[HN Gopher] Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false...
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       Hertz faces lawsuit from 47 customers claiming false arrests
        
       Author : onemoresoop
       Score  : 21 points
       Date   : 2022-07-15 21:01 UTC (2 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.cnn.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.cnn.com)
        
       | sebastien_b wrote:
       | This is like SWATting yourself.
        
       | 14u2c wrote:
       | Interesting to see that people are renting cars just to drive
       | them for Uber and Lyft.
        
         | prepend wrote:
         | Seems like a good idea. You can rent a car for $50 and easily
         | make more than that in a day.
        
       | valleyer wrote:
       | > One plaintiff, Bianca DeLoach, described being swarmed by
       | police with their guns drawn at a gas station in March 2021 while
       | her children watched from inside the rental she'd paid for.
       | 
       | > When he opened the door at least 4 officers had guns pointed at
       | him.
       | 
       | > Darnay Taper spent two nights in jail last year after being
       | pulled over in March 2021 by eight police cars while during a
       | Hertz rental and held at gunpoint, according to the complaint.
       | 
       | Why are guns such a reflex for cops in scenarios that clearly do
       | not warrant them? Can't we find some better cops?
        
         | sebastien_b wrote:
         | > _Can 't we find some better cops?_
         | 
         | I feel like cops in the U.S. are just bitter Army rejects that
         | didn't make the cut due to their overly unhinged behaviour.
        
         | cmeacham98 wrote:
         | Police in the US (broadly speaking, of course there is variance
         | from department to department) are trained this way.
         | 
         | Here's an article about a particularly controversial training
         | program:
         | https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/08/11/police-trai...
        
       | paulpauper wrote:
       | They should have just pretended to be antifa
       | 
       | but in seriousness, this is false arrest. the police department
       | is as much to blame.
        
       | curmudgeon22 wrote:
       | That's pretty ridiculous. I wonder if this happens to any extent
       | with other rental companies. Googling didn't turn up anything but
       | the Hertz stories and the articles I skimmed didn't mention it.
        
       | pavlov wrote:
       | To me, this is the most American dystopia: an indifferent
       | corporation feeding false data to the state violence machine
       | because everyone in the chain can afford false positives that
       | wreck somebody's life.
        
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