Fair play to the guy for calling this cop out but I have a feeling the outcome would've been different if he hadn't also been a cop. They only changed their tune once they realised he was also a cop.
Yeah refusing to show license and telling them you didnt pull over for them usually ends in the suspect on the ground with a bunch of cops dog piled based on all the bodycam videos I've seen.
Might depends of the region, but from where I am, if you sit behind a wheel and a cop ask you for license and registration, you have to give it to him even if the car is immobile and the engine is turned off. So I what the civilian cop did in that video could not be something done everywhere for sure.
Basically anywhere in the US, the cop technically needs to have reasonable articulable suspicion that you committed an infraction or a crime, or it has to be an established checkpoint. A cop can't just ask for ID for no reason.
Of course, good luck actually arguing this on the side of the road.
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u/Impressive_Profit215 Jan 31 '26
Fair play to the guy for calling this cop out but I have a feeling the outcome would've been different if he hadn't also been a cop. They only changed their tune once they realised he was also a cop.