...What’s going on?

Get out of the car now!

What’s going on?

What’s going on is you’re fixing to ride the lightning, son.

I’m sorry, what?
...

What’s going on? What did I do?...I have not committed any crimes.

You’re stubborn. A traffic violation. ...You’re being detained.

For a traffic violation, I do not have to get out of the vehicle. You haven’t even told me why I’m being stopped. Get your hands off.

Get out of the car now! Get out of the car.

Get your hands off me, please. Get your hands off me. ...

Get out of the car right now. Now.

That is not how you treat a—I’m actively serving this country and this is how you’re going to treat me? I didn’t do anything. Whoa, hold on. What’s going on? Hold on.

—Lieutenant Caron Nazario, U.S. Army, recorded on his own cell phone, was stopped by Windsor, VA, police on the night of December 5, 2020. The police officers signaled for Nazario to pull over, but he seemed to have in inflamed the officers’ fury when he drove about one mile farther until he could pull over in a well-lit service station. In the aftermath, it became clear that the two police officers had perceived wrongly that Lt. Nazario was driving an unregistered vehicle; the temporary registration was displayed in the car’s rear window. Instead of admitting their error, the officers approached Nazario’s car with firearms drawn (visible in police body camera footage), refused to state the reason for the traffic stop, and the encounter devolved to the lead officer dousing Nazario with pepper spray.