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An Australian man pleaded guilty this week to filming police officers while they died.
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The cops were arresting Richard Pusey when the driver of a passing truck hit them.
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In the three-minute video, Pusey blamed the police for ruining his Porsche.
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An Australian who provoked and filmed police at the scene of a car accident pleaded guilty this week to the rare offense of outraging public decency, the BBC reported.
Last year, Richard Pusey, a Melbourne mortgage broker, was driving his Porsche on a highway when four policemen stopped him for speeding.
While the police were arresting Pusey, a passing truck driver swerved onto the road and crashed into his cars by the side of the road.
The officers – senior officers Lynette Taylor and Kevin King and officers Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney – died.
Pusey, 42, was walking away from the cops. Before running away, he pulled out his phone and filmed the police, some of whom were trapped under the truck, for more than three minutes.
In the video, he can be heard blaming the police for ruining his car.
“Incredible. Absolutely incredible,” he said, according to the Australian Associated Press. “All I wanted to do was go home and eat my sushi, and now you have fucked my damn car.”
Experts said Taylor was probably still alive while Pusey was filming, the BBC reported. The police found that Pusey had shared the video with some of his friends.
Victoria’s police minister said Pusey’s comments were “completely unhealthy”, according to the BBC.
Pusey pleaded guilty to outraging public decency, as well as drug and speed offenses. The charge of outraging public decency, which has rarely been prosecuted in Australia, has no maximum penalty, the BBC said.
At a hearing last fall, Pusey’s lawyer, Dermot Dann, said Pusey “was ashamed of what was on the phone” because of “the horrible things he said,” the Australian Associated Press reported.
“It’s easily understandable that he didn’t want the police to see that content,” added Dann.
Pusey is due to go to court again on March 31, the BBC said.
The truck driver, Mohinder Singh Bajwa, pleaded guilty to four counts of guilty driving that caused the death, the BBC said.
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