Have you ever been a victim of police misconduct?

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34. I've had a couple

I was trying to get my first driver's license when I was 15 and you could get a small motorcycle license at that age. The state trooper in charge of the DMV refused to let me get one even after we pointed to their own manual saying I could. He spent the day and most of the next doing everything he could to stop me. And when he finally relented after nearly 2 days at the DMV, some asshat called in a bomb threat, meaning I had to go back for a third day at the DMV.

The second was a couple of years ago. I was trying to find an apartment and I was meeting a guy to see about a place. I was early and he was late, so I spent 15 or 20 minutes pacing. Apparently somebody called the cops because after I was leaving, two big plainclothes cops come up behind me, splitting off so they are on each side of me. I'm wearing headphones but I see them out of the corner of my eye, so I assume a defensive position before I see a badge. They spent the next 30 minutes searching me for drugs. I pointed out that as I had only 5 dollars in my wallet, I was probably either not involved in drugs, or I was the worst dealer ever.

The most recent was when driving. I was on a divided road, at a stop light with several cars in front of me and cars in the other lane. A cop pulls up behind the stopped traffic and turns his lights on. I obviously can't go anywhere because there are cars stopped in front of me and beside me and the cop behind me. He gets on his loudspeaker telling everybody that we need to go back to driving school. When the cars finally get out of the way, the cop speeds off to parts unknown.

So relatively minor stuff, but annoying all the same.