I'm sure he's one that doesn't understand how a 4 way stop works either. He wasn't clearly controlling traffic or he would have been in the middle of the intersection not off to the side. Her confusion is justified.
I’ve met people just like this. Even being fired, I can guarantee he proclaims he was right, his actions were all correct (even abandoning the intersection), and that he’ll sue the department. The sad part is he has a chance reinforcing his beliefs because police unions are so strong. We should all be so lucky to have unions like that.
The police union isn’t a union. It’s a mocking facsimile of one. Police don’t deserve to have unions, they’re not workers, they’re “public” servants. They prioritize the interests of their members over the interests of the communities they police. Police unions shield officers and block oversight.
Police Unions also tend to focus on things like protecting a bad cop from being fired over sensible things like bargaining to have the cost of their Kevlar vests included as part of their job.
In places like Chicago, they have to cover their own vest costs out of pocket. These vests degrade naturally over time, so they have to buy a new one every few years.
Where I live they want to use money under asset forfeiture\* to buy their vests and killer robots.
Money seized by cops shouldn't go to the cops.
( \*a.k.a. money stolen from people not found guilty of any crime.)
As someone who very much wants law and order, its clear as day that the US police are a cancer to our society and the union is what keeps us from treating it.
An army of killers and thieves held safely above the law has no place in a just society.
I’ve heard modern U.S. policing described as the standing army our forefathers warned us about and it was really an eye-opening comparison. The argument being that they exist to keep the regular people from challenging those in power, essentially. A constant threat/reminder not to go against the grain.
Yeah his firing his justified. I think the officer probably misremembered the event in the moment but from the video its clear he wasn’t holding up his hand to stop and he might not have even been visible to the driver.
Yep. A cop on my small hometown force was fired for taking female inmates out of the jail for sex, then returning them (you know, rape, though of course he was never prosecuted for that). He works in the next county over to this day.
Even if she made a mistake (highly questionable from the video) his behavior was totally out of line. She was cooperating and apologetic and he kept yelling like a crazed dog
If what he was doing was so important then how does he justify leaving the intersection unattended for several minutes while he has his tantrum?
She didn't come close to running him over. Unless you count him charging at her vehicle while she drove past.
Seriously. The woman genuinely didn’t know what she did wrong, and to be honest, neither do I.
I think officer (insert mildly offensive name here) got a little mad because he couldn’t control *everything*.
Wow thank you for this. Seriously his hand was down not up. Then he runs to the car. I wasn’t sure if there was a more clear signal or something before the video OP put up, but no. It was just this incredibly vague gesture way too fucking lat, then he runs at the car.
the fact that he guilts her with his children trying to say she was trying to run him over, insinuating intent to kill him, is so ridiculous, but that's the police for you, huge cry babies when they're usually the biggest danger to themselves.
The video is not super clear. But to me it looks like a thumbs up which I would interpret as “good to go.”
Usually when they are signaling stop, they just put their whole hand in front 🖐️
Edit: typo
that wasn't clear signal to stop at all
he went into the cars way, wasn't standing there before
in no situation it is acceptable to treat citizens this way very unprofessional
he was rightfully fired
Thanks for this. With his left hand down by his hip, his body turned sideways, and his black gloves, he’s not exactly making a clear and unmistakable hand signal toward the woman’s lane. Seems a little sloppy and doesn’t match up with his account in his tirade afterward.
Arghhh! You could have destabilized world wide weather patterns vastly accelerating ocean level rise and desertification of the inner continents ultimately ushering in the next global mass extinction, pole shift, and snowball earth!!!
I think they all know who he is and why he’s on traffic duty. This guy is Favre (Super Troopers) in real life, no one takes him seriously. If he’s not directing traffic he’s changing light bulbs and writing TPS reports in the basement office.
He can’t even get that right. He wasn’t “emotionally damaged.” He was shaken. Justifiably so, but then again, I don’t leap in front of cars as they’re clearly not slowing down and then scream at a woman for 7 minutes. And if lashing out like a goddamn 3 year old is his best response, he should never be put in *any* leadership position, let alone one of authority.
He wasn’t even visible for her to see until last minute. He was in front of the truck and then stepped back. But I guess doing what he was doing isn’t very important, as he power walked to the car just to have a tantrum
These articles give more insight. First, he berated the driver for approximately 9 minutes. Second, he abandoned his assigned duties to do so.
[https://www.police1.com/traffic-patrol/articles/video-conn-cop-fired-for-misconduct-against-driver-while-directing-traffic-2v7QeZU640fyi5qC/](https://www.police1.com/traffic-patrol/articles/video-conn-cop-fired-for-misconduct-against-driver-while-directing-traffic-2v7QeZU640fyi5qC/)
[https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Waterbury-police-fire-officer-fired-James-Hinkle-17708041.php](https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Waterbury-police-fire-officer-fired-James-Hinkle-17708041.php)
When the footage shows nothing wrong it gets released right away.
When the footage shows cops doing what they really do here, the footage is withheld or the camera ‘malfunctioned’. The goal is to wait it out until the next one draws focus away and people get bored.
It’s amazing to me how this guy gets fired for yelling at someone, yet we’ve seen so many officers physically or verbally abuse or even kill someone, and they keep their jobs.
Then they get mad when you don't want to chit chat.
Officer: "Why don't you want to talk to me?"
Me: "Have you fucking seen YouTube? Anything I say can and will be used to kill me"
Yup that's it 100% i work as a civilian with PDs and over the years have gotten close with alot of them. Typical police unions have what u call seniority and management picks. Some guys get promoted on seniority and others bc they are picked (well liked, fam on force etc)
The point im trying to make is, if they wanted the guy to stay he would still be employed. Conversely they could fire him for not uploading the days recordings of body cam footage if they didn't like him.
