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Originally Posted by AquaFox
Okay, I hope that cop gets fired and if he doesn't, I'm going to write that department a letter. I'm not the type to do soo, however that just totally isn't cool....
If you are a cop, shouldn't you flash your badge? he wasn't in a cop car and he wasn't in uniform. A plain clothed person with a gun = bad guy. He could have easily got killed for doing that to the wrong person.
... not to mention cutting off a bike like that is kinda dangerous.
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you have got to be joking...
First of all the off duty / plain clothes police officer did not cut the bike off, he pulled up next to him....and if you still consider that cutting him off it happened at about 5mph if that...secondly not that he pulled in front of the bike, but its pretty standard for police officers on traffic stops with motorcycles to pull infront of them to help deter them from fleeing the traffic stop...
I don't have speakers on my computer so I am unsure if the off duty officer verbalized that he was a police officer or not but even so a marked police vehicle and uniformed police officer was on scene at the same time as the off duty officer...it was pretty obvious that the motorcyclist knew the gig was up after he passed the police officer in the median of the highway, as he was attempting to exit the highway at the next off ramp...
I am not sure what the outcome of this was if the kid on the bike was just issued a traffic citiation or arrested at the scene...but in my mind what he did was criminal...at the minimum its disorderly conduct / creating a public disturbance
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
and therefore the police have the time and resource to raid the home and confiscate the property of someone who filmed an over zealous traffic cop.
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Over zealous how so, I don't know exactly why he decided to draw his weapon. We have the luxury of sitting in our living rooms watching this video and then forming our opinions at our own pace...
This over zealous as you put it police officer did not have that luxury, I can't speak for Maryland but the use of force continuum in the state that I live in includes presentation of deadly force as a part of the lowest level of force which is constructive authority...."When circumstances create a reasonable belief that display of a firearm as an element of constructive authority helps
establish or maintain control in a potentially dangerous situation in an effort to discourage resistance and ensure officer safety." NJ Attorney General Guideline...
Was it just a guy commiting many traffic infractions to have fun? Yes...but the officer did not know that...
I am sorry for getting off the topic of the privacy issue, but after reading through the posts I could not resist...these bikes are a nuisance, I live on a residential road where the speed limit is 35 miles an hour...several times a day motorcycles pass my house at a ridiculous speed...I almost killed one of them pulling out of my drive way because I thought the road was clear and started to back into the roadway when one was approaching at a fantastic speed and almost got T-boned by him....Most of the time its not even the speed that bothers me its the noise they feel they need to make at 2am in the morning...so on this topic I am going to be slanted to be more on the side of the law...