It's unclear what made the officer chase the Canadian tourist down "at a high rate of speed," as they were several miles from a border crossing when the incident occurred. What is clear, though, is that it's yet another black eye for U.S. Customs and Border Protection, where such incidents of harassment have become common in recent months.
The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agency says it is conducting a “managerial review” after a video posted on Reddit Thursday shows what appears to be a CBP agent in a pickup truck speeding toward and yelling at an Ontario driver in New York state, about three kilometres from the Canadian border.
The video showed a man wearing a CBP Field Operations patch drive close behind the filming driver, before pulling up alongside them: “Never come to