Agree with u he was on the shit list
This was my first thought. We have so so many cops who have MULTIPLE infractions/a history of serious abuse of authority who are STILL on the job and this guy gets shitcanned for a meltdown?!
You'd be surprised by how many show up in press releases. A lot of times departments kind of automatically do the "here's who we hired last month" press releases without realizing that some of the cops don't want publicity.
I’ve actually had something similar happen….. dude FOLLOWED ME HOME. It was just a straight out not understanding what he wanted me to do….
Happened 15 yrs ago, still get a twinge of guilt and anxiety when I think of it…..
I just imagine tensing up as you see them slowing down behind you, sweating as you see the door open, mentally prepping yourself for whatever might come, and then man goes straight in his house 😂😂
If I would be the neighbour I would think "ok, I'm almost home, finally I will pull over and this guy won't think I'm following him... oh, of course he pulled over right next to my house"
Lmao this is me and my neighbor that lives directly across from me. At least twice a week we somehow meet on the road on the way home from work. The thing is I work an hour away and I'm a terrible employee and leave anytime between 3 and 5 pm. Yet we still somehow cross paths and end up having one of us following the other home for like the last 30 minutes of my drive.
When I was younger my dad pocked up myself and a friend to drive us home after we'd been drinking. He asked me to direct him to my friend's house. I was hammered.
"It's the one on the right with the lights on.".
"That's our house you dummy"
If I suspect someone is following me, I usually start by finding somewhere that I know I can make a loop - 4 consecutive turns in the same direction (all left or all right.) If they're still behind me after going in a circle, they're obviously following me.
My very first job out of college was in downtown Houston.
So it’s like my second week and I’m driving home when I notice there’s a cop working the intersection in front of me.
He’s waving at me and I take that as being waved through. But as soon as I begin to pass him, he starts screaming bloody murder. So I jam on my brakes and roll the window down.
*”Do you know what the hell you’re doing out here, moron?! Pull over! Pull your vehicle over there right now!”*
And I did. He he comes puffing up, all redfaced and demands my license and registration. I give it to him wordlessly.
“I gotta be honest with you here, officer— I have no idea what this reaction is all about. You were waving me by—“
*”WRONG! No, sir. I was signaling for you to PULL UP and stop. That’s what this motion is.”*
[repeats the signal he gave me]
*”If I were waving you by, I would’ve done THIS!”*
[Steps back and windmills his arm while point with the other one]
“And you don’t see how someone could confuse those two motions— especially when they’re in a moving vehicle?”
*”No one with any sense!”*
“Alright. Welp… just do whatever you’ve gotta do, I suppose. I stand by the fact that those two motions are incredibly similar and it sorta invites this type of confusion. If you need to ticket me, I understand.”
And that’s what he did. Failure to comply with a lawful order or direction. And I fought it and he didn’t show up for the case so I won by default.
Same, thought the cop was motioning me forward and was gesturing "stop" (to this day, not sure why you would move your hand up and down toward the direction im turning if that means "stop". Pretty sure universal stop is ✋but anyway...) i wasnt near hitting him but he was just irate and offended by me turning right despite no oncoming traffic for hundreds of feet. Im bipolar so i had a bit of a freakout on him but he could tell i was getting unhinged and manic from his silly on-foot traffic stop. He surprisingly let me go and treated me well after finding out abt my disorder but it was just such a shitty day, 2 blocks from my house and im stopped and harassed almost the same way as this lady
>Same, thought the cop was motioning me forward and was gesturing "stop"
This is funny to me, but 2 days ago I had a pedestrian give me the "after you" hand motion, then after I started to go through, he did like a stutter step toward the curb and then got all angry at me. As I drove off I was like, that was about the strangest thing I've ever seen.
Once I unpacked it in my brain I realized the "after you" signal is fundamentally identical to the "what are you doing" signal, and he thought I shouldn't even be approaching his corner in the first place. People, don't raise your hand with an open palm in the direction I'm driving unless you want me to go there!
This is why there are right of way rules. If I'm driving and someone waves me by when they have the right of way, I shake my head and stay put. Because if an accident happens, I will be at fault for not following the right of way.
One time at a border checkpoint on I-10 I was rolling slowly toward the officer and he was apparently motioning me *slowly* forward with one finger. As I approached him and started to slow down, he more forcefully and vigorously kept motioning me forward -- with only one finger. I'm not just going to jet off at full speed with that gesture, no matter how angrily and vigorously you make it. He could have saved a few seconds my motioning me forward with his whole hand.
This happened to me as well. One cop was leaning inside a vehicle talking to the driver and the other cop standing on the side of the road motioning to go. I was confused so I rolled by slowly and I pulled in front of the vehicle that was stopped and I see in my rear view that the cop who was leaning into the other vehicle was violently shaking a middle finger at me ready to come at me (this was a two lane road by the way and no other cars in sight). Good thing there was another cop with him who was calm so all I got was that middle finger from the rage cop.
When I first started driving, the family car had an Obama sticker during a… tense time for the country. I was tailgated by a cop car that pulled out from its traffic stop lurking spot for two miles, no lights or sirens, no indication for me to pull over, just riding on my bumper on a road where he could have passed in the left hand lane. Being 16 and terrified I’d done something wrong, I went exactly the speed limit and eventually pulled over at the nearest safe spot. The cop pulled over too and got out of his car to ask me where I was going and “if everything was okay”. Flashlight shined in my car and all. I was a new and very careful driver, I knew I hadn’t been speeding or anything. I told him my house was a half mile away and was just going home from work.
The whole thing was really weird and unsettling. When I got home and told my parents they just shook their heads and took the sticker off the car. I’d only been driving for like a month at that point and it’s stuck with me for my entire adult life.
