I got arrested for telling a cop to slow down after breaking up a domestic abuse
My brother and his girlfriend were staying with me in an RV in my backyard. One night, I heard a scream, so I ran to their RV and opened the door in horror to find her face bloodied up and topless, asking for help. I gave her my cardigan and told her to go into the house to call the police. I told my brother to walk with me through the neighborhood.
My neighborhood is a gated community with a speed limit of 5 mph and a lot of speed bumps. It was 6:00 PM, so it had just gotten dark, and we have a lot of kids who play out there because it is safe.
Well, as we were walking, I saw a police officer driving at least 40 mph through the neighborhood. I signaled him with my hands to slow down, but he blew right past me in a space just big enough for his car and us between the parked vehicles on the street. After they flew by us, I explained to my brother calmly that he was about to get arrested and to just go back with me and take accountability.
When we got back, the officers tackled him. After they got him in cuffs, one of the officers jumped up and started pushing me, yelling and cursing that I should never tell an officer to slow down. I told him calmly that this is my neighborhood and he has no excuse for putting all the kids and residents in danger by driving like that. He then proceeded to handcuff me, pushed me against the wall in my garden, and told me to sit in the mud.
He ran my record, telling me that if he found anything on me, I was going to jail too. I told him that my record is clean.After running my license, he came back to me claiming he found something on my record. I laughed and said, "No, you didn't." He said he did but wasn't able to see what it was, but that I definitely had a record.A little later his superior pulled him aside. I do not know what he told him, but after that, the bully cop helped me up, uncuffed me, and apologized for his behavior because he didn't know who I was.