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In the approach the arresting officer used in these two stops below:
Stop # 1.
Stop # 2.
Now, in stop #1, we don't know exactly what went down in the supposed road rage incident prior to the stop. Nevertheless, the arresting, off duty cop who was involved in the incident (and may well have contributed his own bit of "road rage" during it) was absolutely out of bounds when he didn't give the driver even time to take off his seat belt and comply before assaulting him.
In stop #2, I will say that if I were the arresting officer, I would have handled the stop pretty much exactly the same way . . . with patience, forbearance and tact. That said, directly coming from watching the vid of stop #1, the extreme deference he showed was hard to watch.
I'm not making any hard and fast, absolutist conclusions from these two incomplete and anecdotal videos, but the difference in approach was, on the surface, hard for me to personally stomach, watching one right after the other (Thanks, youtube, you purveyor of voyeuristic non-sexual, real life, Florida--man style pornography.)
Hey, I know, I know, this is
&N and folks on both sides of the ideological spectrum will now step in and yell at each other and nothing much will be "solved," but . . . UGH, is what I'm subjectively saying. 
Stop # 1.
Stop # 2.
Now, in stop #1, we don't know exactly what went down in the supposed road rage incident prior to the stop. Nevertheless, the arresting, off duty cop who was involved in the incident (and may well have contributed his own bit of "road rage" during it) was absolutely out of bounds when he didn't give the driver even time to take off his seat belt and comply before assaulting him.
In stop #2, I will say that if I were the arresting officer, I would have handled the stop pretty much exactly the same way . . . with patience, forbearance and tact. That said, directly coming from watching the vid of stop #1, the extreme deference he showed was hard to watch.
I'm not making any hard and fast, absolutist conclusions from these two incomplete and anecdotal videos, but the difference in approach was, on the surface, hard for me to personally stomach, watching one right after the other (Thanks, youtube, you purveyor of voyeuristic non-sexual, real life, Florida--man style pornography.)
Hey, I know, I know, this is