So A Man In Plain Clothes And An Unmarked Car Cuts You Off And Pulls A Gun...

[walnutpie]

You will not believe what happened to this motorcyclist!

The guy gets pulled over for speeding, he has a helmet mounted camera and films the whole thing, including the ticket, now he facing a year in prison for illegal recording the police

Forgive the site where the story is linked from.

Link to story and video

Whole link for anyone having rouble with the hyperlink

http://www.windsofchange.net/archives/so_a_man_in_plain_clothes_and_an_unmarked_car_cuts_you_off_and_pulls_a_gun.html

[snooper2]

1. Address for your link is not valid

nt

[fishwax]

2. it worked for me n/t

[walnutpie]

4. Its working fine for me...nt

[zipplewrath]

5. too many ////

delete two of the backslashes after the http:

[frazzled]

3. Sorry, but you should never pull over for an unmarked car

And the police will tell you that.

[DefenseLawyer]

6. Many states have laws which specifically prohibit unmarked cars

and plainclothes officers from making traffic stops. With good reason, as there have been numerous cases over the years of people robbed or raped along the highway by someone pretending to be an officer. Society has more to fear from a cop that pulls his weapon to write speeding tickets than from our police officers being videotaped doing their jobs.

[Raineyb]

7. I would NEVER pull over for an unmarked car. You have no idea who the hell

is behind the wheel.

However, it looks like the cop used a bottleneck in the road to push in front of the motorcyclist.

[TorchTheWitch]

9. He wasn't pulled over - he had stopped at a light

Did you not watch the video?

He stops for a light, an unmarked car pulls just ahead of him and the plainclothes cop jumps out with the gun.

[aikoaiko]

8. They need to fix that law. Any public official acting as such should be recordable.

Plus the camera was obvious.

I think the police will get smacked and embarrassed by this. At least I hope so.

The gun being drawn is debatable. There didn't seem to be the need to draw it, but he didn't point it at the rider.

Fortunately, there was a marked police car right behind him to let the rider know that this was a police stop.

[havocmom]

10. Haven't courts already decided that IN PUBLIC =no right to expect privacy from being filmed/photo?

Seems some police departments need to be hauled into court to let them know that IN PUBLIC is IN PUBLIC. If they can film us, seems the courts need to let them know about two way streets.

[aikoaiko]

11. I'm not sure, but I hope you're right.

[aikoaiko]

12. If shown that video and no other evidence and that rider shot that police officer before

he identified himself, I would vote to acquit. Of course, there may be much more to the story, but I don't blame the rider for backing away as the car cut him off, the door opened, and gun was drawn. I wonder how long it took for the marked patrol car to get there.

That's police officer should have identified himself immediately and shown his badge conspicuously. Those are reasonable things to ask a police officer in an unmarked car and plain clothes.


Does anyone have a link to the unedited video?