When is it illegal to honk your horn
Honking now illegal / Maine State Police trooper Patrick Flanagan
you have not told me any law that I have
broken struction cuz you honked at me
that's no law it is no it's an icy
misdemeanor
no it's no um so I wanted to bring your
attention to a video that was uploaded
about a year ago on April 17 2019 by
Shane grant I'm gonna include a link to
this video in the description thank you
appreciate it
why the first thing you'll note is that
the video does not capture the entire
incident but Shane goes on to explain
what happened so this cop pulls me over
because I honked at somebody who was
forcing me into his lane tells me I
honked at him and now he wants me to get
out of my car he wants my license
registration he just pulled me over
because I was honking at somebody else
and the lane next to me and now he is
being all agitated
I wish that I could report that
incidents like this were uncommon in
Maine but that's not the case
Maine State Troopers are not accountable
to anybody and there is no citizen
Oversight Committee to stop things like
this from happening hard to hold
troopers accountable for doing things
like this
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so I'm driving along on the highway and
he's got somebody pulled over on the
highway now I lay on my horn because
somebody's coming into my lane on this
side of the car and he flies off the
highway comes after me saying I'm
honking my horn at him tells me he's
gonna charge me with obstruction of
justice because I laid on my horn
because of somebody else after the
officer makes the driver wait a very
lengthy amount of time he comes back and
does what can only be described as
abusive power corruption something that
only a dirty police officer would do
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where's your sergeant you me just give
me your ID give me your ID or get out of
the vehicle why he's on his way I'd like
no I would like you sergeant here before
you get physical with me no no he is
coming from over half our way yeah we'll
sit here and wait for him no we're not
yeah we are that no you have you not
told me any law that I have broken
struction cuz you honked at me that's
not a law it is no it's an icy
misdemeanor no it's not I didn't know
honk it out of the D excuse me don't at
this point the officer arrests the
driver and other than some fellow
language being exchanged there was
nothing to indicate resisting arrest
listen why are you being physical get
out of the view got a little man
syndrome worse okay so I just wanted to
read the description to the video kind
of give us an update of what happened
and it says in an attempt to change
lanes I'd used my horn to signal another
driver that was coming over in order to
miss the back end of his cruiser that
was half in the right side lane and half
in the breakdown lane he then took it
upon himself to charge me with
obstruction of government administration
failure to show ID failure to show
insurance failure to control the motor
vehicle update the case was dismissed on
July 3rd 2019 so between April and July
April May June July so it's at four
months later state dropped charges due
to lack of sufficient evidence meaning
the state did not want to pick up
charges which means this man was acting
on his own accord and not as a state
official any lawyers want to help me sue
I would say the guy has a pretty good
case that was clearly a muse of power
that was a corrupt cop not sure about
the little man syndrome part but this
sort of activity is prevalent in the
Maine State Police also I saw in the
comment section so he posted an update
on two months ago on February 21st 2020
and he said I have beaten all charges 10
months ago a
comander asked if he could repost the
video and Shane agreed to it so he's
allowing people to repost the video
until there's an oversight committee a
citizen Oversight Committee in the state
of Maine that holds troopers like this
accountable or all police officers
accountable this will continue to happen
Maine has a serious problem with police
officer accountability and this needs to
change please share this video please
comment thank you
