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Assuming this is in the U.S., the towing company cannot take the car back. Once it’s been released, regardless of how or why, or even mistakenly, it cannot be seized and held “hostage” for what they believe is owed. Doing so would be “self-help” and probably considered motor vehicle theft.If they have a legitimate legal claim for monies owed, that’s what the civil courts are for.Addendum - After re-reading the question, I’m assuming now that your friend worked for the tow yard ? If that’s the case, and he was able to get the vehicle released for $100 cash paid to him, he could be in a good deal of trouble with his employer and possibly lose his job over it.If the car was towed by order of the police, he could be in serious legal (possibly criminal) trouble as well. Ordinarily, if the police have a car impounded (towed) there is some legal reason for doing so and fines are possibly due as well as the towing fee.Without knowing the actual specifics as to why the car was towed in the first place, this is all just speculation.

The illusion of innovation.If you look at Apple, and you look at their logo,you’ll see a company with a message motivating progress.But let’s say you purchase a brand new Macbook Pro from Apple.You buy the top of the line option—because why not, you deserve it and because Apple is a great company.You pay nearly $4,500, you get it in the mail.It’s awesome, it’s fast, you’re using it for work and your personal projects.One day you have a cup of water right next to your computer, and you accidentally knock it over.Your computer won’t turn on.You’re now a customer like this one, who took her 2018 Macbook Air into West Seattle Computers to get it diagnosed.West Seattle diagnoses the problem, confirms the exact part on the logic board/motherboard, and wants to replace it.Apple must sell this part, right? They engineered the product, after all.The power port probably costs a few dollars, so most of this charge is going to be labor. Probably will take about 25 minutes, so they’ll end up charging the customer about $65.West Seattle calls Apple, and Apple refuses to sell parts to independent shops.When asked why, Apple says only they are certified to repair the computer. When you take it to Apple, they say that the repair could be anywhere from $800-any amount of dollars they choose.If you are anything like this customer, you basically end up buying a new computer.If you want schematics to a board to locate a problem? Apple won’t give it to you.If you want the right to repair your own product? Sorry, Apple won’t help you.If you take it to Apple to get it repaired? It’s basically going to cost you a new laptop.What about “Think Different”?What can you do if Apple refuses to allow you to do just that?Some of Apple’s newest iMac Pro computers are under criticism for gluing components like the CPU onto the motherboard itself. Limiting upgrading ability, and disallowing the consumer to open the display up even to clean the product themselves.If I had to gesture at Apple’s reason, I’d have to guess that they care about competition. They probably care so much that they don’t want people looking at the technology behind the product. They don’t want people to understand. They don’t want people to compete.They want more money.They want to be the ones to think different. They don’t care if you are.Tesla is guilty of a lot of the same issues.A technology company that wants to accelerate the transition into the electric car movement. Elon Musk wants to transition society into clean energy.But what happens when a Tesla gets salvaged?It goes to an auction lot after an insurance company writes a check to the person who used to own it.That salvage lot then has to sell the car to someone willing to buy it. If someone buys it, the insurance company recovers some of that cost.Except, people buy these cars because of “the right to repair”.It became such a big movement that in early 2014 Congress signed in a Motor Vehicle Owners’ Right to Repair Act so that automakers have to provide the same information to independent shops as they do for dealers.Tesla doesn’t like this.Nobody buys them.Tesla is the only entity that wants the rights to repair their own totaled cars.But if you take your totaled Tesla to Tesla to repair?It’s going to cost basically a new car.And if you take it to an independent mechanic?Tesla won’t sell them parts.Because the legislation is about “dealers” specifically. And Tesla isn’t a “dealer”. Tesla is a technology company that provides cars made to order.They won’t sell you parts if you have a salvaged VIN number.And the end result?You’ll buy a $15,000–$25,000 paper weight from a salvage lot that you can’t really do anything to fix. And if you are actually motivated to fix it, you’ll have to buy another Tesla in hopes that it has the parts you need to put it back together. And if that doesn’t work, your best bet is someone on eBay who is willing to sell you the actual part you need.To a certain extent, I understand that companies want the rights to protect what they’ve designed and engineered. Sometimes there probably is a good reason for a company to want to repair it themselves. Maybe other independent shops need to be trained or certified and they need additional tools and lecturing by the companies.But when you don’t hand out schematics for boards, you don’t allow the sale of individual parts, and you don’t allow people to have a reasonable way to rebuild electronics, you’re contributing to waste.You are doing the exact opposite of the movement you have been motivating the whole time.You aren’t allowing people to think different.You aren’t accelerating the transition into the electric vehicle and sustainable energy movement.If the cars at salvage auctions are paper weights, how is that promoting sustainable energy?In fact, those paper weights are the reason the Tesla costs so much to insure.I don’t see an arena to compete, I see an arena that is owned by a small amount of players trying very hard to keep competitors at bay.While Elon released all the Tesla patents in 2014 for anybody to use in good faith, there needs to be an addendum to his claim.Tesla doesn’t release trade secrets. In fact, when Tesla acquired battery manufacturer Maxwell Technologies for $218 million, they wanted the company to learn its secrets on dry electrode batteries.To this day, Tesla continues to rack up patents.Even though Elon supposedly hates it.It’s the opposite of what technology stands for. That Silicon Valley is a beacon for all things progress and advancement.If things are kept as secrets, they aren’t promoting progress.Things aren’t moving in the direction of sustainability.They’re stifling progress. They’re making the planet unsustainable.They’re not thinking different.

