Florida Man Records Himself Getting Attacked by Cop for not Rolling Down Window all the way
 

"A horrifying video has emerged showing St. Petersburg police forcing a man out of his car before pouncing on him, leaving him hospitalized with several injuries, all because the cop claims he was in fear for his life.

At least that what he says in his report, where he wrote the following:

"I exited my marked patrol cruiser and walked towards the vehicle and I noticed the driver staring at me with a blank stare as he continued revving the engine louder and louder. I thought by his actions the subject was going to attempt to hit me with his car."

The video, however, shows it was Curtis Shannon, a young man from Florida who should have been in fear for his life during the arrest.

It also shows that he remained professional as he tried to hand the cop his license and registration through a small opening after the cop pulled him over for what he claimed was erratic driving.

But if anything was erratic, it the was behavior of the cop, which unfortunately, Shannon refuses to identify out of what he says is "respect."

The cop deserves no respect because he was downright criminal. A thug with a badge. A proud member of the Blue Mafia."

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=fd2_1409039393

I might be missing something here, but if i got pulled over by the cops, and they ask me to get out the car, i'd do it.

People seem more intent on actually catching something on camera these days rather than just co-operating...



*here comes the backlash*

you live in a place where men wear skirts :2 cents: we have fake police

I stopped watching when he said he didn't pull over when he should have but continued to drive home.

Agreed, all about who can gain the most attention by antagonising the police.

Having said that...I have left the window down that far to communicate with a police officer and he had zero problem with it. It wasn't to annoy him, I was young and flustered about being pulled over, it didn't even cross my mind about the window opening.

American cops seem to be pretty quick to jump from verbal communication to physical force...

Yep, they're quick because all they need to say is you weren't cooperating or I was afraid and they get rubber stamped as heroes and barely questioned. We need FAR more video capturing of encounters. 100% of them need to be captured and streamed live for remote storage so they can't be lost or corrupt.

Or so the dozen videos that you have seen online out of the thousands of incidences that happen daily may lead you to believe.

Cops are not angels and they need to get rid of the bad ones as soon as possible because they are poisoning the well, but let's try keeping things in perspective. Sure, there are plenty of incidences that are not recorded and posted online, and there are many many many perfectly fine incidences where everything goes gravy.

How many cute girls get beaten up by cops? Is it because they are cute or because they know how to play along? Maybe a little of both.

Rather wear a "skirt" than get beaten by a cop for being an arrogant retard...

Still think all cops should wear cameras that come on automatically when they step out of their cars. Been thinking of putting a camera in my truck for just such a reason.

Um.... This person refused to pull over and instead drove two blocks to his house.

dont like cops but rolled down the fucking window! :2 cents: they die from shit like this

So basically, it could all have been avoided. But hey, he got some footage on video so, objective achieved...

Yes, yes. African descendants would never be caught dead in a skirt...

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i dont like you :2 cents: :disgust

He has a point, although very funny

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The guy in the car is an idiot.

my point is we all have odd/different traditions. None of us should point fingers.

You're a bigger idiot than you think I think you are.

Yeah, females know how to survive :

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Also funny how black women don't have the same complaints about all these legions of "racist police". In fact, neither do immigrants. It's usually just some aelf styled thug or self entitled, arrogant shithead, who is in the wrong, who has a horrible attitudes and pushes his luck playing the race card when it goes bad for him.

where did you get that from? he says half a block. I don't see how that's a big deal? And as he says, he didn't want to get out of the car because he didn't want to get a beating - what did he do that was illegal, because I'm missing it.

Even if he *was* a jerk, are the police not supposed to be fair and impartial? Or is it ok for a person to smack someone around for being a jerk these days in america? Sounds like the cop was being a jerk from that video, he asked for licence/registration, but just didn't like the fact the window was only open slightly, so felt the driver was 'disrespecting' him or whatever the fuck went through his i-am-god mind. It's only at that point he asks the driver to get out, and you can see he was antagonised by that point.

how the hell did a whole nation pretty much get brainwashed into thinking you can do whatever the fuck you like just because you are a cop? I'm honestly stunned when I see some of the responses in threads like these.

