Repeat Police Impersonator Arrested

America has a whole bunch of police impersonators.  It's an extension of the "stolen valor" mindset. It's almost always men, people who couldn't or wouldn't make it through academy for whatever reason.  The king of them is a guy named Jeremy DeWitte, who runs a whole crew and gets up to all kinds of weirdness.

But this isn't funny, these cop wannabes.  I'm not saying this particular guy is guilty of any specific criminal offense.  But he clearly wishes people would think he's in some way affiliated with law enforcement.  He's gone out of his way to make his vehicle look like a police car.  He's rolling around with a gun.

In this incident he's accused of having tried to initiate a traffic stop, then tried to ram the people and followed them up the road when they wouldn't comply.

"Do you know how odd this is, Dennis?" the officer asks after inspecting the assortment of lights, sirens, and radios in Dennis' personal vehicle.  He asks what the handcuffs are for.

Dennis has a dash cam video, which should be awesome.

The scenario in this video stems from a road-rage incident.  I've seen other situations where they tried to pull over a stripper for "speeding" or "weaving across the line."  This kind of thing is really dangerous for women and people who don't speak English that well or aren't really familiar with American law enforcement.

And there are a lot of them, more than you'd imagine.  I'm reminded of the BTK killer, who was also the town's petty enforcer, I think the guy who would write people tickets about their pets and minor code violations on their homes.  Similar voyeuristic, control freak mindset without having whatever it would take to actually complete police academy and get sworn in.