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Oct. 5, 2025 - Hodgetwins
11:59
Paranoid Cop Mistakes Gas Pump for Gun then this Happens
# use of force racial profiling pritchard police department alabama gas pump nozzle gas station clerk handgun law enforcement accountability police misidentification police search

Alabama Pritchard Police officer mistakes gas station clerk's working pump nozzle for a handgun, ordering him out of the car and demanding ID despite the man's clear explanation. The officer insists the object resembled a pistol, questioning the clerk's ability to distinguish it from an elephant's trunk, while refusing a direct apology until after the search concludes. This incident highlights dangerous profiling and a lack of situational awareness, sparking widespread criticism for treating a mechanical signal as a lethal threat without verification. [Automatically generated summary]

Transcriber: nvidia/parakeet-tdt-0.6b-v2, sat-12l-sm, and large-v3-turbo
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Mistaken Gun at Gas Pump 00:05:13
That's a very hard switch.
You don't have a weapons and circle.
Okay, settle them around.
What do you have in your hand?
Show me your hands.
Okay.
Stay in the car.
Okay, turn around.
Place your hands behind your back.
The hell they do.
What are you doing?
I'm filling up gas camera.
You understand you're holding it like this, like it's a pistol, right?
No, I was put the pump on.
Okay, but that's not what it looks like to the motoring public on the roadway.
I was just showing to the...
I was just showing to the thing to let them know to get the gas.
Do you have your ID on you?
Okay.
Can I turn around?
So he was, he had the gas in his.
What do you call it?
The pump the gas.
Nozzle.
The gas nozzle.
Right?
Yeah.
The gas nozzle, right?
Yeah.
I mean, and he was holding it up.
He's like, why would you hold it like that?
You were holding it like a gun?
You can't tell the difference between a pistol and a gas nozzle?
Nozzle?
That's crazy.
You need to go get your eyes checked.
You know the gas?
It looks like a damn elephant's trunk.
Yeah, it does.
That's crazy.
If Hellis Man, then he asked me for my ID, I would say, go to hell.
I ain't give you my ID.
I ain't do nothing wrong.
He did.
I'm holding a gas nozzle.
Yeah, he put his gun on him and everything.
Yeah.
All right.
But you understand, you're holding it like this and it looks like a handgun, right?
I don't.
No, I'm trying to let him know to pump the gas, bro.
Okay.
Why you?
What the f ⁇ ?
That is crazy.
No attention to detail.
None.
Yeah, I intend more.
Sorry, there's an individual who had somebody coming in his hand.
What an idiot.
I'm going to get your bag.
You know I'm going to get a little smooth on you.
I'm going to go to the bathroom.
Why didn't the cop show me your hands?
Dude, pumping gas.
Dude, man, that's nuts.
The cop, this cop is like a robot.
He should have said, okay, I'm the idiot.
Sorry.
I thought you were holding a gun.
Cop should have just walked away.
What does he do?
Give me your ID.
They always want the ID.
Tackleberry.
Look at this shit.
Look, let me tell you what you know the f dude.
I'm getting that felt up in the lost.
Yeah, sports amendment right.
He's actually running for once.
Put your hands in there.
Put your hands on his back.
I'm sure there's cameras.
I ain't got nothing to say to you, bro.
I ain't did.
I ain't been entertained.
I don't want to go.
I don't got nothing to say to you.
You know what you did.
I don't got no rep. Well, it looks like he's holding the gun.
You see this bitch right here swinging.
I didn't see that, sir.
Yeah, you saw what you wanted to see.
You saw a motherfucking tattoos.
Why would I be holding the gun like this right here?
I need all that.
It's 385.
It's 385.
He's trying to get the hell out of there now.
Oh, that is nuts.
Look at all the cops there.
Yeah.
Who called the cops?
Second K?
I don't think anybody called.
Investigating the Circle K Incident 00:05:08
He just saw him.
That's all on the cop there.
Hey, look, at the beginning of the video, he mentioned something.
Listen, what he says at the beginning of the video.
Okay.
Circle K, set up the grow.
That's how it's very bad.
Circle K, set up the grow.
He just thought he had a gun.
Yeah.
No one called in.
He made a bad observation.
He thought he saw him with a gun.
I've never seen a gun look like a damn baby elephant trunk.
Maybe thought he had a two-barrel at the gas station putting up in there.
Oh, boy, this cop is dangerous.
Officer Tackleberry.
Show me your hand.
Hey, how you doing?
Hey, what happened?
So I'm driving down the road and he's got something black in his hand and he's moving it like it's a pistol.
So I pulled in to investigate what was going on.
Yep.
His pump wasn't on.
And he was signaling me that the pump wasn't.
Okay.
Yeah.
Just the guy had something in his hand that looked like a gun.
And I was like, what are we doing?
