A Florida man was robbed at gunpoint after being pulled over by a fake cop. The victim told law enforcement that while driving to work around 5 a.m., the car pulled onto the roadway behind him and activated flashing blue lights inside the car. The sedan driver quickly exited the car and approached his window. The victim described the driver as a black man, around 6 feet tall, wearing dark clothing and a ski mask. He pressed a handgun to the victim’s head and demanded his money and phone.
This is why there needs to be a law that only vehicles with obvious, contrasting police markings with uniformed law enforcement can initiate traffic stops. Still, keep an eye out- if you are pulled over by a car with a dash light, and the driver is in regular clothes with a face mask, you should be ready to drive away while calling 911. Better to let your lawyer defend your actions in court than wind up dead at a robber’s hand.
10 Comments
Jester · June 7, 2025 at 10:10 am
I 100% agree with you. I get that there may be some special operations going on using unmarked vehicles but they would not, and should not be involved with traffic stops. Every vehicle should be bright, easy to identify and be with out a question who they belong to. At this point in time anything unmarked is just to make extra money for the district they operate out of. The local State Patrol and Local county boys all run around unmarked these days or with blended markings so to be almost entirely unmarked anyway. Every vehicle to include the hood needs clear identifying markings. Is there anyone out there that can give me a reason this is not the standard case?
Don Curton · June 7, 2025 at 10:32 am
There used to be real strict laws about what kind of lights you could display on your car to avoid this sort of thing. But in the past year or so, here in Texas, I’ve noticed that many vehicles associated with road construction now have flashing red and white and blue lights. Nearly indistinguishable from police lights. This on regular vehicles like pickup trucks, 4 door sedans, and the occasional Ford Explorer. Unless the law has changed, these should all be illegal. There’s been more than several times I’ve seen them and couldn’t tell the different between those lights and po-po lights.
Vlad the non-Impaler · June 7, 2025 at 6:07 pm
“vehicles associated with road construction now have flashing red and white and blue lights. Nearly indistinguishable from police lights.”
First time I saw that shit was in NM driving cross country. Just imagine a gal needing a cop RIGHT NOW! pulling up and seeing some highway worker putting bolts in a guardrail. Real comforting…
SoCoRuss · June 7, 2025 at 10:51 am
We have seen that here also. That’s a real concern as to what your reaction should be. Of course nothing is really done to these people in our no justice system. Probably wont be until something bad happens to someone connected.
Botan · June 7, 2025 at 12:09 pm
If you suspect a bogus cop – turn on your blinkers, slow down to about 10 MPH, move as far to the right as possible, drive to a well lit area such as a gas station while dialing 911 and tell 911 what is happening and leave the phone on speaker.
Real cop shouldn’t be a problem – bogus cop will probably take off.
If a real cop gives you grief, tell him/her that you suspected it was a bogus stop.
TCK · June 7, 2025 at 3:02 pm
Real cops have literally tried to murder people for doing what you suggest.
“How dare you not comply immediately, you peasant! Respect my authority!”
TRX · June 7, 2025 at 3:39 pm
A great-uncle was murdered that way in Georgia in the 1950s. Unmarked car with a dash light. He lived long enough to tell the ER people what happened, but died of his injuries a couple of days later.
Having had a few seriously dysfunctional interactions with uniformed police in marked cars who were either on speed or just plain crazy, I’m now partly convinced the murderer was in fact a legitimate cop.
fourth world turd · June 7, 2025 at 7:19 pm
All kinds of fake cop cars with civilian plates and fake donut molesters in this fake gay and retarded fourth world banana republic turd.
Import the third world and become a fourth world turd.
Get over clinging to America 1.0 as it is gone and never to return.
wojtek · June 8, 2025 at 1:25 pm
It was a big problem in the 90s in Poland. It stemmed from the existing remnants of communist laws which allowed secret police to do whatever they wanted. Eventually in 1997 they changed the law. But they insisted that it is impractical to prohibit plainclothes from ever stopping anybody. So the law was introduced that differentiated what uniformed and plainclothes can do. Uniformed can stop anybody anywhere. Plainclothes can stop vehicles (or pedestrians) only during the day hours and only within “built-up areas”. I think this last aspect could be a little tricky in the US, where the concept of a built-up area is difficult to define. But I don’t think it’s impossible.
For us it was a good compromise.
(One other little difference: in Poland during a stop police can approach your car only from the passenger side.)
George · June 8, 2025 at 4:59 pm
In Texas, traffic enforcement has to be done with marked cars.
So, the shady cops use a white car with just a touch darker lettering on it. (Looking at you, Manor Texas police.).
Makes it hard to believe the cops are the good guys when they go to so much trouble to get around a law they don’t like.
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