{"id":136087,"date":"2025-10-30T14:12:49","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:12:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/30\/this-is-the-citizen-kane-of-police-officer-going-to-zoom-court-hearing-without-pants-clips\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:12:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T22:12:49","slug":"this-is-the-citizen-kane-of-police-officer-going-to-zoom-court-hearing-without-pants-clips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/10\/30\/this-is-the-citizen-kane-of-police-officer-going-to-zoom-court-hearing-without-pants-clips\/","title":{"rendered":"This Is The Citizen Kane Of \u2018Police Officer Going To Zoom Court Hearing Without Pants\u2019 Clips"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overrated<\/strong>: How are we still seeing AI hallucinated cases? It\u2019s a tragic reflection of the justice system\u2019s tech incompetence!<\/p>\n

Underrated<\/strong>: Buddy, we\u2019re still seeing Zoom fails. Keep your pants on.<\/p>\n

In this specific case, we mean this literally. Five years on from COVID sending the entire profession into Zoom, giving us everything from \u201cnaked appearances<\/a>\u201d to sex hearings<\/a> and turned \u201cI\u2019m not a cat<\/a>\u201d into a celebrity, the courts are still<\/em> dealing with Zoom fails because professional dignity ends where the camera frame begins. <\/p>\n

A Detroit police officer appeared in a virtual court hearing wearing his official uniform shirt and badge, and not so much else. It\u2019s the sort of thing Detroit\u2019s greatest law enforcement hero might have pulled, but Axel Foley would\u2019ve joined reclining on a floaty in a Beverly Hills pool and no one would\u2019ve been the wiser<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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Judge left in shock after a Detroit police officer appeared at a Zoom court hearing without pants \ud83d\udc56\ud83e\ude72 pic.twitter.com\/tmPUWXB2kZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SAY CHEESE! \ud83d\udc44\ud83e\uddc0 (@SaycheeseDGTL) October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The clip is art. The stages of grief beautifully distilled in flickering images stitched together and whizzed across our screens at speed. Look at this! This is some 400 Blows<\/em> era Truffaut composition right here. Walk with us through this staggering work of breathtaking genius.<\/p>\n

Denial<\/h2>\n
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Judge Sean B. Perkins<\/a>, attempting to come to grips with the image on his screen and instantly regretting the lack of imagination in his \u201cno shirt, no shoes, no justice\u201d sign. Note how Judge Perkins makes the bold creative choice to break the fourth wall here \u2014 to make eye contact directly with the audience to offer an unspoken plea: tell me this is not happening<\/em>. But, like that plastic partition \u2014 creating a screen within a screen effect symbolizing the compounding and impenetrable distance between us \u2014 the audience descends into heartbreak, both powerless to answer his call and unable to provide comfort if it could.<\/p>\n

Anger<\/h2>\n
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It\u2019s probably better to describe this as annoyed confusion, but, when we\u2019re truly honest with ourselves, isn\u2019t that really what anger is? Based on the names at the bottom of the screen, that\u2019s defense attorney TaTaNisha Reed<\/a> captured moments after surmounting her own denial stage. The mise-en-sc\u00e8ne places the light cascading over her with an incandescent quality to convey righteous rage to the audience. The sort of righteous rage a criminal defense attorney might have when they\u2019re thinking \u201cseriously, my client\u2019s fate is in the hands of a cop who can\u2019t even bother to put his pants on?!?\u201d <\/p>\n

In this, she speaks for us all.<\/p>\n

Bargaining<\/h2>\n
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\u201cYou got some pants on, cuz \u2014 uh \u2014 officer?\u201d No notes.<\/p>\n

Depression<\/h2>\n
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\u201cIs that in the\u2026 no, sir.\u201d Defeat. And also a meditation upon the institution of law enforcement in 2025. Formal, martial uniformity increasingly exposed from beneath. It\u2019s a trope that we\u2019ve seen time and again, but as a sequel one cannot help but draw parallels to Werner Herzog\u2019s Bad Lieutenant<\/em>:\u00a0Port of Call New Orleans<\/em> or Pants Off Dance Off Season 2. <\/p>\n

Acceptance<\/h2>\n
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\u201cUh, uh, ok.\u201d Resignation meets resilience as the judge buries the lingering memories of the event and pivots to call upon the woman we assume to be the prosecutor (who is never shown in the clip\u2026 another symbolic nod to the intangible and yet ever present nature of the state? Simultaneously within<\/em> the chat and yet without as she floats above and untouched by this \u2014 to draw upon Lacan \u2014 encounter with the Real.)<\/p>\n

So the clip concludes. The audience is ripped away from the narrative without conclusion, and yet\u2026 forever changed. <\/p>\n

