This would never happen to you with a DR cop!

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PICHARDO

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Sure it would, I have been given breaks all the time. Need to do a little more talking or just dont speak any spanish at all, You have to play it by ear. Funny video.


Not the break as there was none *(the cop just went to his cruiser to write the citation for speeding with the papers he collected from the driver), but the way the cop called the driver "Germany BOY" and raps to hims "why are you driving in my country?"...
 

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This cop should be fired. Cannot believe he gets away with behavior like this. Notice his use of the word "boy", you cannot speak this disrespectfully to the public. This cop is a real a--hole and creates a lot of unnecessary enimity towards police officers in general. Would love to send this tape to the local newspapers where he is employed. A guy like this make enemies of everyone he comes into contact with. A lot of police behaivor comes to light with cell phones and camcorders.
 

PICHARDO

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Didja see the one in Florida where a state trooper pulled over a Miami cop for going 120 MPH at night on what I recognize as the Florida Turnpike? Check it out on YOU TUBE> I don't know how to upload it here or I would.
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PICHARDO

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Funny:

"She was told to discontinue the chase 3 times and disobeyed. She was told by her Major to remove the cuffs, give back the weapon and cut the officer loose. She disobeyed that also by writing him a ticket. In Florida it is only legal to chase vehicles if the person driving committed a forcible felony. Speeding even if it was 120 is NOT a forcible felony. That is breaking the law, double standard on you. Why is it ok for her to break the law? She is demoted now..."
 

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The Miami cop was "speeding" at 78mph when she first spotted him and she sped up her car to 120mph to catch up to his vehicle... WOW!

MIAMI (CBS4) - Some Miami police officers are furious that a Florida state trooper took a Miami cop down at gunpoint and put him in handcuffs after a high speed chase through Broward County.

Trooper Donna Watts arrested Miami Officer Fausto Lopez early on the morning of October 11th. Her dashboard camera recorded the Miami officer, in a marked police car, blowing past her and other traffic on the Florida Turnpike like it was standing still. Watts radioed that Lopez was going "well over 120? miles per hour, and was weaving "in and out of traffic."

When the trooper got the cop stopped, she approached his car with her gun drawn, ordered him out, and handcuffed him behind his back. Lopez said he was rushing to get to an off-duty job in Hollywood, according to the arrest report.

The Fraternal Order of Police (FOP), the union representing Miami officers, slammed the state trooper's behavior on Wednesday.

She was "completely unprofessional and very reckless," said Sgt. Javier Ortiz, the FOP vice-president.

"I pulled someone over last week doing 111 (mph) in a 60," Ortiz said. "I didn't put a gun to their face. Their is no reason for her to pull a firearm and put it in the face of another police officer."

Trooper Watts told her superiors she didn't know who she was dealing with in the pursuit that lasted seven minutes and went twelve miles. She thought the police car might have been stolen or carjacked, given that it kept going despite her blue lights and siren being on.

"If she thought the car was stolen, she should have waited for back-up help," Ortiz said. "You don't conduct a felony stop by yourself."

In the audio from the trooper's dashboard camera she can be heard lecturing the police officer for endangering the public, and described his behavior as common to Miami officers in particular.

"You don't respect these people out here," the trooper told Lopez. "This is not a first-time occurrence with ya'll (Miami police). Ya'll come that way all the time. It's not excusable."

Ortiz, the Miami union rep, said he believes Trooper Watts has a dislike for Miami police and was "on the hunt" for a Miami officer.

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) issued a statement supporting its trooper's actions.

The Miami police union is entitled to its opinion, but our members protect the public regardless of who the violator is," said FHP Captain Mark Brown from his office in Tallahassee. "She (Trooper Watts) took an oath to uphold the law and that is what she did."

Lopez's attorney, being paid by the police union, said on Wednessday that the officer was not guilty.

"This is a matter that's been blown out of proportion," attorney William Matthewman told CBS4 News.

Matthewman said Lopez is a "fine police officer with three children, who has been on the streets for six years protecting the community."

