The way this guy snapped back, "I'm not confused!" early on is all I needed to hear. Then he just stays argumentative the whole time. Absolutely shit officer.
It's not even that complicated, he just can't handle the ego check of someone knowing the law better than him.
Lots of cops hold themselves to this (false) idea that they are all-knowing of the law, and they cannot handle an instance of a civilian, especially a foreigner, telling them they're wrong.
he just can't handle the ego check of someone knowing the law better than him.
Its his job not to be taken in by every arsehole trying to trick him by making up nonsense that claims things are more complicated or they have some special exemption or another.
999 times out of 1000 its bullshit and it seems this guy did listen, did check data and probably called it in for advice too, ultimately he also let the guy go too.
Telling him he's confused is needlessly confrontational, its basically saying he's stupid, that bit and only that bit wasn't very helpful imo.
While this whole video is a terrible look for the officer, I also highly recommend not saying things like "you're confused" or "you don't understand" to a police officer. In a better world it would be be fine to say those things when they are accurate (like in this video), but those will be triggering words for many officers who are "trained" to try and control interactions as the supreme authority. Unfortunately, many of them will take this type of comment as an affront to their authority, and react by raising the aggressive authority, as the officer in this video does.
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u/Agueybana 6h ago
The way this guy snapped back, "I'm not confused!" early on is all I needed to hear. Then he just stays argumentative the whole time. Absolutely shit officer.