trooper wingo eventually released mr donner without charging him with disorderly conduct and issued him a citation for following too closely and parking on a highway because of the traumatic experience they had with trooper wingo the donners decided not to fight these charges and paid the NUMBER_TOKEN fine the couple recently decided to retain an attorney to pursue a civil rights lawsuit against trooper wingo and ms donner has created a gofundme campaign to help cover the cost of attorney fees you can find a link in the description below overall trooper wingo gets an f for causing a crash by recklessly operating his patrol vehicle intentionally misrepresenting the facts of the encounter to justify his actions and for violating mr donner's first and fourth amendment rights by arresting him for his speech not only did trooper wingo exercise poor discretion by choosing to pull over someone who honked at him rather than an individual who was potentially committing an actual violation but he also needlessly violated several traffic laws and caused a low-speed crash in an effort to do so it could certainly be argued that the trooper's actions put more citizens in danger than mr donner would have if he actually had been following the trooper too closely and it would be difficult for anyone much less a court to find trooper wingo's conduct anything but objectively unreasonable trooper wingo failed to take responsibility for his actions arrested a citizen for criticizing his conduct and was unable to control the situation in a peaceful and professional manner this is yet another encounter where an officer attempted to criminalize behavior that their ego could not tolerate rather than making a legitimate effort to de-escalate the situation it seems clear that mr donner has a civil case on his hands and it'll be interesting to see whether he is able to raise the funds to find representation mr donner gets an a for remaining relatively calm and collected throughout the encounter verbally invoking his right to remain silent and for maintaining a reasonable balance between challenging the conduct of the troopers and complying with their commands as discussed earlier profanities are generally protected under the first amendment especially when directed at police officers and nothing that mr donner said constituted a violation of any legitimate statute considering that he was being accused of following trooper wingo too closely immediately after being rear-ended by the trooper mr donner was reacting to the situation in a relatively reasonable manner mr donner also made a point to verbally invoke his right to remain silent and refuse to wave that right despite trooper wingo's insistence that remaining silent was not necessary i commend mr donner for effectively exercising his right to silence and for having the courage to follow up this encounter with legal action a link to mr donner's gofundme will be in the description below if you are interested in helping him retain an attorney and be sure to give lackluster your support you can find a link to his channel in the description as well let us know if there is an interaction or legal topic you would like us to discuss in the comments below thank you for watching and don't forget to check out my second channel for even more police interaction content
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