The cop then made a comment that I appeared out of it. I immediately asked him why the hell he would think that? Anyway, nothing came of it, but I can just imagine that cop trying to claim he was suspicious I was drunk or on drugs or something. Other than stomach complaints because I was late getting lunch, that would be a negative if you must ask.
Or it's the "You seem to have glassy eyes..."
What the hell is that supposed to mean? if my eyes aren't WET and GLASSY, I'm probably in a lot of discomfort. Your eyes look wet and GLASSY too officer, are you on duty while intoxicated? Do we need a supervisor to sort this all out?
I keep hammering on the concept of "institutional evil" or evil as an emergent property of a system, organization, or group, comprised of normal people, who are all "just doing their jobs". The pathology of it is that the police usually
are dealing with guilty people, and low-life types who are evasive, unreliable, and erratic even when they aren't the suspect. While at the same time, these types are often just plain dumb, and fall for these tricks. Which makes them all SOP for law enforcement, and they wind up getting used reflexively on good people who actually are innocent and just victims of circumstance.
And then you have the understandable outrage of someone with nothing to hide, and no criminal intent getting this kind of treatment, and it turns into a case of "Disrespect of Cop -2nd degree".
i want to hear the taped calls where the poor baby described the money as dirty god hes a moron and apparently its a family tradition
Irrelevant, a court already sided with the family. And four months isn't all that long as these things go. Either the facts supported the family rather strongly, or the .gov wasn't that interested in fighting it after all.