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It just shows he's a young men with sense of humour and not the best judgement.
To be old and wise you must be young and stupid first, most of us have done worse than this. I know I have.
If I was James I'd be more concerned with the multiple accusations and sensationalist crap going on in here than any slap on the wrist he may get from the cops.
So he chose the WRONG occupants to play a silly prank on, everyone here knows his motive was harmless. All humans - especially young guys make the wrong judgment calls/mistakes now and then, even top sports stars.
He messed up... harmlessly. Big fucking deal!
I read one guy saying that he teaches his daughter how to tell if it is really a cop or not. How do you do that with red and blue flashing lights? It is questionable if it is a lifted to the moon Tundra, but is anyone still NOT going to stop because of that? My feeling is that this should be a very serious crime as this tactic is being used in the most heinous crimes imaginable. To hear how many people on here do it or have done it is mind-boggling. Maybe the rest of society knows the MX community better than I thought I did.
With each passing day it just comes to the surface how truly doomed our species is.
Malcolm was there by the way? You think James is sitting there telling his family EXACTLY what happened? By the time he is done with HIS version, they'll be trying to sue the cops for the potential damage this has done to his career. Maybe the cops planted the lights in the truck when they pulled them over? Hmmmmm.......
.....Maybe Mark Furman was in town?
Jeezus...the vehement Stewart supporters are complete idiots.
As pointed out, that badge could have been anything, from anywhere. I have an officer friend that once flashed his to get into college game out of town, everything was fine until he whipped it out in the face of some drunk in the crowd, that just happened to have his own from that jurisdiction. It's not like he ran, let alone ran from a marked car.
They didn't think he was a cop with his light so why would a badge be any more meaningful.
Jeezus give your head a shake man!
People don't like abuse of power, whether it's because you're rich or have a badge.
I think he gets some sympathy now because it seems there may have been some embellishment of the story by the police.
You can't compare the 911 call with that video and the FHP spokewoman and not wonder where the hell they got that version of events. I assume what she described would have had to come from the off duty cops that were involved, but that doesn't sound like what they described.
Despite his true intention It sounds like they want to hold James to the letter of the law, but not the cop that was possibly committing traffic vilolations before he became involved in official police business with James.
James was wrong but apart from that, a lot of the sentiment about the cops involved may be because it appears that on some level we had a rich guy with a sense of entitlement and a guy with a badge and a sense of entitlement having some sort of confrontation that lead to this.
Big difference from putting together all the available data and forming an opinion based on the evidence and facts available.
Pit Row
I'm guessing but I doubt he wanted to pull over and conduct a traffic stop, cops didn't know that but what they did know is he wasn't fleeing like the spokeswoman reported, cop said "he decided to keep driving" and "he's just driving in front of us now" And who would pull right over for a badge in a Silverado?
It doesn't sound like he just happend along and targeted them like FHP alleges on tv, I understand dipped in behind us after I passed him but what does "he came up behind us, because I went to go pass him" mean?
I suppose what I'm getting at is some of us are not so much trying to justify what he done, but we're a little put off over how these officers at least appear to be spinning this into something different than what it was, not to diminish what it was.
Does it sound to you that the story in the FHP video is what happened? If something happened between the two (road rage?) shouldn't that be a part of FHP version of events? What they omitted changes the perspective of the video, at least to where James doesn't sound like he's a lunatic, rapist or murderer.
I think it's reasonable to assume they know he's not what they're making him out to be.
Actually, maybe I should say it's not too much of a stretch to assume an off duty cop would be less worried about driving in a way that may incite an altercation than the rest of us would be.
And road rage??? Where did you pull that one from? Both of the officers I could hear on the phone seemed calm enough and it didn't sound like James was trying to flee at a high rate of speed. It's statements like that that people read, then repeat as fact that cause these types of things to spin out of control, just like this one is preparing to do.
In all honesty,if he would have stopped and talked with the off-duty guys and said who he was,perhaps they would have laughed or even been shocked at who he was and been like are you nuts? Maybe even given him a good scare and once the on duty cops showed up,they possibly could have cut him a break after speaking with the off-duty guys.
Immediate cooperation can go a long way,whether it is an off duty cop or on duty .
Keeping driving & hiding the lights in luggage didn't help him any,in fact it got Rado charged with 2nd degree felony,worse then James charge (3rd degree).
good people do dumb things everyday, stand up and take your lumps.
Someday you'll laugh about it and the grand kids will revere you ! ( i had no idea grandpa you were so cool!!! )
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