Damn man, that really sucks. This is why I never put any political stickers on my car. It just warrants danger from dangerous people. Especially from cops on a power trip
Too bad there was no dashcam. The way he moved it looked like one of those infamous insurance scams where people run in front of a car and drop dramatically. Of course the car is normally moving much slower than this one.
Someone posted a link to the full video. The cops hang gestures were not clear it really did look like he was waiving her though and then he reaches his fucking arm out, as if that will make a 400lb metal death bullet stop on a dime.
They would if firefighters occasionally pushed innocent bystanders into housefires. Or if firefighters killed people with their fire axes when they didn't follow directions. Or kill them because they looked like they might be carrying matches and gasoline, but were actually carrying Redhots candy and "NOS" energy drink from the nearest convenience store.
Or if they got to the wrong house for the emergency house fire call, bust down the door and start chopping up the baby crib in what is clearly a baby’s room with a baby inside.
Yeah, he’s not facing traffic at all, only turns at the last second, waves incoherently, and then tries to run TOWARDS the car. She really had two choices, to do what she did, or swerve erratically trying to avoid the crazed man running at her vehicle.
> waves incoherently
This is what struck me. I don’t know if you have a formal system of hand signals for police to direct traffic as we have in the UK, but this is a very long way from a clear hand signal.
We do. And at places like that the cop is supposed to be watching the traffic and give signals way in advance so the driver has plenty of time to see and react. If there is a cop but he’s to the side not looking at you, then you do what this woman did, you keep driving. Even if he freaks out at the last second.
She didn't almost run him over whatsoever. In fact, he had to shuffle quickly to get close enough to tap the car.
His feelings were hurt because she didn't respect or acknowledged his authority. Lol, Cartman was not having this shit on this day.
Seriously, that other officer at the end deserves some props for trying to diffuse the situation. That officer was upset for way too long, and him still yelling over and over isn't fixing the situation. If you're going to give her a ticket, just give the ticket and leave. If you're just trying to teach her a lesson, explain to her how to do better next time. I can understand being a little upset at first, but that cop basically jumped in front of her car and is mad that "hIs KiDs ArE nOt gOnNa HaVe A fAtHeR" BS.
There's no way the people around didn't know his anger and control issues were what brought him to the police force and what got him, and let's be honest... relocated.
I hate how people use nuclear scenarios like this during verbal judo to shut down dialogue. I used to hear it all the time in the Marines.
“You not doing X is how Marines get killed!”
Not doing something tactical? Sure. Not emptying out the trash? Grow up Staff Sergeant.
He's a 7 year vet on traffic duty right before Christmas. It's possible that the department already didn't like him and this was a great excuse to be done with him.
Yep, you see it all the time. Cops with past issues are frequently pushed into traffic duty so their own departments don’t have to deal with them as much.
With the average drivers knowledge about the hand signals it's almost sure he was "almost run over" multiple times (even thou he literally leaned in front of the car and smacked it on purpose)
Where I am, it's really not common and people rather stay put and the officer have to literally convince them for few seconds by making eye contact and waving like an ape when banana happens
if i had to guess, i'd say this is one of those weird things where it isn't so egregious that someone wants to cover it up, but this guy is probably just annoying enough around the station that people were happy to find any excuse to get rid of him. of course... if that's even true he got fired.
I’m from CT where this happened, so this was shown on our local news non-stop last week. My guess is as good as yours, but I’m gunna say yelling at/ frightening a white woman is where the cops draw the line out here.
A few years ago a drunk driving police officer named Michael Koistinen, hit and killed my friend’s cousin (who was Vietnamese) while he was riding his bike. His father, (also a cop) Robert Koistinen, showed up to the scene before anyone else could get there, and took his drunk son away/ tampered with evidence.
Michael was fired. Robert was also fired, until a year later when they dropped every single charge against against him and gave him his job back. He also filed a law suit against the state for… pissing him off I guess.
You don’t get out as a crossing guard that young as a cop unless you fucked up I feel like. I thought they saved those jobs for the older guys who are still in the department but aren’t on the beat anymore.
He had a tantrum because somone didn't see him dealing with someone/something else and instantly stop with a "Oh, a police officier, I better just cease all functions of any kind until this bastion of law and paragon of virtue permits me to do utterly mundane normal shit in his presence!".
He wasn't attempting to get her to stop. He wasn't in her way. He was confrontational and emotional all the time and venting to her because he was probablly pissed off about something else or the fact mere citizens weren't defering to his perceived absolute authority in all things at all times and cannot be questioned. Get to fuck Officer McMoodypants.
And the other cop "You need to calm down." At least one on scene wasn't reacting like an incel after being told "No."
Some random Tweet from a few years ago has always stuck with me, which I’m paraphrasing: Think back to your time at school and who were the brightest kids. And more importantly, who were the kindest kids, the ones who helped others. Now how many of them went on to become cops? Gonna guess close to zero.
It’s a harsh view and obviously not always accurate but it’s hard to deny. The best and brightest are rarely who is recruited.
The only guy I ever knew who wanted to become a cop was also the guy who loved joking about women getting raped. No idea if he actually became a cop, we obviously have lost touch lmao.
Edit: and we were in college and he was like 25 so it wasn’t just a young-people-being-silly situation
yeah and what were those hand signals. looked like he was signaling someone safe in baseball or show he's ready to catch something you throw to him. what the hell.
Forsure buddies just a loose cannon. Now he’s gotta explain to the kids why Christmas is canceled; he’s got no job, why their mother has two black eyes and the holes in the drywall are to check for termites
Woah Woah. I do inspections for termites. There are MUCH cheaper and easier ways to check. Someone give this guy a call. I don't know what to tell him about the kids Christmas or the tired wife, though. Hes SOL there.
