Do you have any stories of cops being bastards to you or a friend? maybe a time you were unrightfully detained? or maybe you were harassed? Please share them here in this wonderful thread!
I was like 16 or so and was walking around town with my friends, as teens do. A good while into our adventure an old lady started yelling at us from her porch about how we shouldn’t be just walking around, we give her the finger and just keep going. We were on a road with no turns off for a while and just suburbs on both sides of the road, the kinda place where you’re practically forced to go one way, about 15 minutes after walking away from the woman a cruiser started trailing us, driving just behind us. stopping when we stopped, speeding up when we sped, we turned at the first available turn into a park and decided it would be a good time to sit a minute. The cruiser rested by the curb for a few minutes before another cruiser showed up, a few seconds later we had four officers walking towards us, asking us to show our hands and stand up. The officers searched the three of us, handcuffed us, then made us sit on the curb while they did the radioing and computering. As it turns out, they got a call that “five armed men” were “harassing the neighborhood”, and decided three dumb teenagers were who they were looking for. Three obviously non-threatening teenage boys.
That’s so fucked up. Bored on a power trip, wanting to flex on some teens.
This is one of the more minor ones, growing up in a family with a lot of domestic abuse meant that cops got called a lot, and always made things even worse than they already were.
One time when I was in college, we were having a party on a big homecoming weekend in the apt I lived in. In my state, they have bands of cops roaming different colleges on the party weekends to ticket ppl and make some revenue.
We get a knock for loud music, I open the door, cop kicks it into my face and then physically pulls me out of the apartment, tickets everyone underage including me, and we had to go to alcohol classes. At the classes, I heard horror stories from everyone who was there, none of them deserved to be. In one case a cop just picked up a beer can off the ground, found some kid and arrested them. It was his word against the cops. In all our cases it was easier to just pay the ticket and do the class, than fight it.
The whole thing was one of many rackets the cops do.
I use to live on a mountain within the Eastern TN Valley area. It was specifically opposite to the larger, more prosperous side of the range which stored gated communities of Bourgeois superhomes (one including a literal Game of Thrones castle) -of course we were upon the side with the only surrounding county containing a gas station now-and-then, with crackheads plentiful, quite the infamy along the other local counties.
My mother was arrested for riding alongside one of these wooded roads whilst saving her half-lab from getting mauled by a pack of dogs; all for him to ask for licence and registration amidst the caked mud. It was safe to say she went to jail that night, leaving my father and I to watch over 4 kids.
