A man who goes by the name Randell Minott on Facebook shared a video of himself berating a white police officer for allegedly pulling a gun on him during a traffic stop.
In the video, the man is seen speaking to the camera as an officer silently stands outside his car window. The man claims that the officer had pulled a gun on him after pulling him over for failing to signal though no one was behind him.
The footage doesn't show the officer pointing a gun at him, neither does it show him getting pulled over. It only begins at the point where Randell is scolding the cop. He compared the situation to the Michael Bennett racial profiling controversy.
The man can be seen in the video, saying: "Turn signal not made is a big enough of a crime for you to feel like you need to take out your service pistol, right? Right? Right? That's what's up."
Randell continued to talk down to the cop who only kept saying "OK" at various points during the rant.
Randell shared the video with the caption: "I could of been a statistic if this a****** made a mistake and shot me…"
The video generated mixed reactions with some people calling him out for being too rude to the cops. This prompted him to share a longer version of the video and he made reference to Seahawks defensive end Michael Bennett, who said he was racially profiled by police in Las Vegas in August.
He wrote: "MICHEAL BENNET a rich football player and they threw his ass on the floor and pushed a gun in his head for nothing and still you lost souls still jump on every video defending these dudes. If you have a problem with the way I talk to a cop who ILLEGALLY POINTED A GUN AT MY HEAD then LEAVE THIS COUNTRY (see what I did there #LOL) Because last I check its in my constitutional rights #GoAmerikkka
"If he made a mistake and killed me him and his partner would of made up any kind of lie to get him off...even if they had to make me seem like I was up to something. The day a POLICE OFFICER snitches on his fellow BAD OFFICER and GET REWARDED FOR IT instead of bashed I will start trusting police... until then you know the drill!!!"
In the longer video, Randell can be seen shouting at the cop for several minutes.
He said: "Good cops get f***** up because of people like you. You came to the car with your gun out. For what? Do you have no conscious? Do you not see what's going on on TV? But you don't give a f***, because I'll just be another dead black motherf*****, right?"
He acknowledges the officer had picked a "dangerous job", but says his respect for him had "out of the f****** window".
He went on to inform the officer that he's a father-of-three and his kids could easily have become fatherless if the officer had shot him mistakenly.
It is unclear where Minott filmed the video, but it is believed he is based in Kathmandu, Nepal, though he is from East Orange, New Jersey.
Watch the video below.
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