redline2101
Junior Member
Pennsylvania, USA.
Here's the whole story of the encounter.
My friend and I (18,19 respectively), are walking to my friends house in his neighborhood. This is the friend I am with. We are walking up the street, 5 houses away form his, when a car approached us from behind and an officer yells to us, "Hey! Stay where you are!". We stop and walk to him. He immediately accuses me of being intoxicated, which I straight up deny. He asks us our names and where we're coming from. I give him my name, as does my friend, and we inform him we were just coming from another part of the neighborhood and that our residence is located a few houses down. He tells up to put our hands on his vehicle. I ask if I am under arrest or free to go, as we live only a few houses away. He responds with "At THIS TIME?! NO lawyer boy! Hands on the car." At this point he grabs my arm and I decide to just put my hands on the car. He does a simple pat down for weapons. He then, without saying a word, starts emptying my pockets onto the hood of his car. In the first pocket he pulls out, in this order, a lighter, a key, a grinder, and another key. He asks me if anything is in my other pocket, I say no. He searches it and pulls out my glass pipe. My friend just says theres "something" in his back pocket, and it is a bubbler.
At this point i am placed in handcuff and we are told to sit down until his backup arrives. They run our records and see we are entirely clean of any charge ever. One officer gives us his card and tells us to come into his office Monday (tomorrow as of this post) and think about where we got it from, and possibly if we help them, they might help us. Also LAWYERS NEED NOT GET INVOLVED.
A few red flags here, as we were in no way suspicious. No curfew was in place, we were in an extremely nice non-violent neighborhood, minding our own business about to go inside. I was under the impression that a pat-down or "terry search" was only valid with articulable evidence that I might be armed and dangerous. I'm still trying to figure out why I was not allowed to end the interaction in the first place as I had done nothing wrong.
Here's the whole story of the encounter.
My friend and I (18,19 respectively), are walking to my friends house in his neighborhood. This is the friend I am with. We are walking up the street, 5 houses away form his, when a car approached us from behind and an officer yells to us, "Hey! Stay where you are!". We stop and walk to him. He immediately accuses me of being intoxicated, which I straight up deny. He asks us our names and where we're coming from. I give him my name, as does my friend, and we inform him we were just coming from another part of the neighborhood and that our residence is located a few houses down. He tells up to put our hands on his vehicle. I ask if I am under arrest or free to go, as we live only a few houses away. He responds with "At THIS TIME?! NO lawyer boy! Hands on the car." At this point he grabs my arm and I decide to just put my hands on the car. He does a simple pat down for weapons. He then, without saying a word, starts emptying my pockets onto the hood of his car. In the first pocket he pulls out, in this order, a lighter, a key, a grinder, and another key. He asks me if anything is in my other pocket, I say no. He searches it and pulls out my glass pipe. My friend just says theres "something" in his back pocket, and it is a bubbler.
At this point i am placed in handcuff and we are told to sit down until his backup arrives. They run our records and see we are entirely clean of any charge ever. One officer gives us his card and tells us to come into his office Monday (tomorrow as of this post) and think about where we got it from, and possibly if we help them, they might help us. Also LAWYERS NEED NOT GET INVOLVED.
A few red flags here, as we were in no way suspicious. No curfew was in place, we were in an extremely nice non-violent neighborhood, minding our own business about to go inside. I was under the impression that a pat-down or "terry search" was only valid with articulable evidence that I might be armed and dangerous. I'm still trying to figure out why I was not allowed to end the interaction in the first place as I had done nothing wrong.