The Free Thought Project – by Matt Agorist
Nashville, TN — In May of 2014, Ronnie and Lisa Hankins were driving back from his grandfather’s funeral in Virginia when they were targeted by a gang of police officers in search of cash.
As Lisa drove the couple westbound down I-40, they saw an officer, who happened to be with the 23rd Judicial District Drug Task Force, and Hankins correctly predicted that they were about to be pulled over.
“I told her we are going to get pulled over,” Ronnie said to NewsChannel 5.
“What made you think he was going to stop you?” NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked.
“Because we had out-of-state license plates and my wife is Hispanic,” he explained.
The couple was then pulled over, and the officer quickly separated them before beginning his harassment of Lisa. In the video, the officer is heard badgering Lisa in an attempt to get her to consent to a search.
“You say there’s not anything illegal in it. Do you mind if I search it today to make sure?” the officer asked.
Lisa responded, “I’d have to talk to my husband.”
The cop continued to intimidate and harass her, “I am asking you for permission to search your vehicle today — and you are well within your rights to say ‘no,’ and you can say ‘yes.’ It’s totally up to you as to whether you want to show cooperation or not.”
Knowing that they had done nothing wrong and the officer had no reason to search them, Lisa continued to assert her rights and refused the search.
“You have to either give me a yes or no,” the cop continued. “I do need an answer so I can figure out whether I need a dog to go around it or not.”
After going back and forth and realizing that this couple was not going to give consent, a second officer brings out a drug dog. As the Free Thought Project previously reported, data shows that police K-9s will alert almost every single time they are called out, regardless of the presence of drugs.
The Hankins’ case, on the side of I-40, was no different.
“We’ve ran a dog, and the dog’s alerted on the vehicle. So we are going to be searching it, OK? And whatever is in there we are going to find in just a second,” said the officer to the couple.
“There’s never been any drugs in the vehicle and never will be,” Ronnie declared.
Ronnie became furious as he knew that the dog did not alert on his vehicle; he knows this because he is also a cop. He’s a federal police officer at the Marine Corps Air Station-Miramar in San Diego.
“You are lying about the dog hitting on the car. The dog didn’t hit on the car either. You guys are drug task force. You are out here harassing me and my wife when I am just coming back from a funeral,” he said.
The agent, knowing full well that Ronnie was a cop, responded sarcastically, “That is exactly how I would expect most police officers to act.”
“Just like a child, you can make a child say anything you want. You can make a dog do whatever you want to if you train them the right way,” Ronnie explained to NewsChannel 5 Investigates.
For nearly an hour, cops held the innocent couple on the side of the interstate while they tore Lisa’s new car apart. They even went so far as to rip the dashboard out. They found no drugs.
But after finding no drugs, the truth came out — these cops weren’t looking for drugs at all — they wanted cash.
“I knew right now they were looking for money to fund their operations,” said Ronnie.
“Well, I’ll be honest with you,” the officer began, as he attempted to justify this outrageous violation of rights. “With you going this direction, I wouldn’t think you’d have drugs in the car — you would have a large amount of money,” he said.
After the cops were finished searching for cash and didn’t find any, they eventually let their victims go. But to support their unlawful detainment, also known as attempted robbery, the officers wrote in the report that they found “marijuana debris” in the driver and passenger floor boards. This ‘debris’ was nothing more than grass from the couple’s feet from the cemetery where Ronnie’s grandfather was buried.
The unfortunate reality of this situation is that nothing will happen to these officers. In their minds, the Hankins are criminals who deserved this treatment and got off lucky without having their property stolen. These officers will continue to rob people on the side of the road as it’s not only condoned by their departments; it’s their entire function — necessary for their own self-preservation.
“It seems like Nazi Germany,” said Ronnie. “You’ve got to have the paperwork and the proper authorities to come through Tennessee.”
Until we end the war on drugs, these cases will continue to become more prevalent and less pleasant. When police officers are referring to the situation created by other police officers as ‘Nazi Germany,’ the time for immediate action is now.
For a list of peaceful fixes to the many problems created by the drug war, please take a scroll through our #solutions section.
