Sir, what I was going to tell YOU IS
>> I DON'T GIVE A We are not in the
business of you pulling me over and
telling me, "Don't eat yellow stew,
sir." blah blah blah. No, you pull me
over in an in an aggressive manner,
right? Get in my ticket and up the way
you came up to me and approached me like
I was going to be intimidated by some
blue line.
Give me my ticket. Take back. Don't give
me a ticket or give me a warning or do
what you have to do. But guess what?
This interaction will be on YouTube and
I'm coming for you.
>> In this video, this driver wasn't pulled
over because he was causing chaos or
blowing through traffic. The officer
claimed he had illegally entered the
carpool lane, but the driver immediately
challenged that explanation, insisting
the lane was actually an exit lane and
that the carpool restrictions had
already ended. What followed was an
increasingly heated confrontation with
the officer demanding that he roll down
his window and even threatening to have
the window broken. The driver wasn't
intimidated. He demanded his ticket,
refused to sit through what he saw as a
pointless lecture, and repeatedly
challenged the officer's authority to
detain him. But the strangest part came
after the stop when the driver tried to
identify the officer and the officer
appeared to avoid giving him that
information. Watch how a simple traffic
stop turns into a battle over authority,
accountability, and who actually had the
facts straight.
Heat. Heat.
Roll out your window.
>> It's fine.
>> Roll out your window.
>> No, it's fine.
>> I'm not asking you a question.
>> It's fine.
>> I am not asking you a question.
>> Give me my ticket.
>> You want me to have Highway come and
break this window?
>> Give me my ticket.
>> Pull down your window.
>> Give me my ticket, sir.
>> Pull down your window.
>> What am I being pulled over for?
Um because you just went to the carpool
lane and you are a single lane driver.
>> This is an exit to get off on this in
the carpool lane doesn't start till back
there. Yes, it is.
>> No, it's not.
>> Give me my ticket or off. One of the
two. Give me my ticket up. No,
>> this is an exit lane, sir. The carpull
lane ends a long time ago. You're upset
cuz I went past you. It
>> is not an exit lane for
>> It absolutely is. The carpull lane ends
back there by Paris Lane. I drive this
every day. No.
>> Off and give me my ticket here. Off.
>> Wrong ID here. This one.
Give me my military ID back. You're a
>> Okay, Mr. Bucker.
>> You're
At this point, I execute my fifth
amendment right to remain silent.
>> Mr. Bucker.
I execute my fifth minute right to
remain silent, sir.
>> I understand that, sir.
>> I execute my fifth minute right to
remain silent.
>> Keep a hold of that.
>> No,
>> I'm not going to give you a ticket.
>> No. Guess what? Because of this because
of this this this interaction here, this
is going to go viral. You have no idea
who I have connections with. This is
going to be on Lackluster. It's going to
be on audit the audit. You pull me over
for no reason. Give me my ticket and
off.
>> Mr. Booker,
>> no. Get here.
>> I'm not taking your
>> Then give me my
I'm just trying to talk to you for a
moment.
>> Give me my No, you up. You have no idea
who I am and the connections that I
have. You pull me over. Give me my
ticket and off.
>> Okay, sir. What I was going to tell you,
>> I DON'T GIVE A We are not in the
business of you pulling me over and
telling me don't eat yellow snow, sir,
blah blah blah. Yo, you pull me over in
an in an aggressive manner, right? Give
me my ticket and up.
>> I'm not pulling over in an aggressive
manner.
>> The way you came up to me and approached
me like I was going to be intimidated by
some blue line.
Give me my ticket.
>> I'm not giving you a ticket.
>> Give me my Give me my this. Okay, sir.
Let me calm down. Am I detained?
>> Yes.
>> Okay, then give me then go write my
ticket. Give, sir. You have give me my
military ID back. You cannot hold it.
Give it to me. Now, here's here's this.
Take that. Go get me a ticket or give me
a warning or do what you have to do. But
guess what? This interaction will be on
YouTube and I'm coming for you.
>> Go.
>> I'm not worried about
>> Go off public servant. Do your job.
>> Off.
Give me my ticket.
>> Okay.
>> When I was off, I don't give a you're
gonna say
off. Shut your mouth. Give me my ticket.
Off. That's all there is. I've done 12
years of service for combat tours for
this country. I'm not intimidated by law
enforcement. I'm not intimidated by some
face thinking they're coming up to me
when they're wrong. THIS IS THE exit
lane. The carpal lane ends back in
Paris. I drive this every
day. I don't want to hear your cops
playing. Either get in my so I can leave
or go write my ticket and off.
>> Okay.
>> I execute my fifth amendment right to
remain silent. Give me
>> giving your stuff back.
>> You give it to me.
>> Okay. what I was going to
>> I don't give a
>> I don't give a you
528405
Heat. Heat.
528450
American Fork Police.
What's your name? What? Hey. No. No. No.
No. No. Hey. What's your name?
Hey.
What's your name,
sir? What's your badge number,
sir? What's your badge number?
What's your badge number, sir?
What is your badge number?
>> My action is over. Thank you, Mr.
Bucker.
>> What is your badge number?
>> I got your license plate. I'm calling
I'm calling your department.
>> This encounter raises serious questions
about how this traffic stop was handled.
The officer claimed the driver had
illegally entered a carpool lane, but
the driver immediately disputed that
claim and explained that the lane was an
exit lane at that point. If the lane was
in fact unrestricted where the driver
entered it, then the factual basis for
the stop was fundamentally wrong. And
when an officer makes a traffic stop
based on a supposed violation, that
violation needs to actually exist. The
bigger problem was how the officer
handled the interaction. Instead of
simply explaining the alleged violation,
issuing a citation or warning, and
ending the detention, the encounter
escalated into demands that the driver
roll down his window, including a threat
to have the window broken. The driver
had already provided identification, and
once he invoked his right to remain
silent, the officer could not simply
turn the stop into an unlimited
interrogation. The driver's anger was
clearly excessive, but that doesn't give
an officer a license to manufacture a
violation, intimidate a motorist, or
extend a detention without lawful
justification. Then came the
accountability issue. After the stop,
the driver tried to obtain the officer's
name and badge information, and the
officer drove away instead of making
that identification easy. The later
discovery that he was apparently a
school resource officer, makes the
situation even more concerning. But
claims about his jurisdiction, whether
the stop was properly documented, and
whether he actually called the stop in,
should be determined through the
official records the driver said he was
requesting. The lesson here is simple.
Police authority comes with legal
limits. A traffic stop has to be based
on an actual lawful justification. The
detention has to remain within its
proper scope, and officers are not
entitled to turn a routine enforcement
action into an intimidation session
simply because a driver refuses to be
lectured. This driver may have been far
more confrontational than necessary, but
his refusal to surrender his rights or
accept an unsupported explanation forced
the encounter to stay focused on the
actual traffic violation. And when
accountability became the issue at the
end, the officer was the one who
appeared unwilling to provide