Reply #99: got a story about one of those cops that really shouldn't be in the position [View All]

[newspeak]

It was in the nineties and we lived in a relatively small town in northern california. My son had come home upset because they had been pulled over by the local police and they wanted to check their car. My son asked, "don't you need a warrant?" The cop laughed at him and asked him if he learned that from his teacher in government class. He told him, "see this badge, this badge gives me the right to do anything I want." After they checked the car they let him go. I was so mad, I went up to the station and there was the cop, a sargeant. I basically told him that what he did was wrong, we still live in the US and my son is a citizen. Anyway, afterward my son told me to let it go. He played in a band-the band played for a city function in the park and that cop after they got done playing told my son to leave. I really feared that cop if my son was caught alone that he'd shoot him in the back. My son was one of the most likeable kids in school, didn't believe in violence and had many friends across cliches who would defend him. He was and still is a nice, friendly guy. But, there were rumors in the HS that some in the police force were in the klan.

Anyway, there was an investigation with the cops in town for beating up a hispanic man who's wife with a newborn baby witnessed the beating. My son knew a couple of the newer, friendlier cops and would talk to them. One told him not to mess with the guy because the cop was dangerous. The town was growing quickly and new cops were hired, but I think the older ones who'd been there for awhile, some should have never been cops.