"Just like any other citizen, he is entitled to a presumption of innocence." Matthewman said. "If you look at the video fairly, it does not show reckless driving."

Matthewman said Lopez was weaving across lanes, trying to get out of the trooper's way, because he thought she was on her way to an emergency call.

The lawyer said "there is no way" the officer was going 120 miles per hour as the trooper claimed.

Interim Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa told CBS4's Gary Nelson on Monday that Officer Lopez did a "dumb" and "knuckle-headed thing," and will face discipline of some sort when the criminal case against him is resolved.

Lopez remains on regular duty.

http://www.wtsp.com/news/article/218682/19/Miami-cops-challenge-trooper39s-arrest-of-officer
 

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First came the controversial traffic stop, cop vs. cop on Florida’s Turnpike, recorded on dash-cam video that went viral showing a state trooper pursuing, cuffing and detaining a hyper-speeding Miami police officer at gunpoint.
Now comes the aftermath: Some Miami police officers are not only defending their compatriot, they are threatening and insulting the Florida Highway Patrol trooper who had the nerve to write him a ticket for reckless driving.
If professional courtesy is a two-way street, it looks like the encounter between Miami Officer Fausto Lopez and Trooper Donna Jane Watts has dropped a massive roadblock between factions in their two agencies.
The grudge match has been playing out in hundreds of tit-for-tat postings on a law enforcement blog.
In this corner, Miami: “I would have loved for Watts to try and pull me over in my marked unit and draw her gun on me! She would have a very rude awakening,’’ an anonymous writer posted Monday. “I would wait til I got to my district, called all my boys, and then you Miss Watts will be very SORRY!!’
On the other side, FHP: “The dumb ass shouldn’t be doing 122 miles per hour that is RECKLESS,’’ posted another writer. “What if it’s your family that idiot rear-ends and kills, will you still want FHP to be so lenient?’’
The growing tension was heightened Sunday when Sgt. Javier Ortiz, vice president of Miami’s Fraternal Order of Police, which represents the city’s 1,000-plus officers, attacked Watts and defended Lopez in a letter to union members. He accused Watts of just wanting to ticket a Miami cop.
“Officer Lopez was extremely professional,’’ Ortiz wrote. “Many of us would have acted differently if a fellow cop pulled a gun on them. I would have thought she possibly was a Baker Act that stole an FHP car and a uniform,’’ he wrote, using a legal term for mentally unstable people who are considered dangerous.
He went on to tell officers: “Please do not get to her level and begin taking action against Troopers because of the poor decisions of one. … Do not be running her information on DAVID, FCIC/NCIC, etc.,’’ referring to law enforcement databases that contain criminal records, addresses and dates of birth.
Such databases are to be used only for law enforcement purposes, not to gain personal information.
The bickering is about a mid-morning Oct. 11 incident that took place in the south-bound lanes of the Turnpike near the Hollywood exit. In an FHP offense report, Watts saids Lopez passed her, weaving in and out of traffic, at speeds over 120 mph.
The dash cam video from her patrol car shows Watts following Lopez for five minutes, with his patrol car generally too far ahead to be seen on camera. As she finally nears him, she turns on her siren and lights for two minutes before he pulls over.
Watts wrote that after she hit her siren, “the driver ignored my lights and siren and again accelerated, changing lanes to the outside lane, back into the center lane, back across to the outside lane and then back to the inside lane. He slowed to 78 mph, but then accelerated again, continuing to change lanes in and out of traffic.”
On the 45-minute video, Lopez is seen eventually pulling over against the concrete highway median and stopping.
Lopez’s attorney, Bill Matthewman, said his client wasn’t aware he was being ordered to pull over, and was simply trying to get out of the trooper’s way until he realized she was tailing him.


The video then shows Watts exiting her car and drawing her weapon as she approaches the Miami patrol car. “Put your hands out the window right now,” she barked. Lopez, who is extremely polite throughout the incident, was then handcuffed and placed in the back of Watts’ vehicle.
“Oh my God, I can not believe this,” Lopez is heard saying to himself. After Lopez tells Watts he never noticed her marked car, he added, “Honestly, the handcuffs are not necessary, ma’am. I’m a police officer. I would never handcuff you, ever.”

