Artist Rod MacIver ranted and raved at a Shelburne cop when he was pulled over last December for running a red light.
“I think you’re completely out to lunch,” he told Officer Jason Lawton. “What are you doing, smoking pot or something?”
Lawton ticketed MacIver, but after the artist reviewed a cruiser cam video of the traffic stop, it became clear his truck passed through the Shelburne Road intersection under a yellow light.
A judge dismissed the ticket. But MacIver wasn’t about to let bygones be bygones. He posted the video online, created a web site to shame the Shelburne PD and is taking the town to small claims court.
Reporter Charles Eichacker covered MacIver’s case in a web-only story for sevendaysvt.com. Click here to read it.
Here’s video of the stop:
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Talk about an over reaction….
And for the record, it’s not clear at all whether he passed through a yellow or a red light. The video doesn’t show one way or the other. There could have been a delayed red, which is not at all uncommon…
Good for you, Rod McIver.
My advice to MacIver: stay off Church Street.
This guy sues people all the time. He has filed more lawsuits than you can shake a stick at. He’s wasting taxpayers’ money and court resources.