Summary

Routine traffic stop turns into a wrestling match when suspect gets nervous and starts fighting. It's all caught on police cruiser surveillance video!

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 173728
Story Slug Traffic Stop Becomes Brawl (03/08/1999)
Location Mebane, North Carolina
Format DashCam
Date 3/8/1999
Archive Time :00
TRT 20:00
Supers Mebane, North Carolina Police DashCam Video
Video Description Color daytime dashcam with audio of small pursuit, suspect's car pulls over, office gets out and walks toward vehicle, cops asks for license, suspect gets nervous and fidgets, then gets up, cop tells him to put his hands on the car, suspect resists, a brawl ensues...no punches thrown, but rather a wrestling match, officer maintains control most of the time, officer yells for help, two civilian men run over to help cop contain man while cop handcuffs man, more cops arrive on scene and man is contained, put in car, cops search suspect's vehicle, civilians pick up money with cops.
Description Routine traffic stop turns into a wrestling match when suspect gets nervous and starts fighting. It's all caught on police cruiser surveillance video!
Script LEAD: SCRIPT: Driver is pulled over after not coming to a complete stop at a stopsign. When officer approaches the 1992 Lexus to get his license, the driver gets nervous and begins dialing a number on his cell phone. Officer decides this is enough and asks him to get out of car and put his hands on the hood of his car. A fight ensues when the officer sees two white blocks of what is presumably cocaine on the floorboards of the car. After some help from some civilians and additional cops, man is detained. After car is searched, 87.5 grams of cocaine and over four-thousand dollars is found in the trunk.
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