FL STATE TROOPER pulls over Miami Police Officer Caught Driving 120 mph

HOLLYWOOD, Fla. -- A city of Miami police officer was caught driving 120 mph.
Off duty City of Miami Officer Fausto Lopez, 35, was charged with reckless driving.
According to the police report, Lopez was driving at a high rate of speed in a marked police car southbound on the Florida Turnpike near mile marker 62 at 6:28 a.m. on Oct. 11 when a FHP trooper saw him crossing over several lanes.
That FHP trooper followed him and tried pulling him over, but he first ignored her sirens, according to the report.
Dash cam video showed Lopez's car as the sirens and emergency lights of the trooper's car were activated.
The police report said Lopez slowed down to 78 mph before speeding up again.
Seven minutes and 12 miles after first seeing Lopez drive past, he pulled over. In the video, the trooper was seen drawing her gun before handcuffing Lopez.
"I never saw you," Lopez told the FHP trooper.
"How do you not see a car with blue lights in the dark," she asked him.
Lopez told the trooper that he was on his way to an off-duty job at a school in Coconut Grove.
"I had to get there by 7 a.m. and didn't think I was going to make it," he said.
Lopez also asked that the FHP trooper remove the handcuffs.
"Honestly, the handcuffs are not necessary, ma'am. I'm very cooperative," he told her.

"You know what you are to me? You are a criminal," she told him.

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[MiamiTabor]

Now do you know why 98% of people in Miami can't drive. This is our example.

[alec4yu]

@redneck500 She was a little over the top with her attitude but he was technically "evading the police" for quite a minute. I've seen a sheriff pull over a cop that wasn't in his legal jurisdiction city for speeding and running a yellow light. (I assumed)

[chazzybadazz]

What seems to be the officer problem?

[danbeb]

I like how he wanted the handcuffs removed saying that he's "cooperative." Would he follow the same request if someone he cuffed said the same thing?

[danbeb]

FINALLY JUSTICE SERVED!

[wwmyhouse]

excellent job on the troopers arrest, this should be an example made to all police that they are not above the law just because they have a badge.

[eddyramirez81]

@redneck500 how was she out of line she lit him up and he just keep going you think that if it was u this wouldn't happen?

[cppa102]

Watch the time on the dashcam...Over 4 mins she was speeding as fast as he was to catch up before activating her little dash light! She is just like the trooper in SC that pulled over a city cop that was responding to a call with lights but he felt she was driving to fast & unsafe. I had the pleasure a few months later of clocking him at 92 in a 55 WITHOUT his lights/siren so to prove a point I pulled him over! He actually had the nerve to get pissed. Most troopers are real pricks!

[redneck500]

@jhmusicking I don't know but it seems like she was out of line. I'm just saying.

[redneck500]

Something about this just feels uncomfortable.