“What right did the officer have to pull a weapon and point it at the driver, who at that point HAD DONE NOTHING WRONG?”
Good Question.
First, the officer told him he was doing 65 in a 40mph CONSTRUCTION ZONE, and that there were TWO SIGNS stating 40mph.
The kid wanted to argue over whether there was ONE or TWO 40mph signs.
WHAT if you were one of the men working construction? Would you be for the COP or the kid who KNEW he was GUILTY and wanted to LIE his way out of it????
SO, first off, HE WAS SPEEDING in a CONSTRUCTION ZONE, risking the lives of CONSTRUCTION WORKERS. (POTENTIAL MURDER)
Officer pulls him over, asks for his LICENSE and REGISTRATION. The kid ignores him for a while, then says, “OH, YOU MEAN RIGHT NOW?”
THE OFFICER SHOULD HAVE TASERED HIM RIGHT THEN.
SO, he was being uncooperative BEFORE he ever got out of the SUV.
When he did, the officer asked him to STOP. He didn’t. He kept walking toward the police cruiser, (where usually a sawed off shotgun is kept in front).
QUICK. There is at least one other person in the car. They may have a bomb, drugs, or guns, you don’t know, as you haven’t had time to search.
Now the driver won’t listen to your request to stay by his vehicle and is heading towards your police cruiser where there is DEFINITELY a WEAPON.
YOU Can’t keep your EYES on EVERYONE, WHAT DO YOU DO?????
1,2,3, YOU’RE DEAD!
Careful bud. Your brown shirt and jack boots are showing. You current or former LEO (kicked out for beating up old ladies)?
You might consider following up on one of those enlargement emails. Your attitude may get a badly needed boost, and you may not need to compensate for lack of ..... wellllll, you know of course.
Jerk!
Listen to it again. The officer says "You were going kinda fast. I need to see your license and registration." The driver says something like "I just have some questions" and then says "How fast was I going?"
Then, it is the OFFICER, not the driver, who uses the words "RIGHT NOW". Those words are definitely not in the driver's voice - they are the officer's words. My question is, at what point did police officers lose the ability to explain their actions to those they are ticketing? Why does a guy's question about how fast he was going get answered with such a gruff response? This was not some thug in the SUV, he was by all indication a relatively normal, decent young man driving a nice car with his wife and was able to hold an intelligent conversation about the circumstances surrounding his ticket. That's not the kind of "perp" that most cops worry about when they wake up every day, and this cop unnecessarily escalated the situation beyond reasonable limits.