FIRE EVERY DAMN ONE OF THEM...............................
Fed cops don’t have to obey laws, and this man clearly obstructed this agent’s right to do whatever he wanted to do.
Get a VERY good attorney. He might get them suspended and win a little for the retirement account.
He needs to be fired. These cops are required to go to court and testify. If I was a defense attorney and this guy was on the stand I would try to get this on the record.
When the middle lane (to his left) wasn’t moving, Ted should have known something was up. It could have been an old woman in a walker or a duck walking its ducklings. BAD driving by Ted.
But the cop should not have lied (nor did he need to).
There should be disciplinary action.
I am starting to seriously consider getting a dashcam.
“He should be dancing....Yeah...”
Typical dishonest scumbag LEO.
keep TWO cameras in your car- one theyu can see, so they act professional - and one they can’t see in case they dont
Having spent more than a few years driving emergency vehicles and also researching the actual state laws, Mr BP Officer is totally in the wrong as far as the Uniform Traffic Codes go, which are basically incorporated in most state laws.
Any legally authorized person may use flashing lights and/or audible warning/siren and deviate from the normal traffic patterns, directions, indicators and signals, but in doing so they “must exercise due care and caution” at all times. In practice, this means basically if you get into any kind of accident when your emergency warning equipment is in use, you’re at fault. Automatically. Doesn’t matter what you or anyone else was doing. No excuses. It’s the way the law is written as worded.
I’ve had state troopers, deputy sheriff’s, etc., tell me that they would rather run without lights and siren to an emergency scene, because if *anything* happens, they will be considered at fault, automatically. And their departments won’t or can’t back them up in that case. So they felt safer, both physically and legally, by just running silent, even if it meant exceeding the speed limit or other “violations”.
Although, in court when it comes down to taking the “word” of the officer or the citizen, naturally the black robe tyrant will often side with the officer contrary to evidence or other things. So the cop has no ‘downside’ to making up whatever will save his ass... unless someone has a recording that totally contraverts his story.
It’s also interesting to note that most people who have ever run equipment with lights and sirens agree that those things only make you more of a *target* for idjit drivers. Once you light up, you have to assume that *everyone* is aiming for you.
So this BP officer was immediately at fault because he got into an accident while running with lights/siren. Not using ‘due care and caution’. But unless some witnesses at the accident said otherwise or, as in this case, it was recorded, the BP officer’s “story” could probably win out in court. But he was at fault according to the UTC, and he was at fault in actuality, and it was recorded.
Then he lied about it. Fry him.
Did the cop get home safe at the end of his shift? Because that’s all that really matters here.
I’d feel sorry for the guy, but he shouldn’t zoom past cars stopped for no apparent reason.
But the clincher is that this guy listens to disco - definitely not good in the judgment department.
Ever notice how the USA is getting more and more like the freaking USSR ALL THE TIME...?
1. Mass surveillance
2. Bullying foreign countries
3. Frequent intervention in civil wars
4. Harassment of religious people
5. Spread of prison terminology into civvie life (”lock down”)
6. Disapproval of citizen photography
7. Widespread rise of militarized cops
8. Frequent declaration that controversial topics are completely settled and nay-sayers should be medicated
9. Have to use private traffic cams (insurance scams, lying insane cops)
but the judge would believe the uniform despite the testimony.