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Title: Cop Slams Mom’s Face to the Ground Over Tinted Plate Cover as She Dropped Her Kids Off at School
Source: Free Thought Project/WFAL
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/co ... ids-school-tinted-plate-cover/
Published: Aug 29, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-08-29 16:59:28 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 7351
Comments: 67

As Liz Vargas was walking her daughter into school on November 5, officer Kevin Fitzpatrick heroically swooped in to protect the citizens of Tampa from Vargas’ tinted license plate cover.

Not having done anything wrong, and upset that she was being harassed in front of her children, Vargas voiced her discontent.

“Then  because I was in my pj’s he called me bummy, and he accused me of illegal drugs, that’s why I got argumentative,” Vargas said of the incident.

Within 34 seconds of his encounter with Vargas, Fitzpatrick grabbed her wrist and had slammed the innocent woman to the ground, face first.

After being brutally assaulted in front of her child by police, Vargas retained attorney Brett Szematowicz.

“At best that could be explained away that he thought there was an officer safety issue with her pointing up at the sky, but he never said he ordered her back in the car, he never said he felt threatened by her actions at any point,” Szematowicz said.

As early as February, Szematowicz said they requested video of the incident from police, but he said they told him there was no tape.

According to WFLA,

The Tampa police department claims it never denied the video existed. In other cases it is common for officers to acknowledge there is video evidence, by writing “video” on criminal report affidavits.  Fitzpatrick put a slash mark through the “evidence box” indicating there was no evidence.  Hegarty isn’t sure why Fitzpatrick didn’t write in “video” but insists no one at T-P-D- denied that the video existed.

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But if you watch the video, it becomes quite apparent as to why Fitzpatrick would have claimed it didn’t exist.

After repeated attempts at obtaining the video, it was finally released in July. The video clearly shows a uniformed assailant, Fitzpatrick, assault an innocent woman, Vargas.

Despite this video evidence, however, an internal ‘investigation’ into the incident cleared Fitzpatrick of any wrongdoing. Tampa police claim that Fitzpatrick had no other option to “control Vargas” other than slamming her face-first into the ground.

Szematowicz feels that the investigation is incomplete. “They left out why he was grabbing her in the first place and to us as her criminal defense attorneys that is the most critical part,” he said.

This entire ordeal was over a tinted license plate cover that can be purchased at auto parts stores throughout the state of Florida.

According to Florida Statute 316.605(1), 

“…all letters, numerals, printing, writing, and other identification marks upon the plates regarding the word “Florida,” the registration decal, and the alphanumeric designation shall be clear and distinct and free from defacement, mutilation, grease, and other obscuring matter, so that they will be plainly visible and legible at all times 100 feet from the rear or front.”

Despite the low quality of the video, we can see on the officer’s own dashcam that Vargas’ plate was legible.

The precedent set after failing to hold Fitzpatrick accountable is that police can initiate violence against citizens for no reason, even innocent mothers, in front of their children, and this is “following procedure.”

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#1. To: Deckard (#0)

Its the law! What do you expect them to do? If they stop enforcing laws where does it stop? Which laws do they pick to enforce?

Yes its absurd. So is Amerika.

She is being arrested because she confronted the cop who is enforcing the law.

Its a catch22 and we have no one to blame but ourselves!

Justified  posted on  2015-08-29   17:32:13 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: Justified (#1)

Its the law! What do you expect them to do? If they stop enforcing laws where does it stop?

The license plate is clearly visible in the video, which means that the cop had no reason to confront her in the first place.

She is being arrested because she confronted the cop who is enforcing the law.

Oh - right. She failed to display her fealty to the cop by not genuflecting and licking his jack-boots.

Deckard  posted on  2015-08-29   17:49:52 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Deckard (#3)

Shall I show you case law where tinted or even clear plastic covers are still deemed to be an obstruction of the plate?

It's a valid stop... courts in every state has upheld this after someone like you challenged the citation. Your complaint shouldn't be with the cops, it should be with the law makers that wrote the law and the states highest courts that uphold the plate covers as a violation... but hating law makers and judges doesn't really help you get your sheep followers to hate cops and the "war on drugs", does it?

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-08-29   17:59:58 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: GrandIsland (#4)

It's a valid stop... courts in every state has upheld this after someone like you challenged the citation.

Don't these PIGS have anything better to do, such as eating doughnuts and chit-chatting about their retirement benefits back at the office? Oh yeah .... how about catching some crooks ... has anyone ever thought of that?

buckeroo  posted on  2015-08-29   18:09:28 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: buckeroo (#5)

Don't these PIGS have anything better to do

You mean their job? No, they don't have anything "better to do" than their job.

Bucky, there is no hope. Suicide is logical. Why hang on? lol

GrandIsland  posted on  2015-08-29   18:18:03 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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#8. To: GrandIsland (#6)

You mean their job?

Yeah, like COLOUR OF LAW... something like that.

buckeroo  posted on  2015-08-29 18:31:10 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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