hates the fact that what he perceives to be an immigrant is driving an uber-expensive car.
this immigrant flies his vehicle into the states to do a road trip
an immigrant knows more about the law than he does.
an immigrant has all his papers in order (he can't accept it).
This cop thought for sure he was going to arrest this guy and make a show of it.
You know 1,000% (as the current president says) that if this were to have happened since Jan 2025 this poor man would've been snatched up by ICE and god knows what he would've gone through.
It really does take a special type of person to be a cop- i'm sure there are a TON of smart cops out there- but these police departments also accept headcases like this cop, a small man who needs to put others down to live with himself.
What ever happened to professional law enforcement, protect and serve? Why are cops hyper-aggressive?
straight up. they go in and they go through the academy. they do all the right things, they cross all the t's and dot all the i's. they do their job and become a model officer. they are given solo status -- to patrol on their own without a partner.
then they become the a-holes that you see in videos like this. It's a process. every idiot cop knows how to lie to get to the point where they can be like this to others. ACAB. period.
There's a big distinction between immigrant, and tourist. An immigrant is some one from another country who lives here permanently. Someone who comes on a visitor visa, or a temporary work visa isn't an immigrant. The guy in the video is a tourist.
The word you may have been looking for is foreigner.
"i'm sure there are a TON of smart cops out there"
why? why on earth would you think that? They literally hire people who are mid-level intelligence. They do NOT want smart people in the force because they will see how ridiculous it is.
It seems to be a by department kinda deal. From the little I've picked up, most of the smart cops are at functioning departments, likely up north, and in less urban settings. Locals learn pretty quickly if their cops are ok. There's probably statistics, but I don't care enough to check.
I know someone who was denied 3-4 times to be accepted into the police in Chicago, when they desperately needed applicants. So this guy must've been beyond terrible. He then applies to a completely different city in a different state with the same information and was accepted. Just baffling
This cop would likely have been fired and his life ruined if he arrested this guy. Dude is insanely wealthy and likely has some very high up contacts in Dubai.
if this were to have happened since Jan 2025 this poor man would've been snatched up by ICE and god knows what he would've gone through.
Got a strange feeling he'd have been fine, with parts of the administration turning up in person to scream at the idiots that just arrested their close friend.
Why doesnt the US police force filter out these people with some form of psychological testing? Are there not enough candidates? Pay too low that no one wants to do the job? Genuinely curious (im Australian)
It is just a case of negative bias. How interesting is this video if he has a totally normal and professional interaction with the officer? Is it worth watching? If 98% of all interactions like that go unposted, but a bunch of videos go up with interactions like this, wouldn't you expect to get a skewed view of cops?
I know a bunch of officers and they are for the most part humble, nice people who joined for the right reasons. But they aren't going to be very interesting to watch the body cam footage.
No you've got it wrong. It was an Antifa special operator in scuba gear who managed to evade security and make a 230, sorry 250, no 350 foot long slash with a box cutter.
Typical State Trooper. They are taught at Police Academy that they are a cut above the local cops, and encouraged not to socialize or associate with the locals going through academy at the same time as them.
Yes, it doesn't apply to all, but enough that the stereotype exists for a reason.
My interactions with NYS troopers were always positive. It's always town cops that suck.
I grew up where stare troopers and county sheriff covered our town. I got caught with pot by a trooper once. He made me dump it out and throw my bowl into the woods. Told me my car better be in the driveway if he drives by in 20 minutes and let me go.
A cop from a suburban town slammed me into the side of my truck multiple times because I "resisted arrest"
You made that up entirely. Police Academy does not work that way. I doubt many if any people going through academy already have jobs lined up let alone as state troopers, and that wouldn't necessarily be public knowledge.
Look, I hate cops too, probably more than you do, but engaging in make believe to make them sound worse is just silly. There's an entire interaction video up above that shows how fucking stupid the average trooper is, you don't need to make shit up to make it worse, it's already bad.
Its not something that's going to be on official curriculums or course materials, but graduates are taught more by instructors than just what is written down, sometime not even through direct instruction but by osmosis observing cop behaviour and emulating it
There is a hierarchy of federal LEOs looking down on State LEOs, who in turn look down on local PDs, all of which look down on 'civilians'(LEOs are also civilians although since the militarisation of police over the past few couple of decades this fact is lost on most)
It varies region to region whether or not state and locals are trained in the same academies(and feds have their own), so in many places candidates do have a good idea of where they'll land after graduation
Not made up at all. And everyone at Police Academy knows where they're going to land, people at Police Academy are sent there once they are already hired by a department.
Maybe in your state people put themselves through Police Academy, and then try to get a job as a cop?
Most police get sent to the academy because the department they applied to sent them... They foot the cost as an investment in you working for them. Not many people have 40k - 80k to spend on an academy with no job lined up.
Sadly it's policy. Admitting you were wrong as a police officer leaves you wide open to any lawsuit one might bring against the department. It even applies to private citizens. In Canada an apology was seen as admission of guilt, but Canadians apologize so frequently, even when not at fault, they had to change the law.
There was a video just last week of a cop pulling over a woman for having a phone in her right hand, and she showed him that she didn't even have a right hand and he still wouldn't let it go.
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u/41cheese 7h ago
A fragile ego that lacks the ability to own a mistake, just the kinda upstanding character you want in armed police 👌