And, somewhere in the distance, the familiar melody of Axel F<\/em> begins.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The post This Is The Citizen Kane Of \u2018Police Officer Going To Zoom Court Hearing Without Pants\u2019 Clips<\/a> appeared first on Above the Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Overrated<\/strong>: How are we still seeing AI hallucinated cases? It\u2019s a tragic reflection of the justice system\u2019s tech incompetence!<\/p>\n

Underrated<\/strong>: Buddy, we\u2019re still seeing Zoom fails. Keep your pants on.<\/p>\n

In this specific case, we mean this literally. Five years on from COVID sending the entire profession into Zoom, giving us everything from \u201cnaked appearances<\/a>\u201d to sex hearings<\/a> and turned \u201cI\u2019m not a cat<\/a>\u201d into a celebrity, the courts are still<\/em> dealing with Zoom fails because professional dignity ends where the camera frame begins. <\/p>\n

A Detroit police officer appeared in a virtual court hearing wearing his official uniform shirt and badge, and not so much else. It\u2019s the sort of thing Detroit\u2019s greatest law enforcement hero might have pulled, but Axel Foley would\u2019ve joined reclining on a floaty in a Beverly Hills pool and no one would\u2019ve been the wiser<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
\n

Judge left in shock after a Detroit police officer appeared at a Zoom court hearing without pants \ud83d\udc56\ud83e\ude72 pic.twitter.com\/tmPUWXB2kZ<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 SAY CHEESE! \ud83d\udc44\ud83e\uddc0 (@SaycheeseDGTL) October 29, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

The clip is art. The stages of grief beautifully distilled in flickering images stitched together and whizzed across our screens at speed. Look at this! This is some 400 Blows<\/em> era Truffaut composition right here. Walk with us through this staggering work of breathtaking genius.<\/p>\n

Denial<\/h2>\n
\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Judge Sean B. Perkins<\/a>, attempting to come to grips with the image on his screen and instantly regretting the lack of imagination in his \u201cno shirt, no shoes, no justice\u201d sign. Note how Judge Perkins makes the bold creative choice to break the fourth wall here \u2014 to make eye contact directly with the audience to offer an unspoken plea: tell me this is not happening<\/em>. But, like that plastic partition \u2014 creating a screen within a screen effect symbolizing the compounding and impenetrable distance between us \u2014 the audience descends into heartbreak, both powerless to answer his call and unable to provide comfort if it could.<\/p>\n

Anger<\/h2>\n
\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It\u2019s probably better to describe this as annoyed confusion, but, when we\u2019re truly honest with ourselves, isn\u2019t that really what anger is? Based on the names at the bottom of the screen, that\u2019s defense attorney TaTaNisha Reed<\/a> captured moments after surmounting her own denial stage. The mise-en-sc\u00e8ne places the light cascading over her with an incandescent quality to convey righteous rage to the audience. The sort of righteous rage a criminal defense attorney might have when they\u2019re thinking \u201cseriously, my client\u2019s fate is in the hands of a cop who can\u2019t even bother to put his pants on?!?\u201d <\/p>\n

In this, she speaks for us all.<\/p>\n

Bargaining<\/h2>\n
\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cYou got some pants on, cuz \u2014 uh \u2014 officer?\u201d No notes.<\/p>\n

Depression<\/h2>\n
\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cIs that in the\u2026 no, sir.\u201d Defeat. And also a meditation upon the institution of law enforcement in 2025. Formal, martial uniformity increasingly exposed from beneath. It\u2019s a trope that we\u2019ve seen time and again, but as a sequel one cannot help but draw parallels to Werner Herzog\u2019s Bad Lieutenant<\/em>:\u00a0Port of Call New Orleans<\/em> or Pants Off Dance Off Season 2. <\/p>\n

Acceptance<\/h2>\n
\"\"
<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\u201cUh, uh, ok.\u201d Resignation meets resilience as the judge buries the lingering memories of the event and pivots to call upon the woman we assume to be the prosecutor (who is never shown in the clip\u2026 another symbolic nod to the intangible and yet ever present nature of the state? Simultaneously within<\/em> the chat and yet without as she floats above and untouched by this \u2014 to draw upon Lacan \u2014 encounter with the Real.)<\/p>\n

So the clip concludes. The audience is ripped away from the narrative without conclusion, and yet\u2026 forever changed. <\/p>\n

And, somewhere in the distance, the familiar melody of Axel F<\/em> begins.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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Overrated: How are we still seeing AI hallucinated cases? It\u2019s a tragic reflection of the justice system\u2019s tech incompetence! Underrated: Buddy, we\u2019re still seeing Zoom fails. Keep your pants on. In this specific case, we mean this literally. Five years on from COVID sending the entire profession into Zoom, giving us everything from \u201cnaked appearances\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":136088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-136087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-above_the_law"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-30-at-11.04.44-AM-fti8uD.webp?fit=1022%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}