For the last year, Monkton artist Rod MacIver has been waging a legal battle with the town of Shelburne. Last December, an officer from the town’s police department wrote MacIver a ticket for running a red light.

But after the artist secured footage from the cop’s cruiser cam that proved his innocence, he sued the town in small claims court. Later, the Vermont chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union took MacIver as a client and filed a suit against the officer in federal court, where depositions are scheduled to take place next month.

But now, it seems, there might be a sequel in the works for MacIver.Last weekend, shortly before 11 p.m. on the evening of December 6, University of Vermont police Officer Mark Schwartz stopped MacIver as he was driving west on Route 2 towards Burlington, near the I-89 ramp. The officer wrote MacIver a ticket for wavering outside the marked lane. 

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Charles Eichacker was a staff writer for Seven Days.

11 replies on “For Artist Rod MacIver, Another Traffic Stop, Another Video Request”

  1. STOP THE PRESSES!!! Local Artist Pulled Over By Cops, Wants Video Of Incident!
    Seriously, why is this considered newsworthy? C’mon, Seven Days.

  4. Yeah, have to agree on that one…although UVM does tend to pounce on minor traffic infractions…But on the whole, NOT newsworthy especially in the light of the fact that the FIRST incident hasn’t even gone to actual court. Tone it down Seven Days, you shouldn’t be the New York Post.

  5. The town of Shelburne is completely ridiculous. A few years ago, I was issued a ticket for $200 for failing to use a turn signal. At 5:45 am in the morning, on my way to yoga class. Got the ticket a half mile from my house. It was infurating as I had most certainly HAD used a turn signal. I’m glad this is finally getting some press, there’s definitely some corruption going on. The town is not serving citizens well by making us pay through the nose for phony traffic violations.

  9. No, just the ticket that’s the subject of this article.
    The article refers to the older issue because there’s actually been a ton of coverage of the court case and the back-and-forth between the town and MacIver on the Shelburne ticket.

  11. This is a no-brainer–UVM should produce the video. If the police (any police) are videoing encounters with civilians, those videos should be public.

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