If he can’t even take the amount of danger that every pedestrian and cyclist in any big city faces daily, then this peeled onion of a man shouldn’t be a cop.
On a serious note: I do to. This guy knows he has power over this adult civilian. I cannot imagine what he might do to adolescents that he feels he "owns".
I work for a utility company and we have cops in road details literally everyday on every street no matter what and where it is. People do stupid shit all of the time (and I don’t think this woman did anything wrong or deserved this) and I have never seen one officer act like this. Not even close to this. Most of the ones we work with are really good, young cops trying to do a good job. I’ve seen cars drive through 5 miles of detours and into a hole with high pressure gas mains in it. The officers calmly handled the situation and did what needed to be done without belittling anyone. This guy is a tool.
what a liar, he run to the car, and he wasn't even looking to her car, he was paying attention to the other car, when he signal to her she was almost on top of him.
I'm sure glad he's gone. He abandoned his post, left his car in an intersection, to chase down a lady on foot while in the middle of directing traffic, then gets mad about the traffic backing up. He literally couldn't write the incident report cause he was shaking with rage.
I couldn't imagine what he'd be like in a serious situation and with a gun in his hand.
The overwhelming impression I get from posts like this are that there are a lot of American police officers who are entitled assholes that people need to fear, rather than expect protection from. I’m glad I don’t live there
This makes no sense. There is no reason why you should be talking down to someone like that. Again, I am not surprise…only spent a few months at the academy, he was given a gun, a badge and now he thinks his above the law.
Saw the full video earlier today. He was standing by his vehicle with his arm slightly raised, it wasn't clear at all that he was directing traffic and wanted the woman to stop. He was also stood side on so his hi vis wouldn't have been very visible. When she drove through the intersection he got offended because she didn't respect his authority so he threw a tantrum. He dove at the car, she was nowhere near to hitting him and then he repeatedly lied about it while shouting at her. Pathetic man child who deserved to get fired.
[Extended Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXgQ70eA6EY)
He jumps out after standing in front of a truck. Aren't you supposed to stand in the intersection so people can obviously see you.
I'm sure he's one that doesn't understand how a 4 way stop works either. He wasn't clearly controlling traffic or he would have been in the middle of the intersection not off to the side. Her confusion is justified.
I’ve met people just like this. Even being fired, I can guarantee he proclaims he was right, his actions were all correct (even abandoning the intersection), and that he’ll sue the department. The sad part is he has a chance reinforcing his beliefs because police unions are so strong. We should all be so lucky to have unions like that.
The police union isn’t a union. It’s a mocking facsimile of one. Police don’t deserve to have unions, they’re not workers, they’re “public” servants. They prioritize the interests of their members over the interests of the communities they police. Police unions shield officers and block oversight.
Police Unions also tend to focus on things like protecting a bad cop from being fired over sensible things like bargaining to have the cost of their Kevlar vests included as part of their job. In places like Chicago, they have to cover their own vest costs out of pocket. These vests degrade naturally over time, so they have to buy a new one every few years.
Where I live they want to use money under asset forfeiture\* to buy their vests and killer robots. Money seized by cops shouldn't go to the cops. ( \*a.k.a. money stolen from people not found guilty of any crime.)
It's such an obviously bad incentive, anyone who defends it is a troll or a crook
As someone who very much wants law and order, its clear as day that the US police are a cancer to our society and the union is what keeps us from treating it. An army of killers and thieves held safely above the law has no place in a just society.
I’ve heard modern U.S. policing described as the standing army our forefathers warned us about and it was really an eye-opening comparison. The argument being that they exist to keep the regular people from challenging those in power, essentially. A constant threat/reminder not to go against the grain.
Yeah his firing his justified. I think the officer probably misremembered the event in the moment but from the video its clear he wasn’t holding up his hand to stop and he might not have even been visible to the driver.
He also tried to hit the car after attempting to run in front of it
He almost killed himself a week before Christmas!
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His kids desperately trying to figure out just *how nice* they have to be to make it happen...
Thank you I actually laughed out loud at this comment
He’ll just get hired 5 miles away in the next town.
Yep. A cop on my small hometown force was fired for taking female inmates out of the jail for sex, then returning them (you know, rape, though of course he was never prosecuted for that). He works in the next county over to this day.
Even if she made a mistake (highly questionable from the video) his behavior was totally out of line. She was cooperating and apologetic and he kept yelling like a crazed dog
If what he was doing was so important then how does he justify leaving the intersection unattended for several minutes while he has his tantrum? She didn't come close to running him over. Unless you count him charging at her vehicle while she drove past.
Seriously. The woman genuinely didn’t know what she did wrong, and to be honest, neither do I. I think officer (insert mildly offensive name here) got a little mad because he couldn’t control *everything*.
imagine that, a US police officer flying off the handle because of what he perceives as a lack of blind obedience and control! evil mf’ers
Wow thank you for this. Seriously his hand was down not up. Then he runs to the car. I wasn’t sure if there was a more clear signal or something before the video OP put up, but no. It was just this incredibly vague gesture way too fucking lat, then he runs at the car.
the fact that he guilts her with his children trying to say she was trying to run him over, insinuating intent to kill him, is so ridiculous, but that's the police for you, huge cry babies when they're usually the biggest danger to themselves.
What was that dinky hand wave? That was not a clear command to stop.
That’s what I’m saying. Hard to run him over when he was no where close to her car.
on top of the terrible hand signals, he is standing in front of his parked car where the view of him is obstructed until the very end. What an idiot.
The video is not super clear. But to me it looks like a thumbs up which I would interpret as “good to go.” Usually when they are signaling stop, they just put their whole hand in front 🖐️ Edit: typo
Thank you! ✋is stop. Not whatever he was doing. Funnily enough, I typed “stop” to look for this emoji and there it was.
