Background: my wife's first language isn't English, but Spanish. She comes from Venezuela, but she speaks near perfect English. She is also here completely legally (we had to pay a lot of money to the government for the K1 (fiancée visa)). She has her driver's license, social security card, etc.
This morning, I noticed my wife looked like she was leaving a little late to get to work. She had about 11 minutes to get there and it's about 10 minutes away (she always leaves 15-20 minutes before work starts).
She called me about 5 minutes before her shift was about to start, telling me she'd just been pulled over by a cop. She said that the way he treated her was terrible. He pulled her over for supposedly not stopping 100% at a stop sign turning right.
I will be the first to admit that I never completely stop unless I see a cop. It's stupid, I'm not 5 years old. I can see if a fucking car is coming while moving at a turtle's pace. Anyway, she said she saw the cop and because of that, she did what I told her and did stop 100% to make sure he wouldn't have a reason to pull her over. He did anyway.
The first thing she did when she got pulled over was call me. When the cop saw she was calling me he asked "Why are you making a phone call?," to which my wife responded, "Am I not allowed to make a phone call?"
The cop apparently got pissed and said "No, when a cop pulls you over you wait for him to come to the car, you do not make a phone call." This is complete horse shit, there is no law that states that you cannot make a phone call when the cop pulls you over. You can actually stay completely silent (I don't recommend this because you will get a ticket) and invoke your 5th amendment right.
(photo credit: http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2014/05/an-epidemic-of-police-brutality-is-sweeping-the-united-states-of-america/)
The cop then proceeded to make fun of my wife's name (Roxana.... not that funny) and asked for her insurance, registration, and license. She gave it all to him.
He asked "Do you know what you did?"
She replied, "No."
This must have really pissed him off, because he said "You didn't stop completely at the stop sign."
Roxana said "Yes, I did."
Then the cop said in a raised voice, "YOU DON'T ARGUE WITH A POLICE OFFICER!" (yeah you do.... when what they say is complete BS.)
She told me this on the phone and I was like "Shit, you're going to get a ticket for sure now." I would've been respectful (falsely) to get out of it.
The cop called other cops to come probably intimidate her some more, and after having her embarrassingly sit on the side of the road for one hour, they all let her go with a warning. She called her work and they had to call someone else in to cover her and now she's coming back home, losing what she would've earned today for work. So she was going to work, got pulled over for something so stupid that it wasn't worth it, and now is returning home without going to work. What a morning for her!
Do cops really have NOTHING better to do with their time than intimidate people who have NO priors and are just trying to get to work on time?
The answer is no. Sadly, they really have NOTHING BETTER TO DO WITH THEIR DAMN TIME BUT YO RUIN YOUR DAY.
This isn't my usual post, and I'm kind of pissed because I know if I were in the car with her, things would've gone much more smoothly. The cop played to my wife's lack of understanding how cop psychology works in the U.S. to make her feel intimidated and even belittled her, making fun of her name.
I might lose some followers saying this, but right in my homepage it says I'm an anarcho-capitalist, which means I don't like fucking cops. Not for petty bullshit like maybe not stopping 100% at a damn stop sign when nobody was coming. We need to get rid of these failed policies. Nobody was injured, and nobody's life was put in danger. What my wife did was a victimless "infraction of the law." I won't even call it a crime. The police have a monopoly on the use of force in the U.S. If you don't like it, they will lock you in a cage.
Anyway guys, sorry for the rant but I am rather passionate about stopping assholes like this guy from doing this to people.
Thanks for stopping by, hopefully my next post is a positive one.