The officer should and will be prosecuted* to the full extent of the law. I worked not far from where this happened. We would listen to the gun shots at night, I saw stabbings in broad daylight, teenagers shot over stupid and minor “disses.” Hookers and dope dealers were on every corner. Many of the local businesses had to pay armed guards just to be a presence. In other words it wasn’t the nicest part of town.I say that to set the stage and mental state of any officer that worked the area, meaning they may on on edge to begin with. Then there was the call that came in of a large man possibly under the influence of passing a counterfeit bill. A potential crime had already been reported ramping up the situation they could be facing.The role of a cop is to assess and control the situation. From what I’ve seen he was not resisting arrest, he was being compliant and should have been placed in the squad car, there was no need for that prick to kneel on him for almost nine minutes. He will get what he deserves and I’ll bet those other cops that stood there watching not helping will get their asses raked over the coals as well and they should be. And I think I’m pretty safe in saying 99% of the other cops not just in his precinct but (now) all over the country will agree.Being a cop isn’t an easy job to begin with. One of my best friends (I am driving one of his cars right now because mine is broke down and waiting for a part) was a well respected county deputy sheriff for 22 years. We became friends because we both work construction…not because I am a cop wanna be. I thought because we both live in a fairly mellow outer burb and he seldom talked about what he went through on his shift I was under the impression his days were rather mundane; giving the occasional ticket to a soccer mom or taking a barking dog complaint.However he has opened up a little now and then and I found out a week for him wasn't quite so boring; rolling on medicals only to find some in their 70’s and 80’s dead junkies with the needle still stuck in their arm or some naked 5 foot 3 inch 500 pound T-Rex (as he called them) stuck in their bath tub and he’d have to help them out. Someone that he stopped for speeding and was going to give a warning he ended up having them trying to pull his weapon out of his holster to kill him and would have to wrestle them (lucky he is a BIG man and didn’t have to put a lot of effort into getting control of the situation). Pulling his weapon during a stop or arrest was several times a week. Getting the, “I am a sovereign citizen and your laws don’t apply to me” was pretty common. Finding children living in filth with the shit beat out of them, crying with a 3 day old diaper and/or bloody underwear because their “parents” were drug addicts and were being used for sexual satisfaction.The really “bad” area he worked was a well known college town where crime was not in the news because the college made great efforts to cover what was happening with gangs, rapes, robberies, drug dealing, etc. because if the parents found out what was going on the they wouldn’t let their kids go to that college (and there goes that high tuition money). This was a “low crime” area and he wasn’t stopping/talking with people to compliment them on what a fine example they are of being a model citizen.The high crime areas cops see these scenarios played their entire shift. Just getting in your car at the beginning of the day would be a little scary because you know you are going to get yelled at for profiling when you stop some prick going 50 mph in a school zone, called names, spit on and resisting arrest is likely to happen several times in a matter of hours. Using the necessary means to control the situation then turning off the adrenaline and anger isn’t as easy as turning off a light switch.But that is part of the job and if you can’t do it then find another trade. This man apparently broke the law by passing a counterfeit bill (a federal crime) then trying to operate a motor vehicle under the influence putting innocent people at risk. Yes he deserved to get arrested, no he did not deserve to die. That cop and every other LEO is going to pay for his inability to control his emotions and his abuse of power. Unfortunately the innocent shop keepers that not only served the community but had their businesses looted and/or burned. Insurance isn’t going to cover everything they lost.*Addendum-I just learned from someone that has long condemned cops for being quick with the stick that this was not the peaceful arrest that the videos show and the protests left a lot to be desired. I just hope I can find video evidence before I make my final PERSONAL judgement.