Trooper Tries Illegal Stop in a Minnesota Gas Station Lot

Added: 2026-05-26

[00:00:00]You have no reason to do any of this. I want you to get a superior.

[00:00:03]>> How can you detain me for a traffic stop when I'm not in traffic? I'm sitting here on private property.

[00:00:09]>> You're driving with illegal equipment on the highway.

[00:00:11]>> You didn't see me drive anywhere.

[00:00:12]>> Give me a driver's license.

[00:00:13]>> I will if you threaten to arrest me under the under the direct because you have no articulable suspicion of me committing any crime. I'm sitting here in a vehicle on private property.

[00:00:21]>> Yeah, you're in a gas station. How'd you get here?

[00:00:23]>> Doesn't matter how I got here. You didn't see anything. You just come up to me banging on my window.

[00:00:28]>> I didn't bang on your window. Now that you have admitted that on camera, are you threatening to arrest me if I don't give you my ID?

[00:00:33]>> Yes, I am.

[00:00:34]>> Okay.

[00:00:34]>> Cuz my law and you're being detained by a law enforcement.

[00:00:37]>> How?

[00:00:37]>> This isn't illegal detainment. You can't just pull up on me.

[00:00:40]>> This could have been easily solved by just rolling down your window and having a nice conversation with me.

[00:00:44]>> Okay. So, what you're saying is you Hey.

[00:00:46]Hey. So, what you're saying, you did this because I didn't talk to you. Thank you for making sure I got that on camera. Do you