Redditors that have been unjustly arrested, what's your story and what happened to the arresting officer?

I've never been arrested, but I did get the shit kicked out me twice by the cops.

The first was when I was a teenager. It was around midnight in a small, but Ivy League town in the 1990's, where I was skateboarding down the middle of the road because it was empty. A cop pulled up ahead of me, got out and waved me over. He asked what I was doing. I said "just enjoying the night (or something like that - it wasn't smart-assed - I was actually trading N64 games with a police officer who had kids back then and liked the police)."

He claimed that he had a call about some bad guy roaming around. Sure, whatever. He asked for my ID. Being the '90's and a kid, I whipped out my chain wallet which was attached to a pant loop on my beltline. I flipped open the wallet, and then opened up the plastic picture section, which is where I had my ID. It flopped off the trunk of his car and swung around my waist.

I instintictually grabbed at it, and POW, I was clocked in the back of the head. Next thing I know, I was on the ground. The cop had punched me. He yelled, "Stay down." But I moved my hands up towards my head. POW, POW, POW, I was punched in the head while covering.

Once the cop let up and I had time to scream, "STOP! I'm putting my hands up!" I was actually able to put my hand up. It's not easy to do when getting hit and someone is on top of you. Instincts are strong. The policeman is punching you in the head and telling you to essentially let it happen, but every instinct in your body is to turtle up.

I was handcuffed, the cop I knew showed up, and it was all over. We talked it out and I had a black eye to show off to girls.

My second police encounter involved a property I was renting. My girlfriend and I were drifting apart for months. She ended up sleeping with someone, and we ended things, but I had to give her time to move out. I came home during the move-out period and she was knocking boots with the guy in the basement. I got super angry and stomped towards the stairs. I made one hell of a clatter and a ton of noise, as in, "I'm pissed and coming."

I got to the top of the basement stairs and yelled, "Get the f--- out of my house!" 10 minutes later, the police arrive and I'm irate. I try my best to explain that this was my rental and my girlfriend was sleeping with another guy and moving out.

One of the 3 cops grabs me by the throat and starts to strangle me. The other two cops are holding me against the wall right next to my own front door. My girlfriend and her new friend leave and I take two punches to the gut with the warning, "Don't have us back here again."

So that's how I got the crap beaten out of me by the police twice.

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