GOODLETTSVILLE, Tenn. (WSMV) - Sarah Pence’s eyes tear up, watching a man on television who she’s never met.

That man is Jeffrey Adams, a teacher in Brentwood, who was arrested, along with two other men in 2023, for DUI. However, our investigation found all three were arrested by Officer Noah Werner, and all three were sober at the time of their arrest.

  • osaerisxero
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    232 days ago

    I agree with the rest of the article though. It’s messed up how arrests are public information before any trial in so many US states.

    It is massively important that arrests are a matter of public record. Without that, it’s perfectly legal to disappear you, for any reason, at any time, and noone would ever know.

    • @[email protected]
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      51 day ago

      But the US government has done that anyway. During the Seattle black lives matter protests federal law enforcement was just randomly picking up anyone that looked suspicious.

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      2 days ago

      So you think that your name and mugshot should be published everywhere whenever you’re arrested, because otherwise you’ll be disappeared…? Is this also some US-specific problem? Court records are public information here, but arrests aren’t.

      Especially when you know the police can be corrupt, why do you want your public image to be ruined before you’ve even been judged by a jury of your peers?

      • @Maggoty
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        102 days ago

        Fun fact, we’ve had exactly that happen in history. Going right back to the British. There’s a reason we set the standard. Then there are reasons we kept it. The latest I’m aware of is Homan Square Chicago.

      • @[email protected]
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        -242 days ago

        Americans are stupid enough to believe the myth the ussr disappeared people through arrests, and believe the same happened in the UK before the US declared independence.

        They literally think if you can’t get a random person’s personal information at all times they must have been disappeared by an evil globalist entity.