What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? ca
Saturday night me and some friends were leaving my house ...there was a PD vehicle blocking the alley and shining their brights and spotlight at our vehicle. i was blinded and could not proceed- i got out of the vehicle and walked three houses to the end of the alley and asked the officer to turn off his brights stating it is illegal to use brights like that and that pd cites drivers for driving with brights on. the officer who was driving the suv got out and started talking some nonsense and was addressing me by my first and last name. i am well known by shpd...not for anything i have ever done i have no criminal record...but for being a victim of their harassment which has been going on for years. i walked back to the vehicle and the officer turned his brights on again...i decided to turn around and go the other way...the officer drove up behind me with his brights and spotlight on but not red lighting us....i pulled into my neighbors driveway to let him pass...he did not and i got out of the vehicle and asked what he wanted..the officer barged out of his vehicle and pulled his weapon and pointed it at me ordering me to sit down - i refused stating i had committed no crime ... the officer approached angrily ordering me to the ground yelling "i will shoot / tase you" i then sat down and the officer still with his weapon pointed at me ordered me to lay face down on the ground and i refused - he threatened to shoot me again and again and finally i laid down face first . the officer then made the other occupants of the vehicle walk backwards at gunpoint and made them lay face down in the alley. all were searched including the vehicle. no citations were issued. the vehicle is impounded. this went on for the better part of one and one half hours. we were let go
i consider this officer a psychopath not suited for public service. our constitutional rights were clearly violated. my life and the lives of my friends were put in danger. our property was confiscated. the officer said that the car is the subject of a "criminal investigation". is this what they pay officers to do? this is just another incident in a long list of indiscretions by shpd. can they do this to people?
come to find out the owner of the car offered some ribbon to a lady who was decorating trees for a birthday party at the park...she called the police and accused the ribbon offerer of trying to lure her kid away...this is nonsense because he never talked to the kid he offered it to the mom because by chance he happened to have some ribbon in his car...she refused the ribbon and the encounter was over. the police were called and the license plate number was given...of course the police knew that offering someone ribbon in the park is not a crime yet they figured they could use this to skirt around search and seizure rights and parlay it into a drug bust. the police waited till that night and when we left in the car they instigated the encounter where they at gunpoint threatened my life, violated our right against unlawful search, laid us out face down in the alley in front of the whole neighborhood and then impounded the vehicle after conducting a search that lasted 1 and 1/2 hours. no citations were issued they let us go. they would not tell us why they were conducting this operation we found out when we tried to get the car released from the impound-they waived the 125$
fee for the release. the police knew where the car and the driver were immediatly after the incident at the park because they drove by and saw the car parked behind my house in the alley- they could have resolved the issue then and there but they knew there was no real issue... yet they used it as an excuse to wait till that night and pull us over and do that to us . it was a criminal act under the color of authority to try to manufacture a bust and criminalize a citizen who did nothing wrong
Saturday night me and some friends were leaving my house ...there was a PD vehicle blocking the alley and shining their brights and spotlight at our vehicle. i was blinded and could not proceed- i got out of the vehicle and walked three houses to the end of the alley and asked the officer to turn off his brights stating it is illegal to use brights like that and that pd cites drivers for driving with brights on. the officer who was driving the suv got out and started talking some nonsense and was addressing me by my first and last name. i am well known by shpd...not for anything i have ever done i have no criminal record...but for being a victim of their harassment which has been going on for years. i walked back to the vehicle and the officer turned his brights on again...i decided to turn around and go the other way...the officer drove up behind me with his brights and spotlight on but not red lighting us....i pulled into my neighbors driveway to let him pass...he did not and i got out of the vehicle and asked what he wanted..the officer barged out of his vehicle and pulled his weapon and pointed it at me ordering me to sit down - i refused stating i had committed no crime ... the officer approached angrily ordering me to the ground yelling "i will shoot / tase you" i then sat down and the officer still with his weapon pointed at me ordered me to lay face down on the ground and i refused - he threatened to shoot me again and again and finally i laid down face first . the officer then made the other occupants of the vehicle walk backwards at gunpoint and made them lay face down in the alley. all were searched including the vehicle. no citations were issued. the vehicle is impounded. this went on for the better part of one and one half hours. we were let go
i consider this officer a psychopath not suited for public service. our constitutional rights were clearly violated. my life and the lives of my friends were put in danger. our property was confiscated. the officer said that the car is the subject of a "criminal investigation". is this what they pay officers to do? this is just another incident in a long list of indiscretions by shpd. can they do this to people?
come to find out the owner of the car offered some ribbon to a lady who was decorating trees for a birthday party at the park...she called the police and accused the ribbon offerer of trying to lure her kid away...this is nonsense because he never talked to the kid he offered it to the mom because by chance he happened to have some ribbon in his car...she refused the ribbon and the encounter was over. the police were called and the license plate number was given...of course the police knew that offering someone ribbon in the park is not a crime yet they figured they could use this to skirt around search and seizure rights and parlay it into a drug bust. the police waited till that night and when we left in the car they instigated the encounter where they at gunpoint threatened my life, violated our right against unlawful search, laid us out face down in the alley in front of the whole neighborhood and then impounded the vehicle after conducting a search that lasted 1 and 1/2 hours. no citations were issued they let us go. they would not tell us why they were conducting this operation we found out when we tried to get the car released from the impound-they waived the 125$
fee for the release. the police knew where the car and the driver were immediatly after the incident at the park because they drove by and saw the car parked behind my house in the alley- they could have resolved the issue then and there but they knew there was no real issue... yet they used it as an excuse to wait till that night and pull us over and do that to us . it was a criminal act under the color of authority to try to manufacture a bust and criminalize a citizen who did nothing wrong
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