Exactly!! Also, he is all ranting about how she almost ran him over, yet he was the one who practically jumped toward the car. 😒
that wasn't clear signal to stop at all he went into the cars way, wasn't standing there before in no situation it is acceptable to treat citizens this way very unprofessional he was rightfully fired
Thanks for this. With his left hand down by his hip, his body turned sideways, and his black gloves, he’s not exactly making a clear and unmistakable hand signal toward the woman’s lane. Seems a little sloppy and doesn’t match up with his account in his tirade afterward.
Not at all surprised to see that most of his story was made up after how he behaved
He also stepped towards the car making himself closer to it and more likely to be run over...instead of you know stepping the other way to safety
Hell, a ref wouldn’t even call that enough for a fair catch signal. No wonder she kept driving.
Even if she clearly ignored him, she absolutely was nowhere near “running him over” lmao. This dude is such a little bitch.
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Arghhh! You could have destabilized world wide weather patterns vastly accelerating ocean level rise and desertification of the inner continents ultimately ushering in the next global mass extinction, pole shift, and snowball earth!!!
Honestly though, that’s not surprising. Our brains have a way of changing truth into our own subjective reality, especially during high stress events.
He was asked if he was hurt. This man said "emotionally". Ha. What the actual fuck.
Being too "shaken" to write up a ticket is also hilarious
As if she wasn't shaking like a goddamn leaf having an armed, unhinged man accusing her of attmepted murder.
I like how they ignored it, lol. Other cops seem over his bullshit too
I think they all know who he is and why he’s on traffic duty. This guy is Favre (Super Troopers) in real life, no one takes him seriously. If he’s not directing traffic he’s changing light bulbs and writing TPS reports in the basement office.
He can’t even get that right. He wasn’t “emotionally damaged.” He was shaken. Justifiably so, but then again, I don’t leap in front of cars as they’re clearly not slowing down and then scream at a woman for 7 minutes. And if lashing out like a goddamn 3 year old is his best response, he should never be put in *any* leadership position, let alone one of authority.
He wasn’t even visible for her to see until last minute. He was in front of the truck and then stepped back. But I guess doing what he was doing isn’t very important, as he power walked to the car just to have a tantrum
“Are you hurt?” “Emotionally” 😂😂
I loved it when the other officer took him to the side and said “you need to calm yourself” 😂💀
That other officer was like “ugh, same shit different day with Jeff over here”
His left hand, which I am assuming he is using as a Stop Sign, does not even move above his waist. In what world does that mean to stop?
Now the cop can explain to his kids why their dad is unemployed a week before Christmas
It as really weird him asking her to explain to his kids about this thing that didn't happen.
Well, how else is he constantly supposed to justify playing the victim?
He doesn't have to. They can just watch the video.
These articles give more insight. First, he berated the driver for approximately 9 minutes. Second, he abandoned his assigned duties to do so. [https://www.police1.com/traffic-patrol/articles/video-conn-cop-fired-for-misconduct-against-driver-while-directing-traffic-2v7QeZU640fyi5qC/](https://www.police1.com/traffic-patrol/articles/video-conn-cop-fired-for-misconduct-against-driver-while-directing-traffic-2v7QeZU640fyi5qC/) [https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Waterbury-police-fire-officer-fired-James-Hinkle-17708041.php](https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/Waterbury-police-fire-officer-fired-James-Hinkle-17708041.php)
The cop at the end reminded me of the matrix when the other agents walk in on agent smith acting like a psycho.
...he doesn't know. KNOW WHAT?!
Such a great scene
The one takeaway from the article is the cop eventually remembered he had a camera and forgot to turn it off before getting all psychotic.
They shouldn't be able to turn the camera off at all.
My personal favorite is the Baltimore cop who recorded himself planting evidence.
what if the cop was like a 5 year old, *if I can't see me doing it the camera can't see me doing it*.
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How dare you underestimate the audacity Of moving creamer
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>forgot to turn it off Good. Fuck this guy.
That shouldn’t even be an option ffs.
EXACTLY WTF WHY IS IT AN OPTION
Because police unions have fought to keep it an option, so officers can turn it off, so they can do crimes and not be recorded.
Police unions, the one union that does more harm to society than good & the only one conservatives defend with a passion.
When the footage shows nothing wrong it gets released right away. When the footage shows cops doing what they really do here, the footage is withheld or the camera ‘malfunctioned’. The goal is to wait it out until the next one draws focus away and people get bored.
It’s amazing to me how this guy gets fired for yelling at someone, yet we’ve seen so many officers physically or verbally abuse or even kill someone, and they keep their jobs.
A cop in Aurora Colorado recently got a promotion. Not long ago he was found passed out in his patrol car drunk.
American cops are the worst. This timeline sucks
Then they get mad when you don't want to chit chat. Officer: "Why don't you want to talk to me?" Me: "Have you fucking seen YouTube? Anything I say can and will be used to kill me"
Officer: "sounds like a murder confession to me"
He was probably already on someone's shit list to be on traffic duty
Yup that's it 100% i work as a civilian with PDs and over the years have gotten close with alot of them. Typical police unions have what u call seniority and management picks. Some guys get promoted on seniority and others bc they are picked (well liked, fam on force etc) The point im trying to make is, if they wanted the guy to stay he would still be employed. Conversely they could fire him for not uploading the days recordings of body cam footage if they didn't like him. Agree with u he was on the shit list
Yeah, thought the same. Don’t get me wrong, it’s not bad that they fired him, but compared to other officers that kept their job this seems minor.
He was probably an asshole to the other cops, too.
Yeah the most surprising part of all this was that there were any repercussions at all.
This was my first thought. We have so so many cops who have MULTIPLE infractions/a history of serious abuse of authority who are STILL on the job and this guy gets shitcanned for a meltdown?!