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Want to see those injuries that required hospitalization?
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http://www.gofundme.com/ShannonRecover

Oh, the humanity!

Another interesting point to the whole driving the rest of the way home thing: On that site, he also says that when he got there he backed into his parking space.

beat your peanut brain out with that guitar. would be more filler than brains

You're allowed to pull over to any area that you think is safe as long as you don't lead the cop on a high speed chase.

Failure to obey a lawful command or failing to stop when signaled to do so.

Some states have laws requiring all motorist to yield the road/right of way to emergency vehicles displaying emergency signals (Lights, siren).

Another "Victim" looking to get his 15 minutes with a YouTube video of "Police Injustice".

Oh and he needs the monies for his gofundme campaign.

Using the locations given in the site referenced above (22nd Avenue and Dr Martin Luther King Jr Street South to 976 22nd Avenue South), mapquest puts the distance at just over 3 miles - hardly "half a block".

how does a cop know that the drives doesn't have a gun or something like that? what if he doesn't want to get out because he has drugs/weapons inside the car?

Ah good old St.pete police as one who has grown up living on the south site of St.Pete i will say these guys are major fuck up. I actually seen the shooting in 1996 that caused the riots in St.pete. This cop got away with murder.

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These guys do not discriminate white or black. I have been pulled out of my vehicle numerous times over the years just for driving home. White guy in a black neighborhood equals a drug buyer. These guys ripped my trucks apart numerous times looking for drugs and weapons. Last time they pulled me over and wanted to search my vehicle told them no. Make a long story short i ended up going to jail on a obstruction charge.

I could go on about how frigging green team which is st.pete swat raided my house which was the wrong house or i could get into how i was was at work and got fucking pounced on by 10 cops. There was a car jacking and guy killed woman. I fit the description. Lucky for me they caught him in her car a few days later.

I could also go on and tell the story had i did there fucking job and solved 3 bank robbery's. Yet they made me wear a wire to get the guy on tape or the would have my probation violated.

I worked 3 jobs for 2 1/2 years and got the hell out of there in 1999 and moved to the suburbs of pasco county. Any time i have any contact with officers now it yes sir no sir.

With all the issues i have with police over the years i still have no issues with them. There are good and bad just like everything else and you need them.

Legally speaking...one is required to obey the commands of an officer. If one has a problem with an officer one can file a complaint after the incident...but cannot refuse to obey the commands of the officer at the time of the incident.

Some police are fuck up? I been pulled over many times for no fucking reason, matter fact the last 5 times I didn't get a ticket. One time this bitch LAPD pulled me over to train another officer. I stop using my Escalade for this reason. Also I notice when I have my nerdy glasses on no problem.

Where did you read that?

This comment doesn't even make sense. Not that I expected it to.

anyone else in this thread I'll listen to, however, you're a fucking dipshit who got 'dismissed' as a person to take any notice of anytime, a long long while ago. So fuck off :thumbsup

ok use a hammer who gives a shit :1orglaugh

A cop told me that. Does it apply to every state? I don't know.

gotcha :thumbsup

like I said the guy is a bit of a jerk, however the cop is also one, and they're the ones who are supposed to be professional.

side note, to add to my previous post: I get that it must be a cultural thing, I just can't see too many people in the UK bending over the way it seems a lot of USA people are fine with. If a copper is a dick to me, and pulls me over for some bs reason, I'm going to be a dick right back - it's just a natural reaction I have to dickheads.

Yes everyone in Scotland runs around in "skits" all day. Just like all black people have gold teeth, eat KFC and drink purple kool aid.

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Damn...I did not pay attention to who posted...or I would not have responded to your ignorant ass.

