https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfzYXLiHPGo
Police stopped the car, asking the driver for ID. Driver's mate kept asking if the driver was under arrest. One of the police opened the door and threatened to arrest his mate for 'interrupting'.
I'm asking since I do that a lot too. Not to obstruct anything but my mates are very stupid and freaked out everytime they get stopped by the police. If they got asked if they killed someone, they would probably say yes too.
Thoughts?
My understanding of interrupting justice is that you get in the way of them doing their jobs. I mean can talking really amount to interrupting justice because the police could just arrest the driver and ignore his mates.
I have been on so many cars and the one who always did this were the moms. Everytime dad gets caught by the police, the wife's mouth never stopped (and they threw insults too) and but I have never seen police threatened anything.
I've been driving for almost 45 years, and I can count on one hand the number of times I've been pulled over by police. What the hell are the people in the cars you've been in doing to get pulled over so often?
I drove a nissan silvia as a teenager and thought getting pulled over twice weekly was normal…
Then i grew up and got a ute and have been pulled over maybe twice in 10 years since
don't say the same nonsense over and over interrupting them
Yep, fail the attitude test and they are more likely to enforce the law.
The video in the OP got taken down. Think they're starting to take action now…
Yeah I know that's still up suprisingly but was the linked video from that channel?
If you are concerned this is something you should ask the police.
The police are the last people you be asking.
Seriously?
Your mates are retarded and stupid too. It's against the law
If you have to worry about countless dealings with the cops, then the cops aren't the issue…
Some raccoons kill people.
Both examples are in the extreme minority.
Go about your business like the other 99.99% of the population and you won't have anything to worry about.
i bet your mate is middle eastern and acts like a d'head with all cops.
More like to be an obnoxious Bogan.
Rather than worrying about what your rights are, first keep in mind what your obligations are. It's not a big deal asking a couple of innocent questions, but banging on about your rights, especially when you have no idea what they are, is going to get you into trouble. Aside from the legal system assumes you know the laws applicable to you, it would be a good start to learn what your obligations as a driver are, and what powers the police have. Just because they don't ping you for everything they could do, is a good example of their restraint and tolerance. A far cry from all the calls of "the cops picking on me" etc. you hear all the time. In this case, for the passenger to interfere in the dealing of the police and the driver will be a bad thing. Again, the police will generally tolerate it for a while but their patience with this sort of thing will wear thin very quickly — you won't be the first brain-surgeon today to stick your nose in where it isn't wanted. They have bigger fish to fry and better things to do with their time than having to arrest you over something stupid and they will tend to avoid it, but don't push your luck.
The offence is under the same section with hindering or resisting police, it also includes obstructing, assaulting, delaying or encouraging someone to do those things. Basically anything that stops them from doing their job. If you continue to do those things, it is absolutely an arrestable offence.
You have the right to remain silent, but you never do…
You seem to struggle with the basic task of reading comprehension, don't you?
Absolutely, you do what the cop tells you to, you shut up, let them do their job and then continue on your way. If the OPs friends are too stupid to deal with something simple like a traffic stop then maybe they should give up driving. If you don't give them grief cops are usually pretty good, in fact they often just give you a warning and wave you on. You get lippy then they will find stuff that is wrong. Escalating a situation like that is going to get yourself in a lot more trouble than the cops. If you are concerned then make sure you are recording, but also realise that the recording may well be used against you.
police are nice, why would you not respect them. Ingenuine comment of the month.
Police can justify any arrest, so there is that.
I've been in the car and pulled over with a mate. He fixes up cars, we had just looked at a car to buy that someone was selling and driving around on 'trade' plates. It was a mess, and the cops knew of this car (small country town) but couldn't do anything about it (not road worthy). But got my mate with trumped up unroadworthy claims, which you cannot defend on the day. They were driving around in a van, that had bald tires. I pointed this out the to cops, and they just threatened me.
Now their car will be involved in a high speed chase, and they're worried about other cars.
The Police, as in Sting?
I'd do anything Sting asks me to do…
Getting a bit clingy there… Don't stand so close to me.
As that officer says , if you are stopping them from doing their duty then yes you can be and that guy should've been.
He was the biggest arsehole. No reason why he couldn't drive, get food and then get drunk. Instead he made his idiotic friend without a license drive and his friend was even more of a dufas for believing he should be silent…
They might threaten to, but ultimately it comes down to what they can prove in court. If they don't believe they stick the charge, they aren't going to want to devote the time and resources to it just to 'show you who's boss'
They do have a myriad of other options at their disposal though, so it's not wise to play around with them too much. Don't make their job easy for them, but don't make it too hard. It's a fine balance
i think many qld'ers watch usa based youtube vids on citizen's rights and parrot the advice to local cops.
it doesn't end well.
keep your cool, know your rights, and keep the dashcam (and phone video-to-cloud app) rolling.
you never know when you may come up against a flanagan.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-20/stephen-flanagan-guilt…
Hahaha man I've watched about a hundred of these Highway Patrol videos in the last week that are popping up on Youtube now, check out Jobtha's channel aswell.
If you're preventing police from carrying out their duty you can absolutely be arrested, it's called obstruction of police duty or something similar. Sit their filming them, ask reasonable questions but don't say the same nonsense over and over interrupting them.
People get this idea in their head that cops have less powers than they actually do, so they start acting like fkwits and just make it worse for themselves, "Am I being detained or am I free to go???" and all this kind of thing. Just act respectful unless they are actually abusing their power, and you'll get a better result.