That’s where she finally got the officer’s attention and they pulled over on the exit ramp to N.W. 8th Street. Suddenly the familiar, stern questions were being asked at the car window. Only, the officer wasn’t the one asking them. “The reason why I pulled you over today … I just wanted to know, what’s the emergency,” asked Castillo. “I don’t know how fast I was going.
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“But I can tell you this, I’m on my way to work right now. I don’t believe I was speeding,” the officer replied as he stood at Castillo’s passenger-side window. “I thought you had some kind of emergency, is everything fine,” he asked her, explaining why he stopped when she flagged him down. “Everything’s fine,” she replied. “Just your speeding.” The officer was apologetic, saying, “I’ll be sure to slow down then.”
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Castillo later said: “The cop drove past me so fast my car shook. And I got upset. I started speeding up and I stopped at 80. He’s been driving wrecklessly. He was going about 100 miles-an-hour ’cause I was hitting 80 and I could not catch up to him.” In a statement, Police Director Juan Perez said: “The Miami-Dade Police Department will have the officer’s immediate command staff investigate the matter, once the officer and citizen are identified. The appropriate course of action will be taken at that point.”
3 comments:
No question who in this story has the balls.
Still, a VERY RISKY thing to do. Anyone toodling by at 90+ mph has already demonstrated that they're nuts.
Sheesh.
Lurker111
"He was going about 100 miles-an-hour ’cause I was hitting 80 and I could not catch up to him.”
No, you have to be going faster than him to catch up, and that's without a head start, Ms Vigilante. You felt he was a danger to the public so you took it upon yourself to double the danger. He was polite and contrite with the camera on him, but he knows where you live.
Fortunately, the reckless driving was also wreckless.
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