Elmo wrote:I read down the laws and he wasn’t able to tell me which one I was breaking.
Of course not! It's not their job to interpret the law, only to enforce their individual interpretation of it. Cop was just being a prick.
Two weeks ago I was walking with my 6yo daughter in Bloomfield & turning the corner onto Ella from Liberty around 3pm on a Saturday... a cop van with 2 cops in it was waiting for the light at Ella/Liberty and someone ran the red on Liberty directly in front of them. Runner was stopped in line waiting to make the left onto the Bloomfield bridge.
Van window was down and I asked the driver, "Did you see that guy run the red light?"
"Yeah, I'M A POLICE OFFICER, I
THINK I CAN HANDLE IT!", with a completely condescending douchebaggy seething tone. Standing there holding the hand of my 6yo, she looks up at me and I can tell that the exchange does not fit in with her age-appropriate expectation of the cops being the good guys.
I honestly could not believe how dickish he was being for simply asking if he saw someone run a red light. If they're gung-ho to yell at a cyclist for riding through an empty crosswalk, you'd think that a car blatantly running a red would bring about some sort of correction, right?
The light changed, he turned right down Liberty appearing to follow the car, crossed the lane divider and pulled into Del's lot, backed out into oncoming traffic and proceeded up Liberty the other way with a blind eye.
