a man named Jeff Gray was driving around at night doing Copwatch for those who don't know Copwatch is a network of typically autonomous activist organizations focused on local areas in the United States Canada and Europe that observe and document police activity looking for signs of police misconduct and brutality it is completely legal and safe as long as you do not prevent them from doing their work during cop watch Mr Jeff had an interesting dialogue with the cops even though he parked in a completely legal way can you turn your car off me and drop the back windows um it might be in detained or something yes sir for what reason we got you for loitering F you're driving around you drove past us three times it's loitering you think yes you want to bet qualifi to me on that so right now you're in the position you're not out out at of awful time somebody else would be out it is 3:00 in the morning roughly you're out driving driving around I've seen you make three loops around us while we were over there on a security check and your point is just trying to figure I I'm not convinced this any your business uh what I'm doing out here I'm just trying to see why you're out here this late you know this early in the morning yeah I'm not convinced this in your business it is my business I'm just trying to figure out why you're out here I'm still not convinced all give me your license registration proof insurance for what reason you're lawfully detained right now you need to provide ID I'm lawfully detained yes sir uh I'm not convinced it's any y's business why what I'm doing excuse me hello yeah Sergeant Harris nice to meet you hi okay these are all closed businesses you don't have any warrants you're free to go you need to dispel our alarm while you're stopped in front of two businesses that are closed okay might I'm going to dispel your alarm right now you can do that but you need to understand this is our traffic stop EXC you don't run it you don't have a traffic stop you haven't stopped me for a traffic stop yes you did you stopped in the middle of the roadway sir I stopped in a lawful parking spot I've got a dash Canam it took you a second to get there like I said I'm not convinced it's any of your business what I'm doing out here listen if you're a private investigator and you're working that's fine but you need to verify that I'm still not convinced this any of your business oh I see yeah so am I free to go no no what do you have me detain for Sarah I'll go to the back and on the plate I'll be what do you have detain what do you have me detain for Ling you driving out is it Ling or pring or or cop watching not cop Watchers loer in C we saw you make three loops around those are closed businesses over parked over there are you guys cops yes we are have you ever heard a cop watching I have okay I'm just trying to figure out just have you dispill my alarm how's it going sir my name is offill p Police Department yeah so as of right now you are detained okay you're not free to leave all right okay so as of right now we have a lawful reason to detain you we've notified what is that for reason okay you're a traffic stop it's not a traffic stop traffic stop for what reason what's the traffic stop for whenever you pulled off of East drain Street mhm you failed to come to a complete stop before exiting the roadway okay we are on foot you see I've got a dash cam okay that's cool that's fine this isn't roadside Court Okay so we've notified you for the reason you can please provide me the driver's license registration proof and if I don't what'll happen at that point you're failing to identify to a law enforcement officer that's miss me so you're you're claiming it's in my pocket so you're claiming that had me stop for a lawful reason yes sir once again this is not roadside court so uh you know what you guys are full of okay so if you can can you please provide me I'm out here cop watching that's all I'm doing I've told you what I'm doing I've dispelled your alarm I'm out here I'm I'm a grown man and it doesn't matter if I'm out here at 2:50 in the morning it's it's irrelevant that's fine all right but that's my reason for coming over here okay all right you guys can have a nice night and let me go for you no you're not free when am I free to go once you identify yourself you don't you don't get to just identify me for no reason you don't have me for you do not have me for a legitimate traffic stop so here's the thing you don't have me for the traffic stop sir I stopped the stop sign explain the reason you said I stopped I failed to complete stop yes sir I stopped at at stop sign I counted to three okay so sir my this is roadside court it's still going okay so this is not roadside Court sir you can please identify yourself my name is Jeff okay can I please see your identification she just identified me she just my tag I need to see your identification come back it's not showing a registered vehicle now you have to show some registration and verify because it's not legal on the street you guys are simple you're so full of I just R you're full of shut up thank you sir I may I see your registration and insurance please thank you sir sir sometimes that happens with a dealer tag so that's why I'm asking is the vehicle registered to De this whole stop is is you're going to be free to go in just one second as long as you can verify because I'm not doing anything wrong you guys have stopped me for a constitutionally protected activity this what you've done understood but the tag is not valid sir so that tag does not come back to this car so now it is a good probable cause I've got it right there on the registration okay well I'm verifying to you what our dispatch said the first initial stop was the stop sign violation next to the church violation that was the first one okay but we were checking to business so we couldn't get to our car you guys you I don't want to hear your all right just shut your mouth until I'm free to go all right I don't want to hear you I don't believe any of it I think you're all full of okay and you're making up you're making lies up not at all sir absolutely and my dash cam will prove it okay no worries I'm out here doing cop watching that's why I'm riding around I've told you what I'm doing I've dispelled your understood that's all my job is is to keep your my businesses don't get broken into at night all right have a good night that's all all right thank you just let me run in once again that's the reason for the stops that's what we observe Mr Jeff just two things when we first initially saw you where we were on foot by the business it appeared it was a Stop Bar violation we were over there we couldn't get out with you no big deal when I get to the vehicle and I run the tag dispatch says it doesn't have a record which is common with a dealer tag I didn't know that you had this registration so I advised you on the other side it appeared to be a dealer Tech so it is all your credentials are verified sir you're free to go have a good night don't forget to visit the channel of the original owner of the video If you like this kind of content you should subscribe to my channel take care until we meet in a new video