Originally Posted by Chuck 98 RT/10

Depends on the cop. A cop can give you a ticket for wiping your ass with the wrong hand. If you don't contest it, you pay it.

Certainly if anyone causes serious injury brake checking they are going to have to answer for it. It won't matter if they were "teaching a tailgater a lesson." In that case, if I had the choice, I would rather be the tailgater than the brake checker.