Watch Monroe County (Rochester) DA Sandra Doorley pull a classic "don't you know who I am" on a cop who tried to pull her over. She ignored him and drove home. The following occurred in her driveway and garage, courtesy of the officer's bodycam.
That poor puppy... just wanting to play and running around like a goofball. I felt like it was a bit unsafe letting the puppy run around on the street like that, where cars kept coming in and out.
I like how she's defending herself now that the story is out by saying that she never tried to use her position to get out of the ticket. Calling the police chief twice to try and make the officer see how important she is doesn't count, of course.
This video is infuriating. It isn’t someone special showing ass. They do that. It is the young cop doing the right thing and leadership COMPLETELY fucking him over. Both the Sergeant and the LT offered not a damn thing more than ‘It’s your traffic stop and I’m not gonna tell you what to do’.
She has a media / YouTube 2 minute apology video as well. I do think most young men evading a ticket similarly would have gotten at least handcuffed and/ or tazed. At a minimum, Ms. Doorley should be subject to restitution for the considerable expense this is costing the applicable jurisdiction. /1
You can tell how terrified the officer gets when he realizes who he pulled over. Tries to explain himself way too many times and admits he didn’t check the plate before trying to pull her over as if that should matter.
She incriminates herself several times in the video. She tried to say that there were other cars around her and that she didn't realize that it was her that the cop was trying to pull over. But she admitted that she was on her phone telling the police chief to call him off because she's the DA.
I knew no possibility it could happen… but a part of me wanted the situation to escalate and her to get tased for resisting (which would have happened with any random POC in the situation the second they tried to go into their house)
She had four cops in her driveway, including a super, and the chief on the phone for a traffic ticket? Meanwhile at the beginning of that, a call came in about an unresponsive child? Not to mention she possibly made it a moving violation.
Being the DA is what kept her from being told to face the car and put her hands behind her back around the five-minute mark. That's more privilege than she deserved.