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Originally Posted by CGSTL
Nope. Not sarcastic at all. Those cops have a tough job and if I roll up to a sobriety checkpoint I comply with simple questions to demonstrate I'm doing the right thing. The question of where he was going at 2:30 wasn't to find out about his personal life. It was to determine if his speech was slurred due to alcohol.
He could have just said he was going home or over to a friend's house. This kid decides he's like to make life hard for the cops and was given due treatment. Please don't fail to recognize that this kid has several similar incidents.
I don't know about you, but I've had none and find it hard to believe he has several before the age of 21. It's very easy to stay out of trouble in St. Louis. It's a nice area. This kid goes looking for it.
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I agree with you, but it's still his right to not answer where he was going, and he shouldn't have been harrased for that. Would I do the same thing? Probably not, and like you, I would have just told them where I was going.
Now, the cop was being an ass right from the start, too. If he wanted to talk to the kid to make sure he wasn't DWI, he should have told him to pull over to the side of the road and step out of his car. That's it. Instead, he demanded him out of the car right in the middle of the road (endangering his own life, the life of the "suspect", and other motorists on the road), demanded his keys, performed an anauthorized entry, unauthorized search (although as I said earlier, since the kid handed him the keys himself, legally it may not have been an unauthorized entry/search, but that's a technicality), etc. Basically, he abused his power to show the kid "who's in charge".
That's what I have a problem with.