He told her he would give her a warning and then did not do it.
If you watch the video, she was driving in the left-hand lane. (Personally, I would avoid that in the first place.0 As she was driving, presumably when she saw him behind her, she turned just slightly and very quickly to the right, kind of a jerk as if she was thinking about changing lanes. My theory, just a theory, is that made him suspicious because he thought she might be trying to get out of his way. Actually, she might have been lighting a cigarette or tuning her radio. But she shifted slightly to the right.
At that point, he sped up and followed her moving closer and closer. She may have thought he was going to run her off the road. In my theory, she panicked and moved to the right lane where she would have been all along had she been smart.
He wanted an excuse to search the car is my theory. He may have expected drugs because she seemed to want to avoid him before she made the lane change. Took him a long time to sit in his car. He made her wait maybe 3-5 minutes. Maybe his computer is that slow? Or maybe he was trying to make her angry.
He was trying to pick a fight and she fell for it. She should not have fallen for it. But he did tell her that he was warning her. She was easily angered. A little silent sense of humor about this stupid cop would have served her well. On the other hand, he might have picked a fight no matter what she did.
She was clearly no danger to him. By the time he so rudely and roughly pulled her out of the car, he surely knew that he was in no danger from her. I'm glad we have the tape even though it was clearly tampered with.
The law can be elastic. With all the deaths in custody recently and with a movement beginning that is dealing with the use of excessive force by police officers especially against African-Americans, maybe we will get a more rational interpretation of the Fourth Amendment law in the not too distant future.
Maybe a swords to ploughshares voluntary movement encouraging people to get rid of guns and not carry them in the front of the car would help more than the efforts to change the laws on guns. Maybe bringing up the religious imperative to seek peace not confrontation would move some people away from the NRA Bible and to something more positive.
I'm just hopeful that we as a people will wise up.
But I think our standards for police behavior are too low. Police might be shot less often if the suspects they arrest thought the police could believe that the police wouldn't just love to shoot first and take a body to the morgue rather than have to testify in yet another trial. On edit, I am probably overly optimistic on that. There are really angry, dangerous people out there.
Other countries have crime. And guns. The Glock is manufactured in Austria I believe. And that country does not have nearly the crime we do. Maybe not as much as we do. But they certainly don't have the deadly violence on the part of both the police and suspects that we do. We can surely do this better. We have to. Our children's llves are at stake. And prisons destroy lives, kill hope and cost taxpayers a lot of money.
Still best advice is to obey the officer. But that officer made an idiot of himself on that video. Just an idiot. He looked so full of himself. Nurses in hospitals have to take far more talk-back than he got. Good heavens! That police officer is not suited for his job. He needs to look for another one.
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