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Florida man pretending to be police pulls over real police, ends badly, claim cops

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Is that a serious offence

I would hope so. You can't allow a situation to develop where a citizen drops a cop in the belief they are a fake because a lot of fakes have gotten away with it.

Generally any offence which undermines confidence in the legal system - from impersonating a police officer, to perjury, witness and jury tampering etc - should be treated as serious with automatic no-questions-asked jail time. After all, lose that, and you are basically back to medieval anarchy.

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