Trucker Pulls Over Cop For Speeding and Gets a Confession

[Quixote1818]

This is quite entertaining!

[NYC_SKP]

1. I love this trucker, and he has an Occuppy mask on the passenger seat! (eom)

[Spitfire of ATJ]

2. It's even BETTER if you are STREAMING to the web. They can't wipe your flash card.

[freedom fighter jh]

3. "I wasn't paying attention to my speed."

Can I get away with that excuse?

[drynberg]

4. OK, this was cool...but, what if the truck driver was black? Would the camera shield him from harm?

[Quixote1818]

5. Precicely why you will never hear of any black truck drivers honking at law breaking cops.

They know that would end up as arrest and people would be saying "Well, why was he so stupid to honk at a cop? He should have known better!"

[markpkessinger]

8. Exactly . . .

. . . can you imagine a white cop -- ANY white cop -- indulging that kind of talk and attitude (even though the driver was right) from an African American drover?

[EEO]

6. Nice of the cop to do him all those favors...

[MrMickeysMom]

7. This dude and Guy Fawkes for head of the FBI!

Ha!

I believe this punk was spinning and flapping his hands before coming back to the camera to "play nice".

Well… Good for him!

I recall when I was in my early 20's (back in the 70's, okay?) seeing a local cop almost run over a school crossing guard and the 3 kids she was tending to… I chased him down, and pulling him over, informed him of what I had just witnessed. I took his name, told him to mind how he was driving, then went back to the school guard and let her take it from there…

Well… That cop actually ended up calling my personal phone (at the time, young, single, maybe not even in the phone book, because I hadn't lived in that apartment that long). He advised me of his discipline (as the guard indeed turned him in), and then said maybe I had a grudge against him because I had been given a ticket for speeding in the past (I had, so he discovered). He just wanted me to know that he "did wrong", but that I shouldn't "take anything out" on the police for the wrong reason.

I informed this ASS that my action probably saved lives, and I didn't appreciate his finding his way to my personal phone number. He backed right off and got as gooey and nice as this dude did afterwards.

So, there must have been something in me long ago that has sustained. I respect the law, I just don't want to fear it. Justice… that lady's blind, but we all have to have OUR eyes open.

Just thought I'd share that with ya.

[markpkessinger]

9. A little mental exercise . . .

. . . Let's suppose that the driver had been an African American man. First, can you even imagine any white cop tolerating that kind of surliness and back talk from a black driver (even though the driver was right)? Now take it a step further, and suppose that instead of the nice, Officer Friendly exchange we see in the video above, the video instead showed a violent, pr even fatal, encounter, resulting in the driver being seriously injured or killed. How many people, having viewed the scenario I've just described, would defend whatever violent action the cop had taken, because, in their minds, the driver had not demonstrated sufficient deference to and respect for the officer?