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Originally Posted by Baz
The side of the road is not the best venue for protesting what you perceive to be an injustice.
Busting the guy's window just because he was speeding? Seems a bit barbaric to me.
Should have gotten a supervisor out there and let him make the call.
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Originally Posted by john70t
I didn't watch the video. But agree.
Unless there were extenuating local circumstance, a little more time on the clock would have solved this more peacefully.
Let the due process sort it out.
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His window was not broken "just because he was speeding." He was
pulled over (detained) for speeding. Once detained, the cop asked for his license and proof of insurance, which he has every legal right to do. From that point on, he refuses to comply to any legal request and continually mouths off. Eventually, the cop decides to make an arrest and in order to follow through, he had to break the window and pull the driver out. The window was broken because the driver escalated a routine detention into an arrest, by purposely ignoring the lawful directives of the officer.
Sure, you can say the cop could have waited him out, or waited for a supervisor, but then what? What actions by the driver would make the officer think compliance would come, willingly, sometime later? Should he have waited? Guess we'll find out in court.