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- 2026-10-22 13:52
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Oh, what' I do? Your tags are expired. Expired? Yeah. In July? Today's July 31st. Go inside of the house or I will take you from your kids and take you to jail. Kentucky State Police Trooper Myron Jackson got upset because Kristen Johnson was silently filming his illegal traffic stop from her front porch. Trooper Jackson stormed up to Kristen and threatened her. Go inside the house or I will take you from your kids and take you to jail. When Kristen, the mother of three who was a dental assistant, continued to film from her porch, Trooper Jackson grabbed her, forcefully pulled her from her own porch. Please stop, sir. Nope. Dragged her across the ground. Kristen's children screamed and cried, watching helplessly as their mother was violently handcuffed and dragged away to jail. After being released from jail the next day, Kristen had to walk several miles home. And when she got there, she found the door locked in and her kids nowhere to be seen. Because there was no probable cause to stop. Kristine's mother on July 31st, 2024, for having tags that were not expired, that traffic stop was not supported by probable cause, and therefore the entire stop was unlawful. Even if the stop was lawful, Kristen still could not have committed obstruction because that requires an affirmative interference with governmental functions under Kentucky law. approaching a traffic stop to film from a safe distance cannot be affirmative interference. She didn't actually interfere. She didn't get in the middle of it in any way. Lastly, even if that stop was lawful, she could not have resisted arrest because Kentucky law requires the use or threat of physical force or violence against the trooper. Trooper Jackson stated at the probable cause hearing that he believed that Kristen just tensing her arms constituted resisting arrest. But that's clearly not the use of physical force against an officer that's required under state law. For these reasons, after a contested hearing where Trooper Jackson testified, the judge in Franklin County, Kentucky, dismissed all of the criminal charges against Kristen for lacking probable cause. That means not only was it an illegal traffic stop, it was also an illegal arrest and also an illegal malicious prosecution where he still tried to prosecute her for the non-crimes. Just a few days ago, Kristen's attorney filed a federal civil rights lawsuit. So, that process is just beginning. I look forward to seeing Trooper Jackson being held accountable for his civil rights violations here. But just a lawsuit is not enough. There should be discipline from the Kentucky State Police for, according to a judge, illegally arresting an innocent woman at her home.
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