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Cop should have approached the motorcyclist while displaying his badge in plain sight while keeping his gun handy but out of sight. So I would say the cop was out of line. But the motorcyclist strikes me as being less than honest. He says the claim that he was riding 100 mph was a "fabrication" and "exaggeration" so then he must have known the speed he was riding at. But he doesn't say. Maybe it was 90 mph? Maybe 80 mph? I'd say it was likely he was riding in an unsafe and reckless manner which is why the cop pulled him over. So he doesn't exactly strike me as being an upstanding citizen. And now I'll bet he's angling for a nice fat settlement courtesy of the taxpayers of that jurisdiction.
Well the lights in his car were obviously flashing. How long had he followed him with them flashing without the biker seeing him? Should the gun have been drawn? No. But the biker was surely in another world to not have seen lights in his rear view. I would think that someone who rides a bike would be constantly observing their surroundings, especially coming up to a stop light. And if he had been paying attention, random people don't have blue and red lights flashing in their cars, that is illegal. If the dude was doing 100+ then he is an idiot.
Detectives should not be doing traffic stops unless the driver is doing something so egregious and unsafe.
Do you have a link to a video that shows the car the cop exited out of had flashing red / blue lights ?
Please link it here.
In the original video the biker actually turns his head back towards the car (which I missed before) and there are no flashing lights. You can only see this for about 1 second.
The video looks like a robbery to me.
Also, isn't police protocol designed to protect the public and the police ? Sooner or later one of these cops are going to get blown away.
I also will bet a million dollars that this cop would never have rolled up like that on some one wearing "colors".
Do you have a link to a video that shows the car the cop exited out of had flashing red / blue lights ?
Please link it here.
In the original video the biker actually turns his head back towards the car (which I missed before) and there are no flashing lights. You can only see this for about 1 second.
The video looks like a robbery to me.
Also, isn't police protocol designed to protect the public and the police ? Sooner or later one of these cops are going to get blown away.
I also will bet a million dollars that this cop would never have rolled up like that on some one wearing "colors".
Well try watching the video in the OP at 2:10 on til 2:40 and you can clearly see the flashing blue and red lights in his windshield. If you cannot see them I cannot help you further.
Well try watching the video in the OP at 2:10 on til 2:40 and you can clearly see the flashing blue and red lights in his windshield. If you cannot see them I cannot help you further.
That's good info, but that's not the video I originally watched which was posted on some newspaper site or TV station site. However, there's still no video evidence of the police car following the biker on the highway and or off the highway. The lights only come one when they are both stopped.
You can not hear anything while on a motorcycle especially with a full face helmet on and riding at highway speeds. All the more reason to be watching your mirrors while riding. I highly doubt this biker failed to pull over on the highway if the police were behind him.
Also, in the conversation between the two neither one mentions seeing each other on the highway. If the cop was trying to pull him over on the highway before being stopped in traffic that's the first thing he would have said.
In addition to violating policy by pulling the gun, the cop also violated policy on traffic stops. You do not pull someone over in the middle of the road where yourself or the subject can get run over. Proper procedure is to wait until you're in a clear area then execute the stop.
Traffic procedure is the last thing this cop needs to be worried about though.
And now I'll bet he's angling for a nice fat settlement courtesy of the taxpayers of that jurisdiction.
Probably so. And that is the cop's fault and the fault of whoever it was that didn't train him properly or properly evaluate his psychological makeup. After the settlement, maybe the department will hire someone who is competent next time.
That's good info, but that's not the video I originally watched which was posted on some newspaper site or TV station site. However, there's still no video evidence of the police car following the biker on the highway and or off the highway. The lights only come one when they are both stopped.
You can not hear anything while on a motorcycle especially with a full face helmet on and riding at highway speeds. All the more reason to be watching your mirrors while riding. I highly doubt this biker failed to pull over on the highway if the police were behind him.
Also, in the conversation between the two neither one mentions seeing each other on the highway. If the cop was trying to pull him over on the highway before being stopped in traffic that's the first thing he would have said.
In addition to violating policy by pulling the gun, the cop also violated policy on traffic stops. You do not pull someone over in the middle of the road where yourself or the subject can get run over. Proper procedure is to wait until you're in a clear area then execute the stop.
Traffic procedure is the last thing this cop needs to be worried about though.
Thing is we don't know the answers to my questions and you don't know that anything is true that you posted either. The cop was over the top but the biker may not be an angel based on things posted in the comments section of his video.
That thug cop probably endangered many more drivers than the guy on the bike, who mostly endangered himself. And did the cop think the bike rider may have had a third hand holding a gun. Ego-driven, tough thinking cowardly cop. Again.
More outta control cops emboldend by president moron
Yep. This is a new thing.
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