Fight ‘Em ‘Til We Can’t

Criminal defense attorneys sometimes have to find humor where they can, and law enforcement lingo is one fairly reliable source for the occasional chuckle. Every time a cop says “someone exited his vehicle” I have to laugh. You mean, the guy got out of his car?

But the best line I’ve seen recently came in a police report:

”Officer K looked at me and gave me the sign to put him in handcuffs.”

I’m thinking I have to put this guy on the stand just so I can ask him to show me “the sign.” Then I’ll ask: “So you put Officer K in handcuffs, as he had signaled you to do? Didn’t it make it kind of hard for Officer K to do his job after you handcuffed him?”

Perhaps the humor is a bit obscure, but we have to take what we can get…