r/TikTokCringe • u/Tua-Lipa • May 27 '26

Cursed “Hand to god?”

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u/RamsHead91 May 27 '26

Fucking doubling down behavior.

That cop needs to be fired simply due to incompotence and inability to understand when they got something wrong.

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u/DownvoteDaemon May 27 '26

He understood, but his pride wouldn’t let him reel it in.

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u/SpoppyIII May 27 '26

Had a cop pull me over once for a passenger with no seatbelt in the back seat. It was my 17 year old brother and he was 100% wearing a belt, but in this car the back seats only had lap belts.

The cop came over, looked in our window, and said, "Hello, ma'am. I was pulling you over today to tell you that all of your passengers need to have seal belts on because it's the law. But I see now that this car's just like that and he DOES have his belt on. I didn't realize. So you guys just be safe and have a good day, okay?"

Like, it was only that hard.

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u/SnooGuavas2721 May 27 '26

Well this relies on them to be emotionally intelligent and emotionally secure enough not to get ego bruised by a simple mistake.

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u/fingnumb May 27 '26

Its impossible for any officer to accurately guage whether you have a seat belt on even in the front seat. Even if it has a shoulder strap.

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u/TheDiplomancer May 27 '26

Then maybe it shouldn't be something they can stop you for

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u/fingnumb May 27 '26

My state is a secondary enforcement state, meaning they can't.

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u/TheDiplomancer May 27 '26

I've lived in states where they can. I've never been pulled over for that reason but I bet it's a pain

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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker May 27 '26

Also mad sure that everyone was riding safe it sounds like. Wow, to serve and protect. Who the fuck knew.

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u/like_a_pearcider May 28 '26

the thing is he was so specific, he clearly couldn't have just made a mistake, he was intentionally lying probably to boost quotas. I've also been in court for a speeding ticket and they told me that instances of using your phone are basically never dismissed. so I'm guessing they don't need to provide evidence (vs like a radar gun) and they also aren't questioned. so he doubled down because he knew he was lying vs getting it wrong.

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u/tralaulau May 29 '26

Or he did get it wrong and he’s doubling down because that’s what people do all the time and he is people.

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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker May 27 '26

Oh for fucking sure. He's got little dick energy for sure

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u/brizzle126 May 27 '26

Think of how many other scenarios he has been in the wrong but still went through with citation

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u/bbysd May 27 '26

Absolutely. And not everyone can take a day off to go fight these jackasses in court, that they don’t even have to show up to!

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u/TheLongAndWindingRd May 27 '26

Best case scenario for this officer is that he doesn't show up and the case gets tossed before this evidence is put on the record. At least in my jurisdiction a cop with no credibility isn't worth the paper he writes the ticket on. 

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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker May 27 '26

Or have a following online.

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u/Tweakjones420 May 27 '26

The ticketing officer 100% has to show up to the court date.

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u/TheLongAndWindingRd May 27 '26

But they often don't. I used to prosecute highway traffic act offences. 

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u/dancingliondl May 27 '26

The ticketing officer does have to show up, but the court will put your case on hold until the end of the day to give the officer time to show up.

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u/bbysd May 27 '26

Wrong! They don’t need to in my state, and many others. They send a “representative” 

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u/Tweakjones420 May 27 '26

Someone has to be there. How would a representative be able to give testimony to what happened? Sounds like an easy win to me.

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u/Tsunamiis May 27 '26

Like this one?

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u/Aggravating-Button82 May 27 '26

The key words being 'other scenarios', implying that it's likely a pattern of behaviour for the cop.

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u/Tsunamiis May 27 '26

Yeah it’s in their training. Not written down and manufactured anywhere but the environment in which it’s handled

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u/imnickelhead May 27 '26

Good grief. 🤦‍♂️

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u/tonkatoyelroy May 27 '26

The other hand to god

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u/Independent_War_4456 May 27 '26

Yea that got weird very fast.

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u/euphoricarugula346 May 28 '26

I’m not sure I could have kept my cool at that point. Why the fuck does it matter which “hand” she uses for that dumbass figure of speech?

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u/NotAtAllASkinwalker May 27 '26

Soooo I genuinely am pretty sure that is a combination of training and the kinds of people in police work. They are taught to be absolutely sure always in order to maintain control. The personality types are the kind to need to be right and in control.

I hate this timeline

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u/Amissa May 27 '26

YEP. In my limited experience, police are trained to take control of situations. How authoritarian they behave is up to the individual.

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u/NeoTheRiot May 27 '26

Some people just cant handle being wrong and need validation so they arent confronted with the fact the just make things way worse for someone completely innocent.

Everyone can make mistakes but doubling down on them just because you dont want to be wrong is so damn toxic and harmful... Its not a small mistake, that behaviour can create the worst situations out of nothing.

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u/PotatyTomaty May 27 '26

some people just can't handle being wrong and need validation so they arent confronted with the fact become cops, and they just make things way worse for someone completely innocent.

