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NY District Attorney Refuses to Pull Over During Traffic Stop

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0:00 yeah she should have just shut up got the ticket I know like honestly that's the best way exactly do that anyway say okay yeah my bad okay he should have got a ticket and then went like this [Laughter] [Music] went so I don't know if you guys saw footage of this but there's a uh in New York there was a DA that got pulled over for speeding oh I did see footage of this yes I'm just going to play I'm just going play it just listen to how like audacious this whole thing is right okay I'm telling you why I stopped you you didn't stop at all did you not hear my lights or Sirens or anything no I didn't actually I was on the phone okay you're not supposed to be on the phone while you're driving either absolutely okay why are you so

0:51 upset at me I'm doing my job you you just admitted to me that you were going 55 and a 35 on Phil R to leave me alone it's Chris Foy CHR fo can you stay over here ma'am you're this is a traffic this is this is a legal traffic stop do you have your ID no it's in my purse here you have your purse right there no this is my lunch would you talk to your talk to Dennis this is ridiculous just go wet hello sir yeah she thinks she's above the law yeah she thinks she's way please stay at the back this is a ma' this is legal traffic stop can you please stay over here no hey baby so she rather than pull over she just went home stop 55 and a 35 on Philips Road and she failed to stop she drove all the way back home and parked in her garage and now she's not she's not complying with any of my

1:41 commands man do not go inside oh my God damn oh my God you're bugging me dude man come outside you can't just go inside here's your phone back I understand the law better than you 953 I understand the law better than you I think I'm in love with her dude she's so drunk Tas her ass right now you please go to the back of the vehicle I'm not going to I'm home I was going I was okay 5 I don't care if you got home you were supposed to stop at Philips Road when I pulled you over when my lights were initiated I didn't know you were stopping me there was lots of other people I know the law better than you directly behind you I'm not dealing with you right can you please step over here I'm not going

2:32 to what is the reason you're you're so against what I'm doing I'm doing my job you say you're a DA I am the da okay [Music] da she's drunk huh I don't understand the hostility towards me drunk with white privilege how am I being an ████ damn that's so scary she's not drunk no I don't think she's do she's sober this is just her literally like she's just an ████ she just thinks she's above the law I understand that man dude she has a badge you got a bad Your da that's pretty cool genuinely just above the law ████ did you hear she said she right there she go she just give me ticket I'm the one that prosecutes it so she's like just going to nullify her own ticket

3:22 probably why are you pulling me over you're not even supposed to be on the phone to begin with you should know that oh oh oh on handsfree absolutely you should know the law okay if it is handsfree that's great but at the end of the day you're going 55 and a 35 that's 20 mil over the speed limit okay you know what that's fine you know what I've been dealing with all day three murders in the city and do you think I really care if I was going 20 mi over the speed limit okay I'm just doing my job if you pulled if you pulled over when you saw my lights which obviously you did I thought you were going somewhere else because I thought no one would ever pull a a black SUV if you ran my plates oh cuz she's special I'm following you because you're not stopping so I had to take the air from dispatch please so this continues on like until

4:13 supervisor comes yeah it it goes and then she's just acting like this the entire the whole time the video is 26 minutes long we got through 4 minutes what a nightmare and she's just a total ████ so then like that's so scary like how do you do your job when the person you're dealing with could end your career in like a snap like ████ like that that's ████ crazy that's why you got to post the body Canam cuz i' be like okay I'm sorry ma'am I'm out of here put in a good word for me one day thank you yeah so it's it's so stupid that that that got out and then like I think she at first issued a statement that just said it was so stupid it was just like oh I do not believe I'm above the law I respectable whatever not the way you're acting ████ disregarding how she acted and then she ended up doing like a longer uh like apology video and here it is this is New

5:03 York yeah New York last Monday I failed you and the standard that I hold myself to and for that I am so sorry what I did was wrong no excuses responsibility for my actions I fell short of the values I've held for my entire 33-year career nah ████ we know we saw how you act all police drink water too much like stick truly and sincerely sorry I just come from work I was dealing with three homicides that occurred over the weekend everyone you deal with homicides all the time shut up still reeling from a frightening medical concern that my husband received that afternoon oh my God all had bad days stress and it was wrong for me to take it out on an officer who was simply doing his job while I previously apologized to him I

