The car from the prior night never had a license plate recorded, from what I read elsewhere.
It was simply a similar make, model, and color.
It could have been you and your wife.
“It could have been you and your wife.”
Could have been. But I wouldn’t make any uncertain moves or try to run with a police officer pulling my door open. I would have kept my hands in plain sight, did what I was told, and then figured out what the cop wanted.
Regardless, my point was that there were numerous mistakes made which escalated the problem as it could have been handled better.
I was involved in a screw up by military police when I was stationed in northern California. I had to move a good amount of funds from the club to the rec center for a program. I was dressed in civilian clothes appropriate to the event, suit and tie, and was leaving the club facility on foot to my car, when I was accosted by over a dozen pistol pointing cops. They ordered me to get on the ground right after a rain. And after telling them they were toast on this, I ruined the suit in the mud.
They had received a silent alarm, and sent cops to the facility, possibly 5 minutes, and didn’t bother to call the club while they were in route. So instead of verifying what was happening when the cage was opened and the employee didn’t turn the alarm off, they just reacted, didn’t enter the facility, and threatened me for no reason other than their mishandling.
A couple of people got article 15’s and a couple got demoted. I got a new suit, probably better than the one I had. So I have been in that situation like you mentioned and I would have acted differently if I was innocent, I did.
I never said the perp was innocent, just that the cops mishandled the situation and could have got a lot of people killed for reacting too quickly and pushing too hard. So far all they had was third degree felony escape, maybe, on the guy in the car. Not near enough to do it the way they did.
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