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I hope he fights this and wins.

When I was a young pup I had a pretty fast little Coronet that my girlfriend and I were driving around in late one night. I pulled up to a light and of course being young I had to be the first one off of it, even if it was just granny sitting there next to me. On the following light the same car I just beat again pulled up and this time revved his motor, looking for a race. We both left the light fast, I won, and he then whipped in behind me and started tailing me close.

Since I had my girlfiend with me and there were two guys in that car I wasn’t going stop of course, I got a little nervous when he followed my turns so I started looking for a cop. I sure found one when I was boxed in by two cars, and cops jumping out with their guns drawn.

I was dragged from my car, hand cuffed and taken to the station where I was charged with fleeing and eluding, evasion and reckless driving. Seems the two plain clothes cops in their UNMARKED police car said that they identified themselves by flashing their badge to me. I had to hire an attorney, go to court and my lawyer made them both look like a couple of dumbasses when he got done questioning them.

I got all charges dropped, but go to spend a night in the Detroit jail (THAT was fun). All because they decided to charge me with a BS charge instead of just speeding and let me go with a traffic ticket that I admitted to the judge I probably deserved.

Even the judge agreed with my lawyer that he wouldn’t have stopped either with two men following him around at night under those conditions on Gratiot Ave. I see stories like this and I always remember the feeling of having those guns leveled against me while I was handcuffed.