The owners of a gay bar in St. Louis were getting ready to relax Sunday night when a police vehicle crashed through the front of their business, Bar:PM.
  • owatnext@lemmy.worldEnglish
    70·
    11 months ago

    My experience with Missouri police was not a good one. They lied and said my taillights (yes, both) were out and “that” was why they pulled me over apparently. So he took me to his car, where I could see my taillights functioning, and accused me of smuggling drugs from México. Apparently, because I had taken a road trip to New Mexico (which he interrogated out of me), that means that I had drugs from the country México. Tell me how a police officer doesn’t know New Mexico is a state…

    To top it all off, he told me to stop breaking the law and let me on my way without so much as a clue to what law I was breaking.

    • CosmicTurtle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      65·
      11 months ago

      Don’t talk to police officers.

      Memorize this script:

      • “Why did you pull me over?”
      • (When they ask questions like where are you going? Where are you coming from? What is that smell?) “I’m not discussing my day.
      • “Am I being detained or am I free to go?” (If you are being detained, invoke the 5th amendment.)