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  Union will get him reinstated with back pay, punitive damages, a pay raise, and a promotion.
context: Holy shit. That guy was a time bomb. Let's hope he doesn't get hired by some other police department. You gotta watch the whole video to truly grasp the level of crazy; he was still going off like that when other cops arrived, and he had to be led away by a superior because he wouldn't listen to those other cops telling him to calm down. >
  
  He couldn't even write a ticket because he was shaking so bad from this "incident" (if it can even be called that). Imagine him with a gun in his hand? Glad he got fired. Good riddance. >
  
  "Are you hurt?"
  "...emotionally.."
  The fucker dove towards her car after he noticed she wasn't respecting his authority. He wasn't afraid of being hit. He was shaking because he was ANGRY. Piece of shit.
  He should have been put in his place right there. >
  
  I skipped too far into the video so I saw his reaction first, and that's exactly how it felt. 
  Like, it was fair to stop her, but that was a "you almost just ran me over or T-boned someone" kind of freakout rather than the "fuckssakes, please don't do that again" kind it should've been. >
  
  Dudes signal to “stop” was directed at the ground and no where near the oncoming traffic - then he practically jumped in front of the driver and claimed she tried to run him over. He berated her unnecessarily for an issue he directly caused. 
  It’s really too bad he will likely get a new job as a cop in the neighboring city/town :( >
  
  Yeah, from the dashcam, if I was in her position I would have assumed he was still signalling to the car directly in front of him. >
  
  Tbh, I really couldn’t tell what tf he was doing, and he was hidden by the car until she was almost right there. 
  She was going way too fast, but that’s it. >
  
  Pull the vehicle over!
  He’s already pulled over, he can’t pull over any further! >
  
  Why you always carry a literofcola >
  
  Just order a large, Farva. >
  
  I don’t want a large Farva. I want a God damn litre of cola. >
  
  Another cop: "Are you hurt?" Fired Officer: "Emotionally."
  Clearly this guy is not suited to be a cop.  Don't they test these people's mental stability before hiring them? >
  
  I had an interaction like that, scared the shit out of me. cop lit me up for speeding (which I deserved) but we were in a construction zone with no where obvious to stop. I slowed down, waved at him, put my blinker on, and stopped as soon as I was able (it was about a mile). He was LIVID and screaming at me when he came up to my car. Just had lost his mind. He was physically shaking. I tried to say I didn't think it was safe to stop sooner but he couldn't hear me. 
  Scary shit. You need to be able to deal with clueless and possibly freaked out or flustered people and keep your cool. I was fucking speeding not fleeing a murder scene. 
  I thought about writing a letter to his command but it would be too easy for him to look up my address, he was just too scary. Not worth it. >
  
  I had a similar chaotic construction zone encounter with an off duty  traffic cop who was clearly out of the position they were suppose to be in. I very cautiously followed other traffic through what looked to be an open road and this maniac camping running up to me waving at me to stop and then pull over. She made me wait 20 mins then when she finally came over I calmly and apologetically tried explaining that the road appeared to be open as other traffic has just gone that way and she wigged out. I ended up taking it to court, with photos I took of the intersection  and got the fine dismissed but still got points, unless I wanted to take another day off from work and argue before another judge. I actually didn't realize I could have made a complaint to the department til later. Just about every cop of ever interacted with has been at least mildly hostile and the best one I can I think of was merely unfriendly. >
  
  They don't have an easy job, but no cop should ever be able to be described as a maniac. That sucks that they still stuck you with the points, ouch! >
  
  I wonder how often he beats his wife >
  
  Maybe if he'd shot her he'd still have his job. /s >
  
  nah, guess the colour of the victim. >
  
  That’s why he was fired maybe? What he did was rather mild compared to a lot of other altercations. >
  
  Did he go to Moron Traffic school or something? He’s obscured by his big dumbass car with the cool tint, he’s waving around like a wacky inflatable waving arm thing….geez.
  I will say one thing: she should have slowed down. You see a car stopped, a cop car in particular, you slow down in case some moron walks out in front of it. Like him, for example. So that’s on her.
  Black jacket, black gloves. How is he really expecting someone to figure out what he’s doing? Not exactly using the international traffic gestures.
  And what is it to him where she works? >
  
  
  his big dumbass car
  
  parked diagonally in an intersection with the lights on.
  How does a driver see that and not immediately understand that something is different about this intersection and slow down?
  People hate cops so much that they're giving this lady a free pass to be an oblivious idiot who will run over someone if she keeps driving like this. >
  