Yeah, I noticed some as we were coming up.
Okay.
So you saw him with the thing in his hand?
I saw him with the gas pump in his hand.
Yeah.
Yeah.
His gas pump.
His pump wasn't working.
And he was going, he was sick with me.
He said, yeah, I saw him with the gas pump in his hand.
He said it's a couple of other bubbles.
He said, yeah, I saw him with the gas pump in his hand.
Yeah.
Like, how the hell did you see a weapon?
Yeah.
Is he causing a problem at your sword?
No, he coming here every day faithfully after work.
He coming here.
Oh, he's in there trying to get him.
But I'm saying he's going in and trying to find a witness against him.
Yeah.
That's what he's doing.
To protect himself.
That is not good police work.
Yeah.
He's trying to protect himself now.
Yeah.
Instead of apologizing, I made a man.
I thought you had a weapon.
I know what I was thinking.
I made an honest, dumb mistake.
Yeah.
I'm being apologized.
Hey, I don't want to hold the gas pump again.
You'll start the gas over time.
Hey, what's your name?
You'll sign the statement, you don't get your picture of everything you did.
Look at the black guy, look at him.
Yeah, J. J-A-K-E.
Yeah.
You don't want it.
How do you spell it?
A-U-W?
A-U-W.
U-U-W-N-E-R-D-A.
Why is that black kid acting so why is he all up in that business?
Hold up.
He's like you're trying to get them to do something to him.
And you work for who?
I'm Pritchard Police Department.
Pritchard in Alabama.
Yeah.
P-R-I-T-C-H-A-R-D.
Yeah.
Okay.
You spelled it better than some of the guy.
Yeah.
So, what did you see when you pulled that?
Come on, man.
He was just holding this gas pump up like this.
I don't know what he had in his hand.
He was just kind of raising it up.
I don't know if he was trying to straighten it out or what.
Okay.
You can see my wife's money.
I know a lot of people talk about shit on the mask.
I appreciate it.
All right.
You have a great day.
You're safe out there, all right?
Thank you.
Thank you, sir.
The gas wasn't on the pump, and I thought it was on the pump.
I seen him do that, and I was like, oh, his gas is not on there.
So that's why he was holding it up.
He was signaling.
Because he was holding, it wasn't the gas nozzle.
He was holding something else up.
Oh, well, when I seen him, he was holding the gas pump.
He was sitting there.
The part with the hose.
Yeah.
When I saw him, he didn't have the thing with the hose.
He had something else.
Why are you lying?
Something else.
What was it?
A pistol?
Which is all it was.
You just verified he doesn't have a pistol.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wait a minute, what's going on with Cream?
Because he comes in here every day.
He's very friendly.
He's respectful.
Okay.
And him and his wife tell me every day come every day.
Okay.
Monday through Friday.
They stop out here and they get me.
He gets $15 worth of gas and his two cigarettes.
And he rolled on out.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's why I was like, oh my gosh, what's going on out there?
He just left out of the store.
Yeah, no, it's what I saw when I was driving on the road.
You know what I mean?
Right.
I just want to make sure I weren't getting held up or something.
Right.
And I thank you for being alive.
Yeah, that's good.
That's an outside.
I get crazy people through here.
So I'm glad y'all do be alert.
Absolutely.
You have a great day.
I've been here, honey, all some days, all night by myself.
Yes, ma'am.
So I'm glad that y'all be alert.
Yeah, he's really kind.
Why Profiling Must Stop 00:01:33
I'm sorry.
How do you spell your S-H?
S-H-A-N-I-K.
And he's definitely got right on this.
In the last name?
Correct.
C-R-I-T-T-E-N-C-R-I-T-T.
Uh-huh.
E-N Disney Dog E N.
And your digital.
51681.
And that works for me.
Oh, good phone number.
334-714-4280.
714-4280.
Okay.
I appreciate it.
Okay.
Thank you.
Why my name had you put that?
Just they like us to just document it.
That I made contact with the clerk every now and then.
Yeah, that's all.
I ain't got no warrants with that name.
All right.
Hey, man, you got to stop profiling.
I need to apologize.
Can you come talk to me for a second?
No, I really don't want to, for real.
But you know what you did.
And you know you dead ass wrong.
You know I ain't had no gun after him.
After told him up before he had that walking shame back to his car and leave.
Yeah, you should have just apologized.
Yeah.
He said, man, damn, I don't know what I was.
I don't know what I saw, but I thought you had a gun.
Yeah.
You just should have apologized.
Yeah.
You still haven't apologized.
You even walked in your car and didn't even apologize to the man.
He said, hey, man, let me talk to you.
He's ain't trying to hear that.
You trying to soften me up?
Random for warrants?
Yeah, that was crazy.
That was horrible.
Yeah.
That is horrible police work.
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