Though he may have wielded the handcuffs, it appears now-former Louisville Metro Police officer Tyler Gelnett most definitely needed them for himself.


The Kentucky city recently found themselves footing a $50,000 bill to cover for a touchy cop’s bad behavior, doling out the five-figure sum to a woman who was groped during a 2019 traffic stop.



“You don’t care if I check you out, do you?” he asked the woman in now-viral bodycam footage of their interaction.


While the woman initially complied, her face — and Gelnett’s hands — told a different story, prompting his partner to intervene.


“Hey hey hey, hold on, stop, time out,” he said before shooing his creepy colleague away.


While the roughly one-minute clip — one ending in the woman growing visibly upset over the apparent assault — was bad enough, it seems the reality of the stop was a whole lot worse.


According to the lawsuit, the now-ex-cop took pat down to invasive new heights, “inappropriately” touching the driver’s “crotch area” before delving into her underpants, "groping her buttocks and her vagina” so intensely “that another officer intervened and admonished him.”


While Gelnett ultimately resigned from the force, we can only hope he can take the old copaganda adage to heart — crime doesn’t pay.