Bluffton, South Carolina: Idiot cop Baker Odom busted a guy who blew .00 for DUI

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  1. News Readers

    News Readers The Paperboy

    And the retard -- too stupid to eat donuts -- busted another "drunk" driver who blew well under (.04) the legal limit (08). To prove just how contagious stupidity can be in a police department, his management “certainly stands by Odom and those arrests.”



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    Baker Odom


    Bluffton Police stands by DUI arrests after former May River band director charges dropped


    A Bluffton prosecutor dropped driving under the influence charges Tuesday in two Bluffton Police Department cases — one involving the now-former May River High School band director — just two weeks after the department abruptly suspended its award-winning, grant-funded DUI unit and reassigned the unit’s sole officer in a “lateral move.” The officer, Baker Odom, had arrested and charged each driver with DUI despite one having a blood alcohol content of zero, and, in the case of the former teacher, a BAC well below the legal limit to drive, according to previous reporting from The Island Packet and The Beaufort ...


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    https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article238011799.html
     
  2. TMP

    TMP Himself

    If you have any spare marbles, consider donating them to the Bluffton PD:


    Bluffton Police suddenly suspends DUI unit after winning award for enforcement

    24 November 2019


    The Bluffton Police Department has abruptly suspended its grant-funded DUI enforcement unit, citing a need to reevaluate policies, procedures and personnel. Capt. Joe Babkiewicz, spokesperson for the Bluffton Police Department, said department officials suspended the unit, composed of one officer, on Monday. The DUI enforcement officer, Cpl. Baker Odom, was reassigned to regular patrol duty in a “lateral move.” Babkiewicz declined to cite specific circumstances that led to the change. The move comes 21 days after the Island Packet requested details about every DUI arrest made by the department since January 2017, and on the heels of two high-profile DUI ...


    https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article237661884.html
     
  3. TMP

    TMP Himself

    Baker "Animal" Odom hard at work ...
    • "Experts told The Island Packet that the situation could have been avoided had Odom sought to defuse the situation ...,"
    • "... according to Susan Dunn, legal director of the South Carolina American Civil Liberties Union. What concerns us most is how quickly the situation escalated," Dunn said Wednesday. Dunn watched the dashboard camera footage at The Island Packet's request. It would be reasonable for a young woman to feel like she should not get out by herself, especially with her child in the car," Dunn said. " ... It's hard to see here how (Odom's) attitude did anything but make a situation more dangerous. Breaking windows doesn't seem like a good plan."
    • "Seth Stoughton, a professor at the University of South Carolina School of Law who has seen the video, said traffic stops that result in an immediate escalation of tension — like the one involving Odom — can harm a law enforcement agency's relationship with the community it serves .... Stoughton said the amount of time between Odom getting out of his patrol vehicle and smashing the window — about 20 seconds — was a factor in how the situation proceeded ... There's also such a thing as officer-created jeopardy," Stoughton said. "That's when officers put themselves into danger unnecessarily."
    But the dimwits in charge just don't seem to get it:
    • "The Bluffton Police Department ... told a Savannah television station earlier this week that it stands by Odom's actions."
    • "The department's interim chief Scott Chandler said Thursday that Odom's actions were investigated after the incident and the department found no wrongdoing."
    • "... interim police chief Chandler said "absolutely" when asked if Odom had handled the situation correctly."


    Bluffton cop shatters car window, drags woman during traffic stop as her child watched

    12 May 2018

    A Bluffton police officer's actions have been called into question after video footage of an afternoon traffic stop in August shows the officer breaking the window of a Beaufort woman's car when she expressed fear at his demeanor and confusion over why she had been pulled over. After shattering the window, which caused shards of glass to fall on Claraleanna Lockett, Officer Baker Odom of the Bluffton Police Department forcibly removed her from the car and arrested her. The incident happened within 20 seconds of Odom approaching Lockett's car. Her 2-year-old son was in the backseat. Experts told The Island ...


    https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/crime/article211269739.html