New Zealand police officer’s brilliant response to sovereign citizen at traffic stop

The clip posted to X shows the officer asking where he can send the woman a fine for “displaying incorrect plates”.

When asks what address the officer can send the infringement to, the woman begins reading the officer his rights.

“I’m going to read you your rights first,” she is shown telling the officer.

“You don’t need to read me my rights,” the fed-up officer responds.

She does anyway, telling him: “You have the ability to give me nothing.”

Sensing an impasse with the woman’s nonsensical rant, the officer calmly walks away as the woman nervously chuckles to herself.

The woman continues with her sovereign citizen diatribe to no audience.

The officer returned when she was finished and confirmed her postal address.

Again, she protests: “I’m the beneficiary of my trust, not the trustee – so you can send it to the trustee.”

“Just send it there; that’s fine; it’ll get paid by my trust,” she tells the officer.

As bizarre as the incident appears, it’s the second recent clip of a New Zealander officer being read their rights by sovereign citizens.

In October, another New Zealand man pulled over by police recorded an unusual interaction where he read the officer his “rights” before threatening a $100-a-minute fine if he were to be apprehended.

The peculiar incident quickly did the rounds on social media, with many perplexed at the driver’s actions.

It’s understood that the traffic stop happened in the Nelson region of the South Island.

In response to a request to see his driver’s licence, the man who claimed to be called ‘Mark’ — with no surname — confidently stated: “I don’t have a licence, James. You people know that.”

“I don’t know you,” the baffled officer responded.

Undeterred, ‘Mark’ insisted the officer recognise him and offered to present his “paperwork”.

‘Mark’ is shown handing over a homemade identification that the officer doesn’t accept.

He then makes an unexpected request, asking the officer, “And just by the way, can I read you your rights, James?”

“It’s fine, I know my rights”, the young officer interjected to no avail.

He recited the officer’s rights, declaring: “You have the right to remain silent, you have the right not to do anything, you have the right to get in your car and bugger off back to wherever you came from.”

He then warned the police officer of incurring a $100-per-minute fee for detaining him, to which the officer replied, “Sweet.”

When ‘Mark’ asked if he was being detained, the officer affirmed he was.

Mark’ then asserted: “Okay, you’re liable to $100 a minute; this has been served on you”.

The officer remained unfazed. He said, “You can send me the bill; I don’t care.”

The officer then reiterated his request for the man’s driver’s licence.

“I do not have a licence, James,” he responded.

When asked if he possessed “any form of ID,” the man presented a bogus laminated A4 sheet of paper purportedly served by the cop’s “boss”, former New Zealand Police Minister Poto Williams, while asserting that he was not obligated to co-operate.

“Right, your last chance to give me your details, or you’re getting arrested,” the fed-up officer said.

“Am I really getting arrested?” Mark asked, clearly surprised.

After three minutes of nonsensical debate, the officer proceeded to place him under arrest.

In response to this incident, a New Zealand Police spokesperson told local media: “This is an excellent example of one of our staff responding appropriately to the situation at hand.”