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Originally Posted by Greg B
Here's a lesson to live by:
DON'T ARGUE WITH THE COPS!
What part of "Peace Officer" did you not understand as their role in society?
Had you shut the fuck up and answered his questions with the civil manner required you wouldn't be in the shit you're in. Some people are their own worst enemy and you proved that all by yourself.
Had you not been jerk and started arguing LATE AT NIGHT WHEN PEOPLE ARE ASLEEP you wouldn't have been DISTURBING THE PEACE in the first place.
You're lucky he didn't kick your ass and write his name on it.
Go to court, tell the judge you were acting like an asshole and you're sorry if you've offended anyone and it won't happen again and the judge may let you walk with a warning and an anger management class.
The color of your ass had nothing to do with it. It was the content of your character.
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There is a big difference between speaking in a 'civil manner' and being 'respectful'. If the story went as he told it, was he being civil? I think so. Are there dickbreath cops that will try to push and act like imbeciles just to get a reaction from you? Yes. does that mean you need to take it and be 'respectful'? I dont agree with that.
That is why it helps to know the law. If you speak to them in a way that they know you know your rights, that shuts them up. In other words, you just outsmart them. Yea, yelling at a couple of a half-wit cops isn't going to work. You tell them - in the scenario above - that you answered their questions several times as did your girlfriend, that you believe this is turning into borderline harrassment, that if this continues they need to call their sargeant on the scene (by law, they are supposed to do that. they dont like it but you can request a superior and they need to comply) and you need to call a lawyer as well.
See if that works.