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Title: Citizen Pulls Over Off-Duty Cop for Speeding, Cop Says he Can Speed Because, “I’m the Police”
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Free Thought Project
URL Source: http://thefreethoughtproject.com/ci ... cruiser-cops-excuse-im-police/
Published: May 6, 2015
Author: Matt Agorist
Post Date: 2015-05-07 08:06:15 by Deckard
Keywords: None
Views: 4405
Comments: 16
A series of YouTube videos was brought to the attention of the Free Thought Project which shows a vigilante citizen pulling over a Minneapolis police officer for driving at excessive speeds. The citizen, who goes by the name Travis, witnessed the officer drive by him at a high rate of speed. So, he turned on his camera and decided to document the hypocrisy. In the first video, Travis documents the officer driving nearly 20 mph over the posted speed limit. Travis then continues to follow the officer and documents his speed as they move through different speed zones. At this point, Travis explains, the officer’s wife gets the car to stop. I followed the officer for about 4+ miles while his wife (at least he said it was his wife) was equally speeding. At the end, she nearly cut him off and I thought she was doing the same thing I was… Trying to get him to SLOW DOWN! Once he realized I was following him, he just got out of his car and that is what you see. The video below is that officer’s reaction to being pulled over. Upon stopping the officer, who refused to give his name, was very aggressive as he walked toward Travis’ car. “You got a problem?” asks the officer. “Yes I do,” says Travis. “You were driving 56 miles per hour in a 40 mile per hour zone without any warning lights. That’s completely unsafe.” “Is it? I’m the police,” says the officer implying that he is above the law and not subject to the same laws as the average citizen. This officer did not have his lights on, nor was he responding to a call. In fact, he admitted the car that was also speeding along next to him belonged to his wife. During the exchange, the officer’s belligerence level decreases, presumably because he had a camera in his face. He eventually responds to the third request for his badge number. Travis explains that all he wanted was the officer to acknowledge that he is not above the law and to admit he made a mistake. But this never happened. As the two men part ways, Travis pulls past the officer’s wife, who seemed less than enthused as she appeared to have yelled, ‘Fuck off,’ as he drives on. Travis explains on his YouTube channel that he tried multiple times to file a complaint, but it was to no avail. Travis said: I called the police to try and file a formal complaint and both times got transferred multiple times until they hung up on me. I have that recorded (and told them the call was recorded) as well. Police require we “pay” them money when they do wrong. While I don’t expect this police officer to pay me $145 for catching his 20 mph speeding violation (or there abouts), I do expect an acknowledgement that he was doing wrong and an apology.
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#1. To: Deckard (#0)
Someone committing a crime to catch a crime being committed....ah, that is your type of person.
So you agree the cop was committing a crime by speeding, and endorse the double standard that it doesn't matter, because he's a cop.
https://www.youtube.com/user/JimmyJustice4753/videos You would get a kick out of Jimmy Justice busting the cops/meter maids.
Nope! You want to ask me what I think, then I wil tell you. But don't try to tell me what I think.
I like Jimmy Justice. I saw one of his videos a while back where some meter maid was getting coffee or something and blocking the firelane while a firetruck needed the space. Then there was the cop parking illegally on a shopping trip with his wife.
Are you're telling me what to do?
Are you're telling me what to do? Nope. I'm telling you what you can't do.
You prohibitionist nanny-state fascists love doing that, don't you?
What Gatlin is thinking.... Lindsey Graham has said he is 98.6% sure to run for presient, and on a different path on immigration. Your gif shows nothing about this....your gif needs to be updated. Riddle: What do you call someone who's really behind the times? Knowledgeable people with insight will answer: hondo68!
"Reefer Madness" Gatlin.
you can never engage in a conversation without using marijuana in one way or another....can you, pothead?
Still trying to tell others what to do - eh fascist boy?
Indeed, just like a bull headed cop. Let's see how well telling me what I can't do works. Your first comment here was both an acknowledgement of a cop committing a crime, as well as mockery for someone wanting to keep the cop accountable for it. So ordinary citizens keeping cops accountable is just a joke for you, just as we see it is on so many vids of cops going nuclear when they find out they are being recorded. It's the same basic attitude, albeit with a bit more levity here. That is what you posted, and that is what you were thinking.
... that was definitely not what I was thinking. And let's see how well telling me what I think works. I can tell you what I was thinking...but you probably don't want to know that since you have arrived at your own conclusion.
Some folks are just hard to reach, but that does not mean one should stop trying.
Travis then continues to follow the officer and documents his speed as they move through different speed zones.
#2. To: Gatlin (#1)
Someone committing a crime to catch a crime being committed....ah, that is your type of person.
#3. To: Deckard, Gatlin, Pinguinite (#0)
#4. To: Pinguinite (#2)
(Edited)
So you agree the cop was committing a crime by speeding, and endorse the double standard that it doesn't matter, because he's a cop.
#5. To: Pericles (#3)
Justice busting the cops/meter maids.
#6. To: Gatlin (#4)
But don't try to tell me what I think.
#7. To: Pinguinite (#6)
(Edited)
But don't try to tell me what I think.
#8. To: Gatlin, Pinguinite, hondo68 (#7)
I'm telling you what you can't do.
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#9. To: Deckard, Gatlin, Pinguinite (#8)
The D&R terrorists hate us because we're free, to vote second party
"We (government) need to do a lot less, a lot sooner" ~Ron Paul
#10. To: hondo68 (#9)
#11. To: Gatlin, hondo68 (#10)
What do you call someone who's really behind the times?
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#12. To: Deckard (#11)
#13. To: Gatlin (#12)
“Truth is treason in the empire of lies.” - Ron Paul
Americans who have no experience with, or knowledge of, tyranny believe that only terrorists will experience the unchecked power of the state. They will believe this until it happens to them, or their children, or their friends.
Paul Craig Roberts
#14. To: Gatlin (#7)
I'm telling you what you can't do.
#15. To: Pinguinite (#14)
(Edited)
#16. To: Deckard (#13)
Still trying to tell others what to do - eh fascist boy?
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