Matt Agorist is an honorably discharged veteran of the USMC and former intelligence operator directly tasked by the NSA. This prior experience gives him unique insight into the world of government corruption and the American police state. Agorist has been an independent journalist for over a decade and has been featured on mainstream networks around the world.
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Is there ever a time in history where this type of tyranny has been settled in a “Peaceful” manner….
I laugh at the concept of, for peaceful fixes to these problems at the end of this article….Ha, Ha….
it is quite nice to see them acting as predators on their own people though, maybe this Federal Criminal Cop, will start to question who and what he works for, and if his cause of peace and freedom is true….
Death to all tyrants, always and forever, it is the only “Solution” they understand…..We will get the exact amount of tyranny we put up with….
These costume wearing dip-shits, should really contemplate one important reality though…..and that is,
“The enforcers of Tyranny, MUST bare the brunt of the peoples resistance to it”…..
The PTB certainly showed MLK, how his peacful ways would be successful…
This from the urban dictionary…
“Esh
Means Donkey In Armenian”
?… just curious.
Expose Sandy Hook…!
That makes much more sense.
Wasn’t really leaning toward the urban dictionary meaning anyway. 😉
Sandy Hoax.
Is this story of as cop crying about the tyranny of another cop?
lol cry me a river Jr.
yer just lucky he didnt beat the shit out of you , and than say I shot him because I thought i saw a puddy tat
maybe its time to post watches for these types of cops..and deal with them as they come
not going to elaborate
Here’s a real winner of a pig, EotS…
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/cop-suspended-urging-drivers-kill-blm-protestors-facebook/
It’s interesting that the pigs would pull this stunt on one of their own. Of course it’s always wrong for the pigs to rob people, but I can summon only limited sympathy for a federal pig who is, after all, a part of the police state.
It reminds me of Kelly Thomas. I feel sympathy for him and nothing but rage against the feral pigs who beat him to death, but I have no sympathy for his ex-pig father, who now has to sleep in a bed he helped make. The pigs aren’t smart enough to understand that by helping to turn America into a prison, they’re contributing to the subjugation of their own children and grandchildren.
*** For a list of peaceful fixes to the many problems created by the drug war… ***
Good luck with that. Peaceful resolutions to problems are generally only possible when dealing with civilized, honorable people.
i had no idea his dad was a former cop.
that certainly explains a few things
did he retire, get fired, quit?
“It seems like Nazi Germany,” said Ronnie. “You’ve got to have the paperwork and the proper authorities to come through Tennessee.”
Disagree.
It seems more like Bolshevik Russia, if you ask me.
A Come on.
Just a couple of cops having fun while enthusiastically doing their job. It is only possible with the help and guidance of Politicians and the laws acts, and regulations they create out of thin air that make coded rights disappear as coke under a nose. Don’t blame the cops.
They are only doing their job including seizure of money you can’t justify to have according to the law. Change your politicians, change your lawyers, change your laws and change your cops.
Anything else can be considered highway robbery whether coded ‘lawful by the Sheriff of Nottingham and his superiors or not.
Now bend over and take it a couple of inches further up the.
Rarely see you here anymore…
Awww. Pooor Ronnie! How many innocent people has he f—ed over? Fn pigs!
“Until we end the war on drugs, these cases will continue to become more prevalent and less pleasant.”
Welcome to the party, pal. As if it has anything to do with drugs and not on cops and their abuse of power. They’re criminals who will harass, intimidate, torture and kill anyone that they so please. It has nothing to do with drugs. It’s all about power.
“It’s all about power.”
Control.
But it amounts to the same thing. 😉
Yea, that’s essentially what I was getting at. Power and control. 😉
Ha ha…fkng morons…get a taste of your own tyranny.
Tastes like sh!t huh?
But just wait @ssholes the smell is just as bad.
Haa haaa ha… Sucks to be you …!
If I am going fight in a revolution to free this country from the “Bolshevik”, Communists I will insist that ALL police (Pigs, Communist Cops, FBI, BLM, State Troopers, Homeland Security etc.) be executed for their treason, false witness, brutality and murder. That goes the same for any Sheriff and his deputies who is unconstitutional or is taking Jew money. The people that the 1930’s Germans treated this way was the lowlife, bottom feeding, greedy JEWS. Germany was a NATION (America is a multicultural cesspool) and didn’t treat German citizens this way.