Winchester, KY Police Illegally Detain Motorists on Mt. Pkwy….For Fun! 8/03/10


Returning home from the Mt. Pkwy. on Aug. 3 about 8 pm we encountered two Winchester Police cars that performed a u-turn into our lane right in front of us. They proceeded, one on each shoulder for a minute until there was a gap in traffic. Then, they pulled out in front of traffic in both lanes and turned on their lights. They proceeded to slow down until they hovered between 3 and 7 mph. This continued for apparently no reason all the way until the end of the Mt. Pkwy. When we reached the end of the parkway the two officers did another u-turn on a dirt path to head the other direction. They paused before entering the highway, window to window, to laugh and congratulate each other on the ‘pace car’ game they played on the ‘civilians’ for over 30 miles. This is highly illegal and I have called and can’t seem to get the names of the officers or a reason for this ‘game’ from the Winchester police department. I recorded it at twice the speed for brevity and only captured 17 minutes of this roadblock that went on for about 50 minutes.