To those that think the officer is abusing his power. Impeding traffic is illegal and the officer would have been justified in ticketing the driver if the driver was going slower than the posted minimum speed limit. There are also many states that have signage stating to "Keep Right Except to Pass". This would also allow the officer the ability to ticket the driver as he was not passing anyone. I do agree that the officer was wrong in tailgating the driver.

What I personally hate are the drivers that are moving slow and you start to pass them on either side and they speed up to prevent you from passing them. Hell, I had my cruse control on and passed a guy, leaving plenty of space in front of him, he sped up and passed me then slowed back down. Never changing speed I passed him again, and he did the same thing. This happened a third time and I said screw you jerk, and cranked up the speed and got out of there before he caused an accident.