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A Connecticut cop was sacked after cameras filmed him berating a woman who drove by an intersection he was manning, claiming she nearly hit him. 

Dashboard and bodycams captured the moment James Hinkle, a former member of the Waterbury Police Department, was directing traffic at the intersection of Thomaston Avenue and Homer Street on December 13. 

As the officer makes a signal for cars to cross west, an unnamed woman heading east in an SUV drives past the officer, who had signaled for her to stop. 

The officer edges forward and bangs on her car as it drives by, yelling, 'Stop the f***king car.' He then proceeds to walk after the car, which stopped on the other side of the road. 

Hinkle shouts at the woman to pull over at a nearby parking lot as she tries to apologize to him, breaking down in tears. 

Hinkle cuts her off as he yells: 'Sorry doesn't break it. Explain to my kids why they don't have a dad a week before Christmas because you're trying to run somebody over.'