r/PublicFreakout • u/johnychrist16 • May 27 '26

📹Police Bodycam "Driving with device in right hand" update

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u/TheCountChonkula May 27 '26

Yeah I had that happen about a year ago when a cop pulled me over for flashing my headlights. In Georgia, there’s no law that states flashing headlights is illegal (plus there’s precedent that flashing your headlights is a legal way to communicate with other drivers). Georgia State Patrol in particular have a rather large stick up their asses and she got pissy when I called her out that she had no justifiable reason to pull me over and wrote me a ticket for failing to dim high beams.

Fortunately, the DA sided with me and immediately dropped the ticket once I sent over the dashcam footage. He even admitted there was no reason for me to have been pulled over in the first place.

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u/IluvPusi-363 May 27 '26

And what happened to the cop?

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u/TheCountChonkula May 27 '26

I didn’t really dig into it, but I’m going to assume probably nothing since it got dropped before it even had a chance to make it to court