I work at a tobacco shop. And after they said I blown through a stop sign. When asked when drinking I said no. Then he said I smelled, and I quote, “of something suspicious”. I get cops get their paycheck for tickets and such but seriously has it really gotten this bad that for a ticket they try to make it something bigger? and ignoring my rights?
Something similar happened to me once. I was driving back from my friend’s house a state away, and had just taken a passenger ferry to cross a large sound. I had my dog with me, who was sleeping in the passenger seat at the time, and the back of the car was full of luggage.
Of course, as I’m about to get home I get pulled over and accused of drinking. I hadn’t had a single drop to drink that day. What followed was a 20 minute interrogation on the side of the road trying to get a confession that never came. The pigs kept trying to put words into my mouth. They insisted repeatedly that I had been on a party boat (with my dog somehow), and kept implying that my dog was dangerous (she was asleep). I legitimately feared they were trying to fabricate a reason to shoot her.
Then they returned to their cop car and spend ages doing whatever it is pigs do in their mobile pen. I assume talking and checking my background for any criminal activity (I have none). Finally, they returned in a huff, gave me my license, and sent me off