Just because someone of your impeccable knowledge and credentials says someone is in the wrong doesn't really make it so.
Just because someone of your impeccable knowledge and credentials says someone is in the wrong doesn't really make it so.
Are you saying that if some POS in a POS Monte Carlo put on little lights and tried to pull you over, that you'd pull over?
Do you see any markings on that Monte Carlo? Anything on the doors? Anything special about that car in any way that identifies it as an official police car?
Okay, honesty time: How many of us would actually pull over and stop on the freeway for a black Monte Carlo with no police badging and tiny police-looking lights that's running you off the road in a very unprofessional way? I know I wouldn't. I would get the fuck out of there, and if he kept pursuing, I would pull…
Other than the lights, do you see one thing on that car that makes it look like a legitimate cop car? I wouldn't stop, in a car and especially not on a bike where you can't lock the doors and roll up the windows. And I would be shitting my pants in fear of whatever the intentions of the people in that car were. And…
Sometimes citizens have to take risks for the greater good of getting a dangerous cop with extremely poor judgement in a car who also has a gun, off the streets. The cops aren't going to clean their own house, you know. Not without proof, and an internet following of that proof.
You don't try to stop someone by hitting them and hoping that works. That's not how law enforcement works.
"I rarely blindly defend cops"
Did you watch the video...?
What? Honking your horn at someone who slams on their brakes in front of you is as bad as nearly killing a cyclist on purpose?
What laws did he violate? He caught a cop nearly killing a citizen...I think forgetting to use your turn signal or some such is a bit excused in that case.
As several people have already stated, especially if you're a motorcyclist without anything to protect you, you really SHOULD think twice before you pull over for an unmarked car that isn't typically a cruiser just because it has lights. You have no idea who the hell is driving that car, and I'd much rather deal with…
You are not required to stop for an unmarked vehicle. You can keep going the speed limit in a safe manner until a marked car arrives. On the flip side, they will not cut you any slack and will do everything in their power to make your life hell.
That and that tax payer money was spent on a Monte Carlo.
I'm sure some stoßtruppe were just trying to do their jobs correctly, too.
Thr car was unmarked. How was the biker to know that it wasn't just some guy with police lights trying to hit him?
Yeah! Hell, why not just shoot him from the patrol car? THAT would put an end to it!
Probably a community program, a lot of departments do race events here in the states as well. They are painted up like cop cars, but have all the required safety equipment and performance parts to match.
Seriously?
But their souls are being killed so it counts. The only troll is you, I was just stating my opinion. What does it have to do with whatever my job might be?