect for something like rape or murder.”

Assuming that Ard’s second story is correct, Victor Steen was suspected of what Judge Simon called a “non-criminal” infraction — hardly the kind of thing that justifies the use of lethal force. However, Judge Simon placed his imprimatur on Ard’s lethal actions by insisting that Steen precipitated the chase by engaging in “unprovoked flight” from Ard, which created a “reasonable suspicion of criminal activity.”

This neatly closes the circular argument: Ard didn’t commit a crime by murdering Victor Steen, because the young man — a mere Mundane, after all — made a criminal of himself by fleeing the armed stranger who eventually killed him for no reason.

When Police Videos Go Missing - The Tennessean reports on its front page today that 1,300 dash cam videos from the Nashville police department have been erased. The police department blames the video camera vendor. The vendor blames the police department. More disturbing, DUI defense attorneys interviewed by the paper who had sought video of their clients’ arrests were told by the police department that the videos didn’t exist, not that they had been erased.

"Shit's gettin way too complicated for me. There are white folks, and then there are ignorant mutherfuckers like you! You can put lipstick on a pig. Sorry ass mutherfucker's got nuttin on me. I inhaled frequently - that was the point. Pot helped, and booze. A little blow when you could afford it. Junkie, pothead. That's where I'd been headed. You ain't my bitch nigger, git your own damn fries!"
-Barack Hussien Obama Soetoro, Dreams From My Father MP3

Obama's in charge of growing Gangsta Govt's opium supply, so he gets the best shit

The $1-million speeding ticket

Police with the black Mercedes Benz they caught doing 180mph

Swedish motorist facing world's biggest speeding fine from robot speed camera

In Knoxville TN, even the cops shoot traffic scameras. In USA, 85% of drivers just ignore the tickets and throw them away, without penalty. 80% of revenue from traffic scameras is exported to private companies in Australia and Communist China.

The shootout at the Battle of Athens TN began over speeding tickets...in 1946.

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

FTP: Bikers stop to help trooper, blamed for crashing copcar

Bikers stop to help trooper, blamed by trooper to cover his own ass for being a bad driver

Speeding motorcyclist taunts state trooper trapped in crashed car

A state trooper rolled his car multiple times while chasing two reckless motorcyclists, one of whom returned to taunt the injured trooper trooper, officials said.

The incident happened on the northbound ramp from Interstate 5 to State Route 599 at approximately 6:45 p.m. Tuesday.

Washington State Patrol Trooper Cliff Pratt said the trooper was chasing a group of at least nine members of a south King County motorcycle group who were speeding dangerously and getting too close to cars. As the trooper tried to close in on the fastest biker, he told Pratt that two other bikers cut him off.

"Had he not slowed down and slammed on the brakes, he would have hit them," Pratt said. "At his speed that made him lose control."

The trooper's vehicle rolled several times, finally landing in a ditch alongside the ramp.

"It's infuriating when all we're trying to do is enforce the laws in the state of Washington and protect the public, said Pratt. "Obviously these motorcycles traveling at 100 miles per hour with no regard for the safety of anybody else is a huge problem for us in this area."

As he waited for help to arrive, one of the motorcyclists he'd been chasing returned to the scene, Pratt said. The motorcyclist parked across the street, approached the mangled patrol car on foot, then laughed and clapped at the injured and bleeding trooper before speeding off.

"Now you're talking about a state trooper who rolled his car several times. He's obviously injured, pinned inside his vehicles and you've got a couple of motorcyclists who really don't care whether this trooper lives or dies at this point, to the point where they think it's funny," Pratt said.

Investigators believe they have the motorcyclists' registration information, Pratt said, and they are searching for the two people. No description was available.

Passersby stopped to help and call 911, and the trooper was pulled out of his car by emergency crews and taken to Harborview Medical Center where he was treated for serious injuries, including a head injury. He was released early Wednesday morning.

He was identified as 46-year-old Brian Salyer of Spanaway. He is a 22-year veteran of the force.

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HAHA. That's all I have to say. What goes around comes around. The cop would have been clapping if the motorcyclist had crashed. Funny when the tables are turned!

That takes balls.

texting and driving are dangerous combo. then add a high speed chase too it.