5:53 will say it again I'm sorry police already have a tough job and that day I made this officer's job job harder to the community I owe you full transparency here's what I'm doing to hold myself accountable here we go first I already pled guilty to the speeding ticket and I will willingly pay the fine next I'm referring the entire matter to a district attorney from another County for review and will fully cooperate with that investigation okay I'm going to self-report this incident to the grievance committee and I will cooperate with their investigation now you need to get District Attorneys had acted this way I would have disciplined them so I'm disciplining myself no you're not no you're not ████ quit I think she should get fired she doesn't get to be a DA that's crazy I

6:44 think she needs to get fired and she needs to get tazed maybe shot in the foot I think pepper spray dude pepper spray you know all the people that like they're like dude if like if my people were to evade cops getting pull over and drive home like I don't think I would have turned out with a super nice cop that's going to have a conversation with me she needs to know how it feels like on the other end right and the fact that you don't she needs to be a civilian so that she knows what it feels like to not have any more power and they never care what your reason is like if you're speeding or whatever and you're like oh I just had this happen I had that happen they don't give who the ████ cares and if she and if she didn't get caught in that video didn't get posted she would not have this REM more the ████ that she was saying wasn't in my view I don't think that was a taking out your stress on a guy that was flexing your position 100% that's exploiting your own power

7:34 total exploitation and so she should be making the apology that I thought I was above the law she should be resigning the position 100% especially if she doesn't stop and she's like oh I thought you pulling over other cars it's like yeah ████ right ████ what are you talking about while she also says she was on the phone talking to someone else hands free though so it's fine yeah but her not stop her not stopping is a big ████ deal and then driving home in her defense though she's a white woman I think in her mind clearly no one's pulling me over some white ladies are the worst people of all time I'll just say that right now some white ladies are just the worst I wish Hannah would Flex her whiteness a little bit more no but she's across the pond dude I know they're too polite bro if anything she needs to work on her American accent oh yeah that's true she's an immigrant so she has that immigrant like fear she's like they could Deport me anytime

8:25 you know I I just like this lady's PR team that's like oh oh yeah yeah yeah use your husband's sickness yeah she nailed the apology in the tone though she's like I am so sorry I was like yeah shut up those are those court lawyer skills you know they like half actors yeah yeah yeah a true apology is like I don't deserve this position absolutely a real apology stepping I'm going to resign yeah and then you find something else to do that's crazy that she's not resigning saying to me I think for all the people out there when you do something wrong publicly and you have to apologize just apologize don't say because yeah just say I'm sorry nobody want to hear that just say I ████ up I'm sorry exactly that's all you don't need to talk about your husband what day you had feel sorry for me that's the stuff you leak to the Press yeah you don't say it you leak it to the press and you just say you're sorry you're done and then the Press goes did you know her husband was diagnosed with

9:15 cancer that day and then they go ohh well I feel bad yeah exactly but if you say it no one cares no one cares I do wish I had that power though that after that video leak I don't think an apology would feel gen at all even if it's genuine absolutely not like I watched that video and I'm like yeah right your your true character show that's the true character and your true character is an entitled piece of ████ yeah that's not a moment of weakness and these things came out like no way and you know people like that they're like they live like ████ throughout their whole lives plus she's like ████ looking all good and this high def camera with the ████ blur and ████ like that it's like do that same thing on like a court camera in orange jumpsuit with some ████ handcuffs on make that same apology like I might believe that one you know what I mean you're supposed to hold people like this higher standards

10:05 yep like that was that was lowest of the low dude that's yeah cuz like when especially when she all she had to say is I'm I'm the da but she didn't have to go I'm the da yeah and she's telling that to a she's telling that to a cop who's trying to do his job I'm glad the police chief and like that department is standing behind him they are they're they're just not like putting up with that ████ like we're defending the actions of the officer who is acting accordingly to the law yeah they don't he's not going to lose a job she's probably ████ piss that it's literally pretty black and white it's like yeah dude the you were speeding you should have just pulled over and you went home dude and he was being cool he was being cool too he was like dude why are you being like that he could have tased her as soon as she went in the house I thought he was going to bend her arm back ████ Slammer against the hands on my ████ Hood I ████ wish she like a freaking brat too and he's like can you go back out to the car

