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Originally Posted by mac25
my experience: i was stopped at grainville and 4th for an alcohol block. the officer asked "have you been drinking tonight", i answered politly no. "can i see your license?", i gave it to him. "is your N displayed", i answerd yes. he checked. he then handed my license back.
at this point though the officer was coming across as being a bit of a prick, and as i am to near everyone was being polite, i did not see anything wrong in the actions that had just transpired, though irritating they were.
i then asked "may i go now?", which is absolutley the wright of any individual to ask an officer. the officer is then obliged to say either yes, or no and state his/her reasoning. apon the officers answer, after the issue has been clarified the individual may ask again.
the officer looked at me like wow ow wow buddy, i ask the questions (he did not say such). then said in an overly authoritarian voice "i didn't say that, stay here". i could tell that asking why i was being held further would only make the situation worse. the officer just stood there and looked at me for a few moments. then he walked over to another officer, after a few moments the officer came back and said "alright leave" again in a very irritated way.
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The problem with this story is, you don't know what the two officers talked about, and you don't know what else happened before your stop.
Just as a wild what-if: a call may have come in for something involving a car similar to yours (let's say, for the sake of argument, a hit-and-run), so as you were waiting in line, the one officer agreed to talk to you and check your license while the other inspected your car for damage from a distance - in other words, some reason for the second officer to do a little discrete observation.
The first officer may have already been on edge if your car matched the description of one involved in a hit-and-run (he doesn't know if you're going to bolt again), and if he's still waiting for his partner to give the all-clear, he may be even more perturbed at being rushed to let you go. This would be about the point he'd go over, chat with his partner, be told that there's no visible damage, and figure you're not the droids they're looking for.
Now obviously I wasn't there, and I don't know that anything even remotely like this is the case... but by the same token, you weren't there before you rolled up, and you weren't a party to the two cops' conversation, so you don't know the circumstances surrounding your stop or what might have led to this particular sequence of events. As such, you're not in any position to judge the officers.
In the end, you were cleared and they let you go about your day - no harm, no foul. Get over it.