[thefactor]

um, yeah. he drove like that because he knew there was a camera on him. he used a police scanner to find a place where he would be questioned by a cop...a commuter lot at 2am where there had been a rash of break-ins. this kid is a professional agitator. this is not his first video. he drives around looking to get messed with and give an attitude.

[NittanyLion]

this kid is a professional agitator. this is not his first video. he drives around looking to get messed with and give an attitude.

Looks that way.

Of course, that does nothing to mitigate the officer's actions.

[Ken H]

I thought you wanted bad cops weeded out. Do you think St. George Chief of Police Scott Uhrig should still on the job, given the fact that five years ago an administrative commission upheld an accusation that he propositioned a 17-year-old girl for sex during a traffic stop in 2000?

[tpaine]

-- this kid is a professional agitator. this is not his first video. he drives around looking to get messed with and give an attitude.

You ever consider that he [or others] had been 'messed with' before?
-- Cops that mess with people are on the way out, thanks to recorders, and the 'agitators' they enable. -- And rational people won't miss that type of police work.

[supercat]

this is not his first video. he drives around looking to get messed with and give an attitude.

Cops are required to endure a certain abuse without letting it get to them personally. While it's true that almost any cop will have some limits, I would posit that any cop who can't endure even a fairly mild level of abuse without being driven bad should seek another line of work. If this guy is finding cops who fit that category, while not overly wasting the time of those who don't, good for him.

[robertpaulsen]

Bingo. That should have been the lead paragraph in the article.