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VIDEO: Student's window shattered during traffic stop at UCF (Florida)
BayNews9 ^ | Thursday, September 19, 2013 | Caroline Rowland and Mike Westfall

Posted on 09/19/2013 4:39:57 PM PDT by rarestia

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To: rarestia

Getting a ticket is a form of arrest. All you’re doing is promising to appear rather than the police dragging you off to jail instead. Looks like she resisted. She was dealt with as such.

Unless the cop had her do the taser-dance off camera, I don’t think she has much to complain about.

The problem I see here is the police were so overfunded and overstaffed that that they had the time to pull someone over for a burnt out tail light. Defund the police and they’ll have less time to “protect” us from the scourge of poorly maintained tail lights.


41 posted on 09/19/2013 6:52:41 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: 1rudeboy

That was a good shot.


42 posted on 09/19/2013 6:54:19 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: BfloGuy

“Yeah, if you’re a boot-licker.”

There are some battles worth fighting. A $10 traffic ticket isn’t one of them. That’s what it would have cost her if the car was registered and she produced the registration after the fact.

The bigger issue here is why the police had the time to pull her over for a burnt out tail light. That’s a budget issue and something conservatives can agree on: reducing the size and scope of government. Defund, defund, defund the police department in question.


43 posted on 09/19/2013 7:08:27 PM PDT by RKBA Democrat (Power disintegrates when people withdraw their obedience and support)
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To: C210N
Hmmm... I'm changing thoughts a bit, and now thinking the proper thing here was for her to extend a hand to take the clipboard, and for the LEO to offer the clipboard close to the window. Since neither played their part, it easily escalated. Either one doing so would make it more clear who was in the right and who was in the wrong...

Roll your window down 1/4 of the way. Roll it down just far enough to pass documents and communicate clearly with the officer. Do not roll your window all the way down. This is very important. A very common way for the police to escalate a traffic stop is to place their head into an open window and claim that they smell marijuana or alcohol or something else illegal even if they didn’t. This gives them the reasoning they need to invade more of your personal space. If you don’t roll your window very far down, it will be hard for the officer’s “I smelled marijuana” argument to hold up in court if it came to that.

44 posted on 09/19/2013 7:16:07 PM PDT by C210N (When people fear government there is tyranny; when government fears people there is liberty)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Who decides what a ‘lawful order’ is?

A cop will always think every order he issue is a lawful order.
And they think every dog they kill is attacking them.
Get real! They are many bad cops and more are coming!


45 posted on 09/19/2013 7:18:07 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Uncle Miltie
it goes beyond that .....how often do they pull young women over?...why do cops blow up tiny little infractions into a war?....

the court systems are crowded...so are the jails....

why would cops be so unprofessional to incite bad behaviour in citizens???

to be a cop shouldn't you also have some descretion?...some judgement skills?.....some sense of proportionality?...

shouldn't they be thinking..."should I be making a big stink out of this minor traffic violation or should I be protecting people from rape and murder?...let me think.."

46 posted on 09/19/2013 11:22:12 PM PDT by cherry
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To: Solidstatechemist

I am afraid I will strongly disagree with you here.

He purposely broke her window because she wasn’t doing what the nice officer told her to do.

He admits as much with his weasel words “I FORCEFULLY withdrew my hand BECAUSE of her failure to obey my commands”


47 posted on 09/20/2013 7:06:28 AM PDT by Mr. K (Lies, Damned Lies, Statistics, and then Democrat Talking Points.)
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To: rawhide
Who decides what a ‘lawful order’ is?

A judge, long after the fact.

There are good cops and bad ones. This one seems on his way to "bad" but not quite there yet.

Bad cops are like the kind who wanted to confiscate one of my musical instruments at a traffic stop because I could not immediately produce a receipt for it.

That encounter did not end well for that cop.

48 posted on 09/20/2013 8:58:58 AM PDT by superloser
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To: cherry

A guy was murdered in my town a couple of weeks ago.

I know the cops are spending more time writing traffic tickets than trying to find the Trayvons who did it.


49 posted on 09/20/2013 12:33:13 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Why haven't we heard from the 30 Benghazi survivors?)
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To: JPG
She chose to play games and undead in handcuffs, booked, with lawyers, court and hassles in her future. There are hills to die on; this one isn't it.

Oh, I agree she was being smart -- playing games. That does not call for the reaction. I will not let cops off the hook so easily.

50 posted on 09/20/2013 2:45:37 PM PDT by BfloGuy (People who know what theyÂ’re talking about donÂ’t need PowerPoint.)
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