That's Some Mighty Fine Police Work.

[scotttswan]

 

[sleslie23]

WTF?

Edit: I mean WTF with that fat a-hole diving on top of that car.

 

[lucha54]

Haha he found a meme and thought it would go great on this board. *golf claps*

 

[GS_Dirtboy]

And the Gendarme are the "better" of the police forces here. Unbelievable. Still waiting for CFK to hold a press conference denouncing this outrage. Waiting ... waiting ... still waiting ... yep ... waiting ...

 

[scotttswan]

Haha he found a meme and thought it would go great on this board. *golf claps*

Haha someone's tablet doesn't work with embedded youtube videos.

 

[ElQueso]

Looks like the driver at first didn't want to stop (looked like he was going to try to get by in front of the cop) and was going to go, which pissed off or otherwise affected the cop, who "taught him a lesson" by taking a dive.

What blows me away is how he does all this in front of a plethora of cameras.

 

[sebas]

This is like a metaphor for the whole of argentina and the argentine way of doing things

1. disrespect for the authorities (driver trying to edge past policemen who are trying to stop the traffic)
2. abuse of power by the authorities (policeman trying to show the driver a lesson by jumping onto the front of his car)
3. unforeseen consequences (policeman bounces off the car, breaks windshield and hurts and humiliates himself on the road)
4. sabre rattling, threats and brinkmanship (other policeman banging on car window shouting at the driver who refuses to come out)
5. force and further abuse of power, everyone losing credibility and respect for each other (throwing the driver to the ground who still tries to resist arrest, everyone shouting, heavy handed use of force)
6. lots of time and money wasted and further frustration and third parties being disrupted through no fault of their own (whole road is then blocked until the police have regularized the unnecessary incident that should never have happened in the first place)
7. everything recorded and shown further propagating the first six points.

People say its the politicians that have ruined the country (and they've certainly had a share in it) but these points seem to be played out in different contexts on different levels every day throughout the whole country.

 

[ghost]

Incidents like this go really bad very fast. The guy is fortunate that that the crowd and the cameras forced the police to be restrained.

 

[sgibson123]

Where was this?

 

[Gringoboy]

Panamericana, near Benavidez I think.
The driver clearly wasn't at fault and the GNA just needed the thinnest of excuses.