way to go, matt
Are you saying that standing up for my rights is somehow a bad thing? If a police officer pulled you over and attempted to strip search you, would you allow it? If not, then we're on the same page. If so - way to go, Zillotch.
In my case, the police officer was grabbing my friend out of my car, on suspicion he had drugs on him, which he did not. And I knew that my friend, while having used drugs in his life [obviously - sadly, he died in 2012 of an opiate overdose], did not have drugs in his possession at that moment.
I attempted to lock my car door. I told my friend to not get out of the car, and attempted to pull him back into my car. Exactly what, pray tell, was I supposed to do?
In the end, I punched the cop, got arrested, and my friend got dragged into the McDonald's bathroom and searched, and no drugs were found. I was strip-searched at the police station, where no drugs or anything illegal was found on me, nor inside my car. I had three naNOX9 pills in my front left jacket pocket in a plastic bag, which were tested for drugs.

As well as a bleach that was in an unlabeled clear plastic container, in my car. They said they suspected it was date rape drug [GHB].

Hence why I attempted to stop the situation before it started to begin with. I'm not going to comply with an illegal search with a police officer - I stand my ground. And in that case, it meant flipping a police officer on his back and punching him out.
A few years later, someone else had a similar incident with police, sued, and ultimately won over $100,000. The police here are lucky I didn't sue them, and they know full well that I could have.
Anyway, exactly what part of any of this do you have a problem with? Did you miss the part where I said I was fully acquitted?
A police officer acted illegally, assaulted my friend, and when I attempted to stop it, I eventually had to punch him in self-defense, and was fully exonerated in a court of law.
I guess I'm just confused as to what exactly I did wrong - especially given the fact that this matter went to court and was fully settled in my favour, AND the police officer in question was reprimanded for his actions against me.