This cop’s power trip cost taxpayers $175K 💰

[@evielknievel4972]

Great news ! But next time let the department and the officer pay! Not the taxpayers.

[@codyfagan5409]

The state pays their wages with tax payer money so it's the same

[@skylarc6063]

@@codyfagan5409 But the actual criminal here, the cop, gets no repercussions. If I grabbed someone off the street and said I was conducting a citizens arrest and hauled them away, I'd be put in prison for kidnapping and assault. The cop here gets what, a weeks paid vacation?

[@deannicholas]

He is owed even more than that! How much taxpayer money was wasted on this frivolous crap! 4 years?!?

[@Harry-lq5hu]

Money awarded should ALWAYS be paid out of the officers' PENSION FUNDS !!!!!! This ish would stop IMMEDIATLY !!!

[@GeraldHanks-qo1qc]

The cop should have paid the lawsuit himself not the taxpayers

[@MikeyMikeHq]

“Jay Riggen retired from VSP effective May 31, 2024”

[@ronalds899]

Good

[@unbreakable7633]

We live in a police state. That's all it is. It's nationwide. Cops are out of control. Both parties let them be out of control.

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

To ALL "peace officers:" You want your respect back? THEN EARN OUR TRUST BACK! Simple as that.

[@nomosss]

Officer should pay not the taxpayer.

[@jameshernandez5766]

In 2024 he cop sold his house in Milton VT. Where did he move to? In 2024, Trooper Ray Riggen is now receiving a medical retirement. This is according to the Vermont State Employees Retirement System

[@pacnwguy9056]

With all the snow on the ground I'm surprised you can even see Officer Snowflake...he's almost camouflaged.

[@theresathompson9123]

Congratulations to you and Greg on the win! I recall watching that video with horror so it's a relief to hear that behavior was addressed.

[@Paul-ge7dg]

Have to dig a little deeper to see if anyone can find some sort of relationship between Mr. Bombard and the officer. What a great way to split 175 thousand dollars and no one but the taxpayer and community gets hurt. After all, desperate times call for desperate measures, and an act like this is certainly not beyond the scope of possibilities.

[@M0rmagil]

FIRE is worthy of your support.

[@Homer4prez]

A federal law needs to be passed that makes LEO's know the laws they are enforcing.

[@kirkstable]

Lol

[@georgecraytin9838]

Have you seen the blue line gang IQ test. Lucky they can get the coffee order right

[@jonathanlee3284]

You would think the thousands of dollars paid in lawsuits, you would think that they would learn by NOW but they continue their crap with there qualified immunity and they will continue to be SUED

[@thirdspacemaker9141]

Congratulations, but six years have passed, and they haven’t learned a thing and will now double down.

[@kevinlawrence3105]

FIRE sent Riggen into early retirement last year. THank you, from a frustrated Vermonter !

[@eringallagher9381]

Was there a judgement in this case, or was there a settlement?

[@huckfin1598]

End qualified immunity and gov unions

[@Governmentiscorrupt]

What an absolute disgrace for an officer and a human. He needs jail immediately...4 years...gen pop

[@georgecraytin9838]

The shame is this is just one of the many thousands that go unchallenged

[@ghostrider-be9ek]

175k seems low for 4 years of horseshit -

[@michaelccopelandsr7120]

Abolish qualified immunity and take settlements out of the police union pension fund! Guaranteed this will stop.

[@StereoSpace]

And what punishments or requirements are placed on Riggen? Any?

[@MikeyMikeHq]

“Jay Riggen retired from VSP effective May 31, 2024”

[@StereoSpace]

@@MikeyMikeHq Thanks. That's good to know.

[@donpettway7284]

He was promoted.

[@MikeyMikeHq]

@@donpettway7284 retirement probably is a promotion i guess. Lol

[@terrakengo]

This is a very worthy case to take. Thank you for this

[@SUSANMORRISON425]

TAXPAYERS SHOULD NOT HAVE TO COME UP WITH THE MONEY FOR LAWSUITS IT SHOULD COME OUT OF THE DEPARTMENT AND THE OFFICER

[@belair54]

Thank you Fire but that is a lesson for only Vermont state police ,a lot more work needs to be done.

[@jamesrichardson63]

Yes!!!!

[@bigpoppy0617]

I kept wondering why my KZbin channel failed. This is brilliant. All you have to do is never look at the camera and instead pretend you're talking to somebody who's not there.

[@themanwhoknewtoomuch6667]

The only ad I looked up the url.

[@terrilamontagne6603]

fire is FIRE!!😮😮😮😮😮

[@paxiahern2383]

Lawyers know how long it takes to get it right!

