Living and working relatively close to this situation, I was discussing this with one of the dispatchers at my company this morning. He's lived in PA for a long time, and his opinion was that PA small town cops (like the one involved here) have the intelligence of a gnat. Sure, the driver may have been operating an unsafe truck, but there was a repair facility within sight of the location of the stop, and the cop could have let him move the truck to that location under his supervision rather than issuing an OOS order and calling for an expensive tow.
Another report: http://wnep.com/2014/05/27/troopers-cop-who-shot-truck-driver-had-no-choice/
Trucker shot in traffic stop
Discussion in 'Truckers News' started by Winkjr, May 27, 2014.
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Where is the dash cam video ?
they didnt say one word about anything like that I seen the word "allegedly" a few times..
There is more .. all police vehicle have dash cams, and I bet it shows what really happened . There just seems to be more. If that cop first off tazed him because of "allegedly being belidgerant" then I would have hit his ### with a hammer too.54Trucker Thanks this. -
Load was a very high value produce load that was hijacked. There is way more to the story. I know the shipper.
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They probably just wanted a reason to search the truck , s eeings how Bloomsburg is a little one horse town that has more meth then some big cities. -
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