A (now-former) commissioner of the NY-NJ Port Authority was recorded on an epic rant at the police officers who pulled over a car in which her adult daughter was a passenger. If you watch the full version (which goes on for 16 minutes) you will see an amazing amount of entitlement and arrogance. The two police offers handled themselves extremely professionally.
The woman, Caren Turner, manages to mention that the 4 adults in the car are PhD students at Yale and MIT and one is an investment banker in London. Also a lot of great and unsuccessful attempts to shame and guilt the police for doing their jobs.
Really, it might be a good training video for other officers and anyone who likes to analyze toxic personalities at arms length would find it helpful. Even if you’re not interested in the “public official tries to fix things for her kid” angle, it’s a good study on how some people try to bully and manipulate others:
Wow. while it is ok for her to politely inquire why the kids were stopped, when the officer declined, she then got ridiculously demeaning and aggressive. Um, has she not ever heard that all you say to an officer is “Yes, sir”?
And woo hoo, they are “MIT and Yale students”…as if that matters.
What a poor example of parenting and just handling business for the young adults standing there watching her, especially the part where she is trying to pull rank and flinging an F word. Very disappointing.
I can just imagine the officers bursting into laughter as soon as they got back into the car.
My 2 favorite parts are when she tells the officers that she’s entertained a lot of police leaders in her home, and in her 2nd home, and in her 3rd home and then when she says that the Yale and MIT PhD students and the investment banker from London are all sitting in her car crying because of the police stop.
And then when she realizes these officers aren’t going to cave she loses it and tells them to go bleep themselves. What a horrible example to set for her D. Even if you use those terms who says that to a police officer or in front of your own child and her friends? Pretty awful.
My H has very deep connections with NYS police ( among many other agencies) due to his job and would never, ever, in a million years behave like this women. A colleague of his was fired by the Guv for having a state snowplow sent to his house on Long Island to do his driveway during major snowstorm event a few years back. Some people are just stupid.
My kids would never let me get away from acting like this - even when they were younger - not adults - they would have walked me away from the scene - I don’t have much more respect for them letting her go on like that for so long!
I’ve seen videos of police officers demonstrating remarkable restraint with all sorts of people. It’s as if people see the blue uniform and think they can just go on attack.
That is not to say we don’t have a problem with racial disparities in policing, just that IME the vast majority of cops remain polite under circumstances in which the rest of us would be boiling.
There are plenty of videos out there with people of all races getting aggressive and verbally abusive with a police officer. Talk with any police officer and they will tell you just how common this is. And honestly, we sometimes really don’t know what race someone is because appearances can be deceptive. I’m Hispanic but so light skinned that most would just assume that I am white.
Well, “Hispanic” is not a race, but an ethnicity. One can certainly be white and Hispanic. Hispanics come in all races.
I am a white Hispanic, though I’m often asked if I’m Italian. My brother was a very white Hispanic. He didn’t look any different than any other white person.
I can’t get over the fact that a 20+ year-old (an adult completing her PhD at Yale, presumably) called on her well-placed mommy like that’s the first thing she thought of to do. “I’m in trouble, ergo call mom.” And even if I could give the Yale student a pass, I refuse to let mommy off the hook. Really? Show up to get your daughter out of a traffic violation? She’s an adult already. She wasn’t even the driver, for god sake. Yeesh.