The Free Thought Project – by Cassandra Fairbanks
In a video uploaded to Facebook on Wednesday, Michael Cates filmed a disturbing interaction between police and retired truck driver, Russel Ayers. The recording shows police threatening Ayers with incarceration after he refused to apologize to an officer, after calling him a “f*cking asshole.”
The confrontation took place after the officer’s partner allegedly came close to plowing through a group of bikers on Highway 62 in Thomasville, North Carolina. The cruiser was reportedly going 100 mph in a 60 mph zone, with no siren or lights.
“All I want you to do is apologize for what you called my brother, the guy I go into battle with every day,” the officer told Ayers.
Ayers refused as he called the officer an idiot once again for his unsafe driving that could have been disastrous for the men on motorcycles.
“I’m not justifying that, you’re right. That’s unsafe. I’m not justifying that behavior, what I’m telling you that when you call my brother an idiot we’ve got problems,” the officer continued on to say.
“He said a f*cking idiot,” the man’s friend corrects the officer.
The confrontation continues as the officer whines petulantly at Ayers to apologize for his words instead of demanding that his “battle brother” apologize to the men on bikes who could have been killed by his reckless driving.
Approximately two minutes and forty seconds into the video the officer threatens to take Ayers to jail if he continues to call the officer’s coworker names.
“I was asking you a man to man request,” the officer whines.
“Man to man I will not take back what I said. It takes a fucking idiot to run down that road like that,” Ayers boldly proclaims.
“If you say it again then you’re going to jail, fair enough? I’ve warned you,” the officer states.
“That’s drastic,” Cates notes as he continues to film.
After being told they were free to go and leaving the scene, the men were further harassed by the officers. In an interview, Cates told The Free Thought Project,
“We pulled around all the cop cars and parked. Got off our bikes and we left about 30 minutes after that. Went back to our town three miles away and met a thomasville cop. He turned around in the middle of the road to come chase us. We pulled in a restaurant and he pulled in across the street to a parking lot where he sat until we left. When we left my friend went left and I went right. The cop followed me until I pulled over on the shoulder he pulled up beside me. I asked him to stop following me, then he went around me.”
The men stuck to their guns and refused to be intimidated by badged bullies.
“I was about killed by a negligent officer, and I will not be silenced under the 1st amendment. With that said I do have respect for 99% of all law enforcement. It’s just like the rest of us the 1% really make the rest look bad,” Ayers wrote of the incident.
Someone was trying to explain it one time to me and said you can’t tell them they are assholes, but you can tell them you “think” they are assholes. I guess there’s a difference. I don’t know, if your not fortunate enough to have video and/or audio of the encounter, it’s the pig’s oink that will be heard with your side of the story discarded.
His “Battle Buddy”! The pr#@k would piss his pants if he got in a “battle”! F—-n’ idiot! Wouldn’t be the first cop that got his ass handed to him, by a biker. Ask me how I know. FN Pigs! Goes into battle with him every day! BWhahahaha! How in the hell are they training these pr#@ks?
“With that said I do have respect for 99% of all law enforcement.”
With THAT said, I just lost any respect for you.
Only a f%&king idiot would believe something that stupid.
I love how the cop says he’s being childish when it’s the cop who is clearly being childish. Reverse psychology at its finest. And then they have the balls to follow them around? This guy should have taken his buddies and his guns and see how they like it.
However, like #1 said in the previous comment, the guy’s last comment just made me lose all respect for him.