GWINNETT COUNTY, Ga. — No one likes seeing blue lights in the rearview mirror — especially when you don’t know what you did wrong. But as one Gwinnett County driver learned, asking for an explanation may not go the way you expect.

A commercial truck driver reached out to 11Alive after a traffic stop left him shaken. He told us he asked Gwinnett County Officer George Kalaitzdis why he’d been pulled over — and didn’t get an answer.

“Even though the citizen did not initially comply, I think he was just confused. And I think often times when we see these engagements happen, the officer has a one-tracked mind, and the citizen is really sincerely confused,” said former police officer and Georgia State University criminal justice professor Thaddeus Johnson.

We showed him the body camera video,

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