Quote from hughb:
I wanna hear the cop's side of it. He ain't gonna bother to arrest someone at 2 in the morning unless he's got a good reason. He would have been relieved to see you walk out the door and into the parking lot and he would have told the bar employee not to worry about it now, just give us a call if there's any more problems. And what was the cop doing there at closing time anyway? Did the employees call the police dept and say, "we have a straight laced CDS accountant here who is very professional and not bothering anybody, can you get over here"? I doubt it.
There are two types of truths.. The subjective truth is that at 00:15 a male was arrested for trespassing.
The objective truth is my story in the previous posts.. so help me god.
At this bar there are 1-2 cop cars every night of the week parked outside. Given that they usually appear to be hanging out...The only reason I would imagine the city would allocate resources to this place is because there has been trouble before. This city has a huge problem with cocaine and gun violence...The cops are preconditioned to have a zero tolerance policy. I was a victim of a systematic bias.
I've lived my whole life in california-south florida- boston. Generally socially liberal areas. .. and let me tell you, the city i am in is not south beach. it's very "southern - conservative" at least the judicial system proved this to me. this incident as played out would have never ever happened in NYC or Boston.
I wish I could have that day in court and bring witnesses. Where was the defendant at the initial request to evacuate premises? Where was the defendant when he was handcuffed?
answer outside the bar... and i got arrested for trespassing... give me a break!@ A lawyer could get me off just by proving that I wasn't familiar with the "property layout".
Contrary to popular belief, not everyone that gets booked committed a crime, NO? And yes.. police officers have been known violate civil rights from time to time.. they are not experts on criminal law
BOTTOM LINE
There was a miscommunication between a liberal yuppie and a trailorpark tool bag. I never got the impression that the event was escalating..The cop could have easily come up to me an said... "hey we told you to leave and you're still on the premises.. but he wanted to fill the county quota so he handcuffed me while i had my back facing him.. the county jail system appears to be a massive scheme. the operation must turn a hefty profit for the city.
In the cell i met this 20 year old kid that was waiting out 24 more days for trial because he doesnt have $700 to post bond. Yes, the kid was a hill billy but I still have respect for people. He had unpaid speeding tickets! The state government pays the county something like $35 per inmate per if they are put into the general population. Since the economic turn, I'm sure the orders have been to keep the jail running at full capacity..
Its the idea, is there a correlation between crime statistics and police per capita? Is there police because we have crime, or do we have crime because we have police?? I'm for the latter.
Absolutely no reason to have me in hand and feet shackles. Cruel and unusual punishment IMO. They charge the inmates $2 a day for food and a weekly clothing fee. In addition to the court fees which is on premise, the place is a flat out racket. I was essentially given a 1 day jail sentence, even when the judge let me go i still had to wait 5 hours untill i actually walked out...
If you are inferring that they told me to leave and I started making a scene hooting and hollering refusing to exit... you are wrong... i walked out the door after being told to leave and got arrested moments later at least 30 yards from the door.
Don't tase me bro!
