Kentucky cop
A Kentucky cop took offense to being told police officers throw their weight around, so he assaulted and kidnapped an innocent man.

A video recently uploaded by the Oath Accountability Project (OAP) appears to show a Lebanon Junction police officer arrest a man for simply asking for his name and badge number along with the name and badge number of his supervisor and noting how this cop was abusing his power.

The video begins with an unidentified man (we believe may go by "Avery") and woman at a Lebanon Junction, KY Pilot gas station. After the motorist asks the police officer for permission to stand under the awning, he tells his female friend:
Police in this town, in this state, in this city, have nothing better to do than to rouse people for nothing...play the bully role because they wear badges.
A Lebanon Junction officer returns to speak to the couple. His badge states his name as Officer Hodges. The officer tells the man he's, "free to go," but the citizen wanted to apparently hold the officer accountable for his actions and asks for his badge number as well as the name of his supervisor. "This is going to go online so people can see truth and consequences, how you guys push your weight around," the man says.

All of a sudden, the officer takes a defensive tone. "You are done! Get on the fucking ground," he says as he throws the man on the ground, cranks his hand behind his back and then threatens to tase the man. All the while the man pleads for the reason why he's being arrested.

It appears from the video that Ofc. Hodges didn't like Avery's promise to expose him to the world as the bully he appears to be. As a result of the OAP exposing the cop for his heavy-handedness, and likely unlawful arrest for questioning the quick-tempered officer's authority, a lot of attention is now being given to the small Kentucky town. Ironically enough, this cop proved Avery's point by acting in the manner that he did.

Hodges miserably explained to the young lady his reasons for arresting Avery.
I don't know what to tell you. He did what he did. I tried to be nice to you all and he refused to go along with it.
As a result of the arrest, many people believe the young man should now sue the police department and the officer for infringing on his civil rights.

We spoke with the Pilot station and they did not have any information about the incident so we called the Lebanon Junction Police Department. The telephone number published on their Facebook page rang and rang with no answer. According to the website Supporting Heroes, the department only has four police officers and serves a community of fewer than 2,000 residents.

We do not have any further information about the incident. Whether or not Avery was eventually arrested and charged with a criminal offense remains a mystery, but critics are not waiting to learn his fate. They've taken to Google reviews and Facebook to voice their objections to the way the motorist was treated. Wade Oliver wrote the following Google review:
Officer Hedges should be fired and charged with assault and false arrest. This punk cop was picked on and stuffed in his locker as a child and now that he has a badge and weapon is taking out his childhood on law abiding citizens. What a shame the people of this town put up with his terrible behavior and by doing so they are condoning this behavior and will find themselves or their loved ones subjected to it one day.
We would like to update our story with more details from Avery's unlawful arrest. Please contact us at The Free Thought Project with details. The entire incident serves to illustrate that a person can be kidnapped, caged, and extorted, all for questioning a police officer's authority to harass them.