What is the name of your state?
- California
- police responding to a call of a suspicious person(cop A)
- a suspicious person sitting in his truck(cop B)
- suspicious person working on his truck(cop A)
- was doing none of these 1. Ive been a daily visitor at my girlfriends apt. for two years. 2. was hooking up an air hose to the compressor in back of my truck to fill tire of girlfriends mercedes parked next to me.
- Cops A & B both in cop car drove past me without hesitation Cop A(passenger) yelled "How ya doin Bro?" and nodded as they drove past.
- I looked up and nodded back.
- began filling tire and unit had returned and pulled over in front of both vehicles
- I thought nothing of it as I'm no longer on probation or searchnseizure, and was doing something normal in a normal place where I was known by all neighbors and it was broad daylight
- Apparently the air hose I was holding in my hands wasn't a weapon but they were concerned for their safety and asked if they could search me for weapons
- Cop A and B said ' search for weapons ' in unison.
- I'd already provided ID and that and my vehicle had come back clear
- apparently if you're filling a tire with air you must have been a felon as I was asked if I had been arrested or not
- Just pat you down and check you for weapons
- I said ya you can pat me down
- I heard ' what's this '? Iooked down to see him feeling his fingers over a small lump in my change pocket
- His finger began to dig into the pocket and I moved my hand down and put it on his finger and didn't grip his finger. I only kept my hand flat and against his hand
- this was apparently a weapon or something that put the officer in danger as I was then asked to place my hands behind me
- I cooperated and told him he did not have permission to go into my pockets
- He went in and pulled out a folded up piece of cig. pkg. foil he hadn't expected it to be pot
- I said it's just a little pot
- its mine and it's private
- He then emptied all of my pockets and found a similarly wrapped foil containing amphetamine
- Do I not have the right to have personal privat property on me that is only my business.
- this was private from my child, my girlfriends neighbors, from my employer,etc.
- I have a drug problem but that's my business and my secret and my private life.
- I go to work every day
- I sleep and eat every night
- I maintain a productive life and I am reguarded as a helpful,friendly person.
- It could have been a 20 dollar bill a phone number, or bat guana but it was mine and I was not a threat to them
- what are my chances that this will be thrown out as an illegal search?
this already cost me a days work, 500$bail, nearly lost my job and not to mention 24 hrs in a holding tank on a cold cement floor( I'm sure Ill be charged for staying at their motel,too)
I attend aa na and have graduated from one year of drug court. I have one prior.
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