A man is riding his motorcycle along a road, and the driver of some car going in the opposite direction waves at him from inside his car, and he waves back. A quite normal occurrence for most motorcyclists. Quite common when the driver is an avid motorcyclist himself, as saluting fellow motorcyclist is a common custom among that community.
The motorcyclist keeps driving and arrives at his destination, and calmly parks on the side of the building, when the car stops behind it and some lunatic in plain clothes approaches him, pointing a gun at him and shouting to him to "get on the ground". A security camera on the wall of the building happens to film the entire incident
He's being mugged!
Perhaps a bit foolishly, but quite understandably because he is likely in a panic, the motorcyclist hesitates and then runs away for his life. He runs too fast for the attacker to follow.
A bit later he gets caught... by the police. And gets arrested, and charged for "resisting arrest" and other bullshit charges.
Turns out that the attacker was an off-duty cop, driving an unmarked car that had no signs whatsoever of belonging to a police officer, and the "cop" was in plain clothes, and at no point did he identify himself to the motorcyclist. It was only later, after he was arrested, that he was told that the guy was a cop.
Turns out that the cop hadn't saluted him as a fellow motorcyclist. Turns out that he was signaling for him to stop. From an unmarked car that had zero indications of being some kind of police car, while wearing plain clothes, with zero indications that he was a cop.
And, of course, like seems to be the rule in American policing, when a driver doesn't instantly stop when signaled to do so, the cop went into berserk mode. Apparently so much so that he didn't even feel the need to identify himself as a cop, and just went fully ballistic, shouting orders like an insane asylum lunatic. (There really is something strange going on with American cops: When a driver doesn't stop immediately, they really seem to become completely insane lunatics, not behaving normally, not even identifying themselves, acting like wild animals.)
Apparently the man was supposed to read the mind of the cop, and just somehow know that he's a cop doing a traffic stop. How? Who knows, but the district attorney certainly didn't care. He was still charged.
And, of course, the cop then lied in his report (which was contradicted by the security camera footage later.)
At least the charges were later dropped. Much, much later, only after the video had gone viral.
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