YT link
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-JNovWLcQvY
Same officer, different day
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QJSWshkoyps
Clearly the driver’s fault. After all, he committed a crime so he should know he can be killed for it. Isn’t that what we will hear from those who defend the police 100% of the time?
It’s a good thing only the police carry guns in Boston! /s
I can tell you that after 30 years on the force the cop is probably very jaded about citizens. not entirely his fault given how they see the courts do nothing about the same people they have to keep dealing with, but it colors how they deal with regular citizens and it causes them to regard all non cops as miscreants and always lying to them. Ive seen it in my family and friends of family’s cops. very jaded and cynical. Sometimes like this cop, dangerous if you dont know what is coming your way.
The driver could have killed someone. I can understand the cop having an overload of adrenaline to cope with.
Aren’t the majority of the roundabouts in the English speaking world in places like England and Australia clockwise, rather than counter-clockwise?
Heck, even Batman reminded Robin to drive on the left side of the road in England.
Was the driver a person of color or not? That’s all that matters here.
The perp gets out of his car, approaches the cop in a threatening manner.
Sounds like the end of a career with a mental disability.
Meaning this son-of-a-bureaucrat has been infringing the rights of citizens under color of law for decades.
I have no love, and no sympathy for cops like this. They should be in JAIL with the worst inmates they can scrape up.
The cop is a menace.
If the police officer was not threatened then he is guilty of communicating a threat.
Yeah.... In a perfect world the guy would have been scared enough to just run over the jerk.
Anyway, when I lived up in Massachusetts, I used to always wonder why everybody around the country referred to us as "Mass-holes". That video brought it all back home to me. The way that that cop yelled was the way a lot of "tough-guy" Bostonians talked.
So when I moved to NYC, I braced myself for even worse because I figured NYC would be the major leagues of "Masshole" behavior. But I was fortunately proven wrong. By and large, I find the people in New York (including the police) much friendlier than what I experienced in Massachusetts.
About twenty years ago, when I was still up there, I was pulled over in similar fashion by an off-duty cop in an unmarked car. Had no idea he was a cop and he never even showed me a badge. But he yelled and screamed and threatened to haul me in for reckless driving because he thought I cut him off in traffic. Ironically, this was a rotary as well, but a rotary in Lowell (which is the town where the driver in this video was from).
If you've ever been to New England, it's very difficult to navigate a rotary without cutting somebody off. Otherwise, you will just go round and round in circles because once in, nobody will ever just let you out.
How would people here react if the driver had run over and killed the detective after the detective threatened to kill the motorist? Self-defense?
“Traffic circles,” “roundabouts,” “rotaries,” whatever you want to call them, are as European as the metric system, soccer, and socialism. Personally, I hate seeing any of them in America.
Now ... replace the word "cop" in the above list with "banger" or "punk" and tell me what you would do. Or better yet, what do you tell your wife or daughter she should do if she encountered those circumstances.
I'm surprised the driver did not bolt, he should have. He actually took his life in his hands there by betting on the fact the cop was not a psycho or crook. Had the driver instead been a load of gangbangers they would have shot first and the cop's suicide would have been complete. I know from my area in NY what I would do. If it was impossible to back out and bolt I would have drawn and then all bets are off.
The powers-that-be should make this video a required teachable moment on how NOT to do their job and any dummies that justify it should be run out of the force on a rail.
The cop's comment about confiscating the drivers dashcam is just as egregious ( as is the two-party consent nonsense ). Fascist creep with no respect for private property and especially civilian oversight. Indeed he would prefer NO oversight. It's time these dashcams be made doubly redundant with simultaneous local storage and cloud mirroring. One copy needs to be kept far away from the fascist overlords.
Even if the driver was doing an elaborate setup/sting, the facts still remain the same. Come to think of it that might not be a bad idea at all ( but who the hell would want such a job knowing what a modern cop might do! ). Cops and all officials should always be wondering if they are being tested and filmed. Then civies might encounter more cops being on their best behavior, rather than their worst.
Wow, what a prick! I'll bet he's not smiling now.