  I’m going to say 20% her. If you don’t understand what’s going on, you slow down. Foot off the gas should be your first reflex.
  She absolutely wasn’t going to hit him, mostly out of sheer luck, but he stepped towards her.
  He’s obviously manifestly unsuited to the work; that’s just not how a person in that line should have behaved. It’s unbelievable. >
  
  I am a cop hater but shout out to the sergeant who immediately knew this fuck was out of line. 
  Obviously that should be clear but relatively commendable none the less. >
  
  Video help >
  
  Dude does not need to be a cop and I feel very sorry for his wife and kids. >
  
  If he’s willing to go off like this in public, it certainly does not bode well for how he handles stuff behind closed doors and off-camera >
  
  Too bad they cut off the camera video right as the sergeant tells him to calm down after he spent 10 minutes screaming at the woman driver. Would've liked to hear what he said to the sergeant. >
  
  Union will get him reinstated with back pay, punitive damages, a pay raise, and a promotion. >
  
  Imagine if every cop in the US were held to that standard. >
  
  Love to see officers holding other officers responsible.  Good on them. >
  
  Poor little guy got quite a fright. Dumped so much adrenaline into his system took him an hour to calm down. >
  
  Wish they earned their pay the way they earn the hate! >
  
  He'll be starting work on Danbury this week >
  
  No way, a cop was a huge piece of shit!?!?  I can hardly believe it >
  
  Soon to be hired in town next door. >
  
  Have to wonder how the driver being female affected his response. >
  
  Yeah, hate to think what his reaction would be if she wasn't white. >
  
  Yeah, being black could have got her beat up. Or dead.
  And if she'd been a large white guy? I doubt he'd have gone on about it for nearly as long, if at all. Dude was practically rolling around in his victim-outrage, making sure to milk it for everything it was worth. >
  
  She better be glad she was a white girl, he might have started blasting from the hip otherwise.
  Real talk though, why the fuck did he jump in front of her car? >
  
  Yeah the US police is to trigger-happy unstable idiots as the catholic church is to kiddie diddling priests. Paid leave and ship him off to another precinct, lather rinse repeat until they can collect their pension.
  Wait... should we petition the pope to make all priests to wear bodycams? No they would just share the videos with each other nvm >
  
  I had a traffic cop literally point to my car and Bend his arm from flat to Pam facing himself hand pointing up (twice) the most universal signal for me to go. As I drove forward he lunged out like this cop did and started screaming. >
  
  .....imagine what his wife/partner goes through..... >
  
  If it hasnt been mentioned.... maybe there wasnt even a need for him to be there since he abandoned his post, leaving everyone else to somehow fend for themselves and get through the intersection...
  Defund the police =   maybe  the police should just go policing.... let some other (and more capable) department of public service handle this stuff instead of taking crime response resources off the street... or worse yet paying this guy 1.5x overtime wage >
  
  
  ‘Inexcusable Behavior': Waterbury Police Officer ...
  
  ... yeah, yeah. Put on paid vacation for punishment after firebombing an orphanage.
  
  Fired After Interaction With Driver
  
  .. wait, wat?! 
  Prexactly how wealthy and/or well connected *was* this driver? rofl :)
  In all honesty though "do dumb shit" -> "lose high responsibility job" is a very refreshing change from the paid vacation, golden parachute bs that usually goes on instead.
  And yeah I know he'll probably sneak back into another precinct somehow, but I'm basking in the single baby step of improvement meself. >
  
  The police sergeant who arrived on scene after the fact is the one who put in the complaint, not the driver. The cops weeded this guy out all on their own, for a change. >
  
  That's good beans.
  All I am saying is that from a cynical point of view, the primary reason "consequence happens to officer" is only because "wealthy or powerful person got angry with them".
  It is refreshing to see that not be the case for once. :) >
  
