Bryan Kohberger argued with Washington police officer over driving rules in bodycam footage

Recently released body camera footage shows quadruple murder suspect Bryan Kohberger arguing with a Washington police officer just weeks before the Idaho massacre.

Footage released Thursday showed Kohberger, a 28-year-old with a master’s degree in criminal justice, in his sedan trying to get out of a red light ticket.

He claimed he was unaware of Washington state laws prohibiting drivers from blocking intersections because he is from a rural Pennsylvania town.

The body camera footage offers new insight into Kohberger’s character in the weeks leading up to the deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20.

Kohberger is accused of killing them in their sleep and is due to appear in court later this month.

Kohburger is due back in court later this month for the deaths of University of Idaho students Kaylee Goncalves, 21, Madison Mogen, 21, Xana Kernodle, 20, and Ethan Chapin, 20

In footage released Thursday night by Washington State University police, a female officer says to the murder suspect, “I think you know why I stopped you. You ran a red light.’

But Kohberger tries to correct the cop by saying, “Actually what happened was I got stuck in the middle of an intersection, so I was forced to turn left.”

The officer then replies that she was behind Kohberger “all the time,” explaining. ‘That’s why you’re not allowed to enter the intersection at all, because if the light turns red, you’re stuck at the intersection.’

At the time, Kohberger claimed he was unfamiliar with driving through intersections, having grown up in a rural Pennsylvania town.

The female cop tries to explain that under Washington state law, motorists are only allowed to enter an intersection if there is enough space for vehicles on both sides.

After handing over his driver’s license and registration, Kohberger then asks the officer for more clarification.

“Can you explain that to me a little more?” he asks. “So in Pennsylvania, when you’re at an intersection, you have to turn left. What would have been appropriate for me to have done?’

The cop replies simply, “You’re not supposed to be blocking such an intersection in Washington.”

She says this qualifies as running a red light and is a ticket.

“So you’re not supposed to pull into the intersection until you can go, because a lot of people are doing what you just did.”

Kohberger says in the newly released body camera footage that there are no crosswalks where he grew up in Pennsylvania

The criminology major finally got off with just a warning at the traffic control in October

He then claims he was confused because in the moments before he made the turn, a vehicle opposite him turned right without their blinkers on.

“I was just standing on the pedestrian crossing,” Kohberger continues.

“Where I come from, in Pennsylvania, we don’t really have any crosswalks,” he claims. “There’s also a bit more leeway.”

“It didn’t even occur to me that anything was actually wrong,” he said.

So he said he was confused about the law and told the officer, “I apologize if I asked you too many questions about the law.”

The officer then lets him go with just a warning.

The Washington Police Department also released footage on Thursday showing officers banging on his door on Dec. 30 to announce their presence and serve a search warrant.

But Kohberger was already back in Pennsylvania, where he was taken into custody that same day by state police and the FBI.

Kohberger is accused of murdering the four University of Idaho students in their sleep

He is pictured at a hearing in Latah County court in January

Meanwhile, newly unsealed court documents describe what police noticed was missing from Kohberger’s apartment in Pullman, Washington.

“While cleaning the apartment, we also noticed that it was sparsely furnished and quite empty of belongings, including no shower curtain in the bathroom and the trash cans seemed empty,” Washington State University assistant police chief Dawn Daniels wrote.