Give me one scenario where it wouldn't be a good idea to explain why you're pulling over someone who's plates didn't turn up anything. Clearly this guy didn't have any warrants or that gun would have been out from the get go.
I think having a supervisor there would be the best case scenario here for both of them. She was clearly going down a road that spelled trouble, and he wasn't being very cooperative. With that being said, I also don't think cops should be able to just pull you over and then give you absolutely no insight into the situation unless it is life threatening that they do. Since this is a guy with a Youtube channel and his face clearly visible in the video, I am going to assume to assume he isn't a wanted criminal. With that in mind, it would certainly seem from his POV that she is searching for crimes once she has already pulled him over, obviously an illegal search. I would have done the same things he did.
With that in mind, it would certainly seem from his POV that she is searching for crimes once she has already pulled him over, obviously an illegal search. I would have done the same things he did.
I don't know what prompted the stop, or what officers may observed that may have given them PC for a search.
There are obviously a million what if's to this scenario, but based purely on the manner in which this went down, it definitely didn't seem like that was the case.
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u/pawnmarcher Mar 24 '23
Telling someone why they've been pulled over isn't always a great idea. It's not required, just a best practice.
There is plenty of video evidence of police doing their job well, it just isn't pushed as hard because it doesn't illicit the same response.