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[reggie the dog]

it would happen mostly in the afternoon and sometimes at night but we had to be in by 1130 pm due to curfew law so it wasnt at 2 am.

we would be riding in a small group, 5 buddies on average but they would only search some of us, the same ones over and over again, me and opey sometimes ryan, never vince who looked "clean cut"

we would be riding and sometimes jumping up or down a curb on our bmx bikes

when the cops would stop us at first we didnt mouth off, we were only about 11, later on we would because we knew they would be searching us for drugs anyways because we "looked like druggies" but when you told them that they didnt have the right to just stop you for riding a bike they said they were cops and could do what they wanted

i told my parents that they would stop us but didnt tell them how the cops would feel our privates and make fun of us

never took their badge number because at the time i thought they had a right to do that to just stop anyone a look for drugs

i had stopped thinking about this for the longenst time but when i see the searches carried out at random by the tsa it brings the memories back.
at the time it really bothered me to the point that we started running from the cops even though we didnt even use drugs yet, quite often when we ran we ran just to not have them search us but had nothing illegal anyways. when you are 13 and are not popular with the girls and the only sexual contact you get is when a grown man in uniform feels you real good to make sure you have no drugs in your underwear you are not too inclined to speak up about it. The worst was that when they would search and find nothing they were mad because they were so convinced that we were crooks. it stopped once i got a car and no longer rode my bike around. a couple of times in college i was stopped again just for riding a bike but when they found out i was in my 20's and riding for a work out they got nice real fast and didnt search.

i am never going to sue the cops out of fear. once when we were driving in my cousin's car they stopped us, searched, got mad because we had nothing and threw a big bag of crack into the car. we only got off because my uncle owned a business and my cus's girlfriends dad was a high ranking official in another town. they called their parents on their cell phones and the parents told the cops they had better not be framing us or else they would be fucked and it worked. the cops intially said we looked like drug dealers because we were teens in a nice car and had cell phones, funny thing is that our parents bought us our cars and cell phones. i even asked the cop "what is the point of being rich if you cant buy your kid a car?" they took their crack and left us alone.