You're not Rodney King, shut up

I was reminded of this incident the other day. I stopped a young guy, 18 or 19 one night while working patrol. I walked up to the driver's door and asked the driver to roll down the window. He did and out of the car arose the sweet stench of weed burning. Oh yeah, I'm about to get me some dope. Moreso, he left his double-barreled pipe in plain view on the hump between the driver and front passenger.

So I ask the guy out of the car and he complies. I tell him I smell weed, he agrees. I tell him I'm about to search he and his car and he tells what all he has and where it's at. He was very polite, soft and well spoken, obviously cooperative (for a change), and having seized all of his dope and paraphernalia we were off to jail.

We get to the jail and the booking process goes well. Again, no problems at all out of the kid. So then he asks for a phone call to let his mom know what happened. Ok course. I pass the phone and continue writing out tickets. He gets mom on the phone and in an instant transforms from the polite and well-spoken kid to a lieing ass thug from the projects.

"Hey, momma... you need to get down here to the jail right now. The Police done picked me up on some bullshit charges. Yeah, they done beat my ass!! They was hitting me in the head, slammed the car door on my legs..." He was yelling and waving his arms around. Very believable, but I am standing right there. I couldn't believe it. I get around to him and tell him he can't lie to his mother like that. His response, "man it's ok, you know how it is".

No, I don't know how it is. And then he went into phase 2. "Momma, come get me out, they bout to beat me again." I tell him he had better quit. He doesn't. "They done threw me on the car, beat me in the head, slammed the door on me, towed my shit and now gonna trump up some charges on me".

At that point I felt like beating his ass. Instead I hung up the phone and told him how sorry he was for saying all that, documented that he was compliant and had no injuries and went on about my business.