I’ve always been a supporter of the police. Donations to the sheriff’s fund, etc. If I was ever pulled over for not using my signal...OK, I’d shut up and listen to the MF’er give me his power tripper lecture and then thank him for the citation and be on my way. Don’t cops have bigger fish to fry than pulling over people for not using their signals? I’m starting to understand why minorities are afraid of these guys. They may as well be dressed in white robes. Why should she have had to get out of her car..for what reason? We don’t live in a police state...yet.
see my #13
I’ve been pulled over for a taillight that was out.
I showed my license and insurance. I kept my hands where he could always see them. It was at night.
I gave no arguments. I offered no excuses or justifications. He ran my license back at his car. He gave me a warning and we both went on our way.
I’m a white middle-aged guy. I didn’t blame it on my race or any other nonsense. It was because my taillight was out.
She was kept in jail for 3 days for a lane change and an argument with a hot under the collar cop. Sick and outrageous.
” If I was ever pulled over for not using my signal...OK, I’d shut up and listen to the MF’er give me his power tripper lecture and then thank him for the citation and be on my way. Don’t cops have bigger fish to fry than pulling over people for not using their signals? I’m starting to understand why minorities are afraid of these guys. They may as well be dressed in white robes. Why should she have had to get out of her car..for what reason? We don’t live in a police state...yet.”
Black or white arguing with a cop is a losing proposition even if you are in the right. The cop is not going to back down and if he decides to arrest you he will or kill you trying. Some people, especially certain races, never seem to learn this.
SJB, having watched the video from the start, this officer was very professional with the previous stop and with her AT FIRST.
Unfortunately, as is prone to happen with some folks who wear the race chip on their shoulder like it’s everyday jewelry, she did not even give the officer time to say he was giving her a warning, rather than a ticket.
Some police departments encourage the officers to let the motorist vent some, he was doing that. However, he was well within his legal authority to demand that she step from the car as she was still detained. He would still have to articulate why he did it. His mistake was not clearly articulating to her that if she did not step from the vehicle he would arrest her for failure to comply with/obey the legal and lawful order of a police officer.
He did call for backup which was good, he did call again saying he had a resisting, that too was proper.
Extracting a motorist is tricky, because you can’t use mace, they are effectively blinded and will drive off, you can’t use a Taser deployment because they lose the muscular control to operate the vehicle if it happens to be in drive. Thus it’s almost always hands on if they won’t get out voluntarily.
He could have used the drive stun component of the taser to force her out. He did move her to the sidewalk, you don’t want to arrest or do any business between the cars.
Ideally, the officer should have just interrupted her and said this is warning, not a ticket. There would have been a small chance that she would have turned into sunshiny goodness, but I seriously doubt it.
He would have gone back to his car resolving to give everyone a ticket now, because some people with really bad impulse control have to eff up a good thing.
That woman committed suicide herself, sad but it was not murder as some keep alluding to. Now there will another GD riot when the officer is not indicted on some trumped up “social justice charges”.
Wait till I see the next young person that wants to get into law enforcement, I am going to so Gerber slap them so hard it will make their nipples stiff.
But we do live in a police state. That is why you comply and so would I.
Are you suggesting that whenever we get lawfully pulled over, we should just mouth off, resist lawful orders and the cops should just back away and say "sorry, I can see you're mad, you're free to go"?