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@Oliver Schick
I don't like that video, either. The PC is perfectly within his rights (whatever you think about RLJing and fining people for it) to issue a Fixed Penalty Notice, as I think we can take it as read that the RLJer did commit that offence. That the officer doesn't know the correct procedure is a considerable weakness on his part; he should know it instead of issuing threats which he can't substantiate.
This means that by the RLJer obstructing him in this way, the officer very quickly loses all authority and actually becomes a kind of victim, in my view--much as he had started trying out the usual unpleasant moves like 'can you tell me ...', which isn't very nice and he clearly doesn't have the personal presence to carry this off successfully.
A lot of achieving the dominance that the RLJer achieves revolves around becoming the one asking the questions rather than giving any answers. It's a standard dialogue technique used by people who want to win arguments, e.g. in legal cross-examination, and it can very easily catch out people who aren't aware of it.
He is then goaded into attacking the RLJer. Of course he puts himself in the wrong and you can see how he gets progressively more rattled, but you can see how it happens. Yeah, nice showpiece, but meh, several times over.