Las Vegas Police Sargent arrested

"Sources with knowledge of the arrest said Menon is part of a larger investigation into allegations that Metro police officers bumped into tourists on the Las Vegas Strip, which prompted fights and the tourists’ arrests."


WTF WTF WTF

Apparently this was profiling on steroids. The police would target people they thought were criminals. A plain clothes officer would purposely bump into the person starting a fight. Nearby uniformed officers would pounce on the fight arresting the person bumped into. Apparently the police did this over and over. The person arrested had no idea it was undercover police that started the fight. Apparently Sargent Menon was confronted and told this was illegal. Menons response, "we are taking shitbags off the street and the Captain has my back"

The above is from a podcast I heard

They were targeting people they thought were career-violent criminals who were on the Strip with evil intent. I'll withhold judgment until the videos are released, but the initial reporting doesn't look good for the cops.

If you bump into one of the 5000 gang members in Vegas, there’s a fair chance it would start an altercation.

Not sure about the law, but if your average citizen bumps into someone it’s probably going to depend on whether it looks accidental, and not overly hard, and who does what next.

5000 is what i remember reading several years ago.

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If you bump into one of the 5000 gang members in Vegas, there’s a fair chance it would start an altercation.

Not sure about the law, but if your average citizen bumps into someone it’s probably going to depend on whether it looks accidental, and not overly hard, and who does what next.

5000 is what i remember reading several years ago.
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YouTube is full of videos of fights on the strip that started with one drunk bumping into another.

Quote: terapined

Apparently this was profiling on steroids. The police would target people they thought were criminals. A plain clothes officer would purposely bump into the person starting a fight. Nearby uniformed officers would pounce on the fight arresting the person bumped into. Apparently the police did this over and over. The person arrested had no idea it was undercover police that started the fight. Apparently Sargent Menon was confronted and told this was illegal. Menons response, "we are taking shitbags off the street and the Captain has my back"

The above is from a podcast I heard

He was caught doing something similar five years ago. Not surprising at all that LVMPD leadership allowed him to keep his job after this one:

https://law.justia.com/cases/federal/district-courts/nevada/nvdce/2:2020cv01773/145997/83/