Well... If he didn't have his lights on behind the bike, then technically he wasn't pulling the motorcycle over, and it's still only a speeding/reckless ticket. You guys get all excited like "OOh. He's going to get what's coming to him. Poor cops.". But down here on earth and in reality, usually nothing major comes of it.

I had an experience near Tukwila with the W.S.P. a couple of years ago. I got pulled over for no reason by an old grey haired motorcycle cop. I had a bag of garbage in the back of my truck which contained a couple of beer cans, I got hauled in for D.U.I. and my vehicle got towed. I passed the breathalyzer so they wrote me a speeding ticket (which I later proved I didn't do in court) Then they dropped me of in a parking lot 10 miles away from where my truck was towed to. So I had to hire a cab to get back to my truck then pay $350.00 to get my truck out. I also missed work that day. I have seen with my own eyes how unprofessional some of these cops are. I wouldn’t be surprised if in this current situation it was an old man on a Honda 90 and the W.S.P. just wanted to test out there new pepper spray and billy clubs.

Sorry to say it but the whole thing doesn't add up. Use your critical thinking skills folks.

ps: who is the hot looking Military babe in the lower photo...right side of the WSP car..? 10+ bay-ba..!

yeah..who did pull the cop out of the car? was it by chance one of the motorcycle riders that pulled over to help?

In the still picture above it looks like there are four, maybe five motorcyclists standing there. Are they part of the 9 bikes that the trooper was chasing?

I love how KOMO stated that it was a Ruff Ryder on a white & Blue GSXR... No clue who that could be.. LOL Then went on to say that Ruff Ryders are the equivellant to the Hells Angel's but a sport bike club. LOL Obviously KOMO did not research at all on the motorcycle set, because that is so far off! Understand what you are reporting before you start telling the public unresearched facts. The trooper was not injured or bleeding as he was sitting in his car on his cell phone calling disbatch, completely embarassed. If you are going to try and clip bikers to make them crash & end up crashing yourself, then the only people that stop to come to your aid are bikers, then you want to faulsly report to the news.. Your just a punk cop trying to abuse your power. There were about 30 bikes that stopped to make sure he was OK and stayed with him until other WSP arrived. KOMO is faulsly reporting this story, just from the troopers stand point, of course they dramatized the whole situation. I will never believe anything I ever see on the news again!

Has anyone noticed that KOMO has changed the above story from what they reported since last night? It now says that 2 bikes cut the patrol car off and he slammed on the brakes to avoid hitting them thus causing him to lose control of his vehicle.
Also, they are reporting what officer Pratt said or was told by officer Brian Salyer. Keep in mind officer Salyer was the driver of the patrol car that rolled 5-6 times that resulted in serious injuries including a head injury. I wish Salyer a fast a full recovery. supposedly there were more than 30 bikes..where are all the witnesses and video from this incident? I am sure that some of the riders had helmet cams and we know the patrol car has a camera. Video is the only way we will know what really happened.....

Sadly, I have not seen one question as to how Pratt knew the biker taunted and ran. So, now I'll ask. How did Pratt know that a biker came back and taunted the trooper? Was it the trooper with the head injury that reported it? BTW I do hope the trooper makes a complete recovery; however, IF he caused this--I hope that he is also prosecuted.

Awesome. Sounds like the cop got overly agressive in his pursuit and paid the price for his hubris. The public doens't need rambo lone-ranger cops because their actions put the public at greater risk. This is one case out of 100 where the cop is punished for his foolish behavior rather than the public. In this case natural laws punished the guilty. I add my voice in mockery.

his whole story sounds made up from the cops point of view. Lets see the cop vid of the chase. More like in a hurry to get to the donut shop.

With all the stories in the news about various cops doing stooopid and dangerous stuff to citizens, why would you think there isn't a population out there that hates them ? Sometimes deserved...maybe sometimes not,,,,,,but hates them none the less.

Cops LIE all the time, they really lie to get out of a jam they cause. We had a cop in Hawaii that rolled his car and claimed there was a drug deal going on he was chasing. Turns out he was drinking on the job and rolled his car chasing deer. Do NOT believe everything you hear from the police.

What makes you guys think he isn't lying about the whole thing and drunk on the job like this cop that rammed into 3 motorcycles at a stoplight and killed one?