Cop Uses Personal Go Pro Cam on Duty

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A cop using his own Go Pro Cam records a traffic stop which escalates into him throwing the driver to the ground when the driver opens the door into the cop. More cops respond to the scene. The driver is a lieutenant in the Internal Affairs department. The cop gets suspended. IMO-the cop did nothing wrong.
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http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...ened-next-had-more-cops-rushing-to-the-scene/
 
Poor reporting. He doesn't appear to open the door in any act of malice, and didn't even get an opportunity to have a go at the cop. The cop was on him before anything could escalate. Neither of them explained their positions well enough to start with. Pretty serious misunderstanding!

And they wonder why the cop had his own camera. Because it can show what went down. Like many other states and jurisdictions. But Miami is a bit backwards......
 
Not poor reporting but complete bullplop reporting.
"the man threw open the door" No he didn't, had he thrown it open, it would've hit the cop, it didn't look to even touch him.
"and lunged at the officer" - again, complete bullplop, the officer reacted to the door opening by reaching in and grabbing the guy and yanking him out.
"I don't know who you are, you don't jump out on me" - FFS, the poor sod was dragged out of his car.
"Bro, I thought I was going to get into a shooting" - yeah, because you'd already unclipped your gun as you walked up to the car. And if you really thought that, why did you stand inches away from the car and in a spot where the guy could so easily take a shot at you?
And the reason for the stop seemed confusing since we really see very little of the driving beforehand
 
sludgeguts said:
Not poor reporting but complete bullplop reporting.
"the man threw open the door" No he didn't, had he thrown it open, it would've hit the cop, it didn't look to even touch him.
"and lunged at the officer" - again, complete bullplop, the officer reacted to the door opening by reaching in and grabbing the guy and yanking him out.
"I don't know who you are, you don't jump out on me" - FFS, the poor sod was dragged out of his car.
"Bro, I thought I was going to get into a shooting" - yeah, because you'd already unclipped your gun as you walked up to the car. And if you really thought that, why did you stand inches away from the car and in a spot where the guy could so easily take a shot at you?
And the reason for the stop seemed confusing since we really see very little of the driving beforehand
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I had exactly the same thoughts about the lousy reporting. You have to wonder what reporters on TV are thinking when they make statements that are so obviously BS as soon as they show the video.
Maybe they just assume that all viewers are complete idiots or maybe they forget that in today's world it is likely that everyone will be able to see the footage again on the internet and actually analyze what it shows compared with what the the news anchors claim is happening in the video?

I guess in fairness to both officers, we don't know what was said between them that led to the kerfuffle but either way the guy in the car certainly didn't do any "lunging".

What I wanna' know is if this was shot on the cop's own personal GoPro camera and he knew he "bleeped up" his traffic stop of a superior officer, how and why did the footage ever become public? You might think, he'd put the camera away and left the resolution of the situation up to, "I said, He said" - "He did, I did".
 
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Dashmellow said:
I guess in fairness to both officers, we don't know what was said between them that led to the kerfuffle but either way the guy in the car certainly didn't do any "lunging".
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it would seem to me (from years of watching Cops reruns on TV) that there's a general expectation that stay in the car and don't move unless you're told otherwise by the officer is the order of the day, you're a gun happy lot and I could understand why he might have got on the defensive if the guy goes to get out of the car for reasons unknown

Dashmellow said:
What I wanna' know is if this was shot on the cop's own personal GoPro camera and he knew he "bleeped up" his traffic stop of a superior officer, how and why did the footage ever become public? You might think, he'd put the camera away and left the resolution of the situation up to, "I said, He said" - "He did, I did".
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I'd suspect he released it because he feels he's in the right in this situation, maybe the reaction was overdone but I think the guy with the uniform on should be the one calling the shots in this situation
 
Like I've already said, we don't know what was said between the two but I find it hard to imagine that the officer in the car wouldn't have at some point identified himself as such. The interaction between the two is obviously the heart of the matter here. In any event the kind of scenarios the producers chose to feature on the Cops TV show are hardly indicative of day in and day out policing and it's probably not the best place the obtain a reliable education on police work in a country one doesn't live in. LEOs I know were not terribly fond of this show. Perhaps the guy feels he is in the right and that's why he went public with his video but considering just how extremely defensive he sounds is the phone call he made, it doesn't support that notion.
 
