I’ll rip your fucking head off, and shit down your neck --- Saratoga County Deputy Sgt. Shawn R. Glans, of Halfmoon, New York Sgt. Shawn ...
I’ll rip your fucking head off, and shit down your neck --- Saratoga County Deputy Sgt. Shawn R. Glans, of Halfmoon, New York Sgt. Shawn Glans barked the above quote to intimidate, harass, and verbally abuse a Halfmoon, New York citizen. This bad cop, we can reasonably assume has been clearly used to enjoying his powerful position. Had this hidden video not been released of THIS incident, he would still be on the force and in a position to terrorize citizens with impunity. This poor excuse for a police officer bullied and terrorized a citizen for not giving consent to search his car. Capturing the encounter surreptitiously by a friend of the driver who turned on the camera on his smart phone, and holding it in his hand in a way to keep dipshit Shawn Glans unaware. The stupid, self-entitled pig was acting in his normal, abusive way. The entire incident is why you should always film encounters with police officers. ALWAYS. The driver and his companion were breaking no laws. The hopefully "soon-to-be former" officer Sgt. Glans confronted them because he allegedly saw them walk out of nearby wooded area toward their vehicle, located in the parking lot of an adjoining business. The cop also said he noticed a .22-caliber rifle on the back seat. The citizen stood his ground, refusing to surrender his constitutional right to be free from unreasonable search. Thereafter, the deputy got more aggressive and threatening and, at one point, he slaps the citizen. The slap itself was not caught on the video, but the sound and the movement of the deputy’s body tell the whole story. If the video was not filmed, Sgt. Glans would have simply gotten away with it, just as he has gotten away with paralyzing and blinding a man by crashing into his car head on going almost triple the speed limit in 1997. Because of the recorded video evidence, the Saratoga County Sheriff suspected the deputy without pay pending their “internal investigation“. This basically means that instead of firing the abuser and charging him with battery, first degree strong arm robbery, harassment, abuse of power and assault with a deadly weapon (while he didn’t draw his gun, he had it on him while committing the aforementioned felonious behavior). This technique is commonly used by police forces everywhere in order to diffuse the outcry of citizens for what can be several months or longer. When the heat dies down, the complaint is typically refuted and the police officer gets reinstated, often with back pay. According to Chief Richard L. Castle, Glans was suspended without pay when officials found out about the footage. Castle said in a statement, “At this time this is an internal personnel investigation as there is no criminal complaint from the involved civilian.” Nothing will probably happen to this bad pig, nor to his partner, who should likewise be arrested for complicity in crimes he did nothing to stop or report. Bystander cops are often the apologists who find reasons to excuse the bad behavior of their "Brothers in Blue". They like to indicate that "99 percent" of all police are “good cops“, as if ignoring the illegal behavior they witness, and standing behind the "blue wall of silence" should be tolerated. Sgt. Glans has the audacity to publicly defend his actions by stating, "I was concerned. It was a public safety issue. If I had to do it all over again … I’d probably do the same thing. If I knew the camera was there, no, because it does look bad." He admits that he’d break the law again, and terrorize any citizen again, but only if he thought that he would not get caught on camera. His wife also publicly defended him by stating, "What my husband did and how he reacted wasn’t the correct way to do it, but there were circumstances that came about beforehand… “He’s had a very hard year." Her jerk of a husband should not get a free pass to assault innocent civilians because they have a "hard life." Just because the scumbag pig has to deal with life like the rest of us, should it be treated as a green light to harass, threaten, intimidate, violate rights, break laws, and mess up other people’s lives? The questions to ask are, what would the citizen be charged if he slapped the cop and verbally assaulted him? Police should suffer twice the consequences of civilians when they commit crimes during the course of their duties. Thanks to cell phone cameras, these psychopathic pigs are finally getting outed as the bullies they really are. For decades and decades they have gotten away with behavior like this all the while promoting themselves as the paragons of justice. If this had not been filmed, Sgt. Glans (literally "Dickhead") would still be terrorizing citizens today on the public payroll. According to Chief Richard L. Castle, Glans was suspended without pay when officials found out about the footage. Castle said in a statement: “At this time this is an internal personnel investigation as there is no criminal complaint from the involved civilian.” Who wants to call the police to file a citizen complaint to have this pig charged as the criminal he is? I'm not sure who has jurisdiction, but someone in the county probably has to make the complaint? Saratoga County Sheriff (518) 885-6761 Saratoga Springs Police Department (518) 584-1800 Less
