Pranksters Paint Mustang in Police Colours and Stop Drivers Breaking Traffic Rules. Police Soon Detain Them, and Their Cameraman Is Taken to a Military Enlistment Office
Who pranked whom remains a mystery.
In Kyiv, in the Obolon district near the Dream Town shopping centre, police detained pranksters who had been impersonating patrol police to pull over drivers. Blogger Oleksandr Baraboshko reported this on his Facebook page. The pranksters painted a Mustang in the colours and insignia of patrol police, while they themselves wore police uniforms.
The detainees said they were filming a social video for a YouTube channel and stopping drivers who violated traffic rules.
The detainees were bloggers Anton Skuratov (172,000 Instagram followers), Dmitry Yevtushenko (555,000 Instagram followers) and their cameraman (name not disclosed). As Anton Skuratov said on his Instagram, the proposal to shoot the video came from the YouTube channel Magic Five (5.2 million subscribers).
Soon Anton Skuratov was released, while Dmitry Yevtushenko was handcuffed and put into a patrol police car. As Skuratov said on his Instagram, police also checked the cameraman's documents and detained him after finding him in a database of people who had evaded military service. Police later released Dmitry Yevtushenko.
According to Skuratov, the proposal to shoot the video came from the YouTube channel Magic Five (5.2 million subscribers). As our source familiar with the situation reports, the bloggers' car was also seized, but they plan to try to get it back tomorrow.
As said Senior Lieutenant of Police Serhiy Melnychenko to a correspondent of Magnolia TV, the pranksters approached drivers who violated traffic rules, wearing police uniforms with a special badge, and made remarks to them. They explained their actions as filming a social experiment. However, driving a vehicle bearing national police insignia is prohibited.
Two administrative protocols were drawn up against the bloggers for using police insignia and special beacons, and the car was taken to an impound lot. One of the detainees was taken to a military enlistment office.
In turn, Anton Skuratov commented on the incident under one of the posts. On his Instagram profile, the blogger said that police behaved rudely and used obscene language and insults toward the detainees.
Anton Skuratov
bloggerWe did not want to bother anyone, and we did not. We interacted only with drivers who violated traffic rules, and we even tried to lift their spirits. Notably, the organizers had permission.
On 2 May 2019, administrative liability for using police insignia on vehicles came into force in Ukraine. If found guilty by a court, the bloggers face a fine of 1,000 non-taxable minimum incomes of citizens.
Earlier we reported that the patrol police opened an account on TikTok. Police officers dance to music and film humorous sketches.
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