This is the kind of comment I expected! I'm not against or for police. This man was rude to start (he was acting this way because he was caught speeding twice in a row by the same officer). Although I dislike speed enforcement for many good reasons, going 50 over the limit is excessive. He's not doing anyone any favours flaunting the law when he knows he's speeding again in plain of view of law enforcement.

His anger may well have come from a year of lost respect in the face of tyranny. Law enforcement should feel that shame. Law enforcement can be tyrannical and in doing so is deserving of disrespect. I can appreciate this man's anger. Still he can't justify being contemptuous of basic traffic laws for that anger.

He has every right to be angry, but the evidence might show that in a flash of anger he turned his wheel just a bit too aggressively and swiped the officer. I think this is pretty marginal; he aimed to cause disrespect, not harm. At best this is third degree assault.

I think this a grey situation and a failure on both sides. The police shouldn't be power tripping and harassing citizens, and the man shouldn't be driving well above the speed limit and being offended for being caught.