Posted on 06/21/2022 8:09:03 AM PDT by Recovering_Democrat
Video making the rounds on social media shows a Miami-Dade police officer’s comments to a man during a traffic stop, News 6 partner WPLG reported.
The stop took a threatening turn for the driver, who was heading to work.
“Give me your driver’s license, registration and insurance,” the officer says in the video....
The MDPD officer then made a very bold statement to the man.
“Simple thing, man. This is how you guys get killed out here, man,” the officer said.
(Excerpt) Read more at clickorlando.com ...
My dad was driving down I-95 when some idiot in a Porsche not only cut him off, but clipped his right front fender, sending him spinning across the median into oncoming traffic. A Greyhound bus hit him on the driver’s side. The State Trooper who arrived on the scene saw the car - bent into a “U” shape - and knew the driver was dead. They found Dad still buckled into his driver’s seat, very much alive. His seat was on top of the passenger seat.
Dad hated seat belts. Rarely used them. I remember him being happy that his 1965 VW Bug didn’t have them. This accident was in his Ford Probe. While he almost never wore seatbelts, that morning - for some reason - he put it on. He NEVER drove without a seat belt after that.
As for around town - a few years later Mom and Dad were coming home from a night out. They were close to home, residential streets and light retail. Speed limit was 35, so knowing Dad he was doing 37 or 38. The light had been green a while. Cars in front of them were going through the intersection. As they entered the intersection they were t-boned by a drunk in a conversion van doing about 70. They were both wearing seat belts. He hit the passenger side where Mom was sitting. When I picked them up at the hospital later that night Dad was physically fine, Mom had bruises on her right side. Dad told me what happened. I said I hope you sue the crap out of him. Dad said he didn’t think so. Exiting the car, he had to step over the very mangled, bloody body of the man who hit them. He hadn’t been wearing his seat belt and went through the wind shield.
Needless to say, I always wear my seat belt. It has saved my life - the story involves my Mini Cooper spinning through the air - and I will not drive until everyone in the car has buckled up.
What part of the video shows the motorist yelling?
I asked the officer who pulled me over if he felt safe or wanted me to pull into a weedy parking lot. He said, “Yes please.” and decided to just warn me. The milk of human kindness has its rewards.
According to my daughters they’re already here.
I had a career in uniform in NY State Corrections. When an inmate was given an order by me to pack up his stuff because he was being moved to another unit, or the box, and he argued with me over it, and put on a show, or he refused to leave, I used to tell him: "Look, we can do this the easy way, or we can do it the hard way, but either way, you're going to comply." We would also tell them, "You can pack your own shit, or the officers will pack it for you, but if they do it, you might not like the condition it's in when it gets where you're going."
Based on THIS video, I’d say this cop was completely out of control. I don’t know where the, “He was yelling at the cop” part is.
Where on the video does it depict the motorist yelling at the cop, as you alleged?
I made the mistake once of driving up the road to pull over into a parking lot for their safety. But he actually got mad at me for failing to pull over immediately.
So, you asking was probably the best.
After the above incident I pull over immediately as far as possible even if into grass to keep them safe. Since doing that I haven’t gotten a single ticket, only warnings.
Did anyone notice when the cop said, “This is how you guys get killed out here”, the motorist asked him to say again what he just said, but the cop evaded the request repeatedly ignoring the request to repeat what he said.
Begs the question, if his comment was referring getting killed due to not wearing a seat belt, why did the cop not say, I was talking about getting killed by not wearing a seat belt??
You can bet the rent, when he made the comment, the seat-belt had nothing to do with it.
I've asked you 3 times, where did you get that from and you just ignored the question repeatedly. That's what Democrats do, right?
Why are you ducking, dodging and evading a question based on your own comments?
Yep. Bad cops exist. But many more are just doing a job and may be having a crappy day. People do have those.
You know what? If you encounter a bad cop nothing you do or do not do will make a bit of difference ... but that doesn’t excuse making those other cops’ days more miserable than they may be having just because they encounter you.
I have NEVER caught a break because I have been polite to a cop, though previously being known by and a friend of a cop beforehand saved me a few parking tickets in college, but I’m not being considerate of others because of how I may benefit.
There is a problem though creating laws that are selectively enforced. There should never have been a law about such a petty thing. Make acknowledging the death and injury rate to the belted vs the unbelted part of license renewal and let people make their own call. But it is an easy item for the police to use to harass anyone that annoys them or a reason to pull over women to intimidate them to go “out” with them. Even if wearing your belt, easy for them to say they didn’t see it, just to harass the citizen. Stop making every decision a police action.
This is over a seat belt?
A wise man once said “The end result of protecting people from their own folly is to live in a world full of fools’’.
I have seen the video. Trust me. Or don’t trust me, I don’t care.
The video in this fake news piece may not carry the whole audio, but the motorist began yelling at the cop.
If you want to accept the video in this fake news report as the last word, feel free. I am telling you it is selectively edited.
No, I don’t have a “link” to the video... But my eyes have seen the video...not on the internet.
Cogitesne?
Having worked in northern Virginia about 30 years ago, I can GAHROHNTEE the idiots driving cars with diplomatic plates get by with a lot of serious stuff that would see you or I in jail for the night.
US citizens have been crippled and killed by drivers with diplomatic plates who then get off Scott free. At most the offending driver is recalled to their native county.
Nowadays the issuing of Diplomatic plates is done by the Dept of State, Office of Foreign Missions and there have evolved several different types of plates as shown at the link.
http://dcplates.com/OFM.htm
I concur with what you said here. At the same time the same DC police (who of all departments in the USA should know better) still conducts idiotic stops on diplomats.
She must be a fan of Bill Cosby’s Puddin’ Pops! Damn girl!
I think Pollard should see your comments.
In all my years I’ve never had a bad encounter with a cop. Sometimes they’ve been annoying but I did nothing to antagonize them.
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