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Top this, Texas cops!

Texas and Arizona routinely compete for the Douchebag Cop of the Year Award, and via CrimProf Blog we find the Grand Canyon State's 2010 submission in this YouTube video, in which an officer repeatedly threatens a pastor, with gun drawn, because he won't answer personal questions at a traffic stop over a burned out license plate bulb. At one point an officer says things may get "deadly" if the driver doesn't comply. ("The main action of the video is between minutes 0:00-4:00 and 10:50-15:35. The death threat is found around 2:10-2:30.") Finally the driver gets out after police threaten to break his window with a baton and taze him. He's put in handcuffs and taken to a police car where they hide behind an open door so the passenger recording the incident can't get a clear shot of what's going on...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on October 10, 2010 (boomark / email).