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This is the type of isht that will make you turn up the Tupac extra loud in the car and yell "F*ck Tha Police!" out the window. A Bronx man, who is Mormon and doesn't even drink, was thrown in jail for two days after coppin' an attitude when police stopped him to ask about the Snapple he was drinking. SMH.
41-year-old Douglas Brown is filing a notice of claim against the city of New York as a precursor to filing a civil lawsuit. The notice accuses the police of arresting him after an officer asked what he was drinking and he responded with an attitude. Brown, who is a devout Mormon, says he was forced to spend two nights in jail after being questioned about the Snapple he was drinking.
Brown was a passenger in his friend's minivan on Friday, May 13 when the vehicle rolled to a stop around 3:30 at a stop sign at E. Gun Hill and White Plains Road.
The pastry chef and former auxiliary cop says he held a strawberry-kiwi fruit juice inside a black plastic bag between his knees when Officer Eroilio Luna knocked on his window and gestured at the drink.
"He says, 'What you drinkin'?' " Brown recalled. He said he then peeled the wrapper away to show the officer.
As Luna turned to leave, Brown shot out his own question to the cop.
"I understand if he stopped me for the seat belt, or something. But a juice?" he said. "So I say, 'You got nothing better to do?' "
"I wasn't being rude," Brown said. "I respect them, but I know I didn't say anything bad."
At that point Luna had Brown searched and arrested. According to the criminal complaint paperwork Brown swatted the cop's hand and refused to get out of the van. Brown also allegedly "flailed his arms, pushed the officer … kicked his legs, and twisted his body, refusing to be handcuffed."
Brown spent two nights in police custody before going before a judge. At his arraignment, he says the judge asked whether anyone had saved the Snapple bottle (the police had not) before throwing out the charges of resisting arrest and obstructing government administration.
According to Brown's lawyer Afsaan Saleem two witnesses are willing to testify that Brown cooperated with cops,
"He spent close to 40 hours being detained, and what was his crime? Drinking a Snapple?" Saleem said.
"Now when I walk on the street, I feel like I always have to be careful when I see a cop because, listen, they can do whatever, whenever they want to do it," Brown told the Daily News.
SMH… That's some bullsh*t, but it's important to remember that police unfortunately hold the power in those kind of situations. You have to "yes sir, no sir, thank you Officer" until they leave you the f*ck alone. All that business about rights is basically out the window. We hope this guy sues the sh*t out of those cops. What a waste of taxpayer dollars.
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