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Daisy said:I was arrested in DC for having 'expired license tabs'.
I don't really have time to get into the story now, but I'll post it some other time (it's actually pretty funny... now), but... long story short:
After I was released, I contacted a lawyer because that didn't seem right. She said, "Oh no, honey... that's not an arrestable offence!" When she went to investigate... because we were going to file suit to have my record expunged... there was no evidence I'd ever been arrested.
Her take on it was that it was another form of 'profiling'. That summer DC Police had been in hot water for racial profiling, so here I was a white woman in an overwhelmingly black area of DC and with my arrest... the statistics could show 'white, female' arrested in District 5. Even though when you look at my record, there's no evidence of me ever having been arrested (or even charged, so I wonder who pocketed the $60 I paid to get out of jail?), it probably showed up on the arrest statistics for D5. That's what the lawyer thought anyway.
My friends and I once got lost driving to a Fugazi show in New Haven.
We wound up in a VERY bad part of town. But then we saw a cop car.
"Great!" we thought "They can help us!"
So we stopped to ask them for directions. Bad Idea.
These were the two worst, most stereotypical "bad ass" cops I'd ever seen.
The first thing they did was to berate us for being in such a bad part of the city.
-"well yeah- that's why we need oyur help. to get OUT of the bad part of the city"
-"doesn't matter! you shouldn't be here to begin with! are oyu aware there was a shooting here 2 hours ago?"
-"well no. we just..."
-"shut up! are oy here to buy drugs?"
-"no sir- actually we really jsut want to..."
it went on like this, turning into a bad TV episode or something. It was like they were looking for a reason to arrest us. Just because we made the mistake of gettng lost and they were bored. finally they agreed out give us directions. we asked for landmarks to help us out.
-"fine. What you want to do is go up here and --hey Butch, which street is that Dunkin Donuts on?"
donuts. cops.
At that point- i lowered my head and started to laugh. as quielty as i could.
Then i hear the cop yell "hey A**hole!"
I didn't realize he was talking to me
"A**hole!" he said again.
All my friends were frozen. we heard the cop car door open.
Next thing i know the cop opens MY car door, drags me out, slaps me against the hood, cuffs me,
saying "you think this is funny? huh? not so funny now, is it?"
Then he drags me to his car, throws me in the back, fuming, and starts talking to his partner.
And the whole i'm just sitting there like "whaaa?"
finally his partner must've talked some sense into him or whatever,
because he came back over and let me go.
So yeah. don't laugh at cops about the Donut thing. Apparently they don't like it.
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