re: Florida deputy resigns after pulling gun on pregnant mother during traffic stop

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Florida deputy resigns after pulling gun on pregnant mother during traffic stop

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Full disclosure, I have repeatedly used my gun with extreme prejudice on a pregnant woman.

It is one of life’s secret pleasures.

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It's safer for the cop to be in front of the gas station also. He's being a douchebag for no reason.

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I don't understand the cop's reaction. She wasn't trying to flee and if the driver goes somewhere that is safer for both of them (being on the side of the road at night.. Or even during the day, you never know. Someone could get distracted and veer off and hit them, someone on the road has a heart attack or something and can hit them, etc).

It just seems like common sense. If a driver is speeding at night down a dark road and a police catches them and wants to pull them over. If they then start going the speed limit they are probably going somewhere with more lighting. If they were fleeing they would start going faster.

frick. A frickING. PIG!!

Have no clue how long it was to nearest place, width of shoulder, or how isolated that state road is especially at almost midnight, but if fairly isolated and late at night don’t many cops say to call 9 1 1 and tell them situation including that you want to go to nearest public and well lite stop area (especially women with children)? They can both verify cop is real and communicate with cop about what you want to do.

I might have heard this more in regards to verifying it’s actually a cop when fakes were an issue. It might be a little different here as she had to have known she was speeding (in some states it can be considered reckless driving for going 20 mph over speed limit) and didn’t question if really a cop versus someone going speed limit late at night on isolated stretch of hwy with cop lights all sudden behind you for seemingly for no reason; but it seems some police would rather some communication in situations similar to this one (isolated area and close to midnight with a mother & multiple kids) versus possibly being led into some kind of ambush while assuming slowing down some with flashing hazard lights means it’s automatically a good person (or have the kids shooting parent’s gun like in Utah this summer). They can have another cop head that way as well.

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but it seems some police would rather some communication in situations similar to this one (isolated area and close to midnight with a mother & multiple kids) versus possibly being led into someone kind of ambush

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straw grasping

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Citizen did everything right

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Not everything. Speeding 20 mph over speed limit with her kids at close to midnight was pretty reckless. She is probably looking to get paid instead of being held accountable for that (not by law with cop resigning but it shouldn’t be ignored).

She didn’t blow up situation or do anything stupid, and she even apologized explaining concerned for kids which were smart things to do.

But that wasn’t point. Having published ways to communicate when out in BFE late at night versus person deciding on their own when or where to stop when cop believes pass up places already. Cop the having to decide if he or she is being set up. What if a well lite place wasn’t for miles later down the road or even required some turns off that state road?

If what works late at night in isolated areas for verifying cop is real and not a fake then why not use something similar when out in BFE at nearly midnight. It gets everyone on same page before the actual stop. This lady might have known nearest place, but what if it was someone not as familiar with area who might make a wrong turn thinking it leads to main road or misses something that fits a little off of one turn and so on. Benefit for cop is the same - being on same page as well as being able to get another cop there as a just in case knowing the place every one has agreed to go. it’s not like running plates assures him or her who is exactly in the car at that moment and what they are thinking. It’s also not like being a parent with kids in the car means it’s 100% safe for cop when they finally stop where the lady chooses.

I don’t get cop being arse and continuing to be a jack arse after situation should have become clearer, but I would understand a cop be concerned initially once car stopped and even drawing gun until he got that understanding of situation. A little communication between person, dispatch, and cop following directions may help the next lady who wasn’t going to be smart and starts being confrontational

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Never said it was, but it should be expected that the cop will be more on edge when the driver constantly ignores his directions

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Yawn

He's just a cop, not a king

She put on her flashers.

She did the right thing and he did to when he quit

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She took off, or she TOOK OFF?

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The cop was an unmarked plain clothes cop and had knocked on her window stopped at a red light. She was 16, in a dark area. She said she looked at him for about seconds and then drove off like the light turned green.

There are a few funny parts to the story like where her brother drives by about 10 minutes after it happened and sees his sister laying face down on the pavement but doesn’t realize it is his sister and tells everyone about it the next day.

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more and more unreasonably aggressive

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He was 100% ready to shoot her if she made even the slightest misstep.

Scary.

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At the end of the video she even says none of it would’ve happened if she hadn’t been speeding.

Good for her for not only being safe, but also complying and making it through this incident with an a-hole cop. Also good for her for having a reasonable stance on it all. And IMO once she slows down (which it appears that she does) and puts on her flashers, she’s clearly not trying to run away and is preparing to be pulled over. If that cop had a little common sense then this could’ve likely been avoided.

Good for the sheriff for saying that he’d want his wife and daughter to do the same thing she did. And also, weirdly….good for the cop for resigning. He isn’t cut out for police work.

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That's the best part of this thread. The sheriff said she did the right thing. The cop in question resigned.

And yet 1 dude in this thread will STILL argue that it's the woman's fault for putting the cop on edge and that she should have stopped immediately and the PD can't win this battle in public over a black, single woman. You know, the battle they're not even trying to win because they know they were wrong.