By law Maryland v. Wilson, US Supreme Court you have to exit the car even on a traffic stop if asked....

Any backlash you receive is due to being an idiot. You don't have to get out of your car so why in the fuck should you? The cop is supposed to be the professional here.

That applies in zero states :1orglaugh:1orglaugh

Word for word he says.....

"I'm being pulled over by the Saint Petersburg police department one block away from my residence. He is accusing me of apparently refusing to abide by a traffic stop. He flashed his lights half a block from where I lived, so I pulled into my own apartments. This is my complex".

The cop most likely followed him for some time before putting his lights on, and when he did put his lights on the guy fails to stop and continues to drive to his apartment complex. No matter how you spin it, this is traffic stop - You do not continue on your way to destination when the police are pulling you over.

This is called felony evading.

Then he refuses to roll down his window, refuses to hand over his ID and insurance, and then refuses to get out of his car. At that point, you've committed a felony, and police are going to bust out your window and drag you out - no exceptions.

They are trolling... They are looking for something. Maybe you were driving just a little bit too fast or crossed the white line once - stuff we do daily - giving the officer just an excuse to pull you over. They see you acting suspicious they keep digging until they find out what it is. If you've done nothing wrong they send you on your way.

I have a friend who gets pulled over a lot. He says he doesn't know why but it's obvious when you drive with him - he speeds, tailgates, and generally speaking drives like an ass. Yet he has no clue why he gets pulled over so much.

so you say 2 blocks, then quote the guy as saying half a block. right. Not that I even know how far half a block is, here in the UK we pull over at a safe place, not immediately, if it isn't safe to do so. Fair enough if the law there says you need to stop immediately, tbh I'd take that literally, bun then again as I've already said, I'll act like a dick if I'm being pulled for a dickish reason.

Anyway, then you say he refuses to open his window, and refuses to hand over his id and insurance. did you watch the same video I did? What am I missing here? What video haven't I seen?

Like I already said, this has to be a cultural thing... I admit I also have extreme authority issues lol, but fuck, even if I didn't I just couldn't imagine being all subservient just because someone has an old bill uniform on. Each to thir own I guess :)

You couldn't be more right.

When police turn on their lights to pull you over, you don't have to pull over. You can just drive on to your destination. (You also do not have to yield to emergency vehicles either!) And when police ask for your ID or registration or insurance, it's perfectly acceptable to tell them no. And when police tell you to step outside of your vehicle, you can tell them no.

See how far that gets you the next time you are pulled over.

The police always say you can continue to a well lit area. Seems to get put in the news whenever they have issues with impersonators.

Google the story about woman being raped by a fake cop.

Don't worry everybody, the government is coming to the rescue

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/0...#ixzz3BXU8CcLC

The US Federal Police Force is born, Fuck The States All Hail The Federal Government! :helpme

What most off the world doesn't take into consideration is that this is a nation full of lunatics with guns, a nation full of gang members and machine guns in the car. A nation full of meth dealers and distributors. A nation full of Mexican cartel members driving around with a trunk full of severed heads. A nation full of drug runners with 10kilos of heroin in the trunk that will stop at nothing. It's not London. It's not Paris. It's not the EU.

Most Americans , more than Western Europeans expect people to follow the law, respect the rules and expect others not to break the rules and so on. Most people do not see the individual as a victim because everyone understands that you comply with the police officer. You do not talk back. You do not argue. You do not run etc. you simply say "yes sir", "no sir" and things end well for all. In any part of the USA, when you are a dick to a cop, your life will take a turn for the worst real quick.

It's important to understand that in the USA, it is always the exact same type of dickhead that "has problems" with the "unfair" police. 99.9% of people just say yes sir, no sir and thank you sir and continue on their day without issue. It's also important to more that the same dickhead that has all these problemswith police is NEVER the guy who says "yeah, I was wrong to be acting as I was" but rather they are always the victim in everything.