Yeah, like five days. Good thing you're not the one to evaluate the "story."
BTW I get along great with 90% of cops, certain bully cops and I did not like each other when I was young (now my sheeps cloths are near perfected). They did'nt like me because they never caught me doing anything and I had a smart mouth. They also knew who my friends were (having beatin the living s@#+ out of three of them) and hence knew I might have had something to do with all the golfballs driven at the station parking lot (my slice at the time would not have made me much help).
Yeah, I know. "Some of my best friends are cops..but I had some bad experiences [etc.]" Tell somebody who cares.
Try this exercise. Put your hands behind your back. See how far you can reach. He would have had to have been right behind him for the kid to reach.
So it was impossible for the kid to do what the cop says he did? Why not say so? Then we'll let Johnnie Cochran do a live demonstration in court.
Neither are you. BTW what I delt with was more then a simple bad experiance. It was a bully cop who was convinced I was a criminal and was out to get me. I can still tell you the SOBs name and where he worked (but I will not). He wanted to catch me doing something for years. It clearly frustrated him that I was smarter them him. I admit I teased him once or twice (made it seem like I was up to something, I actually am the last true innocent).
Officer M belonged in prison. I'm fairly certain he's not a cop anymore as he was holding on to his job by his fingernails (and paying 1/3 of his salary to pay for his own bond). Don't expect he can survive in the age of the camcorder.
Win or lose, I'd love to see Cochran do that to the cop; then watch the cop deck him right in the courtroom. I would laugh. :^)