DopeM
☔ Rain Man ☔
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Yea, I picked up on what you were doing.
I know this isn't about me, but one last personal anecdote. The only time I have not complied with police was when I was somewhat drunk at the local state park with my dog off her leash (she never left my side and it was common practice for dog owners to gather here and let our dogs play).
Anyways this guy in plain clothes approaches me and flashes something from about 10 ft away claiming it's a badge, it was a very sunny day and I'm buzzed so I didn't get a good look at it. He says he's with **** police dept. and my dog needs to be on a leash. I tell him it's in my car and he tells me to go get it (at this point I sober up enough to realize that I just picked up a qp of trees and an oz of blow which is sitting in my trunk. So as we are casually making way back to my car I make a split second decision and take off running - just straight out sprinting through the open field, over a bridged Creek, cut back into the forest, cross the creek in the creek and then double back over it, except when I'm coming back through the creek the bottom drops and instead of sprinting through calf deep creek i am now up to my midsection in water and the force of me trying to run through it takes me down. I struggle to get up but by this time the officer is on the bank of the shore about 15 ft away. He closes the gap in two leaps, the second of which he uses me as a landing pad in which we get tangled up together.
He was steaming mad, beat the piss out of my ribs a bit (thankfully my dog didn't like water deeper than her ankles or I'm sure she would've bit him. He was impressed that she never left more than 10 ft from me for the whole 2 minute foot chase but he did say he would've shot me and my dog if it wasn't for the fact that he got his gun wet jumping on me in the water.... I think he was kidding in a pissed off kind of way, as he knew me from high school and I played soccer with his little brother for many years.
Anyways, they let me call a relative to come get my dog so they don't have to put her in the pound and bring me in.
My lawyer successfuly uses the fact that the officer was black, not in uniform, in a typically white neighborhood and told the judge I was worried for my safety and anyone can buy a semi realistic looking badge.
The judge was very clear in his sentencing that usually any resisting arrest from an officer, especially one that involves a tussle at the end almost always results him putting the person in jail for at least a week but under my circumstances he allowed me to just pay the offleash fine of 50$ or something.
Tl;Dr
Remembered the one time I didn't comply with police bc he was off duty and led him on a foot chase through the woods and water. Which ended up getting my arrested. My attorney convinced the judge that I didn't resist arrest bc the cop was black in a mostly white area. Got off bc I'm white and he was black and the judge agreed with my attorney.
P.S.
(talk about a good old boys club) - lawyers and judges have such an interesting relationship in my eyes, at least in the small town I grew up in, if you didn't pay for an atty to show up for you the outcome was significantly different for the same exact crime. Now, Im sure there is some technical work in writing they submit but it wouldn't make a difference if an individual in trouble wished to represent themself and drafted up the same documents. What they actually care about is that you paid his lawyer buddy to show up to court for 5 minutes wave at his old friend and be on with our day. They just want to make sure that the money stays flowing to the attorneys imo from my dealing with them over the years.
I'm not sure there is a point in here, other than it's early, I just woke up, and you triggered a memory of the event when you mentioned the undercover thing. While this touches on race and how that plays a role in the outcome of criminal proceedings. You can move this elsewhere or just delete it if it doesn't fit here..
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