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.
FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Y-ZbME4qfOI?si=6zwyGtW5Sp194WIq
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
Other Incident featured in the video by James Madison Audits: https://youtu.be/9PBQaMrcPw0?si=igfu6c1-dh90sDCH
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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.
FULL VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Y-ZbME4qfOI?si=6zwyGtW5Sp194WIq
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
Other Incident featured in the video by James Madison Audits: https://youtu.be/9PBQaMrcPw0?si=igfu6c1-dh90sDCH
Thug with a badge and gun, the people who hire them are the problem!
I would sue for sure. Then I’d take a civil lawsuit out against him personally.
Can we please have a common sense and IQ tests for these idiots in blue?
Sorry this young man was falsely harassed and arrested by a Edgewater POS police officer. I'm sure the chief of police will stand by his clown of an officer.
Hey riipeon, you're a PUNK….
Even the dumbest American can see thru this young cop's power trip! If there is not a crime, they will manufacture one! Cops must take a hard course in 2nd and 4th amendment rights in order to be a cop!
Yeah. Brandish a weapon at me illegally. I'll go to my god-given rights of self-defense and my state's stand your ground statutes. Simple as that.
escalation
These pigs are outrageous…….
I lived with cops, parents and step parents.. You are dealing with people who are entitled and full of rage.
No such thing as a Good cop
And that's why nobody trust cops anymore
COPS DON’T BECOME PSYCHOPATHS! PSYCHOPATHS BECOME COPS! INSTITUTE THE
MMPI TEST AND MOST OF THIS CRAP WILL CEASE!
Sheriff Chitwood needs to investigate this department in his county!😮
Gonna learn the hard way? No officer, u gonna learn the hard way
I hope he sued the hell out of that officer and the P.D.
Like I said you keep ALL your bad rude narcissistic egomaniac cops in the USA please and thank you 🇨🇦
Democrat cop
This is what the second amendment is for
The lawsuit will allow him to buy a new car then no waiting for Uber.
They’ll keep acting like they’re the untouchables until it’s proven they’re not. People like this officer have a home. Be a shame if something happened.
Scum bag cops
I'm so glad you're exposing this… I just want to say as a black man this happens to me all the time… Sometimes several times a day …no one believed it.
Cop needs to pay the uber driver ,out of his own pocket, for showing up!
This is why people hate cops.