After reading confessions of a former cop I'd like to tell you about an experience I had.
After reading the link from here: https://www.democraticunderground.com/100213991655
It really hit me when I read this:
"Police officers will lie about the law, about what’s illegal, or about what they can legally do to you in order to manipulate you into doing what they want."
One night these 2 women came to buy something from a woman who was renting my mother in law apartment. It was tense because of lack of payment for rent etc and I ended up pushing one of them out the door. She wasn't hurt, she didn't fall down. She got right up in my face like she wanted to start a fight and I just wasn't having it. I acted like a dick but not enough for them to call the police, which they did. The women who was renting told me that they did.
So I decided that I would just not open my door. My right to privacy. If they had a problem with me go file a police report.
When the cops, (I believe there were 2) came they started banging loudly on the door I just asked from the other side, "Do you have a warrant?"
Well that cop started yelling and screaming and telling me that he did not need a warrant and that if I didn't open the door he was going to break it down. He scared the shit out of me. Then he went into the mother in law apartment which is in my house but connected with a metal door and started doing the same thing. I was seriously afraid.
So I called 911 and told them what was happening and how they didn't have a warrant. I could hear through the door the he got a call on his little walkie talkie thing and then they just left.
But the next day I called to complain at the sheriff's office and this woman, who said she was a Lieutenant told me that the cops, "Absolutely have a right to go into your house without your permission. Even if they just think you stole something from the store they can go into your house"
I realize now that the term for what I went through then is gaslighting because even though I knew this not to be true I ended up being really confused, thinking maybe I was wrong. But as soon as I got off the phone with her I looked it up and contented myself with my rights.
So I ended up writing a snail mail letter to the sheriff "Personal and confidential" because I didn't want anyone else to get their hands on it and even though by then I realized that they were just lying to me I said something about them not understanding the law and how I thought it was important for them to learn blah blah. I didn't feel comfortable being confrontational at the point in time.
That was it. No one filed a police report and the sheriff never wrote me back. BUT I can understand that if they got me to start doubting myself imagine what they could do with a person not from this country or a minority who feels afraid to start with. Or someone who does not know their rights, (and there are a lot of people who do not know their rights) And by the way he got so mad I believe now that had I opened the door he would have arrested me......because he was so furious that I even questioned him!
I am a pasty white woman aged 62. So I was in my mid 50's when this happened.
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yelling and making a scene 
(not the racist calling the cops on POC Karen)
their positions and I was just giving my own experience. I think that cop just started treating me badly because I questioned him. He never even saw me and I never saw him so the only thing he could go by was my house and what those other women told him, (which could have had a effect)
I am so sorry that you had to experience what you did. I can't even imagine but I have seen the videos of other people being abused by the cops.
Stay safe and know that people really do care. 
