I have no idea where you live, but I can guarantee that where I am in Maryland, where I lived in Texas, and where I lived in California, people were NOT, as a rule, pulled over for not using turn signals. People fail to use them ALL THE TIME. One thing I've noticed is that if the front car in a left turn lane has the signal on, the rest of the cars probably do, too. But if the front one doesn't, none of the others do, either.
When I'm on the freeway, I typically only signal when I have already started to change lanes. That is because when I learned to drive in the San Francisco Bay Area, I quickly learned that signalling that you want to change lanes is the quickest way to get the people in the next lane to close the gap that you wanted to enter.
The one thing I see people get pulled over for is speeding. The roads I use are actually pretty well patrolled by police. I see several of them every day, waiting for people to speed. And I mean really speed--they overlook if you are going just a couple miles over the limit. Which I do. In a 55 MPH zone, I drive 55-60, everyone passes me, I never get pulled over.
“Yes, I really am dumb enough to believe that when an article says”
Yes, apparently you are.
Immune to sarcasm, are you? When an article says something, I believe that the article says what it says. It certainly does not say something else. Wikipedia quotations aside, that article STILL says that she was pulled over (and brought in) for failing to use the turn signal. And, as I originally pointed out, I suspected that the situation was more complicated than the article said. The Wikipedia article actually proves my point, that the article was NOT the whole story and that she did indeed do something besides fail to use the turn signal.
And you have issues... you seem obsessed with turn signal usage.
Okay, whatever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=URAZ3umt7v0
She clearly runs the stop sign at 1:16 of the dashcam video, right in front of the cop car. What was he supposed to do? Nothing? Let her go because she’s black?
And why are we even talking about this? The officer had not one thing to do with this woman’s death.
If you want to know why a person was arrested, read their arrest report.
Or be lied to by the media.
I’m sure one source is just as good as every other source. Right?
Right.
“That is because when I learned to drive in the San Francisco Bay Area, I quickly learned that signalling that you want to change lanes is the quickest way to get the people in the next lane to close the gap that you wanted to enter.”
You would have loved the ride home to Danville yesterday afternoon from SFO.