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Police Car: Man and Plainclothes Officer

police car: After passing the man, the woman noticed an unmarked police car behind her activate its lights, according to Hamilton Spectator. The vehicle pulled in front of the pedestrian and cut him off; a plainclothes officer emerged and accused the man of walking in the middle of the road. Just moments before, she had passed a black man who had been walking on the shoulder of the street, seemingly to avoid construction along the sidewalk. The allegation shocked her, the woman later said, and as she witnessed the officer take the man by the back of his jacket, she sensed she needed to do something. I was against what he was doing." What Rowles recorded was a seven-minute video of a tense exchange that led to an arrest — a video that has gone viral after Rowles uploaded it to You Tube last week. So she left her car and began recording. " I was watching something that I didn't think was very fair," the woman, identified by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune as Janet Rowles, told the newspaper. "I'm not against the police. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.