I disagree.
She is guilty of contempt of cop.
Did she refuse to sign the ticket?
She refused to put out a cigarette.
Dead now.
Justice?
There was no damn reason for him to even ask that she put her cigarette out.....she was inside her own damn car.
That was a pure power trip.
She was only going to get a warning, but couldn’t keep her mouth shut.
She resisted arrest immediately.
She had a permanent chip on her shoulder.
I am on her side. The cop was the jerk. He escalated it. Then later he claimed he tried to calm her down. He lied. He was yelling at her. He started it by asking her how she felt and if she was angry. Of course she was angry. She was getting a ticket. She said she moved over to let him past and then got pulled over. So what if she was angry. He then yanked her out of the car. Yes he yelled at her to get out of the car first, but why did he do that? She should not have been ordered out of the car.
How she died I do not know but the cop is the reason it escalated to an arrest. HE is the jerk!!!!
This is such a tragedy.
It looks like an episode of COPS. Where do people learn to ignore police officers like that? At least she didn’t get tazed or shot.
Based on her prior arrests and convictions it looks like she was addicted to alcohol and marijuana. When she couldn’t make bail after 3 days in jail, the withdrawal must have set in.
It’s too bad all of her friends couldn’t be bothered to help her out when she was in jail. She’d be alive now.
That was one messed up car stop.
I spent a lot of time in Austin, I have a son who is a cop, (I LOVE cops) and if I was the cop in this situation—well, actually, I wouldn’t have even been in THIS situation.
WTF kind of nitpickin’, stupid, ridiculous country are we becoming, anyhow? We waste our time with cr*p like this...when the illegals are pouring over the border and driving on our roads and killing people and we are dragging a woman out of her car for not using her blinker when changing lanes on a road with little traffic anyhow.
That woman was right-—what a worthless, stupid thing to do with taxpayer money.
When he stopped her he should have just told her he was giving her a warning IMMEDIATELY-—so it would have defused the indignant response. I would have been disgusted for being pulled over for the same issue. I would not have acted like this women now (with my more mature age) but if I was in my 20s or 30s, I probably would have been more angry than this woman, and rightly so.
We have given up WAY too much freedom to agencies which make thousands of rules and regulations to turn us into criminals for petty reasons......and it is evil.
Tsk tsk-—I know the importance of signals, but I don’t trust cars to use them anyhow, and I have never had an accident because of it, although many cars have pulled in front of me without using them........I drove in CA bay area for decades.
Be a defensive driver-—my father’s #1 rule on the road....”don’t trust anyone”. My father was extremely wise in many ways.
I vote that the cop had NO social skills whatsoever-—and was out of line in telling this woman to put out her cigarette and to get out of the car——that was abuse of power and antagonistic to the core. Asking how she ‘felt” was REALLY dumb and trying to escalate the situation.....why didn’t he just tell her IMMEDIATELY that he was sorry to stop her but just wanted to warn her that it was wise to use a blinker when changing lanes.
Just a waste of life—again. Waste of time. Waste of taxpayer money-—Waste of cop time, Creation of a more fascist, hateful nanny state.....it is just SO unAmerican and evil and reducing us to inhumane bots and cops into little Stasi bots for people to hate.
Another cop on a power trip who abuses his power the moment a citizen doesn’t lick his boots.
The driver was an idiot, no doubt. All the cop had to do was issue the ticket. There is no obligation for her to sign the ticket. She is still served and she has to pay the ticket or suffer the consequences.
The cop went power mad when the idiot driver wouldn’t submit to his demand that she put the cigarette out. He had no problem with her smoking until she back-talked him. Then out of the blue, he gives an unreasonable “order” to “put the cigarette out”. By what right? Because he can tell you to strip naked and jerk off in public and you can’t say shit because it is a “legal order” until some judge decides it is not?
Then when she exerted her right not to put out her cigarette, he went straight to DefCon 5.
This incident is 100% on the power mad cop. 100%. I assume cops are trained to deal with belligerent people who are NOT A VIOLENT THREAT to them. She was not a violent threat. Just a sassy driver with a chip on her shoulder.
The power mad cop blew it. The old “Do whatever I tell you to do, just because I told you to do it because I am the Law and you WILL SUBMIT TO MY COMMANDS no matter what.”
When did cops go down the drain?
Many people mention that the police no longer resemble police from their childhood. Could it be that the criminal element that has invaded our society has gotten far more brutal than anything we could ever have imagined years ago? It has become almost a war zone in parts of our country.
More like the cop had a bad attitude about the woman’s nasty attitude. Attitude is not against the law. Give her the ticket and get on your way, man.
There are a zillion nasty people with bad attitudes in America now. Democrats have brought out the hater in millions of people. Are we going to arrest them all?