More On: Joe Mullins
After being pulled over for speeding, a Florida official was seen on video giving up his title
A Florida county commissioner with a fast car was pulled over for speeding twice in a row. At one of the stops, he said, 'I run the county,' which was caught on video.
In the most recent incident, Flagler County Commissioner Joe Mullins was driving his red Ferrari on June 19 when he was stopped by a Florida Highway Patrol trooper.
Fox 35 said that Mullins was going 92 miles per hour in a 70-mile-per-hour zone on Interstate 95.
While talking to Mullins, the trooper stops and says, "I'm sorry?"
Then Mullins says, "I'm in charge of the county, so I know how that works."
The trooper asked, "Do you run the county?"
Fox 35 got footage from Mullins' dash cam in which he says, "Yeah, I'm the chairman of the county commission."
The trooper then goes on to explain the citation. At the end of the encounter, Mullins is seen speeding away.
The Daytona Beach News Journal says that Mullins was pulled over on June 2 for going 89 miles per hour in a 60-mile-per-hour zone on Interstate 4.
After talking with Mullins, the two troopers go back to their patrol car, where one of them says, "He said he was a county commissioner," to which the other trooper responds, "Yeah, well he's getting a ticket." The Daytona Beach News Journal got footage of this conversation.
The newspaper also said that the trooper who talked to Mullins can be heard saying that if Mullins gets out of the SUV, he will be arrested.
According to highway patrol dispatch notes that a local news outlet got a hold of, Mullins said that arresting him for not following a legal order would be the end of his career.
According to the News Journal, the police report also said that Mullins was "extremely condescending, belligerent, illogical, and disrespectful." It also said that he "flashed his business card to get out of the ticket."
Mullins said in separate letters to judges that he was in a hurry and not paying attention to how fast he was going in both cases, the newspaper said.
