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[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMBc0ys0JwQ]Miami Police Officer Arrested for Speeding - YouTube[/ame]
 
Miami cop accused of driving 120 mph in squad car to off-duty job - CNN.com
A Miami city police officer is arrested after allegedly traveling more than 120 miles per hour on the Florida Turnpike.
(CNN) -- A Miami police officer in a marked squad car has been charged with reckless driving, accused of zigzagging through Florida Turnpike traffic at more than 120 miles an hour so that he could be on time for his off-duty job, the Florida Highway Patrol said Saturday.

Officer Fausto Lopez, 35, of Miami was handcuffed at gunpoint earlier this month and charged with second-degree reckless driving, a misdemeanor, according to the highway patrol's offense report. Lopez was eventually released, authorities said.

In a pursuit videotaped on the trooper's in-car camera, Lopez led Florida highway patrol officer D.J. Watts on a seven-minute, almost 12-mile chase in pre-dawn darkness on Tuesday, October 11, the report said.

The state patrol officer was driving on the turnpike when the white marked Miami police car blew by at a high rate of speed and "crossed over all lanes of traffic," the report said.

The highway patrol officer couldn't even overtake the Miami police car "due to the unit traveling extremely reckless, in and out of traffic at high rates of speed, in excess of 120 mph," according to the report.

The Miami cop ignored the state patrol officer's siren and lights -- and even "accelerated" at times and continued changing lanes.

At one point, the Miami officer slowed to 78 miles an hour, but sped up again, the highway patrol said.

Finally, the Miami officer, wearing his uniform, pulled over his squad car at 6:35 a.m. in Hollywood. A state highway patrol video shows the state trooper pulling out her service handgun as she approached the Miami police car with the officer seated behind the wheel.

The Miami police officer "stated that he was en route to an off-duty work detail and that he had to be there by 7:00 a.m.," Watts wrote in her report.

A Miami police spokesman couldn't be reached immediately for comment Saturday. But Miami Police Detective Willie Moreno told CNN affiliate WFOR in Miami that the department will determine whether to take any action against Lopez after a judge rules on his case.
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Perhaps these officers that like to abuse authority should be ticketed and/or arrested. Good to see the trooper upholding the law.
 
Kudos to the female officer!...Jax cops do the same thing...and we can't do anything about it....I was told once when I called in and made a complaint...to get the Officer's cop car #....even when I did (at one time), I was told they would look into it. :roll:
 
Good, we need more officers like that. That nimrod could have killed someone out there. He wasn't even using his lights and sirens. Idiot. He can just kiss his career goodbye.

Yiz
 
Way to go ! Glad that she arrested a fellow officer for breaking the law!
 
shel90 said:
Way to go ! Glad that she arrested a fellow officer for breaking the law!
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no he's not a fellow officer to her. State Police and City Police do not get along together. State Police constantly look down on them because they're bunch of thugs who think they can get away with anything.
 
Excellent! I file complaints all the time for Cops speeding. I just write down the car number... I don't chase :lol:
 
Here's what else I notice, the female officer did the take down by herself. Where was her back up. Surely after a 12 mile chase, there would have already been a back up or 2 behind her before she finally pulled the guy over. Where were they? :confused:

I see them AFTER a handcuff had already taken placed. So it seems that other officers are afraid of getting into trouble for arresting one of their own. Except the female officer isn't afraid to attempt to make a stop.

Weird.

Be interesting to see how it all pans out after all this.

Yiz
 
yizuman said:
Here's what else I notice, the female officer did the take down by herself. Where was her back up. Surely after a 12 mile chase, there would have already been a back up or 2 behind her before she finally pulled the guy over. Where were they? :confused:

I see them AFTER a handcuff had already taken placed. So it seems that other officers are afraid of getting into trouble for arresting one of their own. Except the female officer isn't afraid to attempt to make a stop.

Weird.

Be interesting to see how it all pans out after all this.

Yiz
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It's not easy for backups to come quickly because this moron was driving at 120 mph. Do you want all other officers to come at 120 mph too?

And no they did not know it was a cop driving. They were operating under assumption that it was a stolen vehicle.

And like I said before, state police and city police do not get along together. State police would be disgusted at you for putting city police together with them as "their own".
 
Jiro said:
It's not easy for backups to come quickly because this moron was driving at 120 mph. Do you want all other officers to come at 120 mph too?

And no they did not know it was a cop driving. They were operating under assumption that it was a stolen vehicle.

And like I said before, state police and city police do not get along together. State police would be disgusted at you for putting city police together with them as "their own".
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Whoops. I stand corrected. Yeah, seen that attitude before. Especially the "turf" attitude.

Sorry, my bad.

I also noticed she had a hard time getting his weapon removed and it seems he's still wearing it when she walked him.

Edit: NM, I see she got it off him and placed the gun at his front seat floor.

Yiz
 
Jiro said:
It's not easy for backups to come quickly because this moron was driving at 120 mph. Do you want all other officers to come at 120 mph too?

And no they did not know it was a cop driving. They were operating under assumption that it was a stolen vehicle. And like I said before, state police and city police do not get along together. State police would be disgusted at you for putting city police together with them as "their own".
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That would be my guess to in that situation. There is a big problem with fake cops in the south too. Maybe everywhere :dunno:

At the same time, I am wondering if a possible stolen car justified a pursuit at this speed. Again :dunno: but all worked out well.
 
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