Hiku said:
AnthonyW86 said:
They are payed by taxes and that's why people need to COOPERATE and not waste an officers time. And the woman clearly has an attitude, that's why the officer asked her if there was a problem. And even while he just wanted to give her a warning she assumed she was getting fined.
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Where do you get the idea that he was only going to give her a warning? I don't hear that anywhere in the footage. After he tells her to wait a few minutes while returning to his car (where he probably processed her information for the ticket) he returns to her car holding a notepad and a pen. I'm pretty sure you don't write out warnings. You give them verbally.
As for her attitude, look at it from her perspective. The cop started following her, and probably wanted her to pull over. So she did. And then she got a ticket for doing that. Improperly, but she probably feels like the whole thing was unnecesary. Being followed for what reason? Pulling over as they wanted her to, and then she was fined for doing so. If he was following her because of the stop sign, he should have told her this, but he didn't. She may not have noticed the stop sign, just like she wasn't aware that he had a right to tell her to get out of her car.
As for being paid by taxes, that's the point several people are mentioning here. They are paid by us, to help us. The police officer was not informative or helpful in this case. He caused her to pull over. He did not inform her of why they were following her in the first place. He let her frustration grow, and then he refused to answer questions, about why she was being arrested, or properly explain that he has the right to ask her to get out of the car for no reason, or that disobeying it leads to an arrest, etc.
And a lot of police officers, who are paid by us, waste our time, with nonsense pull overs. Me and my friends were pulled over one time for no reason, just so they could check all of our ID's. It took a while, then they let us go. We did not make it in time to our restaurant because of it.
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