  This reminds me of a similar situation where a cop was doing hand signals - with one hand he was making a motion that looked like and nfl ref signaling illegal motion while holding his other arm out with elbow up and hand down. I had no idea what that meant so I rolled down my window and asked.
  He kinda yelled at me to go, but nothing like this guy.
  On the video here, I don't see anything that looks like a clear stop signal. >
  
  If this "menace to society" hasn't murdered someone (doubtful) while in porcine costume, he WILL! I have NO DOUBT he belongs to the 40% club! >
  
  It’s crazy how many adults who have presumably been driving for years don’t know that if the traffic lights are broken you just treat the intersection like a 4 way stop. It’s easy to get through as long as no one acts like a dumbass. >
  
  I'll look up the video later-just reading the article, it sounded severe. >
  
  Did the driver complained, hence the investigation? Or did his fellow officer? >
  
  The driver deserved 2 be yelled at. She could have run over someone >
  
  Yeah, when people hide behind another car and jump out last minute, it's easy to hit them. This cop and you seem to share the same amount of common sense >
  
  They tend to cover for one another. >
  
  I'm not defending this cop at all because he was completely out of line and deserves to be fired, however, I feel like the driver should have exercised a bit more caution here as she approached the intersection. The article says the traffic lights were in "flashing mode" in which they usually flash red at all points at an intersection to indicate that every driver needs to stop upon approaching and treat it as a 4-way stop (or less depending on the intersection) before proceeding. To me, it definitely didn't look as if the cop was signaling her to stop, but it didn't look as if he was waving her through either. Personally, if I came upon that intersection, I would have probably stopped first before proceeding unless I was absolutely certain that I was being waved through, at which point I would have likely still slowed to a crawl first before continuing just to be sure. The lady even states at one point that it was "confusing" and that she "didn't know what was going on", which means for her safety she should not have rolled through without stopping first. That being said, this poor lady did not deserve to be treated like that and this piece of shit cop should have been much more clear with his signaling. >
  
  Other cars were moving in a reasonable manner to seem like moving forward and in the video the lady says it was flashing yellow, she wasn’t going very fast about 10pm. >
  
  "while directing traffic, a vehicle drove through the intersection. Hinkle told the vehicle to stop, hit the driver's side of the vehicle with his hand and then the vehicle pulled over."
  He was fired after an administrative review.
  That was it? I mean, he probably shouldn't have slapped the car .....but damn. >
  
  You should probably watch the bodycam video included in the article. >
  
  Seriously, that guy lost his cool and never got it back, he has no place in law enforcement. >
  
  For real, when the other cop asks him if he's hurt and he says "emotionally" and repeatedly says his hands are shaking, and then even has to have another cop fill out the ticket because his hands are shaking too much... if someone driving past you, not even coming close to hitting you, and following your every instruction/apologizing profusely causes that, I'd hate to see this person in an actual stressful scenario. >
  
  Probably just has DT’s. >
  
  Holy shit. That guy was a time bomb. Let's hope he doesn't get hired by some other police department. You gotta watch the whole video to truly grasp the level of crazy; he was still going off like that when other cops arrived, and he had to be led away by a superior because he wouldn't listen to those other cops telling him to calm down. >
  
  He couldn't even write a ticket because he was shaking so bad from this "incident" (if it can even be called that). Imagine him with a gun in his hand? Glad he got fired. Good riddance. >
  
  "Are you hurt?"
  "...emotionally.."
  The fucker dove towards her car after he noticed she wasn't respecting his authority. He wasn't afraid of being hit. He was shaking because he was ANGRY. Piece of shit.
  He should have been put in his place right there. >
  
  I skipped too far into the video so I saw his reaction first, and that's exactly how it felt. 
  Like, it was fair to stop her, but that was a "you almost just ran me over or T-boned someone" kind of freakout rather than the "fuckssakes, please don't do that again" kind it should've been. >
  
  She did almost run him over / t bone someone. I would be livid too. Then after the initial 5-10 seconds a person who claims to be a professional should be using his brains to handle the situation. >
  
  Pull the vehicle over!
  He’s already pulled over, he can’t pull over any further! >
  
  Why you always carry a literofcola >
  
  Just order a large, Farva. >
  
  I don’t want a large Farva. I want a God damn litre of cola. >
  
  Dudes signal to “stop” was directed at the ground and no where near the oncoming traffic - then he practically jumped in front of the driver and claimed she tried to run him over. He berated her unnecessarily for an issue he directly caused. 
  It’s really too bad he will likely get a new job as a cop in the neighboring city/town :( >
  
