North Carolina Police Officer Resigns After Road Rage Video Goes Viral

[Paul E Ester]

A North Carolina deputy who is the focus of a YouTube video that is gaining a lot of traction along the coast has resigned.

In an interview Wednesday, Deputy Craig Culpepper said he just wanted the man in the pickup truck with the video camera to just go away.

"I felt antagonized by him and I really just wanted the guy to go away," Culpepper said. "If you want to go do your thing, go do your thing. Don't bother me with it."

Culpepper, who worked for the Onslow County Sheriff's Office, was in North Charleston for K-9 training earlier this week, Sheriff Ed Brown said Wednesday, when he was caught up in a road rage incident on I-526.

"Deputy Culpepper, for no apparent reason, did what is called a brake check (immediately applied his brakes) thus the irate citizen struck Deputy Culpepper's vehicle in the rear," Brown said. "Deputy Culpepper tendered his resignation immediately after the Administrative Staff of the Onslow County Sheriff's Office and I addressed the matter with Deputy Culpepper."

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/21731404/video-shows-collision-with-cop-on-526

[RedstDem]

1. good thing he had a camera

or else, it never happened, and its all your fault....

[Paul E Ester]

2. You don't think you would get a fair shake from this meat head?

[RedstDem]

4. uhh.......no

not a remote chance of a snowball in fiji

[Bay Boy]

10. You don't like him because of his appearance...

...or do you know more about this man?

[DetlefK]

3. To me, this looked somewhat different.

The pickup was to close behind the police-car for that speed, indicating reckless driving.
Then he passed by another car on the right side, which should get him a ticket.

The deputy getting in front of him and hitting the brakes seems more like an act of vigilante-justice to me than road-rage.
But I really don't get why he didn't just regularly stop the pickup, give him a ticket for his maneuver and be gone.

[Paul E Ester]

5. He was a north carolina police officer, being an ass in south carolina

He couldn't give a ticket it was not his jurisdiction.

Passing on the right is totally legal.

I think the only possible ticket the civilian could have gotten was tailgating but that would have to be written up by a local cop.

[premium]

9. Watch the video again,

when the civilian passed the cop, the highway had turned into 3 lanes, so what he did was 100% legal.
He couldn't pull him over and give him a ticket, it was a NC cop being an ass in SC, no jurisdiction.

[Logical]

6. No doubt they have a deal where some other idiotic police department will hire him. Bad cops....

seldom go away. They just go to another department.

[Brickbat]

7. Law enforcement sources in South Carolina tell WWAY they have had frequent encounters with Walton,

who they say often drives around recording video of law enforcement officers trying to catch them in bad situations.

...

Walton has a history of problems with law enforcement. A State Law Enforcement Division background check shows a string of incidents dating back to 1999 that include failing to stop for blue lights, giving false information, possession of a stolen vehicle, forgery and assault.

He was also classified an habitual traffic offender, records show.

[EOTE]

8. I don't see what that has to do with what happened.

So it's OK for the cop to be a dangerous asshole because some guy had problems in the past? The guy was driving like a maniac and someone caught him doing it on video.

[CBGLuthier]

11. I wonder if he has gotten more or fewer tickets since he started recording

I would bet fewer since the cops would not be able to testilie as easily with video proof of what actually happened.