12-21-2018, 02:41 AM
As I said in previous posts recently, I am honorably retired LE with 29 years on the job. The rider in the video may have been hot dogging which resulted in the contact. HOWEVER, there is NO justification for making contact with gun drawn and pointed at the rider for only a traffic violation. In fact there are very specific rules, and very limited circumstances that allow any Officer to draw and point his or her weapon at anyone.
Those of us that have done this job properly, hate to see this kind of behavior, cringe when we see it, and know that it is a black eye for all of us that do it the right way. Unfortunately there will always be some in every profession that do not do their jobs correctly. I have major concerns about what the video shows, and I have no doubt that any other good cop would as well. I could quote chapter and verse about everything that is wrong with what this Deputy did, but suffice to say what I saw in the video excludes me from considering him a professional brother Officer.
Those of us that have done this job properly, hate to see this kind of behavior, cringe when we see it, and know that it is a black eye for all of us that do it the right way. Unfortunately there will always be some in every profession that do not do their jobs correctly. I have major concerns about what the video shows, and I have no doubt that any other good cop would as well. I could quote chapter and verse about everything that is wrong with what this Deputy did, but suffice to say what I saw in the video excludes me from considering him a professional brother Officer.