Why People Hate the American Police By Charles Taylor (Florida)
There is not a police race problem, there is a police problem, at least in the US. Here is one of many stories to illustrate their cowboy, if not thug attitudes. Sure, we need them, but cops that are sane and respectful of human rights. If BLM had focused upon the bad egg police instead of going on an anti-white rampage, a lot more people would support them. Blacks are not the only ones to be apprehensive with armed, trigger-happy cops approach them, of any colour. Who has not been baited by tail-gating cops looking for easy revenue to collect? Covid, across the West, showed that the police were quite willing to engage in brutality to strike fear into the population. Here is another institution that has been corrupted. It needs drastic reform.
“An Arkansas State Police trooper is being sued after running out of patience while trying to initiate a traffic stop, and eventually flipping over a pregnant woman's vehicle during a traffic stop on a major highway.
Dashcam video of the incident was released this week showing the driver, Nicole Harper, traveling down I-67 when Senior Cpl. Rodney Dunn tried to pull her over for speeding. Instead of pulling over, she continued down the highway, moving over to the right lane and slowing down with her hazard lights on.
While the woman claims she was looking for a safe place to pull over, the officer ran out of patience. In the video the Arkansas State Police trooper is seen using a PIT maneuver "which caused Harper’s car to crash into the concrete median and flip," according to Fox 16.
“In my head I was going to lose the baby,” Harper told Fox 16. The video shows the officer asking her: “Why didn’t you stop?”
She responded: “Because I didn’t feel it was safe.”
The officer then says, "well this is where you ended up.”
“I thought it would be safe to wait until the exit,” the driver pleads. The officer responds: “no ma’am, you pull over when law enforcement stops you.”
Jalopnik noted that "Dunn gave Harper all of two minutes before he nudged her car" and that the driver was "less than a mile from the nearest exit with a wide shoulder."
In the interim, Harper did just what the Arkansas State Police’s Driver License Study Guide says you are supposed to do when being pulled over. “What to do When You Are Stopped,” number one says to use, “emergency flashers to indicate to the officer that you are seeking a safe place to stop,” Fox 16 reported.
“I did slow down, I turned on my hazards, I thought I was doing the right thing,” Harper said.”
She is lucky to be alive, all for a speeding ticket.
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