Posted on 08/30/2015 7:48:18 PM PDT by BenLurkin
When a police officer in Dayton, Ohio, handed John Felton a warning for a traffic signal violation, Felton asked whether was stopped for something besides having out-of-state plates, according to a video of the conversation posted on Facebook.
“Because you made direct eye contact with me and held onto it when I was passing you,” the officer replied in the video.
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Felton grew up in Ohio but now lives in Michigan. His car has a Michigan license plate.
He told WKEF the officer followed his car about two miles and originally said he’d committed a minor traffic offense — not signaling more than 100 feet before making a turn.
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Felton let the officer know he was recording the conversation and complained about being followed.
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In the video Felton recorded, the officer gives Felton a warning. Felton then asks why he was stopped in the first place.
“I’m not doing nothing, because I have a Michigan plate, other than that why are you trailing me?” Felton said on the recording.
“You made direct eye contact with me and held onto it when I was passing you,” the officer said.
“What! I didn’t even see you,” Felton said.
“I am not going to argue about it anymore with you, sir,” the officer said. “I’ll just scan your license and give you a citation for the violation and you could take it to court.”
“OK, sir,” Felton says. He and the officer then drove away
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It’s not a tire. It’s an asshole.
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with that on audio and video i'd fight that ticket no matter how much it cost with and have him charged him with abuse of power
The last ticket I got was in Colorado back in February 1987. This was about two days prior to the National 55 MPH speed limit being removed and the Colorado Governor had put every trooper on the road to write tickets for every speed violation. I was in the Air Force returning to my base in North Dakota after a five week long TDY and was trying to get to Denver to stay for the night with a relative.
I was about five miles west of Grand junction on I-70 and had violated one of my main rules while driving, which was to slow to the speed limit ten miles out of any significant town and a trooper nailed me doing 58MPH. He told me that he took me out because I had Michigan plates (my home state) and also I was driving a new Corvette. He said I could always come back in 60 days to defend myself in court knowing that I would pay the $62 rather than have to take leave and drive well over 1000 miles to fight the ticket.
Colorado does that to folks with Texas plates, too.
And, Texas does it to folks with California plates.
There, fixed it. "Respectful" yes (common sense), "the utmost" Hogwash (subservience). You don't call them "sir" but you don't act like an a-hole either.
No, I don’t call them “Sir.” But I do say, “Yes, Officer.”
Although, thankfully, I haven’t been stopped for some years now.
My first cousins daughter got pulled over this last weekend. The officer didn’t stop or look until the last second before pulling out in front of here on a two lane road, speed limit 55. She locked it up to keep from hitting him and he got stopped before pulling out in front of her. She went by him and he followed her for a bit and lit her up, said she was doing 3 miles over the limit and then asked her why her eyes were red, well I was up until 3:00am helping my mom take care of my baby brother and I am running an errand for her with my other brother. He is 8 yrs. of age.
Didn’t matter, cop ordered her out of the car, did his DUI test which she passed easily, then didn’t ask for permission, just searched her car one end to the other, found nothing, wrote no ticket, wrote no warning, gave no apologies for nearly pulling out in front of her, in fact asked her why she braked so hard in front of him and she said I thought you were about to pull out in front of me, to which he said nothing not even a kiss my a$$. Handed her license, registration and insurance back and drove off.
The fact that she is 17, blond and really pretty is probably the more apt reason she was pulled over and harassed by this officer. My daughter turns 16 in a week and has been told she gives police no permission to search her vehicle anytime, that her father and his attorney says that is not possible. If they want to search then, fine search, they can deal with the legal ramifications later.
Furthermore, it’s not necessary for a police officer to explain why the arrest was made; according to the court, “only the fact of [an] arrest is a necessary element” for the victim to be charged with “escape.” In an earlier case, the same court ruled that a woman who jerked her arms away from a police officer committed the supposed crime of resisting arrest. Anything other than immediate, unconditional submission to the demands of a costumed enforcer is treated as a criminal offense – even when those demands are not valid as a matter of law.
From that perspective, all citizens are incipient slaves, subject to detention, abduction, and other abuse at the whim of uniformed slave-keepers.
A slave is somebody who cannot say “no” – as in, “No, I can’t talk to you right now because I’m on the clock and there are paying customers ahead of you.” This is because the slave doesn’t exercise self-ownership in any sense in the presence of a slave-keeper.
A slave-keeper is somebody who claims the legal right to take ownership of another person at his discretion, and use physical violence to compel submission.
This is the specific definition of the peculiar institution called “law enforcement,” as demonstrated by the following statement from theannual report of an entirely typical sheriff’s office: “A law enforcement officer’s authority and power to take away a citizen’s constitutional rights is unmatched anywhere in our society.”
http://freedominourtime.blogspot.com/2014/02/support-your-local-slave-keeper.html
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