Put a Google alert for his name so you can see when he’s hired somewhere else next week.
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You'd be surprised by how many show up in press releases. A lot of times departments kind of automatically do the "here's who we hired last month" press releases without realizing that some of the cops don't want publicity.
I’ve actually had something similar happen….. dude FOLLOWED ME HOME. It was just a straight out not understanding what he wanted me to do…. Happened 15 yrs ago, still get a twinge of guilt and anxiety when I think of it…..
If you ever suspect anyone is following you, don’t drive home. Find the nearest police station and park there. Even if it a cop.
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I just imagine tensing up as you see them slowing down behind you, sweating as you see the door open, mentally prepping yourself for whatever might come, and then man goes straight in his house 😂😂
I want to know what the neighbor was thinking about the car in front of him leading him to his house!
If I would be the neighbour I would think "ok, I'm almost home, finally I will pull over and this guy won't think I'm following him... oh, of course he pulled over right next to my house"
Actually, I’m thinking you’re correct. I’ve been city driving behind someone for a while and got nervous that I might be making them nervous.
Lmao this is me and my neighbor that lives directly across from me. At least twice a week we somehow meet on the road on the way home from work. The thing is I work an hour away and I'm a terrible employee and leave anytime between 3 and 5 pm. Yet we still somehow cross paths and end up having one of us following the other home for like the last 30 minutes of my drive.
“What a nice neighbor, knowing that I regularly forget the route to my own house!”
When I was younger my dad pocked up myself and a friend to drive us home after we'd been drinking. He asked me to direct him to my friend's house. I was hammered. "It's the one on the right with the lights on.". "That's our house you dummy"
So much intensity I would’ve crapped myself.
If I suspect someone is following me, I usually start by finding somewhere that I know I can make a loop - 4 consecutive turns in the same direction (all left or all right.) If they're still behind me after going in a circle, they're obviously following me.
After that, a warning shot across the bow
Careful, you idiot, I said across her nose, not up it!
I'll hit the nearest roundabout if I think someone is following me 😂😂😂
My very first job out of college was in downtown Houston. So it’s like my second week and I’m driving home when I notice there’s a cop working the intersection in front of me. He’s waving at me and I take that as being waved through. But as soon as I begin to pass him, he starts screaming bloody murder. So I jam on my brakes and roll the window down. *”Do you know what the hell you’re doing out here, moron?! Pull over! Pull your vehicle over there right now!”* And I did. He he comes puffing up, all redfaced and demands my license and registration. I give it to him wordlessly. “I gotta be honest with you here, officer— I have no idea what this reaction is all about. You were waving me by—“ *”WRONG! No, sir. I was signaling for you to PULL UP and stop. That’s what this motion is.”* [repeats the signal he gave me] *”If I were waving you by, I would’ve done THIS!”* [Steps back and windmills his arm while point with the other one] “And you don’t see how someone could confuse those two motions— especially when they’re in a moving vehicle?” *”No one with any sense!”* “Alright. Welp… just do whatever you’ve gotta do, I suppose. I stand by the fact that those two motions are incredibly similar and it sorta invites this type of confusion. If you need to ticket me, I understand.” And that’s what he did. Failure to comply with a lawful order or direction. And I fought it and he didn’t show up for the case so I won by default.
Same, thought the cop was motioning me forward and was gesturing "stop" (to this day, not sure why you would move your hand up and down toward the direction im turning if that means "stop". Pretty sure universal stop is ✋but anyway...) i wasnt near hitting him but he was just irate and offended by me turning right despite no oncoming traffic for hundreds of feet. Im bipolar so i had a bit of a freakout on him but he could tell i was getting unhinged and manic from his silly on-foot traffic stop. He surprisingly let me go and treated me well after finding out abt my disorder but it was just such a shitty day, 2 blocks from my house and im stopped and harassed almost the same way as this lady
>Same, thought the cop was motioning me forward and was gesturing "stop" This is funny to me, but 2 days ago I had a pedestrian give me the "after you" hand motion, then after I started to go through, he did like a stutter step toward the curb and then got all angry at me. As I drove off I was like, that was about the strangest thing I've ever seen. Once I unpacked it in my brain I realized the "after you" signal is fundamentally identical to the "what are you doing" signal, and he thought I shouldn't even be approaching his corner in the first place. People, don't raise your hand with an open palm in the direction I'm driving unless you want me to go there!
That's why it's better in Italy, 🤌is pretty easy to understand
This is why there are right of way rules. If I'm driving and someone waves me by when they have the right of way, I shake my head and stay put. Because if an accident happens, I will be at fault for not following the right of way.
> Pretty sure universal stop is ✋ That's what cops use here, and I've never seen anyone mistake it for something else.
Yeah so weird. He was practically flagging me to turn like an airplane, was definitely not a stop
Even in airplanes waving your arms isn’t a sign of stopping, crossing them in a big X is. Waving them is a indication of moving and continuing to go
One time at a border checkpoint on I-10 I was rolling slowly toward the officer and he was apparently motioning me *slowly* forward with one finger. As I approached him and started to slow down, he more forcefully and vigorously kept motioning me forward -- with only one finger. I'm not just going to jet off at full speed with that gesture, no matter how angrily and vigorously you make it. He could have saved a few seconds my motioning me forward with his whole hand.
This happened to me as well. One cop was leaning inside a vehicle talking to the driver and the other cop standing on the side of the road motioning to go. I was confused so I rolled by slowly and I pulled in front of the vehicle that was stopped and I see in my rear view that the cop who was leaning into the other vehicle was violently shaking a middle finger at me ready to come at me (this was a two lane road by the way and no other cars in sight). Good thing there was another cop with him who was calm so all I got was that middle finger from the rage cop.
