good for him, though I fear what kind of lash-back might come from the police.

Not sure about Detroit, but pretty universally the police are exempt from traffic laws while in the execution of their duties. People can argue what constitutes "execution of duties" if they want, but police are required at a moments notice, to have to exit their vehicle quickly and deal with dangerous situations... Nuts like this think they don't wear them because they are somehow flaunting their extreme authority... as if a cop is driving around around thinking "look at me and all my badass power,,,seatbelt dangling to the side... a symbol of how superior I am to the writhing, whining masses who must wear them". Hope this idiot enjoys his jail time.

I can imagine a scenario where he pulls a cop over, and his car is behind the cop so the dash cam doesn't see the cop beating the living shit out of him. Then they have no evidence that the cop did anything wrong, the suspect was hostile and grabbed the officer and then resisted arrest.

No it's not right, but it's a possibility.

Oh, the irony of filming whilst driving all in the name of safer roads.

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They are only exempt when they are in the execution of their duties that definitively have to involve the location where they are breaking the law unless they are en route to a crime scene/dispatch call.

They cannot just park next to a fire hydrant or otherwise illegally just to pop in to grab a slurpee, for instance.

This is what happens when you don't get laid every so often folks

seriously though, part of me says good for him, but it's still just stupid the way he did it.

or.. you could challange all that energy towards something that is actually important..

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Different jurisdictions, different rules. Most jurisdictions have at least some exemptions for police officers while on duty. Whatever exemptions there are most departments have a policy of wearing seatbelts unless a specific situation dictates against it. For example on a call to an armed robbery most officers will wear their seatbelt until they are close to their destination at which time they remove them. That being said Michigan law appears to have zero exemptions for police officers on duty or otherwise.