re: Man videos confrontation with police who pulls him over . Running stop sign.

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I don't think the cop violated the citizen's rights by stopping him for what the cop perceived to be running a stop sign.

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Unless of course he was stopping him for an unlawful reason and using an alleged minor traffic violation as a pretext. Cops do it a lot.

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Does the cop have the right to remove a person from a vehicle if they refuse to do so after being asked to?

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Here is the problem with these situations, the rights are dependent on the facts of the case and no one is at the scene to judge the facts of the case in the moment. Almost everything the cop did after the stop is impermissible and/or inadmissible if the stop itself was impermissible. That determination won't be made at the scene though, so videoing and requesting info from the officer is the citizens only defense and evidence gathering option.

However, it should be done without antagonizing and he should comply with simple requests such as providing license and registration or stepping out of the vehicle.

Both parties needlessly escalated the situation.