Cop Asks Stranger for ID, Stranger Asks Cop Why, Cop Responds By Locking Stranger in Car and Turning Heat On

Chris | InformationLiberation
Nov. 30, 2010

Here's one more reason to "respect the badge."

WSBTV reports:

Webb said he was minding his own business in front of a Riverdale apartment complex when then-city police officer Daniel Vanhee approached him and asked for identification.

“I said: ‘What do you need my ID for,’ and he couldn’t tell me,” Webb said.

Records show Vanhee arrested Webb for disorderly conduct and obstruction of an officer, but that prosecutors later dropped the charges because Vanhee had left the department and wouldn’t be available for a court hearing.

Webb told Petchenik that, instead of taking him directly to jail, Vanhee drove him to a restaurant parking lot and turned up the heat in the cruiser to “teach him a lesson.”

“It started getting real, real hot and stuff and I had the handcuffs on real tight,” he said. “He kept me for a couple hours in the back of the car with the heater on.”

Children and animals have died from being left in hot cars. Should this cop be charged with assault? This was clearly an act of torture.

Imagine if this situation was reversed, a random stranger approaches a state goon and asks to see his ID, the cop asks him why, then the stranger kidnaps the cop, cuffs him, locks him in a car and turns the heat up and makes him suffer for hours.

Would that not be assault?

Would that not be a major story and create unbelievable outrage?

What's the difference?

Only their costumes and their relationship with the state.