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Was joking about Cops TV show, I've have visited there enough times though to know that I wouldn't give a police officer any lip, as you say I would think it comes down to what was said between the two that caused things to escalate
 
I didn't really get that you were joking about Cops but in any case my original comments here were really more about agreeing with sludgeguts regarding the poor reporting of the story than with the story itself. As to what actually happened, "lunging" or not, it seems like both men were seriously out of line. It would be interesting to learn what happens to the both when everything gets sorted out but that's unlikely based on how the news cycle works here in the US.
 
I think poor reporting is pretty much the standard everywhere these days, stuff gets blown out of proportion because ratings points are more important than facts
 
I agree with jokiin in #9 and this is indeed so sad.

Good reporters is the common mans one and only base of knowlege about the World he live in, and if man cant make educated desitions then society goes to hell in a handbasket.
 
kamkar1 said:
I agree with jokiin in #9 and this is indeed so sad.

Good reporters is the common mans one and only base of knowlege about the World he live in, and if man cant make educated desitions then society goes to hell in a handbasket.
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There are many good reporters out there. The problem is that fewer and fewer large corporations are in control of the media and they have an agenda that has more to do with their commercial and political interests than in good, common sense, open reporting of the news or discussion of the issues of the day. These corporations have essentially co-opted the Fourth Estate for their own purposes and are trying their damnedest to co-opt the Fifth Estate. Instead of good reporting, we get reality TV and Info-tainment.

Check out the graphic on this LINK and read the Wikipedia entry on Concentration of Media.
The info-graphic is mostly about the consolidation of US media in the hands of a few corporations but the situation is the same world-wide.
 
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True that too Dashmellow.

Here i see a lot of poor spelling, and its bad when i can spot it, and bearing in mind that the reporters use some form of word prossing software, and have a lengthy education behind them.

Allso i often see headlines witch have very Little to do with the actual story, like for instance some one walk into the side of a bus while it take off from a busstop, then the headline read " pedestrian allmost killed by bus " when in truth the pedestrian got a bump on his head and dident even fall to the grond.

And the headline should have been, "dumb pedestrian walk into side of bus as he was on his cellphone updating his facetwitt profile"

We just got a case here where some magasine had a guy at the credit Card Company feeding them information on what the famous ppl spend ther mony on, to me thats bad reporting, and it is scary that ppl are interested in that kind of news,
But in all honesty i have no idea how magasines like that can exist, as all they report on is inconsequential at best.

For you Guys i hope the comcast / time warner cable merger dont go thru, you do not need another colossus.

We have ourself created a gigant like that named TDC and its hard to get around them in you do not want to support them at all, offcourse we have a number of ISP and telefone and cable tv Companies, but many of them rent room on the TDC backbone, so some of your mony will still find ther way to TDC.

And i for one do not want to support that Company with as much as 1 dime.


EDIT: just had to add this for the fun of it all, it seem to be hard to become a Ex comcast user.
http://consumerist.com/2014/07/14/c...ation-before-agreeing-to-cancel-your-account/

What a phonecall, i have a some what simmilar with our TDC as they desided to double bill me, so in fact they was stealing from me.
 
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http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/m...dabout-safer-after-cars-written-off-1-6184866

This originally read (something like) mum starts campaign after righting off three cars and the original story made zero reference to what actually happened - hence the original comments being negative towards the poor woman, everyone assumed she didn't look to her right before joining the roundabout.
The woman comes on to tell her side - three cars belonging to her but she was only the driver once.
It also turns out that these crashes weren't because they pulled out on cars coming from her right but as a result of blind motorists approaching from her left - when she was already on the roundabout!
And hence, my dashcam video.
 
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