A road-raging Georgia man was sent to jail after brandishing a gun, but he had police baffled by his increasingly ridiculous denials. At one point, he insisted the weapon was actually a piece of “trash.”
Gwinnett County police arrested the Jeep driver, later identified as Scott Henderson, on June 24 after a motorcyclist’s bodycam footage led them straight to him.
In video circulating online, Henderson can be heard screaming “Learn how to drive” at the motorcyclist while both were stopped at a light on June 10. Unbeknownst to Henderson, his tinted windows didn’t hide the handgun he pointed at the rider.
When authorities tracked him down at his workplace a few weeks later, Henderson feigned shock, apparently confident the police had no proof. As he was getting handcuffed, he protested, “Are you kidding me?”
And the lies didn’t stop once he got to the station. Police shared the footage online, and viewers couldn’t get enough of this performance. Henderson began by laughing off news that a police report had been filed, denying anything had happened at all.
He admitted to arguing with the motorcyclist only after the officer mentioned video evidence. Even then, he denied the gun, claiming he was “just holding something”—specifically, “trash.”
When the officer charged him with aggravated assault, he let out a laugh, asking, “OK, so where do we go from here?”
The officer responded: “From here you will go to the jail.”
“I have to go to jail for this?” he said, simply adding “wow.”
‘Never Having to be Held Accountable’
Commenters on Instagram picked apart every reaction. Some found the video hilarious while others were shocked by his entitlement.
“Accustomed to never having to be held accountable,” quipped one. Another person said, “Smile faded right quick when she said he had a camera on his helmet. Imagine lying with video evidence in front of you.”
Plenty mocked his excuses, too. “Yeah he was holding a cat,” joked one, while another wrote “It’s just me holding something that’s shaped like a gun, looks like a gun, holds bullets like a gun, shoots like a gun, but…. it’s not a gun.”
But one comment summed up the mood best: “No privilege this time, sir!”
