Just want to hear stories so I can mentally prepare myself for such… hostile… interactions… (Hopefully this never happens to me)
P.S: And before anyone start spamming “Don’t Consent to searches”, remember that that’s a very democracy-centric viewpoint. In some countries you could be jailed for refusing.
I’ve had my car searched before. It was unlawful.
This was over 20 years ago when it happened. I was about 19 at the time and in college. The cop ordered me to sit on the curb while he tore up my car. I was a dude with long hair at the time and when he pulled me over for the tinted windows he said that he, “saw shake in the backseat.”
The shake in the backseat was fiction.
Car got torn up, he said he thought my eyedrops were GHB and that he wanted to test them. I told him that’s fine.
He came back to me after a few minutes and said that his test kit is expired and that he was going to call someone else out to test it.
Second cop comes up, he’s less of a dick than the first guy. Goes to his trunk, fucks around, determines his kit is also expired.
A third cop comes out. Also, less of a dick than the first guy. They test my eyedrops and determine they are eyedrops, not GHB.
First cop resumes tearing up my car.
First cop asks me, “where are you going?”
I tell him I’m on my way to work.
He asks me if I am in school. I replied, “yes, UCF.”
He asks, “what are you studying?”
“I’m a junior in the pre-law track with a minor in criminal justice.”
He then decided he was going to “let me go.”
The whole time this is happening there’s an older dude with long grey hair sitting across the street with a couple of grocery bags watching the whole thing. Cops asked him what he was doing a couple of times and he would tell them he’s watching what’s happening on the walk home from the grocery store. After the cops were gone, and I was doing my best to reassemble my car, he came by to say he was going to be a witness for me in case something went down. He went on to explain how he was a Vietnam vet and when he got back to the states he had been arrested for smoking a joint, and has subsequently hated cops ever since. He then told me his son is a lawyer and if I needed help with this scenario to get in touch.
Awesome guy. He was 100% the shit.
The second and third cop were pretty reasonable for cops.
I hope the first cop ended up getting repeatedly gang raped in a prison.
Lol, probably wanna do more questioning, but decided to give up when he heard that
For real… No bullshitting you, he did a triple take when I told him that. I was way more accommodating than I should have been but I was also curious from an academic perspective.