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@Vanilla Good vid! Not all cops are bad, but there are a disturbing number of them who just shouldn't be wearing the badge for a number of reasons ranging from not enforcing the law and not doing their jobs to guys like the one in the vid who abuses his authority. I'm White and I've experienced this. Shortly after my divorce, I decided to take up jogging to lose some weight (but had to quit because my knees started hurting and I was worried about what might happen. knees are fine now) and I did so at night because it's cooler outside. One night I left my apt. and my shorts were a bit too lose and started falling, so I stopped for a moment to fix them. Suddenly a spot light from across the street shined on me and I'm like wtf, figured it was some idiot messing with a deer spotting light (I live in PA so some people have them in their cars) and then began jogging, passing two people on the sidewalk. About 90 seconds after the spotlight, a cop pulls up to me with flashing lights and tells me to stop. I did and asked why? He told me I was acting suspiciously. I asked what I was suspected of. He told me I was being suspicious because I ran from him. I corrected him, pointing out I was merely jogging, stopped to tie my shorts for a moment, and I wasn't moving that quickly at all (I'm out of shape) and obviously was NOT doing a flat-out run attempting to escape him and for that matter I didn't even know he was a cop because I was being blinded by his light shining in my face. To this day I still don't know why he was sitting in a private parking lot across the street from me because I live in a very low crime small town area so I highly doubt he was staking out criminals. But I was in pretty bad shape mentally from my divorce and didn't think to ask him. Officer unfriendly still wasn't convinced. He wanted my ID, but the only thing I had on me was my apt. key. He kept asking who I was and where I lived and I wouldn't tell him anything because it was none of his damn business. He tried telling me the reason he pulled me over was because the two people I passed while jogging told him I was being suspicious (which is impossible during the 90 secs it took him to reach me) and when asked about WHAT I was being suspected of (something I asked at least a dozen times throughout the encounter) he again would only repeat that I was being suspicious. I was just standing rocking back and forth slightly on my feet from having stood there so long and this jackass begins to reach for his gun and tells me not to approach him and I stepped back and I'm like, easy dude I'm not trying to do anything, geez. I asked if I was under arrest and he said no but falsely claimed he had a right to detain me anyways. I asked him to cite the law that permitted him to do this and he couldn't, but he still insisted he could do so. I pointed out that I was only wearing a tee-shirt and shorts. I showed him I had nothing on me but a key so clearly I didn't rob anybody. There was no blood or signs of my being in a fight so I hadn't murdered or hurt anyone. But this guy still insisted I was suspicious! After arguing with him for like 20 minutes, I was getting tired of it all. As I said, I was still quite a mess from having recently divorced at that time so I finally gave him my name and address just so I could get it over with. He called it in, and even told the guy on the radio "I have guy here who is acting suspiciously" to which I shouted "Why don't you tell him what it is I'm suspected of doing wrong, which is nothing!" It came back I had no record and he finally let me go.