Coward cops serving and protecting and Career Criminals with Badges.

Thank god they don't have a law against stupid!    A California Highway Patrol officer arrested a firefighter in the middle of treating a patient at a freeway accident. No charges were ever filed.  The firefighter was held in the back of a patrol car for 30 minutes, then released. Three years later, the case reached the Ninth Circuit — and a federal judge had a question that cut through all the legal arguments in four words. This episode covers the full Ninth Circuit oral argument in Gregoire v. Flores, including the qualified immunity doctrine, the statutory consultation requirement under California Penal Code §409.3, and what happens when a legal shield designed to protect officers from honest mistakes gets invoked to cover something else entirely