When people think of incidents involving police, they usually imagine officers harassing someone or abusing their authority. However, in this particular situation, it was the complete opposite. A man from South Hackensack, New Jersey felt so convinced that an on-duty police officer was following him that he decided to confront her directly. With his phone recording, he walked up to the patrol car, where the officer rolled down her window so they could speak.
Without any introduction, he immediately accused her of stalking him. He demanded her badge number and ID as if the police had stopped him, even though she had not. The officer, clearly confused, asked him why he thought she was following him. The South Hackensack man explained that he had been at a hotel and claimed he saw her stopping nearby, then insisted she had waited for him to leave. He went on to say that she followed him as he pulled out of the parking lot and continued to trail him for no reason.
He then escalated things by threatening to sue the police if she did not stop stalking him. The officer pushed back, telling him she was not bothering him at all. In fact, he was the one approaching and bothering her. She explained that she was simply driving along her patrol route, doing her normal job.
The man’s reasoning only became stranger from there. He told the police she should not patrol unless there was an issue happening, and insisted she could only pull him over if he had done something wrong. Ironically, the officer had never claimed to be pulling him over in the first place. She had just been sitting in her car when he walked up to her window with his camera running.
Thankfully, the situation did not escalate beyond a tense argument. After some back-and-forth, the man eventually told the officer to go away, acting as if he had authority over her duties. Wanting to avoid unnecessary commotion, the officer simply drove off, and the man kept recording her vehicle as it left.
Online, people who saw the footage were stunned. Many could not understand how the man was so certain the officer was targeting him. Some pointed out that his level of paranoia made it seem like he might be hiding something, since most people pay little attention to police presence unless an officer actually approaches them. One person commented, “Well, he sounds guilty of something. Nobody is by default that defensive.”
Others mocked him, calling him overly dramatic for freaking out simply because a patrol car happened to be nearby. Another viewer noted that if he had confronted a more aggressive or unreasonable officer, he probably would have already been handcuffed and sitting in the back of a police cruiser.
