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Originally Posted by PQ
According to the article, the camera would have never caught anything had the second car not turned his light bar on. It goes back 60 seconds before the lights are turned on and captures the footage.
It seemed as if the officer waited a bit to turn them on. If you'll notice, a third patrol car comes into the picture. I thought for a minute that the officer with the camera was trying to delay the film activation till he saw there was another officer coming. But that's just my untrusting nature.
Trajic.
Love how the lawyers are allready trying to put the kids at an intoxicated state. With pot found in the car and possibly leaving a party where there was arrests allready made.  |
I have a few friends who are cops, one patrols my neighborhood. I know they speed quite a bit without worry because 99.9% of them let each other go if they pull out their badge when they get pulled over. I know accidents happen however many can be avoided. If the cop in the video delayed his camera and or tried to pin the teens as drug addicts, that is a shame. Ultimately the "God" complex seems to creep in to many cops, and unfortunately it has with my "anonymous" friends. I've seen them change after only a few years on the force. That attitude that you can get away with a lot of things that all of us have a fear of getting caught and losing our license or paying a heavy fine is part of the problem with "cover ups", "character assassination to cover a cops bad behavior", and other issues.
I know cops are as underpaid as teachers are, however that is no excuse for these types of behaviors. I know there are good cops out there that obey the law and are truthful the majority of the time, however it is acts like these that simply tarnish those good cops that do exist. I would call my friends good cops who on occasion bend the law, however one day it could catch up to them and they find themselves in this type of a situation. I just pray for their safety and they know I will help them if they need it, however I will not look the other way and help them cover something up.. That is simply not me..
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Originally Posted by coolman
I'm sorry but I don't see how this is the officers fault. I watched the video many times and the car turned right in front of him. I agree that what he was doing was very dumb, but why didn't these kids see him on a well lit street with his head lights on. I'm sure his speed made the wreck a lot worse , but it wouldn't have happened if they wouldn't have turned into his path.
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The kids had no reason to suspect after seeing the lights at the distance they were when they looked to think the car was traveling 90- 100mph. You would have turned 90% of the time in the same scenario.