[zin0]

[kellyhound]

This is the shocking moment a police officer shattered a car window before dragging the driver to the ground after accusing him of not wearing his seat belt.

Footage from a traffic stop in New Mexico shows officers breaking the window and grabbing hold of the motorist, Phillip Page’s, arm.

Filmed by Angela Fisher-Herrera from the passenger seat of the car, the clip captures the pair as they are stopped for a seat belt violation.

The officers are reportedly unhappy when 41-year-old Page refuses to roll down his window all the way, revealed the Albuquerque Journal.

Page warns the police that he is recording and to ‘calm down’ - to which they respond that they are also filming.

Fisher-Herrera, 29, then explains to the camera: ‘They pulled us over for not wearing a seatbelt. We were wearing a seatbelt and now they’re threatening to break our windows’.

‘You haven’t even asked me for my license or registration,’ argues Page.

But then suddenly one of the officers - with his bare hands - pulls on the glass window and smashes it.

Fisher-Herrera had already rang 911 to request another officer as she feared the polices’ intentions.

She can be heard shouting, ‘don’t break his arm’ as the officer tries to drag Page from his vehicle - with the seat belt obstructing their way.

The video, published on Facebook this week but first filmed in February, shows a police officer shouting ‘You’re under goddamn arrest!’ as Page is thrown to the ground.

Yet State Police say the officers were in the right since the driver refused to comply for more than 15 minutes before his window was forcefully broken.

A spokesperson for New Mexico State Police told the newspaper that Page refused to give his identification 14 times and was warned at least eight times that if he failed to roll down his window they would break it and arrest him.

New Mexico State Police Chief Pete Kassetas said after investigating that the force believes Page could have avoided the incident if he ‘followed the rules’.

‘I’m standing by my officers,’ he said. ‘At some point after a certain amount of time of noncompliance, something has to happen.’

‘We didn’t break the window and drag him out of the car because he didn’t have a seat belt on,’ he said. ‘He got removed from the vehicle forcefully because he didn’t comply.’

‘I was just doing everything that was within my rights,’ Page said.

Both the motorist and the passenger were arrested for resisting, evading or obstructing an officer, concealing identity, dialling 911 to report a false alarm or complaint, and a seat belt violation.

Page, who now lives in Oregon, told the Journal he hopes the case will be dismissed.

[zin0]

I don't know about New Mexico, but in a lot of states you don't have to roll your window down all the way, just enough for the cop to hear you. They get away with anything they want though

[Oswald2001]

"He din doo nuffin'!"

"He wut a goot boi!"



Yeah.

Sure.

[LedZep]

I don't have a clue why the States think this shit is ok. Have you people just learned to live with it???
You try that shit here and you're fucking done!!
Get a job flipping burgers instead because that's what would have happened to these MORONS WITH A BADGE.
What a joke.

[RUTHIE7]

Why does the video begin at the moment when THREE OFFICERS are at the door?

These types of videos misrepresent the police officers.

One, at the most 2... police officers would be at 'any' scene. A 3rd would be because they are not complying.

They're guilty as sin.

Whatever happened... the P.C had every right to arrest.

Anyone with a brain can see that.

[Oswald2001]

The lesson is...

Mindf*ck at your own peril!

Deserved.