Originally Posted by Greg B

Heck no!

The officer is responding to a complaint and a possible RESCUE. Domestic situations are the most DANGEROUS.

I've lived in the most dangerous neighborhoods in the U.S. and RARELY ran across a cop who didn't know how to do his or her job. I know my rights and have more cops in the family and friends than I can shake a stick at. Was raised by cops too. In all those years I've run into a little more than a handful of cops who didn't know what they were doing and I handled the situation as I was trained to. They either lost their jobs or got corrected and were back on the job better at it.

You don't get into an antagonistic fight with the officer. If he's acting like an asshole, let him run with it, that's more ammo for your attornies and the investigation board of their IA.

You're the citizen who they're supposed to protect and serve and they have the charge to uphold the Constitution. You're the customer, but they're the appointed officer to 'enforce' the law. If the law says 'arrest antagonistic kid who smells like pot' then they 'enforce' that law.

If the law said to arrest anyone wearing a turtleneck sweater, they arrest people wearing a turtleneck sweater.

They have only a small margin of 'if' they feel the law should be enforced.

You should have said "Thanks for coming by officers, it's just a small matter of my girlfriend running up bills on the cell phone, you know if you've got kids how that can be. Women, you can't live with em' and you can't live without em' Chuckle, Guffaw, Chortle, Giggle."

And he would have said "Okay, but if it happens again I'll run ya in. Since your girl says there's been no physical altercation and I, at a glance and a brief interview, determine this is to be the case I'll letcha' off with a warning."

You then say goodnight, thanks, and get some new pussy.