i used to be a back the bluer. but im no longer blindly "back the blue"

ill tell ya some things off the top of my head. Last year, a 5'3 midget cop got ultra aggressive with me at a 7 eleven after the clerk flipped his shit at me, called 911 when i was picking up an order for uber, and accused me of threatening him and the customers he misused 911 and said i was wanting to kill people. the cop took his side and was ready to taze me and soon as he walked in the door. for NO reason at all. he was ready to slam me to the ground but he couldnt even if he tried. this dude was ...5'3 like i said, IF that. im a 6'3 very in shape guy. but, he probably saw that and he had to assert his dominance to make up for his short ass lmao. it was pretty crazy. i refrained from laughing my ass off out loud.

another time in the past 2 months, i was going down a road that was 25 mph. one one side is a golf course, the other one the edge of a neighborhood. EVERYONE goes 30 + down that road. if you go 25, you get run over. I was going 35 with traffic, then all the sudden i go past an intersection i see this cop bolt out of a church parking lot , put his lights on...and pull me over. I'm like "huh? wtf did i do. sigh" so he goes "hello sir! i clocked you going 45! it's 35 here. i said "officer, i was going 35, with traffic. he goes "well....that's still 10 over because it's 25. but you were going 45! i got it clocked"

so ya know what i said "and officer, i can prove to you i was going 35 with traffic. I have a gps model dash cam that shows the time, location and vehicle speed. I will gladly show you" so he suddenly changes his tone into a VERY nice guy (knows he's been fucked) and goes "ok hahah! well, just slow down a LITTLE bit from here on out ok? :) i dont want to keep ya from work any longer since i see you have door dash and ubereats stickers on your car. so ill let you off with a warning" i say "thank you very much! have a nice day"

another time my mom and i were driving back from denver and a king shit fat ass cop in bumblefuck nebrasks pulled me over and claimed when i swerved a bit (which i did because i was looking for a hotel, but nothing serious) i almost hit a car. which is utterly not true. there was no car in the left lane at all. this mother fucker starts to get all huffy and puffy and goes like "you almost side swipped a vehicle!! im gonna have to ask you to step OUT of your car now!" i say "i dont really feel safe getting out of the vehicle on a highway." he says "for trooper safety in nebraska, we ask you exit your vehicle and come to our cruiser so we can run your plates" i said "this doesnt seem like protocol of any police ive dealt with, but ok...."

this fat ass has ME get out of the car while traffic is going along, endangering me...not giving a shit about my safety and starts to ask me if there are any drugs in the car. i go absolutely not...what is this? im coming back from a trip to denver. why are you so aggressive? so he doesnt listen to a WORD i say and puts on some gloves and goes "stop! let me take your knife from you! you carrying anymore weapons?" i say "no sir. and this is a legal blade pocket knife. it's barely longer than me finger. it's a tool when i need to open things or help people" he goes "well ya see here! if this doesnt go right, im gonna nab ya for carrying a concealed weapon! so just be quiet"

I look at his hillbilly partner lady cop and shake my head at her like "this is ridiculous..." she just looks to the side of the highway like "i cant believe pete is doing this AGAIN..." lol. so the fatass takes me in the cruiser suv, and starts to talk to me and asks me where im from , what im doing blah blah. i learned that you never say a lot to the cops at all. so i went straight to the point. and that was that. i was getting pretty irritated and started fearing for my life he was gonna beat the shit out of me in there. i explained to him that this is very very strange. he asked why? i said "sir...in illinois, you do NOT GET OUT OF YOUR CAR for ANY circumstance at all. the officer comes by your window, gets your license and looks up your information in his cruiser. if you DO get out of your car, you are tazed or cuffed. you completely took me aback by doing this, and i dont think it's right you do it this way. sorry..."

the next thing put a HUGGEE smile on my face. I think this guy thought i was some drug runner or something for some reason . he ran it all on me. it comes up? BLANK. this mother fucker went from "hell yes" to "im utterly defeated...what a waste of my fucking time" in about 20 seconds when he say the blanks on his screen about me. I'm cleaner than fucking clean in my life. LOL.

it was hilarious. he said in the biggest defeated tone of voice ever... "welp..i dont see any issues here...seems like you and your mom are just headed home eh? how was denver." he turned into the nicest guy EVER lol. cause he knew he had nothing. then when we got out of the car he goes "almost forgot, here's your knife back. have a good night! :) " hahahahaahahah he just wasted like ...an hour and a half of his fucking time doing all that to me while some actual drug runner probably fucking passed us hhahaahaha.

so forgive me if im skeptical about cops. i could tell you more shit, but those are the ones that stick with me the most