10:56 she's like I'm not I'm not going and she's going inside and out like walking leave me alone who says that to a cop leave me alone she's going to do errands around the house hoping that he leaves yeah she thought she was going to get her plates ran and be like H that's right see she she doesn't have the she didn't have the wherewithal or The Innovation to just as soon as she got out the car is run inside and go I got to go take a crap yeah I'm so sorry I know you I know you were behind me I got to ████ so bad like I knew you were behind me back I'm so sorry I had a ████ that's what yeah that's you got to do that's good and then she has time to think time to think like her story if her apology video is just that I'm sorry guys I had to ████ how relatable relatable it would be a funny thing it would humanize her I wasn't trying to evade the cop I was trying to make it to the can in there yeah but like these entitled narcissist ate

11:47 racing can they can never stoop themselves to that level but I I see if if she called me I would have told her don't just apologize just say you guys we've all been there yeah I had to use the restroom but she didn't but she had to run into into her h house that's you got to do you got to run into your house while you scream I got a ████ I saw you I know I'll be right out but that that's that's the spooky part is that she's above making an excuse to the officer she thought she was that's terrifying the me she was just want like hold up talk to him I know crazy and then and then what did Dennis do he went which was basically like y just do what you got to do like how many times has she done that oh yeah well who's Dennis is it the chief of police probably probably some connction she has on the inside that's ████ crazy or someone in that department yeah because if she's the da then I'm sure she talks to the chief all

12:37 the time they're like they're buddies but I think one thing that we're kind of missing and I think what's missing the story is that it's further proofs cops are allowed to lie to you he said you're not supposed to be on your phone they all know what the laws are they know with the phone they know that you can be you could be handsfree they know that but he's like you're not supposed to be on your phone so that she'll go oh yeah yeah you know I'm sorry whatever but like just let you guys know the scary thing was when she's like go ahead and give me a ticket I'm the one that prosecutes it that's F scary yeah is that czy exactly yeah that like there's a choice that she can make versus a Justice she has to uphold herself to you know what I mean it's not law anymore it's just opinion yeah she should have just shut up got the ticket I know like honestly that's the best way exactly do that anyway say okay yeah my bad okay he should have got a ticket and then went like this went

13:32 da that's way cooler I like that da and above her license place she should get a sticker like run my plates ████ yeah like lean into it if it Le run my plates ████ I got a DA in the in the passenger seat or something which he's actually supposed to do so she was riding that he is supposed to run the plate because he has to see if there's a worn out for the rest so when it comes up it'll say well the thing is they always run your place but they don't necessarily like run your plates while they're driving it's like I'll pull you over and then they run your plates right it's also it's well I think with LAPD it's automatic but I don't know with like their equipment oh yeah scans it it's constantly scanning if he calls it into like dispatch or something everyone's like y yeah he pulled over this lady it's already it's already out the it's in the radio but maybe he didn't have time because she went home and started going in and he

14:22 had he didn't have time to run it yeah maybe didn't have a partner to type it in or whatever he's just doing it himself yeah yeah yeah speaking of skans you guys know la they scan everyone's license plates and then they they they save it on a database so that something happens they can they can run that time and be like oh you guys were there your car was there did you see anything now that's the that's the nice way of looking at it but the bad way is is if if you're um alleged to have committed crime they'll look at your license plate and see where you were yeah yeah my buddy's uh uh detective and his SUV is constantly scanning for uh license plates whatever he's driving and then it when it picks it up cuz like let's say that car has a warrant on them cuz of the driver or whatever it tells them immediately yeah okay can you just be like ah that was me driving and as a non-criminal in my community I'm I'm not

15:14 mad at that honestly as a law abiding citizen I'm down yeah dude catch them all yeah yeah or make it easier on me that my Alibi's solid yeah I don't know dude AI shows your face so you got to be careful hey we all look like w RAC true that is true that is true you were in every car that day

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