_Unfair_Suspension_ t1_j1x86m3 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 1:50 AM

Reply to comment by skunkadelic in Evidence unearthed by podcasters frees 2 Georgia men imprisoned for 25 years by efranklin13

Oh please, you must have done SOMETHING to deserve getting arrested. Cops don't just go around tossing random people in jail for no reason!

And yet people still think they're somehow immune from this. I've seen hundreds of news stories where the victim says something to the effect of "If it didn't happen to me, I wouldn't believe it."

Even just shit as stupid as clerical errors or mistaken identity, which, by their very nature, will only ever affect INNOCENT people!!!

You could be walking down the street minding your own business and if some cop gets a bug up his butt about you, you might not be walking away from that encounter just because he thinks you're someone else.

bothunter t1_j20q2ff wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:37 PM

Seriously -- I almost got arrested for having expired tags. Got pulled over, cop saw I had a book on marijuana and he decided right then he was going to arrest me. He got a K9 unit to "smell" drugs on my car and the proceeded to search my vehicle where he "found" a broken pipe. Then spent the next 90 minutes trying to get me to admit the pipe was mine. Eventually let me go without even writing a ticket when he realized I wasn't going to budge.

Then, despite 10 cops being involved in this incident, there was absolutely no record of the stop.