I completely forgot that. Sure enough, it’s in line #2 of the article. D’oh! 99% of the discussion has been the content of the video clip. That’s an explanation, not an excuse.
I would like to personally Thank You for being rational, intelligent, and admitting you missed something. We all make mistakes. We all are human.
Regardless to your choice of sides on this debate, I have much, much more respect for your replies because of your particular comment.
I think the key to WHY the officer decided he was going to place the driver in handcuffs and take him to jail was contained in the conversations during the earlier part of the video, where they were partially obscured by the traffic noise. We may never know what was actually said.
I can hear parts of that conversation, mostly the responses of the driver saying, “NO YOU CANT, NO YOU WONT”, back to the officer. So I wonder what the officer said to him to get that response?
We may never know.