Bet the cops did.
Could be. THIS cop really, really finds his job exciting.
Posted on 04/15/2015 5:29:36 AM PDT by Whenifhow
It’s a phrase few Americans ever have the occasion to say: “I’m really getting pulled over by a tank right now.” The reasons why the Florida man said it are just as eyebrow-raising as the fact that he was pulled over by a “tank” in the first place.
The whole encounter was captured on video.
The Gainesville Sun reported Monday on the story of 23-year-old Lucas Jewell, a self-professed Navy veteran and Gainesville City Commission candidate, who was pulled over by sheriff’s deputies in an armored personnel vehicle after a University of Florida football game Saturday.
At first, Jewell thought he’d been pulled over just because he’d made an obscene gesture at the cops — what the cops called an “improper hand gesture.” But the deputies had an additional reason.
“It appeared that the young lady [in the passenger seat] was giving you fellatio,” one told Jewell. For his part, Jewell was in disbelief.
“I was surprised…that we needed tanks to drive down our streets,” he said, explaining that he’d made the rude gesture because he didn’t approve of police militarization. “I thought this was a safe community, I didn’t know we were in Iraq.”
“That’s an armored vehicle, not a tank,” one of the deputies responded. “You were in the Navy and you think that’s a tank?”
When deputies instructed Jewell to spit out his sunflower seeds they told him not to spit on them. “I’m sorry sir, I mean no disrespect,” Jewell responded.
“How am I a ‘sir’ now?” one deputy shot back. “You were just flicking us off!”
Jewell vehemently protested that he was not, in fact, in the middle of a sexual act as the deputies alleged. His phrasing was a little blunt.
“Do you see my pants?” Jewell said. “I don’t even have a boner.”
He claimed his female passenger was merely sleeping on his lap.
Watch video from the encounter below:
Video 5:35 Minutes Man gets pulled over by armored car for flipping cops off https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7L1bPdGYYM
Jewell was let off with warnings and deputies filed an “informational” report on the incident.
The Alachua County Sheriff’s Office confirmed to the Sun that it is launching an investigation into the incident.
The sheriff’s office also noted that the armored vehicle had been called out for regular security at the football game and was not normally used as a road patrol vehicle.
Jewell told the Sun he plans to file an official complaint, given the possible free speech violation stemming from deputies pulling him over for the hand gesture.
Florida Man Flicks Off Cops in a ‘Tank.’ They Quickly Pull Him Over and Accuse His Female Passenger of Doing Something Disgusting
Video 5:35 Minutes
Man gets pulled over by armored car for flipping cops off
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7L1bPdGYYM
Bet the cops did.
Yes...sure, she was asleep in his lap.
It’s not illegal to make rude gestures in public to cops in Florida?
:: Accuse His Female Passenger of Doing Something Disgusting ::
Oh, oh! Here come the sodomites and the coprophiliacs!
Who’s to say that a “loving act” is disgusting?
I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt. Few people are so stupid as to flip off the cops while getting some in the front seat.
This ‘deputy’ self-conflicted himself at least once. First it was “improper hand gesture” trying to relate that to the fallback rules for turning, stopping, etc. when the turn signals aren’t working. Then a couple minutes in, he says “that’s why you’re being stopped today....” as the driver explains the female was not doing what the officer implied.
This is a BS stop and those two who pulled over the car need to be sanctioned.
Sort.of.a punk, but I do think he has a point - it’s weird and worrisome for cops to go around, routinely dressed up in kooky, hi-speed clothes, pretending like they’re SEAL Team 6, but minus all the troublesome excercise.
Put on the clothes, drive the vehicle and it puts semi-kooks into Full Kook Mode - they LOOK for confrontation.
They neverrrr thought he was “signalling traffic”, that was a lie.
Where does it say in the DMV manual Road Willies are against the rules? :0)
:: Bet the cops did. ::
I’ll need photo and/or video evidence of the passenger-in-question to make a final determination, your honor.
Ping to Laz for affirmation of the request...
I agree. Rambos out on the town with the excuse to bluster.
In today’s world of “cell-phone use” is equivalent to “drunk driving”, I suppose they would try to charge the driver with...ummmmm...distracted operation of a motor vehicle?
He kept saying it was a tank, even when the cops corrected him on that score. Typical punk democrap. They should’ve asked him what his MOS was when he claimed he had been an air traffic controller in the Navy. I’ll eat my hat if that dumb hippie drug addict was ever in the service.
Yep.
TOO MANY WEAPONIZED COPS.
WHY does ANY cop need full-auto..???
People are getting their eyes put out.
This is headed in a very bad direction.
“You see that punk..?! WE’RE THE BOSS..!!” and, whoop whoop, they pull him over.
Yeah...I know. But they really stopped him because he flipped them off. The other stuff is BS.
When you go out into the public among the citizens dressed like that and armed and protected like that you are nothing more than oppressing tyrants. We already have a military; they are in no way, shape or form equivalent to that nor its replacement IMO.
I think it probably falls under “distracted driving” - not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Obviously a Grayson voter.
Bet the cops did.
Could be. THIS cop really, really finds his job exciting.
If you seem to be giving a turn signal you are expected to make a turn.
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