OK for me, not for thee.
Word is gradually getting out about the arrogance of authority —not just among the dirtheads, either.
Gradually more and more of the people who would have been heavily in prejudice in favor of cops are learning to think twice.
Many of the law-and-order types and even a few boot-lickers now suspect cops are worse than the average person walking down Main Street.
He didn’t get shot because he didn’t have a dog.
Lucky the officer didn’t come to his house that night and shoot his dog.
Everyone should be wise by now.
This video is just a small example.
Any contact with those in govenrment use your audio/video and use remote off site servers to record it to, so it cannot be seized. It’s real cheap to do.
It’s for your own protection.
I have a police scanner but hardly ever use it. Sometimes if an emergency vehicle comes by with lights and siren, I will turn it on out of curiosity.
One day around a year ago I did turn it on and heard a cop asking for license and warrants on a driver for failing to use a turn signal.
Well the chair I normally sit in lets me see an intersection of two rural highways. It is in the middle of nowhere but still a fair amount of traffic. I have made it a point to noticed if cops use their turn signal at the intersection.
So far not a single one has done so.
He didn’t have a dog in the cab with him.
Cops consider speeding a perk of the job. I was busted for 15 over and the very day I paid the fine, I was passed by a car from the same agency doing exactly the same thing, two counties over, apparently a take home car.
After three weeks of trying, I will finally have a conversation with the police chief tomorrow.
That story made my day.
Bet the rent he didn't think the trucker would make waves when he did the trucker a "favor" by not giving him a ticket....Until they saw it on YOUTUBE, broadcast coast to coast
Once again, This video is just a small example. Any contact with those in govenrnment use your audio/video and use remote off site servers to record it to, so it cannot be seized. It’s real cheap to do. It’s for your own protection.
I wanted to report a local LEO for using his cell phone in our town in a school zone while the busses were loading up students. It against the law in Texas to use a cell phone in a school zone.
For the amount of extreme “attitude” the driver showed I am surprised this didn’t escalate, camera or not. I am no bootlicker... I have been the driver in this EXACT scenario (well, minus the CDL logbook), but filming the cop and making the point was important...
Nobody has mentioned this, but the trooper showed character in admitting his fault, completely. That struck me as being civil... I didn’t see that from the driver though.
Golden Rule applies, always.
This is a point of law that everyone should exploit.
When faced with the dilemma of recording without the consent of others, remember that traffic police are already recording their own dashcam recordings, so there is no presumption of privacy on their part. They have already consented to being recorded by virtue of their own dashcam recorders.
Now that you have your own recording to show them, that's a game-changer. In the past, they could go back to the station and have a "hard drive crash" that wipes out that officer's recording of that day only. Now, not only is there a back-up recording, it has already passed the acknowledgement test, because once a person gives their consent to being recorded, it's not clear that the consent is only limited to their own recording devices. If you have a recording device, too, then it is valid because the officer already does not have an expectation of privacy because he knows that he's being recorded by his own dashcam device.
Start recording everything on the road. Hold the police accountable to the laws, too.
-PJ
Were it not that the cop had already been recorded, the trucker may have been ticketed, tased, and given an attitude adjustment for his trouble.
Cops are really damned jumpy lately. As a personal experience, a small, stray dog came into our yard, started playing with the kids, really super friendly, got along great with my other dogs, and so we let him stay a few nights, and he settled in nicely. I would have kept him, but city ordinances said we’re only allowed two dogs, so being the good citizen that I am, I called the police, and I had the dog outside on a leash, not barking or anything as the policeman showed up.
He stepped out of the cruiser, and immediately had his hand on his gun...enough though the dog was nothing but pleasant to him.... I live in a small Minnesota town where virtually NOTHING ever happens. Other people have noticed this same behavior. I felt it was unnecessary behavior. Cops I knew of old knew the people of the town, knew the local life, and they had a laid-back attitude. Lately, all of these “new” cops have been little nazis. They really create a lot of tension, and they absolutely have no reason to; do the cops know something we don’t? Are they under pressure to act in a different way now?
I just don’t get it. It makes me uneasy. I would hesitate to call any cops nowadays.
The officer headed back to his cruiser, and Miner turned the camera on himself. “And that’s what happens when they know you’re recording,” he said.