Cop pulls over man for speeding, livestreams the encounter on Tik Tok - revealing ID info

[thewayne]

Unbelievable. He wasn't speeding and was using cruise control when he was pulled over. Cop lets him go with a verbal warning. Turns out the cop was live-streaming on Tik Tok and showed the guy's drivers license. A little later he receives a message on Facebook that tracked him from the Tik Tok feed.

The guy filed a complaint with the Dallas County Sheriff's Department, the investigation resulted in the officer being suspended for two days without pay. Now the guy is suing for emotional distress, invasion of privacy, etc.

A two day suspension? That's a firing offense IMO, to violate someone's privacy like that. Either management didn't think it was worth firing over, or the union blocked it.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/man-claims-cop-pulled-him-over-just-to-stream-a-traffic-stop-on-tiktok/

Comments

[dewline]

Both, maybe?

[disneydream06]

WOW, I hope he wins a big suit against them.
Cops never seem to have their cameras on during horrible things, and this idiot was tik toking traffic stops? How is that possibly legal. :o :o :o
Hugs, Jon

[silveradept]

That is absolutely a firing offense for the police officer, and the kind that should prevent him from being hired anywhere else. Of course, we've been trying to figure out how to get police officers fired without being hired again by the next jurisdiction over for decades at this point, and it never seems to work.