KelliJ

Bullshit! Would you allow the police to search your car during a routine traffic stop? I've forced a cop to call in drug dogs and a good number of officers after a refusal to allow him to search my car. 3 to 4 hours later and most likely a lot of the taxpayers money being wasted, they fucktard gave me my ticket and i was out of there laughing my ass off at what a bunch of Barney Fifes they were. They cop told me that I could had saved them a lot of time had I only let him search my car. I told him to fuck himself, took my ticket and left. My lawyer got it reduced to a parking ticket. Sure, I could had let that bozo search my car but why? And while you were laughing at them they were, and probably still are, laughing at you for wasting 4 hours of your own time. But that's your right, isn't it?

Wow. That's not a very nice thing to wish upon someone you never met and don't know. Just so you know, I have had an uncle die of lung cancer and an aunt die of pancreatic cancer. Neither was anything I would wish on anyone.

So we agree the driver was an idiot. Good.

"Big cock power play"??? yeah, right. If anyone was it was the driver. Did you actually watch and listen to the video? Or did you just glance at it, skip through it, and assume certain aspects? Did you hear the driver try to tell the cop "You're giving me a ticket. First of all you're going to tell me why (the cop had already told him he was speeding...several times) and second of all we're going to go look for the 40 mph sign." Uh, I may be wrong about this but last I checked, when you are being issued a citation you do not tell the cop what he is and isn't going to do... With all the traffic noise, how do you know he didn't warn the driver of arrest? (By the way, the cop kept the driver in his peripheral vision, he didn't turn his back. But then, the guy was no threat so what difference would it make? ) The only way a person could feel the cop did all the escalating of the situation would be if that person felt the driver did nothing wrong.

It sure can! Good thing he tasered the driver resisting arrest and failing to comply with an officers legal instructions instead.

Any escalation of the situation was brought about by the actions of the driver, not the cop. The situation escalated when he refused to sign the ticket. It escalated again when he resisted arrest. It escalted slightly more when he got up from the ground and walked up to the cop. The driver was nor bewildered, just belligerent. The cop acted very well considering he was outnumbered by one person in the car who may or may not be a danger, and the driver who was acting irrationally about a speeding ticket.

Lots of people...cops included...have died a few seconds after they were in no immediate danger. If you were in the cops shoes, that is, you have told the guy he is under arrest and he refuses to comply with your instructions and even starts to walk away, what would you do? Of course, you could let him walk away but that would defeat the purpose of giving a cop any authority at all. You could tackle him, but you don't know what he has in his pocket or what the woman in the car is going to do. She may have a gun or knife herself. What would you do?

That is a matter of opinion. The guy had already escalated a minor misdemeanor into a trip to jail, where was he going to stop? Would you be willing to bet your life(if you were the cop) that he would stop short of trying to hurt you?

Walking away from the cop when tld he was being placed undr arrest was also very illegal. His argumentative nature, refusal to cooperate, and having his hand partway in his pocket were plenty enough reason for the cop to choose taser over trying to overpower the guy. Add in the fact that the cop was alone and there was a woman in the car who had already attempted to intervene. BTW, tasers are "less than deadly" force, not deadly. Isolated deaths have happened but are extremely rare.

I'm fairly new here but does anyone here actually pay attention to the video before responding? The guy knew why he was stopped, at :44 the cop says "going kinda fast" then the conversation trends that way. At 1:16 the guy admitts going 68 and the cop tells him there is a 40 mph sign a half mile back (not to mention the one he was parked by at the start of the video). At 2:12 the cop tells the guy he was stopped for speeding. The guy refuses to sign the ticket and wants to argue, something we all know is wrong. Thats what the judge is for. The cop tells him to get out of the car, he does, tells him he is undr arrest, the guy wants to argue and asks the cop "what is wrong with you?". The whole time he has his right hand partway in his pocket. Whether he is putting his wallet away, getting a smoke, or jusr resting his hand there we all know that putting your hand in your pocket when being placed under arrest is a bad thing to do. How was the cop to know he wasn't reaching for a knife or gun or something? With a taser pointed at you and staring you in the face a warning is moot and redundant. The guy was tasered when he turned his back and walked away, completely disobeying the cops instructions....LEGAL instuctions. The cop did not need to read him his rights at that point, legal eagles can explain why. My opinion is the cop was justified in the use. (He also told his cop buddy a pretty staiight version of what happened.) Anything that happened was because the guy wouldn't cooperate with a cop giving him a simple speeding ticket. He would be free, after signing the citation, to drive back and see the signs himself. If he wants to use that as a defense in traffic court he iis free to do so.

I enjoyed both jumps and am glad I jumped, but I don't think the jumping part is for me. I really liked the plane ride up and the other behind the scenes stuff that goes on. Before I went for my first jump I had no idea how much other stuff goes on to make it all happen! For now I'd like to just hang out and learn a bit.

Hi everyone, I'm Kelly. But most of my friends call me Kel. Either is fine with me.