Sunday, 30 October 2011
Florida Trooper pulls Miami officer over for going 120 mph
A Miami police officer pulled over for reckless driving by a Florida Highway Patrol officer was ordered out of his car at gunpoint, then handcuffed and detained in an incident caught on the trooper’s dash cam.
State patrol officer D.J. Watts pursued the zigzagging Miami officer, 35-year-old Fausto López, for nearly five minutes at speeds topping 120 miles per hour. When he finally stopped, Watts approached the vehicle with her gun drawn “for her own safety.”
Lopez told the trooper he moonlights at a private school during off-duty hours, and was rushing to avoid being late. López was charged with second-degree reckless driving and released.
“We immediately launched an administrative investigation,” a Miami Police spokesman told The Miami Herald. “However, we’re taking a back seat, and watching the criminal process as it takes place. At the conclusion of the criminal process we will take whatever administrative action we deem necessary.”
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