  Yeah, from the dashcam, if I was in her position I would have assumed he was still signalling to the car directly in front of him. >
  
  Tbh, I really couldn’t tell what tf he was doing, and he was hidden by the car until she was almost right there. 
  She was going way too fast, but that’s it. >
  
  I wonder how often he beats his wife >
  
  Another cop: "Are you hurt?" Fired Officer: "Emotionally."
  Clearly this guy is not suited to be a cop.  Don't they test these people's mental stability before hiring them? >
  
  I had an interaction like that, scared the shit out of me. cop lit me up for speeding (which I deserved) but we were in a construction zone with no where obvious to stop. I slowed down, waved at him, put my blinker on, and stopped as soon as I was able (it was about a mile). He was LIVID and screaming at me when he came up to my car. Just had lost his mind. He was physically shaking. I tried to say I didn't think it was safe to stop sooner but he couldn't hear me. 
  Scary shit. You need to be able to deal with clueless and possibly freaked out or flustered people and keep your cool. I was fucking speeding not fleeing a murder scene. 
  I thought about writing a letter to his command but it would be too easy for him to look up my address, he was just too scary. Not worth it. >
  
  Yea when I got pulled over in a left turn lane at a busy intersection, I didn't move the car at all. They want to pull me over in an unsafe area that's their choice to do so and risk their life. I'm not going to try to get to someplace safer for the police because 9/10 they'll just be irate or try to run you off the road like that Arkansas woman. >
  
  Same.  I got lit up on the highway and pulled over immediately, which just so happened to be right in the triangle of where an entrance ramp joins the highway.  
  You put the lights on, I pull over immediately.  You want to move to a safer spot, we can do that but this is your show now. >
  
  I mean, that's the ideal situation for a roadside stop. So thanks! >
  
  Maybe if he'd shot her he'd still have his job. /s >
  
  nah, guess the colour of the victim. >
  
  That’s why he was fired maybe? What he did was rather mild compared to a lot of other altercations. >
  
  If it hasnt been mentioned.... maybe there wasnt even a need for him to be there since he abandoned his post, leaving everyone else to somehow fend for themselves and get through the intersection...
  Defund the police =   maybe  the police should just go policing.... let some other (and more capable) department of public service handle this stuff instead of taking crime response resources off the street... or worse yet paying this guy 1.5x overtime wage >
  
  
  If it hasnt been mentioned.... maybe there wasnt even a need for him to be there since he abandoned his post, leaving everyone else to somehow fend for themselves and get through the intersection...
  
  That's the only thing I can think of for why he was fired, otherwise there must surely be more to this story. >
  
  You missed that part where he spent almost ten minutes being profoundly unprofessional and unnecessarily confrontational to someone who was immediately compliant and courteous? >
  
  The article only said he told them to stop and issued a ticket. I... don't recall it mentioning how long the interaction was (maybe that was in a image caption?). >
  
  Body cam footage was linked in the body of the article itself. From the article:
  
  The incident was captured on Hinkle's body camera. Waterbury Police Department has released the footage. >
  
  Ah okay, sorry I didn't watch it. >
  
  It’s all good friend. >
  
  I am a cop hater but shout out to the sergeant who immediately knew this fuck was out of line. 
  Obviously that should be clear but relatively commendable none the less. >
  
  Video help >
  
  Of course it helped. >
  
  I had a traffic cop literally point to my car and Bend his arm from flat to Pam facing himself hand pointing up (twice) the most universal signal for me to go. As I drove forward he lunged out like this cop did and started screaming. >
  
  Dude does not need to be a cop and I feel very sorry for his wife and kids. >
  
  If he’s willing to go off like this in public, it certainly does not bode well for how he handles stuff behind closed doors and off-camera >
  
  She better be glad she was a white girl, he might have started blasting from the hip otherwise.
  Real talk though, why the fuck did he jump in front of her car? >
  
  Too bad they cut off the camera video right as the sergeant tells him to calm down after he spent 10 minutes screaming at the woman driver. Would've liked to hear what he said to the sergeant.