"Fucking Asshole", Police Body Cam Footage of Ice-T Chewing Out Officer for Pulling Him Over with Expired Registration on His Way to The DMV

God damn it Ice-T. When I started this video, I really wanted to fully back him. On Law & Order, Ice-T/Seargent Fin Tutuola is a member of NYPD's Special Victims Unit. That basically makes Ice-T a real life cop. He's done more for fictional New York City than the cop who pulled him over could ever dream of. I figured if Ice-T went full angry Ice-T on a police officer, then the officer was probably being a real dick. And you never want to be the white blogger at Barstool Sports telling a black man twice your age "how I would have behaved" in that situation. But I gotta call it like I see it here. If someone had a gun to my head (probably because Detective Benson fucked up a case by letting personal vendettas get in the way of her police work again) and told me I had to identify which person in this situation was being the bigger asshole. I'm sorry to say, I'd have to go with Ice-T.

It's hard to watch the video and not at least wonder if Ice-T had approached the conversation like, "Fuck man, I know. All my shit's expired. I'm sorry. I don't drive that much. I'm Ice-T, you see. I came here yesterday and the DMV computers were down. I'm really trying to just get this taken care of. But if you have to write me a ticket that's fine. Because again, I'm Ice-T. I'm worth $65 million dollars and unless I murder you with my bare hands in broad daylight I'm not going to quit getting work."

Then maybe the cop wouldn't have jumped to, "I'm going to tow your ass."

In Ice-T's defense, if I were pulled over for having an expired everything the day after I had successfully made it to the DMV scot-free, only to have the DMV tell me their computers were down. Which is something that strictly happens in government run businesses. I'd have probably come out a little hot myself. At that point, the DMV and the cop are working together in my mind. I start making up conspiracy theories about how the DMV's computers weren't actually down, and they made sure to station this officer outside the DMV so when I returned tomorrow he could pull me over and make a quick $1,000 for the city. Or however much Ice-T's four total tickets were worth. I'd think the whole thing was a set up. When it comes down to it, there's nobody you can blame but yourself for letting your stuff go expired for 3 years. But to be getting in trouble with the government because the day before the government failed to provide you with the services your tax dollars pay for. That's infuriating. I'm sure he was already pissed having to go back there. He was probably going to chew out the next person he saw regardless of who it was. Anything short of that cop approaching his vehicle with a vinyl Ice-T record for him to sign, he was going to get an earful. 

Ice-T was so damn close to the finish line. If it wasn't for a faulty computer, he'd have been home free. That's tough to swallow. But give the cop a break Ice-T. Yes he could have just let you go considering you were so damn close to the DMV. Some cops probably would have. I'd be pissed if that happened to me too. But everything in your damn vehicle was expired. Expired for years. That's so long. Consider your tickets a charitable donation to Hudson County, New Jersey. Maybe they can put your money towards upgrading their internal systems.