Like I said, his attitude may be bad policy, but isn’t illegal. I’m not defending his attitude one way or the other. However, her refusals are illegal. Besides, neither of us were there. I’m just educating you as to the possibilities of why he asked her to put the cigarette out. He may not have had any red flags or he may have gotten a red flag at the last minute. Since it is not permissible for cops to narrate on video cam, he didn’t verbalize his reasoning.
You automatically assume he didn’t have cause, but you don’t know that. I gave you several possible scenarios. Maybe he thought he smelled MJ at the last minute since she had previous arrests for it and was coming from out of state. Maybe she just lit it up while he was in the car so he didn’t have a reason to ask her to put it out previously. You don’t know. You just want to attack the cop without the facts. Regardless, he gave her a legal, lawful order and she illegally chose not to follow it. She was still in the wrong.
I can give you just as many possible scenarios like the cop was angry and BTW it shows AND BTW he was suspended for not following procedures so yeah its already in the record, the cop was wrong.
But being there is no mention whatsoever in the arrest record of drugs etc. then how did he smell or see drugs that were not there?