Cops are the biggest pussies. They used the situation to exert their authority and lethal force control over someone not posing a threat.
Police procedures? No. The Constitution and Law? Yes!
Where was this?
Hard to believe that this is TX. Got pulled over in PA for a broken light. Told the officer I was carrying. He said thanks for telling me and that was that.
Only answer the questions asked. Do not ask your own questions. Yeah, you may have the right to ask why you were stopped but do you want to get home tonight? Do you want a situation to escalate? I don’t. So, it’s yes sir, no sir and I’m on my way. It generally takes two to dance and I’ll sit this one out, thank you.
Once it escalates you start spending money. Get arrested and you’re potentially out $10,000.
And cops sometimes wonder why they are treated with disdain by many of us in the law-abiding community...?
It’s reasons like this.
I’m not a cop. But I think I’d more more worried about the person who’s carrying and doesn’t tell me they are vs a person who does tell me they are carrying.
This cop absolutely did not have to be a dick about this. But he chose to. Why?
BECAUSE HE’S A COP, THAT’S WHY?!
something is fishy. In Texas all the LEO’s know that CCL’s have had a background check. If anything they have been known to get breaks.
I want the rest of the story...
I know what the law say's....but I don't volunteer that info. Too..many dumb cops out there.
My youngest kid...was pulled over in Tulsa, OK....because the cop didn't recognize her license plate. Here in OK...Native Tribes issue their own license plates...and she is Native..and has one. There are thousands of them...Creek, Cherokee, Osage, Pottawatomie, Choctaw...etc..etc...
The cop held my daughter there for 30 min...until a supervisor came on the scene..and probably educated the moron..and let my kid go on.
There has got to be more to this story. A lot more.
This is not the behavior of a cop on a normal stop.
“The dash cam footage aired by KPRC-TV is heavily edited”
Trust your betters.
Gee, where have we heard that before?
Notice the plural here. He might have had numerous violations on his record that he hadn't bothered to attend to. As others have noted, there's perhaps a bit more to it than meets the eye.
Thankfully in FL we’re not required to out ourselves as carrying if stopped by the police.
Is it the law in TX that you must reveal you’re carrying if stopped, or did the guy just offer the info?
too much missing in this story.
Heck both police officers could have emptied their pistols into the driver's back and the police department would still have ruled the officers didn't violate any police procedures.
When I was taking my Texas CCL class a few years ago, we were stringently taught that that when a policeman pulls you over for any reason......stick both hands out of the window and tell the cop that you are licensed to carry and have a gun in the car.
You will have no trouble after that if you are not guilty of something else.
Done it twice and both times the cop thanked me and told me they wished others would do the same. Of course, I live in Texas too.
Wow, that blaze site is a webpage nightmare.
Is there a youtube link?
Somebody’s gotta start firing up the ‘spoliation of evidence’ lawsuit strategies because you know there’s going to be lots of problems with police Dash cams and body cams.
- not being turned on
- not functioning
- withheld
So best to establish court precedence for the public’s favor.