100% my thoughts. Look at her face - she’s upset and embarrassed, and he’s winding her up by getting involved in something that has no merit or public interest. ‘People behaving badly’? FFS. This is just rubbernecking and pillorying.
I’ve been stopped by a policeman (when much younger) for poor quality driving - I most certainly wasn’t at my best, on edge, nervous, embarrassed, intimidated by an authority figure. I later found that he described me as ‘arrogant’ in his report - which couldn’t have been further from the truth, I was mortified and ashamed. Some stranger sticking their camera under my nose and filming my embarrassment would have made me behave worse too.
Mind your own business, this is embarrassing enough and nothing to do with you or anyone except me and the policeman.
I think @angusm is starting to scratch the surface here, in pointing out how it’s a racial bias. Black folks would likely not be afforded the privilege of complaining (especially in this manner) and any corresponding video might have been depicting a beatdown or even a murder.
The other thing that I find distasteful about this segment is that if a YouTuber, for example, instead of a reporter with known media outlet, came up on a traffic stop like that with a camera and a microphone and started interviewing the driver while the cop was still at the window of the car, I can promise you the cop would have gotten right in the filmer’s face and told them to back away from the scene. While you have the right to film the police in the course of them doing their job, you do not have the right to be right there in the middle of it while you’re filming. I say this just to point out that it’s clear this reporter is doing this not just with the permission of the police department, but with their full cooperation and arguably even their participation, and that bothers tf out of me. It makes this a form of copaganda.
Mine less so these days as the hubcap covers are still off from the last repair (to facilitate the next) and we’ve had to tear off two of the exhaust “heat shields”. There’s no dielectric break between the aluminum heat shields and the stainless steel fasteners - these are designed to fail.
