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Man Films Himself Being Attacked By Cops After Not Rolling Down His Window All the Way
“Why did you pull me over, officer?” “Because I wanted to, now step out of the vehicle!”
Curtis Shannon was driving home from work on the night of Dec 26, 2013 when he was stopped and assaulted by St. Petersburg, FL police.
According to Shannon’s description on South Florida Cop Block‘s website, just before he got home, a police cruiser pulled behind his car and was following him very closely. Both him and the cruiser stopped at a red light. When it turned green, and just after he started making the last turn before he got home, lights started flashing.
Being less than a half, block from home, he put his hazard lights on and slowly backed into his parking space. He then turned off his car, and headlights, turned on the interior lights and waited to see what the issue was.
When the officer approached his vehicle he asked to see his papers and Shannon told him that he was looking for them.
When Shannon found his paperwork, he offered it to the officer, but the officer did not take them. Instead he told Shannon to roll down his window all the way. According to Shannon, the window was a quarter of the way down and from the video, it was clearly down enough to hear the belligerent officer barking at him.
Shannon then asked the officer, “Why did you pull me over, officer?”
He responded with “Because I wanted to, now step out of the vehicle!”
Shannon then responded “’Because I want to’ isn’t a legal reason to pull someone over, let alone ask them out of a car. Can you tell me why you pulled me over?”
The officer then walked around to the back of his car to check his license plates and call for back-up. The rest of the story can be seen in the video below.
According to the police report the officer claimed that he feared for his life during the stop.
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.
From the video, we can clearly see that Shannon was courteous and respectful during the entire stop and hardly a threat to this officer. In fact, it could be argued that the only threat to anyone in this situation was the officer.
Shannon was arrested and charged with RESISTING/OBSTRUCTING WITH VIOLENCE, a felony. The charges were later reduced to RESISTING/OBSRUCTING WITHOUT VIOLENCE, a misdemeanor.
Shannon has since setup a go fund me page to help cover the attorneys fees in fighting these charges.
http://thefreethoughtproject.com/man-films-attacked-cops-rolling-window/
Oh sorry… I thought this story might have some significance….but…he’s black…
peace
stop being an ignorant prick.. if we allow this to happen to blacks, it will sooner or later happen to us!
would you want to experience this type of stop?? NO you wouldn’t, now shut up and stop being a punk!
go and phuck yourself…
the comment I made was ALL about being racially acceptable and not about what you yhought you stupid punk…what …are you in mom and dads garage tying your crap out ?
I have seen more and done more in my life than you will ever see on your ipad you punk…
How about trying this line of thought….
I am from the earth… That makes me ………..and your answer would be?
peace…may you and your family have a wonderful brainwashed holiday season….
Here, people keep saying blacks. Ok now there was the flood. Everybody dies.
where the fk did the black people as you call them come from. ahhhh duhh seems to me we are all the same. the floor is open for arguments.
It ALREADY happens to Whites and Blacks alike. The difference is ….blacks at least have the guts and community ties left to stand together and speak out.
Whites look at it like this….if a white guy gets the crap beat out of him by the cops….”well he must have asked for it…….If a girl gets raped….she must have asked for it……if a girl gets killed….she shouldn’t have been alone……if …….” it’s always the victims fault…it relieves the white folk of the time and trouble of the responsibility of having to do the right thing…because it is just to dang hard…..and we just don’t want to take the time off work…..and we don’t want to be associated with that unseemly mess.
Now….isn’t that right?
It is your private property, shoot the mfkr if he violates it.
I do not do white black green yellow or in between, I do free men.
Color is an illusion that only Light will portray.
So are you big and tough anywhere outside your mind? No you’re not.
I’m sure you’re whole day is taken up with putting authority in its place.
Neanderthal,
I may just like you after all.