A short while later Watts told Lopez she thought he might be driving a stolen patrol car.

Almost 20 minutes into the video, Watts can be heard saying to a supervisor on the phone, “He was detained. He was not under arrest. Okay, I’ll do it.” She then went into the back of her vehicle and apparently removed the handcuffs.
A short while later Lopez was escorted to another FHP car that had pulled up. He spent a few minutes inside that vehicle, then walked back to his patrol car and drove away. Lopez was never arrested but was charged with reckless driving, a second-degree misdemeanor.


He is back patrolling the city’s central district. Watts, too, is on the job, according to the FHP, despite blog postings stating she had been suspended for not obeying her supervisor’s purported orders to stop the pursuit.
“He’ll be pleading not guilty,” Matthewman said. “Maybe he was going too fast. To me this has been blown out of proportion.”
Yet to be answered: Did Watts check to see if the car had been reported stolen while she was following it? Did a supervisor order her to stop her pursuit? Did Watts violate FHP regulations or training in any way, particularly when she pulled her weapon and approached the car instead of waiting for back-up from a safe distance?

FHP Sgt. Mark Wysocky, an agency spokesman, told The Miami Herald he believed Watts was in the process of checking if the car was stolen when Lopez pulled over. He said he did not know if a supervisor told her to stop her pursuit. He declined to comment on FHP protocols, saying, “The video speaks for itself.’’

“The actions she took were based on the driving pattern of the officer,’’ Wysocky said. “He was detained to determine why he was driving in that fashion.”
The blogosphere, meanwhile, is captivated by the controversy. Hundreds of anonymous comments have been posted on LEOAFFAIRS.com, which calls itself The Voice of Law Enforcement Online.
Though numerous threats and personal attacks have been directed at Watts, and purported members of both agencies are threatening to retaliate or not to back each other up in emergencies, there is no easy way to tell if the writers are actually law officers.
“She is an unfortunate-looking woman, her behavior probably has something to do with it,’’ a pro-Miami writer said about Watts.
“Miami cops should be used to riding handcuffed in the back seat,’’ wrote an FHP supporter. “So many get arrested for rape, murder, corruption, etc.’’
Interim Miami Police Chief Manuel Orosa declined to comment on the blog postings or the incident, which is under investigation by Internal Affairs. The FHP’s Wysocky likewise declined to address the blog postings.



Read more: Reckless driving charge against Miami police officer sparks tension with FHP - Miami-Dade - MiamiHerald.com
 

PICHARDO

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You must watch this one to the end!!

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In Florida it is only legal to chase vehicles if the person driving committed a forcible felony. Speeding even if it was 120 is NOT a forcible felony.

While the FHP may have a no pursuit policy you need to understand there is more than one legal authority that the FHP unlike in the DR where the AMET is in control of transit violations. There are municipal and country law enforcement officers as well and many have their own distinct policy.
 
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As are all Law Enforcement agencies in Florida, the FHP is charged with protecting the welfare of the public. ANY vehicle operating at 120mph is a threat to the well being and safety of the public and is subject to arrest, she done good
 

PICHARDO

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Quoting! But! Asked fellow friends over the Boost quick connect (one is a OCSO deputy, another a FHP, the other an OPD and a token LEO from the city of Miami) they all said the posted comments I quoted were 100% legit, but it was 100% the LEO's call on the course of action in the real time the events unfolded. All said it was "stupid" to tailgate the Miami cop and normal procedure (between LEOs) was to pull alongside the other vehicle and flash a courtesy slow down signal with the hands, from window to window...

This is the same courtesy they use when passing a stationary cruiser by the side of the road on speedsters' watch, and they do two quick flashes of their high lamps to acknowledge a LEO speeding (will slow down) to the cruiser's LEO...
 

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this one is my favorite:

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