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congrats!
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Congrats Carlos. Funny how the douchebag cop didn’t show.

Whoa!!! Standing by for judgment…

Congrats. I’m sorry for all the expense and hassle you have been put through, but your loss is our gain because it has resulted in a great blog. Thanks

“once bitten, twice shy”

YA THINK? lol

I’m not one to quit when I’m ahead either so good luck with your civil purSUITS!
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Huge, hearty congratulations.

sue them fuckers!

HOOYAH!

Congrats!

Well done. I hope the civil suit goes well.

Congrats. Stick it to them with the civil suits.

Alright, good news. Funny how when push came to shove the cowardly cop was nowhere to be found.

Mazel tov!

I suppose some would think that justice has prevailed; in reality, what has been shown is that law enforcement can make someone’s life miserable if they so choose even when that someone has done nothing illegal. I hope you have the time, inclination, and the legal counseling to in fact file a civil suit, both to recover your damages in terms of time, emotional distress, etc, as well as to provide a disincentive to those law enforcement people who abuse their authority based on their personal desires rather than follow the law.

Congratulations!

Congratulations!!!
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Justice prevails! Persistence pays off. Acting on principle is important. So what’s the next step with the appeal?
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Congrats, Carlos!

Congrats, Carlos – you deserve this and much more. This is a great example of what should happen when one is only guilty of contempt of cop. I hope you get a good attorney and teach the Miami Beach PD an expensive lesson – the badge doesn’t make you God.

I’ll be following to see what happens.
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Congratulations! And thanks for following through with your civil suit: until there are real and credible legal consequences for abusing police powers, the abuses will keep getting worse.

Congrats Carlos! Just one more step, just gotta take them one at a time!

Par for the course. They only show up in overwhelming force and when they can get away with it. What do you want to bet that this cop saw which judge got the case and decided he didn’t want to be bent over and reamed in open court?

Don’t allow yourself to become lackadaisical… keep up the great work on this interesting and useful blog. It’s a great thing that has come out of your experience.

First is that a gang tattoo on the bottom feeders arm?

Carlos can you say what you are intending as far as a suit? By that I mean are you going to let them settle out of court, and pay you some much earned money (like many do), or fight it in court, and make them admit guilt, and fault?

I stand behind your decision no matter what, but honestly I get tired of seeing Mr. Wronged settled, and the administration has admitted to no wrong doing in the case.

Justice is served. Congrats. Good to hear the system doing something right every now and then.

Congrats. I am very disappointed that the officer didn’t show up. If an officer feels that a person needs to be arrested for an offense, then they need to take the time to show up for the case. If they can’t make it, the courts are usually very good about granting an extension.

You can get the officer in trouble for this. I am sure that his department has a policy requiring them to show up for all scheduled court cases and him not showing up is a clear violation. If you make a complaint with their internal affairs, I am sure he will hear about it.
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I just left a small contribution for Carlos’ defence fund. He’s going to need the money to go after MBPD to make our point home.

The social problem is that when we learn of stories like this one, police credibility is impeached. If I were serving on a jury, I would give no more weight to police testamony than I would to that of the defense.

All right! Time for you to be free of all this bullshit! I hope that they leave you alone from now on, on walk a straight line with regards to their behavior.

Way to go, Carlos! That is awesome.

YOU MUST go after him in court for false arrest and all your costs.

He violated your rights and made up law. You HAVE TO make a case of him and go after him in civl court. You may even want to involve the ACLU, PPA, NPFA, etc.

I am so happy for you on all accounts on both cases!

Mike S

It will be even better seeing the officer in question get his comeuppance after the civil suit.
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Congrats. But I admit to being a bit confused by your statement about no criminal charges hanging over you. Last I read when you announced winning your appeal, your first case was to be retried before a new judge. I looked through the stories again, and I don’t see any mention of the state dropping the first set of charges. Maybe it was in a comment and I missed it.

Congratulations! Agree with Hansen, although this is a step forward, justice hasn’t yet been served. Hopefully your civil suit will hurt the dept enough to get some changes made.
Congrats on your battle, hope the rest of the war goes well.

Carlos, your attorney might already be on top of this but you could request police internal records to find out whether the cop was told by his department not to show up. If he was, that would certainly bolster your civil case.
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I was also going to mention, that it might have been fun to slug it out in court but since the justice system is a fickle bitch, it’s better this way.
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Yes!

Carlos, this makes my day! It goes to show that the officer knew it was a BS charge and didn’t want to have to explain it in court.

Carlos, perhaps you should describe the scene in the courtroom so your readers understand what a circus the place was.
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Awesome! They could not show up for court, I’m not surprised. Keep up the good fight.
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“Now the next step are the civil suits I plan on filing. Stay tuned.”

Amen! Hope it pays for some nice camera equipment.

Yay Carlos! I hope you win a civil suit so big against these chickenshits that they think long and deep before screwing with you again. All the BEST!

I was going to ask the same thing. Personally, I think that Carlos should take it all the way on principle.

Tom, I could be wrong, but I believe that something about that was posted in December.

I seriously doubt the officer was ordered not to show up. No department is going to direct their officer not to show up and honor a court hearing. I doubt the department cares one way or the other. This isnt some big conspiracy. What it is is some officer who blew off the case for some reason.

Congrats!!

Good! Now stick it to them if you can. All the way to green river.
The reason he did not show was so he would not be on record with a bunch of BS that he might have to defend later. I think your appeal win has them worried,

There must have been cameras in the courtroom lmao.

WTG!

Congrats Carlos. Funny how the douchebag cop didn’t show.

He didn’t show because he knew that this case was bogus to begin with.

WOOT!

If he didn’t want his picture taken he shouldn’t have stood in front of those plants in that light.

Sounds like the police officer deliberately threw the case. Good going Carlos!!!

GOD.. I don’t believe it! The end is near and the world must be coming to a end. “Johnny Law” has finally admitted that a fellow LEO was wrong.

Wait.. he really DIDN’T admit that the cop was wrong because I still see a pro-LEO spin in his post, ie:

“I am very disappointed that the officer didn’t show up.”

(Well we can all understand why.)

“If an officer feels that a person needs to be arrested for an offense..”

(You STILL don’t get it.. do you? Public photography ISN’T against the law.. no matter what you might think!)

“If they can’t make it, the courts are usually very good about granting an extension.”

(Which is nothing more than a excuse that cops sometimes use to wear the accused down, knowing after the second or third time their victim.. I mean the person, will usually give up and go away.)

“If you make a complaint with their internal affairs, I am sure he will hear about it.”

(Yeah Right.. and how many times has anything ever become of it, least a little slap on the wrist with IAD saying, “be a good little boy now and don’t do that again”.)

Johnny Law.. “You can fool some of the people all of the time.. and all of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time.”

P.S. Carlos.. CONGRATULATIONS! Way To Go!!

Johnny Law said:

“What it is is some officer who blew off the case for some reason.”

Even now Johnny Law hides behind his “pro-LEO, cops can do NO wrong” defense.

NO.. it wasn’t some reason he blew off the case, it was because looking at the facts as Carlos has shown us.. “the cop was in the WRONG to arrest him in the first place!”

I still can’t believe you’re still denying the facts and truth of the matter.

Public photography (as in Carlos’s case) isn’t against the law.

You’ll never learn, will you?