This woman is evasive and non conforming from the start. The film spends 90% of the time highlighting this "victims" life as an angel in the community. Only, the "community she seems to participate in is strictly African American or minority based leading me to believe she is the racist one. The other 10% proves why if you act foolish and don't follow simple commands from the police you end up in jail. Of course there was a money grab and subsequent payout to keep the rest of the African American community in Austin from burning down their own city. Made me angry and discredits real cases of discrimination or racism that does go on from time to time.

The police officer did nothing wrong. This film should not have been made.

While the producers of Traffic Stop tried to use this incident to show the police as evil and the arrested black woman as unjustly mistreated, watching the actual dash cam video from the police cruiser, one can clearly see the woman refusing to follow instructions and then resisting arrest for no good reason. She wasn't mistreated. All she had to do was follow the lawful instructions of the police officer and she would have been sited for a traffic violation and then on her way. What happened to her was her own doing and no documentary filler of her teaching school or going to church will change that. However, it is also apparent that the officer quickly lost patience with the woman who was refusing to cooperate.It was interesting that her probing dialog with the transportation officer taking her to jail seemed designed to gather material for the documentary. Her actions from start to finish weren't normal and after the arrest almost seemed calculated. Was this planned in advance or just a spur of the moment decision to get something on the police. Whatever the reason, the documentary comes off as one-sided and transparent. Not worthy of your time. How did it ever get nominated for an Oscar? Oh, right. It's Hollywood were no anti-social behavior goes unrewarded.

It was clear that the person was evading the cop and not cooperating. The cop acted unprofessionally after his patience wore thin.