[@terrilamontagne6603]

IT WOULD BE BETTER IF THE COP HIMSELF HAD TO PAY TAKE IS HOUSE CAR PENSION BIKE EVERYTHING THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL COPS STOP VIOLATING CIVIL RIGHTS NOT TILL THEN

[@kelleybey2735]

It shouldn't have taken 4 years all he had to do was Due to 241 and 242 civil suit. He could have did that on his own.

[@davehunter8714]

The feelings police. Theirs, mostly.

[@rcas350pilot8]

Great job by the Vermont ACLU. I'm a supporter of law enforcement but don't F@@k with my rights, I take that very seriously.

[@donpettway7284]

There was no accountability for this trooper. Taxpayers paid all the damages, and he was actually promoted. No judge should even entertain a judge of disorderly conduct. It's just a cya charge when cops don't have anything legal to charge someone with. And until the charges are either dismissed or the person is found not guilty, the law usually permits filing suit.

[@donkeziah2564]

Who was it that indicated to the positive that cops had the intelligence to deficate between two heels??? Tyrants, psychopaths, ego maniacs, visions, and aspirations of greatness in their own minds!!! This video is a demonstration of everything I posted!!!

[@kirkstable]

Did you get the cop fired?

[@MikeyMikeHq]

“Jay Riggen retired from VSP effective May 31, 2024”

[@xavierjames9270]

Routine things just like James Livinggood Kannapolis North Carolina police department

[@biggaudits]

BRAVO BRAVO🫡🇺🇸

[@igotthis8427]

FTP

[@stevenhall8183]

It's nationwide the stupidity of law enforcement and their lack of knowledge of the Constitution. The number of these goons going in someone's home without a warrant is crazy. Also the departments covering up for these nazi goons is unimaginable!!

[@terrilamontagne6603]

is riggin stilll working or was he fired 😮😮😮😮😮 hurt his tiny feelings😮😮😮😮😮

[@williamzeller294]

This brings a big smile. Decades ago, I used to ride the 1100 miles to Vermont to enjoy a beautiful Yankee redoubt with some of the most wonderful Americans you'd hope to meet in one of the most beautiful places in the country. But by the turn of this century, the whole place seemingly turned into some kind of insane asylum, the kind of which would repeatedly send the commie grifter Bernie Sanders to the US Senate. It got so that you had to ride the backest of back roads and go deep into the hills to even find any decent Yankees any more. I finally, after nine motorcycle trips to the Green Mountain State over twenty-five years, gave up on the place after 2003.

[@bcompono]

You did your best and did well for your client, but the trooper is completely unharmed and won't change his ways.

[@MikeyMikeHq]

“Jay Riggen retired from VSP effective May 31, 2024”

[@RyHTX]

He did resign, but unfortunately the loser will likely get hired as a cop somewhere else. Cops love wanna be tyrants.

[@brianr4214]

It's bullying , not freedom of speech. Walk into a gym of Body builders and flip 1 off ya want to bully someone. Tell them ya hate bodybuilders because they intimidate people with their muscles. And that's why you're flipping them off. Go ahead exercise your 1st amendment right. Just as ya did flipping the cop off .

[@laidbacktraveler2580]

You've obviously have forgotten everything you were taught in senior year govt class, assuming that you made it that far in high school. The first amendment right of free speech is in regard to protects one's right in addressing or redressing your govt and govt officials. You're idiotic example is one big fail. The only bullying was the cop, and the settlement that the state of Vermont ended up paying is crystal clear proof of that! If you are so enamored with living in a police state, there are many countries for you to choose from, the rest of us will be exercising our rights on a daily basis, deal with it.

[@michaelw.2657]

What's missed in all the legal mumbo jumbo here is that you're not a good human being if you go around flipping off cops in your free time. Sure, it's legally protected, but so is a lot of shameful behavior.

[@Reviresco]

He pulled the guy over the first time because he mistakenly thought the guy flipped him off. After lecturing him for minutes despite it being his own fuck-up, THEN the guy actually did flip him off.

[@michaelw.2657]

​@@Reviresco Do you honestly believe he didn't flip him off the first time?

[@Reviresco]

@@michaelw.2657 You typed that with your middle fingers didn't you?

[@jimmeyers8960]

I only watched part of it. The "subtitles" are really annoying. They distract from what's being shown. Good luck with whatever this is about, not reading your video.

[@pkerit308]

with old-age hearing, the closed captions are essential for me to understand what is being said

[@michaelw.2657]

All of this was still not worth $175,000. Even if the cop was legally wrong, Greg is still a lowlife and his name is plastered all over the internet for this.

[@RyHTX]

Cry about it womp womp. Settlement should have been higher.

[@ronalds899]

Should take it out of the officers pay