The Ohio cops who pulled over a Black man named Ryan Pitts in 2023 were getting frustrated at not finding anything illegal to arrest him on so they yanked him out of his car after he began recording them with his phone – which is his constitutional right.
Columbus police officer Lucas Lauvray then accused Pitts of touching his taser, threatening to put him “on the f_cking ground” before placing him handcuffed in the back of a patrol car.
Lauvray and the other two cops, Columbus police officers Emily Geier and Daxton Cates, then turned off their body cameras for almost 30 minutes to fabricate charges against Pitts, according to the federal lawsuit filed by the Black man last year that lists all three cops as defendants.
While their body cameras were turned off and Pitts sat in the back of a patrol car with his hands cuffed behind his back, the cops illegally searched his car for guns or drugs but found nothing…