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An Australian man pleaded guilty this week to filming police officers lying dead.
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Officers arrested Richard Pusey when the driver of a passing truck struck them.
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In the three-minute video, Pusey blamed the officers for the destruction of his Porsche.
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An Australian man who taunted and filmed police officers at the scene of a car accident this week pleaded guilty to the rare violation of outrageous public decency, the BBC reported.
Last year, Richard Pusey, a Melbourne mortgage broker, was driving his Porsche on a motorway when four officers pulled him over because he was driving too fast.
While officers were arresting Pusey, a passing truck driver turned onto the lane and plowed into their cars along the road.
The officers – senior constables Lynette Taylor and Kevin King and constables Glen Humphris and Josh Prestney – are all dead.
Pusey, 42, walked away from the officers. Before fleeing, he pulled out his phone and filmed the officers, some of whom were pinned under the truck, for more than three minutes.
In the video, he can be heard blaming the officers for destroying his car.
“Amazing. Absolutely incredible,” he told the Australian Associated Press. “All I wanted to do was go home and eat my sushi, and now you chose my car.”
Experts said Taylor was probably still alive while Pusey was filming, reports the BBC. Police found that Pusey shared the video with some of his friends.
According to the BBC’s Victoria Victoria, Pusey’s comments were ‘completely sickening’.
Pusey pleaded guilty to the furious public decency as well as drug and speeding offenses. The indictment of outrageous public decency, rarely prosecuted in Australia, has no maximum penalty, reports the BBC.
In a trial last fall, Pusey’s lawyer Dermot Dann said Pusey was “ashamed of what was on the phone” because of the horrific things he said, the Australian Associated Press reported.
“It’s easy to understand that he did not want the police to see the content,” Dann added.
Pusey is due to go to court again on March 31, the BBC said.
The truck driver, Mohinder Singh Bajwa, pleaded guilty to four charges of culpable driving that caused the death, the BBC said.
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