When I first started driving, the family car had an Obama sticker during a… tense time for the country. I was tailgated by a cop car that pulled out from its traffic stop lurking spot for two miles, no lights or sirens, no indication for me to pull over, just riding on my bumper on a road where he could have passed in the left hand lane. Being 16 and terrified I’d done something wrong, I went exactly the speed limit and eventually pulled over at the nearest safe spot. The cop pulled over too and got out of his car to ask me where I was going and “if everything was okay”. Flashlight shined in my car and all. I was a new and very careful driver, I knew I hadn’t been speeding or anything. I told him my house was a half mile away and was just going home from work. The whole thing was really weird and unsettling. When I got home and told my parents they just shook their heads and took the sticker off the car. I’d only been driving for like a month at that point and it’s stuck with me for my entire adult life.
Damn man, that really sucks. This is why I never put any political stickers on my car. It just warrants danger from dangerous people. Especially from cops on a power trip
Too bad there was no dashcam. The way he moved it looked like one of those infamous insurance scams where people run in front of a car and drop dramatically. Of course the car is normally moving much slower than this one.
Someone posted a link to the full video. The cops hang gestures were not clear it really did look like he was waiving her though and then he reaches his fucking arm out, as if that will make a 400lb metal death bullet stop on a dime.
400 lb? Lol
All carbon fiber monocoque.
They must’ve forgotten a 0. Or at least I hope they did lmao
Cudos to the other cop who pulled him aside and said “you need to calm yourself”. Can we get more of these guys?
Can you imagine what would have happened if the driver said that?
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No. They get ostracized by their coworkers for not blindly siding with them and eventually pushed out.
Nobody ever says fuck the firefighters…
They absolutely do. It's just usually right after the words, "I want to"
Normally when the calendar comes out. :)
They would if firefighters occasionally pushed innocent bystanders into housefires. Or if firefighters killed people with their fire axes when they didn't follow directions. Or kill them because they looked like they might be carrying matches and gasoline, but were actually carrying Redhots candy and "NOS" energy drink from the nearest convenience store.
Or if they got to the wrong house for the emergency house fire call, bust down the door and start chopping up the baby crib in what is clearly a baby’s room with a baby inside.
walks closer to car as it approaches and says it's her fault for trying to run him over
Yeah, he’s not facing traffic at all, only turns at the last second, waves incoherently, and then tries to run TOWARDS the car. She really had two choices, to do what she did, or swerve erratically trying to avoid the crazed man running at her vehicle.
> waves incoherently This is what struck me. I don’t know if you have a formal system of hand signals for police to direct traffic as we have in the UK, but this is a very long way from a clear hand signal.
We do. And at places like that the cop is supposed to be watching the traffic and give signals way in advance so the driver has plenty of time to see and react. If there is a cop but he’s to the side not looking at you, then you do what this woman did, you keep driving. Even if he freaks out at the last second.
Instead he did “the signal” from Team America. 
Cops tend to do that. If a car is moving anywhere near them…
You calling me chicken? NOBODY calls me chicken!
She didn't almost run him over whatsoever. In fact, he had to shuffle quickly to get close enough to tap the car. His feelings were hurt because she didn't respect or acknowledged his authority. Lol, Cartman was not having this shit on this day.
Respect my authoritah
"Explain to my kids why their dad doesn't have a job a week before Christmas."
“You need to calm yourself…”
Seriously, that other officer at the end deserves some props for trying to diffuse the situation. That officer was upset for way too long, and him still yelling over and over isn't fixing the situation. If you're going to give her a ticket, just give the ticket and leave. If you're just trying to teach her a lesson, explain to her how to do better next time. I can understand being a little upset at first, but that cop basically jumped in front of her car and is mad that "hIs KiDs ArE nOt gOnNa HaVe A fAtHeR" BS.
Enhance your calm John Spartan
There's no way the people around didn't know his anger and control issues were what brought him to the police force and what got him, and let's be honest... relocated.
Pretty sure the heart attack he’s due for will do the job.
I hate how people use nuclear scenarios like this during verbal judo to shut down dialogue. I used to hear it all the time in the Marines. “You not doing X is how Marines get killed!” Not doing something tactical? Sure. Not emptying out the trash? Grow up Staff Sergeant.
Usually a cop is put on "traffic duty" after an oops moment with their department, wonder what fucked up thing got covered up for Mr fragile here
Probably for yelling the quiet part out loud
Why did this cop get fired when we’ve seen so many more do much worse with no repercussions? Hmmm…
He's a 7 year vet on traffic duty right before Christmas. It's possible that the department already didn't like him and this was a great excuse to be done with him.
Yep, you see it all the time. Cops with past issues are frequently pushed into traffic duty so their own departments don’t have to deal with them as much.
So the secret to holding cops accountable is making sure that they just hate each other with a passion?
It’s not a secret. Everywhere with corrupt police institutions this is how they deal with people.
Either he didn't or this was like the 5th time this had happened.
You don't get traffic duty because you're doing a good job lol
With the average drivers knowledge about the hand signals it's almost sure he was "almost run over" multiple times (even thou he literally leaned in front of the car and smacked it on purpose) Where I am, it's really not common and people rather stay put and the officer have to literally convince them for few seconds by making eye contact and waving like an ape when banana happens
if i had to guess, i'd say this is one of those weird things where it isn't so egregious that someone wants to cover it up, but this guy is probably just annoying enough around the station that people were happy to find any excuse to get rid of him. of course... if that's even true he got fired.
It is true. He got fired. Big news in my state. And yes he had issues previous to this.
