In rational world, there’s no way this cop gets out of this with his career intact. Or with his career, period.
Some colorful metaphors are energetically deployed in this video, in a manner that seems not at all inappropriate.
If you’ve looked into the front of a modern American police car anytime in the last 25 years or so, you’ll recognize that they are filled, nay, overfilled with technology. I’ve always thought it was kinda bugnuts that the driver of a police car had access to a fricken’ laptop while driving. And even with all the electronical attention-destroying technojunk he already had, this guy thought it was a good idea to be looking at his phone while not only driving but also while taking a corner. He has been suspended. Note that the police vehicle has a dashcam… that should prove to be interesting footage, with one very startled looking bicyclist.
Sooner or later self-driving cars will make it into the police force. It’ll be interesting to see how long it takes for self-driving police cars to be *better* at high speed pursuits than manual cars… freeing up the driver to shoot the bad guys while on the move.
Interestingly, take a look at the bikers YouTube videos… they are *filled* with prior vids of him seeing cars where the drivers are busy texting and whatnot.