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A Northern Virginia Police Story

Consider this, you are shopping in a store, minding your own business when a cop comes up and demands your id. Perplexed you ask what it is about, why does he need to see your id. The cop responds because I said so, looking around and all that you see is this cop and a quiet store, it had been quiet for at least a half hour. Again the cop demands your id, now you are concerned, the cop does not identify why he needs to see your id. Giving up your id to this individual exposes you to access of your personal life (name and address). The cop then says that you are impeding the investigation of a crime but if you give him your id he will tell you what is going on. So you comply, the cop take your id, states your name and walks off towards the back of the store, at this time he is yelling something about you knowing the law and laughing.

When you get to the back you find four cops surrounding your girlfriend who you had just taken to the hospital because of a mental breakdown. She is in tears, the last you had seen her was as she was going to the pharmacy to get a prescription from the ER doctor filled. You still do not have your id back, the cops will not tell you why they are harassing you and your girlfriend. Then they start accusing you of a crime, in our case they accused us of prescription fraud, the crime does not matter, it could have been anything.

The more you deny the crime the more they claim that you did it, they could have accused you of killing Nichole Simpson. Can I prove that I was not there when that event occurred ? No. I am sure that they could find a photograph of someone that looked like me in a rental car. One would say that the case against me was weak, but consider this, I am not rich, I cannot afford to prove I was not there, are you, how much representation can you buy ? They say keep your mouth shut, to do that results in impeding an investigation, to ask why results in your being argumentative - I tried all those.

Incarcerated and charges filed, your name and address are posted in the local newspaper. At one time you were stalked and vandalized, one of the reasons that your girlfriend had her breakdown, again you are exposed. The horrors of the past hit you, will the vandalism start again ? Why did that cop target you, you were not disturbing the peace ? Why didnt his fellow cops inform you what was going on ? Why didnt one of the other officers explain the situation ? What was with the skit, you had submitted

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