Are you a cop?

So are you one of the many people people thought police officers couldn't lie?

Day Owen of the Pitchfork Rebellion was surprised to find out that police officers can, and will, lie to your face. As you may have read in today's cover story, he and his fellow pesticide protesters were followed and filmed by a man who when asked if he was a cop "None of you broke any laws; you did just fine, so it doesn't matter who I am."

To this day, Owen isn't sure who the guy was, but in response to a photo and story we ran in December, he got an anonymous tip that it was Springfield police detective Robert Conrad. We found a photo of Conrad here on the KVAL website, but we were told we couldn't run it with the story.

Is it the same man? We emailed and called the Springfield Police Department repeatedly, but never heard back. Not even a no comment.

The District Attorney's office never called back for this story either, come to think of it. The Eugene Police Department did respond, but that was to let EW know that they can't comment on tactics.

Josh Schlossberg says local cops lied to him too, and has a federal lawsuit over his arrest by officer Bill Solesbee. Schlossberg filmed the interaction.

First he filmed his interaction with Officer Barab, the first officer on the scene.

And here is Josh Schlossberg's interaction with Solesbee.