Good God man, he was required to leave his vehicle, he was unlawfully detained for a period of time and his car was ILLEGALLY SEARCHED, clearly without his consent.
How about I go rummage through your car because I think you're a smartass? How about I threaten to have you arrested for not kissing my arse?
Many years ago, one of my employees told me a story, it was something that happened while he was driving his car, with his father sitting next to him.
How about I go rummage through your car because I think you're a smartass? How about I threaten to have you arrested for not kissing my arse?
These guys were (at that time) "good ol' boys", GM factory workers. His father was what you might call a roustabout.
As they're driving down the road, his father sees a police car coming from the opposite direction. He notices that it's being driven by a cop he despises -- and the feelings are mutual.
Just as the car is passing them, his father yells out "Prick!" at the top of his lungs.
My friend (well, my friend now -- back when he told the story, he was an employee) is wishing he was on another planet, I think he said something like "Why did you do THAT?!?!?!?" (I toned it down, heheheheh)
Surprisingly (hah!), the cop does a 180 after passing them, and pulls 'em over.
My friend is mumbling unmentionable words under his breath.
The cop walks up and says "Hi, [____]. Did you call me a prick?"
My friend's father says "No, I didn't."
The cop mumbles something, and starts walking away from the car.
My friend is having waves of relief pass over his body.
That is, he was, until his father sticks his head out the car and yells, "A prick has a head on it!" -- and then reaches his left foot over and stomps on the gas pedal!
We laugh now. But this was back then. Not that long ago, in the grand scheme of things.
Back then, that was the end of the story, except for the telling about it. They didn't call in the reinforcements, the tire strips, flashbangs... they didn't punch out the windows with batons and haul the occupants out of the car and... That would have been so "today".
If it'd happened now, I suspect the outcome could have been pretty ugly -- as in "I never would have hired the guy, because he'd have been buried long before we advertised for the job." At the very least, I'd expect them both to have been roughed up, hauled in, and had their lives for all intents and purposes destroyed.
This is what's happening to our country. And compounding it, are people who, in their frustration, think it acceptable to engage in bear-baiting tactics to even the score.
Well, that doesn't even the score. It just ups the ante.
I don't have any good answers. There aren't any good answers. But there are certainly various degrees of bad answers. And bear-baiting, upping the ante, is a pretty bad type of bad answer.
And I think that's all I'm gonna say on the matter (unless someone manages to bait me into going back on my intention.)