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22 year-old Paul was sitting outside the CVS store where he works in Edgewater, FL, sitting on a bench waiting for a ride using the Lyft app. Edgewater Police Department Officer Daniel Rippeon observed Paul and concluded that he looked suspicious. No crime had been committed. No crime had been alleged by anyone to have been committed. Yet Paul was almost immediately seized and threatened with being tased and bitten by a police K9. He was taken to jail, despite the fact that Officer Rippeon was fully aware that Paul was a store employee waiting for a Lyft driver.
Prior video: CVS Employee Arrested Waiting on Bench for Lyft Driver (7 MINUTES after closing the store)
My prior Street Cop Training video: https://youtu.be/4vjCdHWAmps?si=Lx9dslW62ixnSoy1
Paul’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/980d60b3
Details/report: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025/06/03/cvs-employee-arrested-waiting-on-bench-for-lyft-driver-7-minutes-after-closing-the-store/
Edgewater Police Department: https://www.cityofedgewater.org/police
City of Edgewater, Florida: https://www.cityofedgewater.org
Ofc. Rippeon’s raw unedited bodycam: https://youtu.be/wPUA4KZhLOY?si=SLthbfgeO20c6YNq
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Prior video: CVS Employee Arrested Waiting on Bench for Lyft Driver (7 MINUTES after closing the store)
https://youtu.be/Y-ZbME4qfOI
My prior Street Cop Training video: https://youtu.be/4vjCdHWAmps?si=Lx9dslW62ixnSoy1
Paul’s GoFundMe: https://gofund.me/980d60b3
Details/report: https://thecivilrightslawyer.com/2025/06/03/cvs-employee-arrested-waiting-on-bench-for-lyft-driver-7-minutes-after-closing-the-store/
Edgewater Police Department: https://www.cityofedgewater.org/police
City of Edgewater, Florida: https://www.cityofedgewater.org
Ofc. Rippeon's raw unedited bodycam: https://youtu.be/wPUA4KZhLOY?si=SLthbfgeO20c6YNq
Protect & Serve right?
Fire the supervisor !! please
That county is total currupt all the way to there judges. The cop proves it. He had no fear in unlawful arrest. Video taped, all because he didn’t ID. Sue the county and the others that trained him. These academies need info teared. Get video prove then go world wide. Force the employees to not be terrorist. Infortration and dismantle and fix.
holy canoli, thats a lot of microcuts in this video. Is this how to keep tiktards watching?
That's how they are in Florida they take homeless to jail just like this in Tampa u get 30days if u trust pass
Street cop training = cowards
Every cop that has gone through that stupid training , and all they do is panic.
Glad to hear it, police need to held to a higher standard.
I’M GLAD !!!
When i watched your first video i started waiting for you to falsely make out that charges where dropped or something because of your video (didn't expect an update so soon) but why are you claiming it was because of you? I watched another youtuber post a video about it a day or 2 before you. pmsl i knew you would do this, which was why i was waiting to post this response from the day you uploaded the first video. Considering i was recommended someone elses video a day or 2 before yours i would say its them that deserves the credit, not you.
in 2005 l got LAUGHED AT 1st time l EVER ** attempted ** (and failed) to report a theft.
by march 2010 a total of SEVEN cops and 3 family membuhs were all . . . . . DEAD.
yo, you screws wit da badge and guns: WATCH YER FCUKIN' MOUTH
Absolutely TYRANNY.
That officer should never get another job.
Once again, no charges for the out of control, unlawful cop.
Justice isn't done….not should that psychopath be fired, but his superior, and the prosecutor should all be fired, jailed, personally sued and barred from working any government position when they get out of jail. That on top of that young man's lawsuit that unfortunately the tax payers will have to pay, will be Justice and set the proper president that this bs has to stop and will be severely punished. But we all know this crooked ass system won't allow that to happen smh
Where would Rippeon go? Idaho, WV (Morrisey's 'in charge'), Georgia, Wyoming…
Is he suing the police department and the whole city and everyone involved in making him lose his job due to wrongful arrest? He was kidnapped ! Token away unlawfully! Is Dennis Benigno also being sued? I hope there’s charges for him inciting violence. Police are here to serve and protect the people. Not want to drink out of our skulls. These people are mentally not well. So disappointed.
Put the fries in the bag, Rippeon!
What happened to this kid happens every day.
Resisting?? Going to get tazzed? Wtf😢
Paul needs to be compensated for the 3 days he was in jail!
You are doing God’s work, fine sir. God bless you
That officer was a ticking time 💣. He was a huge liability. An overzealous hothead. They tend to start as many fires as they put out…simply by their demeanor. They create problems where there are none.. and tend to have a higher than average percentage of situations involving the use of force.
in this case where it happened at his job why would the employer fire him since they should no he had just got off work also if the charges were xropped he did no wrong… i would sue them when he sues the cops
This cop is a coward
Don't ever stop your good work, sir.
This cop is out of control and should be fired immediately, he even determined the kid worked there. Insane
Amen! He abused him! Lied to the officer who came AND on his report! Pull his certification so it is harder to get rehired!!!
He's been fired, yet the city allowed him to keep his city funded K9 ($20k for initial training) just so he could have a better chance of getting hired IMMDEDIATLEY at another tyrant department!!!!!!
This tyrant was handed a golden ticket, NOT A PUNISHMENT FOR BREAKING THE LAW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Who is hiring these complete neanderthal morons and giving them guns and badges?!
These blue criminals are of control and so the supervisor and the DA. We need justice in this country.
Lost his job? Sounds to me the employer is wrong too,
Sounds like the arrogant cop had to learn the hard way 😅
Does this show that police bodycams should be made available for public scrutiny immediately? The timeline seems to lead someone to that opinion. If you wouldn't behave that way in front of your mother or the mayor, you shouldn't behave that way at all. No?
Even most prosecutors are dirty. Why would anyone want to pursue charges on an innocent person?
Biggest cowards in America 🇺🇸. Police
Me and my buddy Lee were simply walking down the street through the suburbs of Chicago in Hoffman estates and their police department out of nowhere stopped us completely searched us then three of them after they found nothing hovered around me and one of them pulled my buddy to the side about 50 ft away so he couldn't see, and then one of them said that he's going to search me again cuz they think I had something down in my crotch and so then he reaches down but he doesn't search for anything he starts grabbing my balls in his hand and jiggling them around like they're meditation balls, giving me the worst demonic sickest look I've ever seen, trying to get me to punch or swing at them, so they could beat the crap out of me and kill me. This really happened and no justice has ever been done to those cops.
That same police department about a month later had cops get busted making girls do sexual favors to get out of DUIs.
Police are corrupt trash for deciding to become cops alone, this should be a voluntary thing and not chosen voluntar, it means the community has to appoint you for volunteer work. Otherwise this is all trash, and I don't give a rip anyway because guess what, Elon Musk and neuralink is going to pretty much end all of their leech careers and the police state in America.
Speaking about what he did to a female driver around 11:09/16:51 in the video, the speaker seems to be confessing to raping the woman. I wonder how many law enforcement personnel have killed people without cause after attending Street Cop Training.
Maybe you could tell us the location of the CVS that fired him and the name of the manager. He might want to know how the majority of us feel about him firing a kid who wouldn't have been in that position if he hadn't been doing his job.
That young man is instant millionaire. First sue CVS for wrongful termination. Police dropped charges, so there is no criminal offense committed. Second sue the police department for wrongful arrest. Don't worry kid, you're fine.