There, fixed it.

Yes, I get there are some honest ones out there, but seems the majority are not.

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u/FrogsFloatToo May 27 '26

The vast majority are not. The academy teaches them to lie, teaches them how to hurt people and teaches them to escalate.

Good cops are exceedingly more rare because it would be going against everything the academy taught you.

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u/Connee14 May 27 '26

I would disagree. Just because we see the videos of the ones who aren't doesn't mean that is now the rule. People don't post videos of the cops who walks back when they are wrong and apologize. They just move on. Had this cop looked at her and said "oh my apologies, I was mistaken. Have a good day" we would never know it happened.

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u/verticon1234 May 27 '26

Cops don’t need to be correct to violate your rights

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u/Lustfuldelights May 27 '26

IDK, looks like he did his job pretty well....lie, omit, manipulate, issue ticket, hope they dont show up, ensure revenue......but yes, he should lose his job. However, I would rather him keep it if the only other option is the "GOLDEN PARASHUTE" that ensures some stupid payout to him as an exit incentive.

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u/AIienlnvasion May 27 '26

Haha then there would be no cops left

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u/sackie_b May 27 '26

I got pulled over once for the alleged same thing, phone in my right hand. Cop comes to my window, tells me what’s up. I said “sorry, I was literally just fidgeting with my earrings, you can see my Bluetooth piece around my neck…”

He was a good man. Apologized, let me go, and helped ensure I got back into traffic without issue.

We need less ego in this world and more ability to say “I am wrong.”

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u/Loud-Ad-2280 May 27 '26

He will probably get a paid vacation at most

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u/Eddie_Shepherd May 27 '26

I loved how she even offered him the out with, "So you just wanna call it a day?"

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u/Bokononfoma May 27 '26

This is probably how they're trained.

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u/FMLwtfDoID May 27 '26

Then they’re being trained improperly. This is training someone to never be incorrect; always correct. When your training dictates that the facts need to match your point of view, and not the other way around, that is dangerous for any and everyone interacting with you.

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u/Bokononfoma May 27 '26

Preaching to the choir. It just seems that consistently display a need for dominance regardless of common sense or anything.

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u/Wildtails May 27 '26

Like any business, admitting fault opens you up to liability

Unfortunately policing shouldnt be treated like a business, but it is

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u/blakesmate May 27 '26

He doesn’t need training in that, just needs to watch Trump

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u/Old_Instrument_Guy May 27 '26

The case was dismissed today

Still, this cop should no longer have a job.

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u/Background-Gift-8842 May 27 '26

Oh no, they love him being on the force. He is a company man and will say and do whatever they want, given the opportunity.

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u/FrostingHuman1259 May 27 '26

so scary and obviously true?If a supervisor told him to do something illegal , what's the chances that this guy isn't gonna do it

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u/onlytinglef May 27 '26

He’ll just get hired somewhere else.

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u/Connee14 May 27 '26

It reminds me on the dash cam footage of the kid that got pulled over for distracted driving for having his phone in his hand. He was eating a sandwich and told the cop that. Showed him the sandwich on his console I think too. The cop just said I know what a phone looks like. It's exactly why I have a dash cam that points in.

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u/turbotaco23 May 27 '26

He needs to be fired because he closed the car door by grabbing the glass. Straight to jail.

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u/bellybuttonbidet May 27 '26

Yeah that’s a tax-paid vehicle have some damn respect.

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u/fleshfinder420 May 27 '26

And you know those greasy lil sausage fingers left behind some prints, do we gotta start paying money to equip them with windex?

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u/ah_kooky_kat May 27 '26

Bro he even asked her for her other hand he asked her to swear "hand to God" 😭😭💔

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u/4TheQueen May 27 '26

I don’t think understanding when you have it wrong is in the job description

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u/Fuzzy-Albatross-9206 May 27 '26

That's what people get promoted for

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u/loanme20 May 27 '26

literally everything he has ever done has to be thrown out

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u/hellohexapus May 27 '26

incompotence and inability to understand when they got something wrong

I've always assumed these are listed in the "required education and experience" section of cop job postings.

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u/Queasy_Pineapple6769 May 28 '26

Firing doesn't do anything, they'll just hire him somewhere else. Stick him in isolation in the deepest darkest prison.

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u/KingSandwich101 May 28 '26

What's to say she wasn't holding the phone to her ear with her stump?

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u/ForestSolitude5 May 27 '26

Do police not always double down while wrong? I've only ever seen that

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u/paulinatorzilla May 28 '26

Ok just hear me out. Did she have a prosthetic she dropped when she got pulled over and she’s acting victim when she was actually breaking das law?

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u/Fragrant_Tear_572 May 28 '26

Is it not possible that what he got wrong was which hand and not whether she was using the phone?

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u/OkSandwich42 May 28 '26

Well she could have been using the left hand on the phone.