And if he tells you to suck his c***, do you just do that as well? He didn’t have the legal authority to tell her to put out her cigarette. So why exactly should she have complied?
She failed to use a turn signal. For that she was pulled over. Okay, fair enough.
But the officer then gave an illegal order.
He was not authorized to tell her to put out her cigarette.
When she told him “no”, as she had every legal right to do, he overstepped his legal bounds and ordered her out of the car.
When she failed to obey that illegal order (again, no chain of authorization to give that order), he then forcibly removed her from the car.
He threatened her with use of a weapon (the taser). Note once again that he lacked authority from the point he told her to put out her cigarette.
He then claims he was assaulted while he was in the illegal action of assault and battery upon her. It’s not illegal to defend yourself from illegal physical action upon your person.
This is the type of lawman than give the ever shrinking number of good lawmen a very bad name.
No, if he tells you to do something like that or attempts to rape you then that is not a lawful order and you don’t have to do it.
You’re completely wrong. In TX, you do have to put out a cigarette when told and that is a lawful order. If you don’t like the law then change it, but other you must follow the law.
2 things.
1) I think an officer can tell her to put the cigarette out, masks odors like alcohol on the breath and also can be used as a weapon.
2) I hope you never get pulled over because it sounds like you're looking for trouble
I believe I read where he is on leave for not following proper DPS protocol. In my neck of the woods, many Tx DPS come across as a little high handed. As for Waller County this would not be their first federal investigation. This definitely merits investigation. I don’t think she should have been ordered out of her car, nor taken to jail. Heck, I don’t even understand why she was pulled over. Failure to signal lane change..give me a break. Half the people out driving don’t do this. This guy would have been of better use to the tax payers of Texas to look for some real crime. Dang, I may be in Al Sharptons corner on this one.