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text: dapl protesters proven right as largest gas pipeline in us experiences massive and deadly explosion home  badge abuse  dashcam chief caught doing over  mph only for fellow cops to stop him and laugh about it dashcam chief caught doing over  mph only for fellow cops to stop him and laugh about it claire bernish november   leave a comment 
  brinkley ar  dashcam video showing preferential treatment of an arkansas police chief has him scrambling to defend himself for being let off easy  without so much as a warning  after speeding to an offduty job as a referee at a football game 
  footage obtained by thv from arkansas state police following a viewer tip shows brinkley police chief edward randle being pulled over in his personal vehicle a red pickup truck near clarendon on friday october  
  a state trooper assisted an officer from the brinkley force upon request and makes a uturn after witnessing the speeding red pickup driving in the opposite direction to make the stop 
  as the trooper approaches the drivers side dashcam video shows he immediately recognized the brinkley chief of police and laughingly asks where are you going so fast 
  randle  obviously familiar to the state trooper  isnt asked to produce identification and tells the officer hes headed for the game which he later clarified for thv was the clarendonmarvell football game 
  at that point the brinkley officer who had summoned state police for assistance with the stop also approaches randle  as the trooper tells the chief the officer had been tailing him for miles when he finally called for assistance 
  i know you didnt call the state police randle quips to the brinkley officer 
  i didnt have your plate the officer replies so it didnt go over 
  as thv posits that statement could indicate that since the officer did not announce the trucks license plate number into his radio nobody else would know the chief had been pulled over 
  the trio laughs about the chiefs excessive speed and the officer tells him i had you locked in at  
  it wont do  itll only do  randle responds referring to a governor capping his trucks speed as he later explained to thv in an unrecorded interview 
  after a few more laughs the officer tells randle he measured the trucks speed over  miles an hour  and the chief was still pulling away at the time 
  despite the obvious dangers of such high speeds on the narrow curvy road both the trooper and brinkley officer simply walk away from the truck as the officer says dismissively see you later chief 
  video captures the last exchange between the two cops as randle pulls away  the state trooper notes he clocked the chief doing  at the curve 
  in two phone interviews with thv  which were not recorded by request  randle disputes he ever came close to the trucks alleged top possible speed of  as well as the troopers claim in dashcam footage he had been rounding the curve at  mph 
  additionally though the state trooper claimed that the officer had been pursuing randle for miles randle told thv that the officer was on his way to clarendon to get fingerprints from someone at the county jail 
  thv spoke with local business owner benjamin martin who first noticed the stop by a brinkley officer inside clarendon city limits 
  i find it you know very disheartening that anyone public official or not would show such blatant disregard for the speed limit and put the lives of innocent others at risk martin told the station in a video interview 
  i just feel that no ones above the law and you know if it was me i wouldve gotten a ticket 
  indeed the public might be lucky the offduty brinkley police chief didnt lose control of his vehicle while traveling at such a high rate of speed  simply to make it to a football game 
  neither the brinkley officer nor the state trooper are being investigated for wrongdoing  despite giving the chief a free pass arkansas state police told thv the incident fell under control of the brinkley police department as soon as the officer arrived on scene even though the trooper affected the stop 
  as a chief of police and as a law enforcement officer youre sworn to protect and serve martin asserted which is the opposite of putting the lives of others at risk 
  although nothing serious resulted from randles excessive speeds it was notorious blue privilege that allowed him to drive away without even a warning 
  these seemingly small favors afforded to police by police on a constant basis highlight the divide civilians feel in their encounters with law enforcement indeed the idea police belong to an exclusive club of impunity  simply because of their chosen occupation  only increases tension and resentment in their communities 
  if police dont uphold and enforce the laws they enforce against civilians the law becomes an arbitrary exploitive method for generating revenue  and nothing more share social trending