I think you need to take a breather from this discussion before you pop a blood vessel.
LMAO
I was trying to bait YOU into explaining yourself further, which I guess you still aren't. I just can't figure out why you are so adamant about badmouthing the kid.
If you cant see that the kid went there looking for trouble then you have no justification for your debate. I agree that the police officer was a dick and should have never done/said those things, and hes getting his punishment. But I also agree that the kid just didnt turn on his night-vision camcorder out of the blue before turning into a vacant parking lot being patrolled by a police officer blaring his music to garner his attention, then not complying to the questions being asked...just to pick up his friend that was never there and didnt seem to materialize even after the incident occured.
I can kinda see where you are coming from. I can understand YOUR bewilderment with the situation. I am familiar with the automotive sub-culture [check my username], and having an in-car camera is almost becoming a common thing. It's used to record encounters with other cars (usually of the illegal, street racing kind, although it also used extensively for track runs) AND encounters with the Police.
Having an in-car camera is nothing unusual for me anymore. This is where the discrepancy in our perspectives likely change.
You see the kid as having a camera as him hunting for police to entrap, which skews your view way to the other side. I see it as a normal, everyday thing, and that the kid simply turned the camera on (usually by remote), upon seeing that the lot he was entering was occupied by an officer.
Considering this kid's previous run ins with the police in his area, can you really blame him?
I watch automotive related vids all the time, and trust me, in-car cameras are a normal thing. This isn't the first vid of this kind I have seen either. I saw one of a Dodge Charger getting pulled over for doing 140 in a 55, and he gets away with a warning. It was good topic online for a while, as everyone dubbed this particular person "a lucky bastard".
And its none of your business what I do for a living, obviously your the kind of person that cant stand it when somebody doesnt agree with them then resort to personal attacks.
Well. I have talked to a few current officers about this vid - and trust me, most of them know about in-car vids - and none of them have been as adamant as you are about demonizing the kid. All I could think of is the stereotypical gung-ho fella who wants to be an officer so badly, yet hasn't had the guts or the ability to become one yet. In the meantime, he's an officer in his own mind, working security jobs with a zeal that would rival any SWAT Team member.
If the shoe doesn't fit, then it isn't yours to wear.
Like I said, I was trying to goad you into a revealing a bit more of yourself, until I had the revelation that you likely aren't familiar with how common in car cameras are nowadays among auto enthusiasts, and would see this kid as simply the instigating, suit-happy type. Truth is, he well might be, but I don't blame him one bit, as that town's department needs to purged top-to-bottom.
Not to mention I was given the failure to yield ticket and also disorderly conduct. Fines totalling $350 or so. So I went to court, explained to the judge what happened, he reviewed situation and charges were dropped. Lowered my fine and I payed like $40 for the stop sign failure to yield 
