It was just after 1 a.m. in Washington, D.C. on a spring morning earlier this year.

A cop saw a black Lexus SUV speed through a red light, so he pulled the driver over.

He stopped her and said, is there a reason that we're driving like 80 miles an hour blowing

red lights?

This is from his body camera footage, by the way.

The officer then notices what he thinks is a cup of liquor in the passenger's hand.

And he explains to the driver in the passenger, look, you can't have an open liquor in a car.

That's illegal.

He asks to see their IDs.

Moments after that, the driver speeds off.

What would happen next has become the stuff of America is falling apart canon.

Coming up on today explained, we tried to fix a big problem with policing on our roads.

But when we made changes, we might have caused another big one.

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