New York Cop Slaps A Man Who Asks To Get A Search Warrant To Search His Car

In upstate New York’s Saratoga County, Deputy Shawn Glans was caught on camera giving a man a hard time about allowing him to search his car. When the man asked for him to get a search warrant and told him what he was doing “wasn’t right,” the cop slapped the guy in the back of his head. He then took the keys from the man’s hands and gave them to another officer to search the car. Nothing illegal was found. Via Photography Is Not A Crime, who interviewed the victim, Adam Roberts:

In a Facebook message interview with Photography is Not a Crime, Roberts explained that he and his buddy, Colin Fitch, who owns the car, had parked it at a business that was closed and walked to a nearby party Thursday night. They didn’t spend much time at the party but when they walked back to the car, they were confronted by deputies who had spotted a rifle in the back seat and wanted to search the car.

Firth had purchased a .22 rifle earlier that day and had left in the back seat, Roberts said.

When Deputy Glans asked to search the car, Fitch would not give him permission, insisting he had done nothing illegal.

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As they were searching the car, Firth showed them his receipt for the gun and they allowed him to leave.

According to Photography Is Not A Crime, Glans was suspended without pay, according to a press release from the Saratoga County Sheriff’s Office.

Never forget: The Fourth Amendment exists for a reason and that reason is to protect us from power-trips like this.

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