Several years ago I was unlawfully arrested for refusing to sign a medical release. I fought the charge and had it dropped, but the experience was extremely upsetting.
In the US, law enforcement can and will:
Attempt to coerce you into incriminating yourself.
Attempt to trick you into consenting to a search of your property.
Attempt to stop you for long enough to find evidence or suspicion of a crime, or provoke you into commiting one.
Everyone should know how to exercise their rights to politely but firmly deal with this behavior.
That’s rough, I’m sorry you had to deal with that. I went through a situation where the cop made threats, harassed me at work, and followed me around for a week because I had witnessed him planting evidence and discretely told him in case he didn’t realize what he was doing was a crime. I honestly thought he would appreciate the discretion or at the very least inform me of why I was wrong. Nope, he went irrational. So I learned my rights and admittedly was an obnoxious dick the first opportunity I had to exercise them. My response wasn’t far off from this thread’s top comment. It didn’t get me arrested but the guy was furious and made every effort to fuck me over. Luckily he was incompetent and the judge dismissed the docket then chewed him out for wasting the courts time. After that, I’ve remained courteous and civil with cops, but they only get what I am legally required to say, and not another word.
Several years ago I was unlawfully arrested for refusing to sign a medical release. I fought the charge and had it dropped, but the experience was extremely upsetting.
In the US, law enforcement can and will:
Attempt to coerce you into incriminating yourself. Attempt to trick you into consenting to a search of your property. Attempt to stop you for long enough to find evidence or suspicion of a crime, or provoke you into commiting one.
Everyone should know how to exercise their rights to politely but firmly deal with this behavior.
100%
That’s rough, I’m sorry you had to deal with that. I went through a situation where the cop made threats, harassed me at work, and followed me around for a week because I had witnessed him planting evidence and discretely told him in case he didn’t realize what he was doing was a crime. I honestly thought he would appreciate the discretion or at the very least inform me of why I was wrong. Nope, he went irrational. So I learned my rights and admittedly was an obnoxious dick the first opportunity I had to exercise them. My response wasn’t far off from this thread’s top comment. It didn’t get me arrested but the guy was furious and made every effort to fuck me over. Luckily he was incompetent and the judge dismissed the docket then chewed him out for wasting the courts time. After that, I’ve remained courteous and civil with cops, but they only get what I am legally required to say, and not another word.
ACAB
Jesus. Good on that judge though.
Yeah, it could have been worse. I was very fortunate.