I have been reading posts for some time now and figured it was time to set the record straight. First off, there is a history between local DMPD and myself prior to my arrest. In the several months prior to this incident, I was stopped for open carry 7 times, all but the first time occurring on the same street, at about the same time of day each time. I would walk from my house, to the gas station for some smokes, and walk back. Total of maybe a mile each way. The first time I was stopped on this street I was told to put my hands up as high as I could get them, and I was then disarmed. A few weeks later I was verbally accosted by two officers on how dumb I was to open carry, I should just cover it up or I was going to get killed. They told me they didn't want to see me open carrying again or I would be arrested for violation of a lawful order. Two weeks later, I was stopped by a cop in a bullet proof vest hiding behind his door, with weapon drawn. He told my to put my hands up and walk slowly to the front of his vehicle. I placed my hands on the hood and I was then handcuffed by a second officer. My information was taken down to the size of my boots. A third officer showed up later and lo and behold its on of the cops that was yelling at me about open carry two weeks earlier. He again chewed me out for open carry, and told me to get used to being held and gunpoint and handcuffed because if I continued to open carry it was going to happen often. A supervisor showed up at my house that night and wanted to know what was going on. I explained it to him, and he then told me the female officer(the one that had disarmed me earlier) had been on the radio about 15 min before I was stopped trying to tell them to leave me alone, not that it did much good. Every instance except my first stop I was always treated like a piece of dirt by LEOs, and they we always hostile towards me before I had even said a word to them. I never argued or raised my voice to any officers during any of these stops. I refused to show my permit for two reasons. First, the officer who arrested my was hostile from the outset, and told me he had approached me because wal mart had a no weapons policy(it dosent). Second, I had gotten tired of the LEOs dumping on me and I couldn't do anything about it. I have a complete report I have written that is word for word on every stop I had been involved in. I will email it to anyone who asks for it.
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