You forget the part where the guy refuses to sign, authorizing the cop to arrest him.
Or the part where he acts irrationally.
Or the part where the guy refuses to submit to the officer’s arrest/detention.
Or the part where he starts walking back to his car, also known as the “lunge area”.
The guy had every right to a) sign the damn ticket and b) show up in court and contest said ticket.
I hate jackbooted thuggery as much as anyone else, having experienced it in my youth, but traffic stops aren’t the time for Constitutional Q&A.
And all this was was a young kid with his family going relatively slowly, judging by how quickly and surely he brought his car to a stop well to the side of the road. He was insistent that he wasn't in the wrong - in other words that he is a citizen that should be respected enough to be listened to - but the officer ramped things up way too quickly and "punished" him for not being subservient.
Every citizen has the right to know why he is being apprehended and/or arrested. Every citizen has the right to be respected until he or she proves otherwise.
An officer of the law has a special duty to respect all other citizens and if they ask why they are being apprehended.
It's the foundation of our whole government and if we decide that we're just police officers and people whole are compelled to obey police officers, it starts to look like Germany in 1939.
I have helped a police officer in L.A once when his supect was overcoming him and his partner wasn't anywhere nearby, so I'm not anticop.
Cops like this guy shouldn't be allowed to serve anymore and this video should be part of the training that officers receive to show what a bad example looks like..