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..
And that's the key. It's ego for those guys sometimes. I slammed a cops car door once after getting out of the car on Thanksgiving morning. He had given me a BS ticket that was absolutely not correct. So he comes running up to me as I get almost back to his car. Gets in my face and says to go close his car door the right way or else. So I walked back over and opened it, then just pushed it to so that it clicked but wasn't completely closed. He blew a gasket. On the video tape. Was going to arrest me and take me to the county lockup for mistreating his car. I informed him that it wasn't "his" car, and that I was ready to go to jail. It would cost me $500 or so to post bail. But it was a career move for him, so just make sure it was what he wanted to do. In the end he cussed me out and got back in his car.