Officer Michael Reichert:Incorrigible Liar, Exemplary Cop

by Will

Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 23, 2012

Terrance Huff of Hamilton, Ohio was heading home from a Star Trek convention last December when he and his friend had the misfortune of encountering a Collinsville, Illinois police officer named Michael Reichert. Officer Reichert spied Huff?s vehicle ? a late-model SUV with out-of-state plates ? and engineered an excuse for a traffic stop.

Reichert falsely claimed that Huff had failed to maintain his lane. This was the first of an incessant barrage of lies the officer employed to create what he considered ?reasonable suspicion? sufficient to justify searching the van. After obliquely threatening to impound the van and arrest Huff, Reichert deployed his drug dog, tapping on the vehicle to prompt the animal to ?indicate? that drugs were inside.

A search of the vehicle yielded nothing ? yet Reichert insisted that there was evidence of marijuana residue on the floorboards. This was another lie, as Huff ? a professional filmmaker ? was able to document in a short video he made about the encounter.

Several years ago, Reichert was fired for lying. Last year he received two awards from the department, including Officer of the Month, for his proficiency in manufacturing drug stops using the same tactics that once got him fired. Michael Reichert is an incorrigible liar and, apparently for that reason, an exemplary cop.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.

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