A police officer is being investigated after a video emerged of him pulling a gun on a man recording him from a cellphone.
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The incident ends with the officer reholstering his gun and leaving and McComas who promises to put the video on You Tube.
Eventually, the officer removes himself from the situation.
Suspicious, he pulled out his cellphone to record the cop’s behavior – and he kept filming as the policeman whipped out his weapon. Glad I did. The arragance he showed me shouldn’t come from an officer of the law.
The California dad was hitching his boat to his truck when the unidentified officer pulled onto his street.
The video captures footage of an officer engaging in conversation with a man identified by the Los Angeles Times as Don McComas. According to Beck, his client complied with the officer. The officer did nothing but point at McComas and his home, McComas said.
The argument escalates until McComas accuses the department of being “corrupt”, leading the officer to ask, “Are you some kind of a constitutionalist insane guy or something like that?”
The officer looks like he jokingly starts to film him back before getting out of the police vehicle and telling McComas to take his hand out of his pocket. “I’ve done absolutely nothing”, the officer draws his gun.
The video was taken by Don McComas (aka Ryan Jones), of Rohnert Park, California, about 50 miles north of San Francisco. This is why I am doing this.
McComas replies that he is filming the interaction to “protect myself from you”. Then, he explained he was going to upload the video to the web. McComas was not arrested or detained.
“Go ahead, have a nice day and put it on YouTube. I don’t really care”.
Ars attempted to contact city officials, the police, and McComas with a request for comment.
Rohnert Park City Manager Darrin Jenkins says the city will review protocols to determine if they were followed.
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“We’ve been made aware of this matter, and we are taking it seriously”, they said.
