Unpopular opinion.
I haven't seen the video of the lights out so I'm not going to comment on situation with the headlights.
She caught the Troopers attention for tailgating and then got his attention again for failing to use signal when merging back into the lane.
Legit get your ass pulled over and I fully support every officer to ticket anyone who tailgates or changes lanes without using their signal.
Now for more unpopular opinion..
Her driving after getting lit up goes beyond an acceptable level of "Crap, I'm getting pulled over". I do not fault the officer for making the decision to ask the driver out of the vehicle based on the musical chairs of driving she did.
Now for the WTF...
Dude, instead of pulling the "busted tail light out" of your ass, go with the blatantly obvious.
Tailgating, unsafe lane change were the reasons for the stop and your erratic driving after I turned on the lights is the reason why I am asking you to step out of the car for a DUI check.
Here's a better video than the CNN one:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/vide...9b05ca-b105-4c6e-b975-31c04c1efcb9_video.html
I can see her saying she was trying to get out of the way of an emergency vehicle, as she changes signals several times like she isn't sure if she needs to move back onto the freeway or stay right but then she should have pulled all the way over to move out of the way of an emergency vehicle.
I'm not seeing the tailgating, although I'm sure you could argue she was too close to the car ahead but they acted like she was right behind the car ahead and the video I saw doesn't show that. I see people do worse than that all the time in front of cops and they don't do a goddamn thing about it (including police themselves constantly fucking doing that type of shit) so if that's their tailgating then eh. She had the wrong signal on when merging back on lane after pulling over on the exit ramp but acting like that's some huge thing that warrants anything is silly at best. I don't have an issue with her driving further on either, especially for a black person since as we end up seeing there's good reason to not pull over in a pretty secluded area because police seemingly can't not be shitty.
And there's the rub, minor procedural issues become worse when there's other issues, like when people of color and women have had to deal with a lot of fucked up shit from/by cops. I'm not even going to demonize the specific cops as I do think they were probably following procedure (and I can even buy their concern about her driving off again or using that as a means of seeing if she was inebriated if they believed that), but it shows how procedure policy that seems fairly benign can be anything but depending on situation. I can't speak to any other motives, and yep there's been proven issues with breathalyzers, so I get her refusing one there. And its probably their procedure to book her in that situation. But that's the issue when we have a lot of flawed things involved in every aspect of this, it snowballs. And this is a situation where relatively speaking it was rather minor. Because of all the other worse ones though we realize how easily/quickly it can spiral out of control. And that's why they're making a fuss about this.
Geller, with the state police, said troopers made no reference to Brooks' ethnicity or gender.
This is so fucking stupid to say that it just shows how broken their entire mentality is.
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