Have you ever been a victim of police misconduct?

[hollysmom]

10. it was 1969

I was young in a short dress with long straight hair eating dinner out with a girl friend. I was drinking a coke and eating a nice meal.
There were some young police men there flirting with us. We did not flirt back. I just wanted to enjoy my dinner and talk with my friend. Apparently I was not tactful enough, mind you I never cursed or name called anyone and have generally been found to be polite, and suddenly one cop walked behind my chair and pulled a gun and pointed it at my head and said - Sing the start spangled banner, hippie. I told him I did not sing on key often or very well or something, and he cocked the trigger. A local councilman was sitting near us and intervened and somehow talked this guy down.

We later found that this young cop had been fired for always having pot in his system and he and his other friends were high on coke that night. I, a working stiff, was stone cold sober as usual. Of course that meant we were stuck with the councilman the rest of the night who was also a flirt - what part of I am married do these people not understand?

The owner of the restaurant came over and apologized and begged us to not call the police because that would not end well for us or him. The whole night sucked at that point, so we just left the food and went home. I never went back to that restaurant even though it had been a favorite, who needs these idiots with guns around you. I thought I was safe in a mob hangout, but I guess not.