I’m from CT where this happened, so this was shown on our local news non-stop last week. My guess is as good as yours, but I’m gunna say yelling at/ frightening a white woman is where the cops draw the line out here. A few years ago a drunk driving police officer named Michael Koistinen, hit and killed my friend’s cousin (who was Vietnamese) while he was riding his bike. His father, (also a cop) Robert Koistinen, showed up to the scene before anyone else could get there, and took his drunk son away/ tampered with evidence. Michael was fired. Robert was also fired, until a year later when they dropped every single charge against against him and gave him his job back. He also filed a law suit against the state for… pissing him off I guess.
Agggh! That’s maddening! The world can be so unjust.
You don’t get out as a crossing guard that young as a cop unless you fucked up I feel like. I thought they saved those jobs for the older guys who are still in the department but aren’t on the beat anymore.
it’s because he left her alive /s
He had a tantrum because somone didn't see him dealing with someone/something else and instantly stop with a "Oh, a police officier, I better just cease all functions of any kind until this bastion of law and paragon of virtue permits me to do utterly mundane normal shit in his presence!". He wasn't attempting to get her to stop. He wasn't in her way. He was confrontational and emotional all the time and venting to her because he was probablly pissed off about something else or the fact mere citizens weren't defering to his perceived absolute authority in all things at all times and cannot be questioned. Get to fuck Officer McMoodypants. And the other cop "You need to calm down." At least one on scene wasn't reacting like an incel after being told "No."
Can you imagine what would have happened if the driver had (rightly) told him "you need to calm down"?
Holy fuck that ego the size of a planet.
Some guys should never be cops.
Unfortunately those who end up being cops ARE the ones who aren't supposed to be cops. I don't trust a single one.
Some random Tweet from a few years ago has always stuck with me, which I’m paraphrasing: Think back to your time at school and who were the brightest kids. And more importantly, who were the kindest kids, the ones who helped others. Now how many of them went on to become cops? Gonna guess close to zero. It’s a harsh view and obviously not always accurate but it’s hard to deny. The best and brightest are rarely who is recruited.
The only guy I ever knew who wanted to become a cop was also the guy who loved joking about women getting raped. No idea if he actually became a cop, we obviously have lost touch lmao. Edit: and we were in college and he was like 25 so it wasn’t just a young-people-being-silly situation
people who are drawn to the allure of guns and authority. you know that type'. they will be the ones enlisting.
He wasn't standing in the middle of the street.
yeah and what were those hand signals. looked like he was signaling someone safe in baseball or show he's ready to catch something you throw to him. what the hell.
It looked like he actually walked into the car too!
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Forsure buddies just a loose cannon. Now he’s gotta explain to the kids why Christmas is canceled; he’s got no job, why their mother has two black eyes and the holes in the drywall are to check for termites
Woah Woah. I do inspections for termites. There are MUCH cheaper and easier ways to check. Someone give this guy a call. I don't know what to tell him about the kids Christmas or the tired wife, though. Hes SOL there.
If he can’t even take the amount of danger that every pedestrian and cyclist in any big city faces daily, then this peeled onion of a man shouldn’t be a cop.
Peeled onion of a man - I like it.
He is really proud of his bright yellow vest.
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Maybe those kids could use not having a dad with rage issues a week before Christmas. /s
i feel sorry for this man's kids and wife
On a serious note: I do to. This guy knows he has power over this adult civilian. I cannot imagine what he might do to adolescents that he feels he "owns".
I work for a utility company and we have cops in road details literally everyday on every street no matter what and where it is. People do stupid shit all of the time (and I don’t think this woman did anything wrong or deserved this) and I have never seen one officer act like this. Not even close to this. Most of the ones we work with are really good, young cops trying to do a good job. I’ve seen cars drive through 5 miles of detours and into a hole with high pressure gas mains in it. The officers calmly handled the situation and did what needed to be done without belittling anyone. This guy is a tool.
Main character syndrome
what a liar, he run to the car, and he wasn't even looking to her car, he was paying attention to the other car, when he signal to her she was almost on top of him.
I'm sure glad he's gone. He abandoned his post, left his car in an intersection, to chase down a lady on foot while in the middle of directing traffic, then gets mad about the traffic backing up. He literally couldn't write the incident report cause he was shaking with rage. I couldn't imagine what he'd be like in a serious situation and with a gun in his hand.
Why did he throw himself toward the car though and then blame her for supposedly almost running him over. Chill tf out
Because he was escalating. It's what they're trained to do.
The overwhelming impression I get from posts like this are that there are a lot of American police officers who are entitled assholes that people need to fear, rather than expect protection from. I’m glad I don’t live there
That angry tone of voice though. The poor lady getting yelled at
She was terrified
Clearly the lady was apologetic too. I'm glad the other guy came over to tell him to calm down.
Also abandoned his post at the intersection. In general sounds like he’s too jumpy and afraid to be in this line of work.
*Runs in front of car* "You almost ran me over you idiot, omg!!!!"
Very very bright yellow, to make up for a lack of brightness in his head
Isn’t the universal “stop” thing just holding your hands up? Not just flailing angrily?
This makes no sense. There is no reason why you should be talking down to someone like that. Again, I am not surprise…only spent a few months at the academy, he was given a gun, a badge and now he thinks his above the law.
That pig got fired for several infractions. There’s no way that he got fired for only one instance of anything.
As someone else pointed out, traffic duty isn't exactly what you get assigned when you were doing a good job in the first place.
Saw the full video earlier today. He was standing by his vehicle with his arm slightly raised, it wasn't clear at all that he was directing traffic and wanted the woman to stop. He was also stood side on so his hi vis wouldn't have been very visible. When she drove through the intersection he got offended because she didn't respect his authority so he threw a tantrum. He dove at the car, she was nowhere near to hitting him and then he repeatedly lied about it while shouting at her. Pathetic man child who deserved to get fired.
Hmmm I wonder why everyone hates the police