| "I don't need a reason to pull you over!! Oh cortne mon frere! You DO need a reason. As a matter of fact you need a pretty friggin' good reason to stop me. That reason needs to be much more compelling to a jury of my peers than your mere curiosity about who I am and what I'm up to. It's called REASONABLE SUSPICION and it falls just below PROBABLE CAUSE on the American legal scale of proof. And you had better be able to articulate this reasonable suspicion in a court of law if you expect any arrest you make to stand up. To your anonymous commentor: A man doesn't rise to the rank of Sergeant on a police force without serving a significant amount of time. This "questionable behavior" from the Sgt very likely wasn't a isolated incident either. He's an abuser of the statutory power bestowed upon him. Why should you have a problem with this kid, or anyone else for that matter installing his own camera or recording device to protect himself from someone who would use their official capacity to abuse his Constitutional rights as a free citizen of this country? He obviously had a reason to believe that this type of thing might occur. Now why do you think that is?? I guarantee you, this cop has a reputation for behaving just as he did on this tape. I would also be willing to bet that, as a supervisor, he has been instrumental in the propagation if not the cultivation of this same attitude among the junior members of his force. It's probable that this type of behavior is more common than the brass would care to admit. As a matter of fact, I'd be interested to know how many complaints of this type of behavior from it's officers, this particular department has "processed"...and by "processed" I mean "swept under the rug"...or more officially, "investigated and deemed without merit." I believe most Law Enforcement Officers are of sound moral character. But it is assholes like this, that make the work of honest Police Officers harder by instilling a level of distrust among its citizenry. "Libertyplease" was dead on....we are not to be in servitude to our own public servants. The statutory power to relieve another of his liberty is one that should be wielded with respect and deep sense of responsibility and service. And it is the right...nay the DUTY of ordinary citizens to be watchful of anyone who holds such power.To this 20 year old kid....I say RIGHT ON! Well done.
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