Analysis:
"My 20 year old son went out with a friend and had a few beers."
Q? How many is a few beers? Intoxicated? At 20 years old, out with friends, horomones raging, I probably would have been intoxicated.
"My son got a little loud in the parking lot of the apartment complex"
Q? What is your definition of a little loud? When you drink alcohol, the hearing sense is the first to diminish. That is why people talk so loud in bars and at parties, so they can hear themselves. What was he doing? Screaming? "HAAAAHHHOOOOOH"? What is it that caught the officer's attention?? Was the officer called there?? hmmm...
You say he was an undercover cop. He was probably NOT an undercover cop but a cop who lived in the apartment complex and does security work in exchange for a reduction in rent.(very common practice) Because he was at home, he responded in his off duty clothing. I'll bet you will find out that the COP WAS CALLED out in response to a loud person complaint.
"and grabbed the cop's hand to slap it'
Is the plain clothes cop who probably just got out of bed suppose to know why an intoxicated loud person grabbed his hand? What ever possessed your son to grab a cop? Under these circumstances I may have reacted in the same way.
I deal with college kids on a daily basis being we have a campus of 30,000+ in the city I work. Students, who have been drinking and are arrested will generally:
1. Minimize their involvement in any situation
2. Under-estimate the amout of alcohol they drank
3. Don't tell their parents the truth or at bare minimum ommit most of the detail that can incriminate them.
4. Over-exaggerate the involvement of the other party or whom they consider the main actor or "guilty" party.
5. Fail to take responsibility for their actions.
6. Frequently blame the police claiming the officer was in the wrong.
Bullrider, I am not saying this is exactly what has taken place, I am just offering a different side to the story. You may be right on in your analysis of what happened. I strongly urge you to get a complete copy of the police report to see the other side of the story, or talk to the police supervisor.
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"My 20 year old son went out with a friend and had a few beers."
Q? How many is a few beers? Intoxicated? At 20 years old, out with friends, horomones raging, I probably would have been intoxicated.
"My son got a little loud in the parking lot of the apartment complex"
Q? What is your definition of a little loud? When you drink alcohol, the hearing sense is the first to diminish. That is why people talk so loud in bars and at parties, so they can hear themselves. What was he doing? Screaming? "HAAAAHHHOOOOOH"? What is it that caught the officer's attention?? Was the officer called there?? hmmm...
You say he was an undercover cop. He was probably NOT an undercover cop but a cop who lived in the apartment complex and does security work in exchange for a reduction in rent.(very common practice) Because he was at home, he responded in his off duty clothing. I'll bet you will find out that the COP WAS CALLED out in response to a loud person complaint.
"and grabbed the cop's hand to slap it'
Is the plain clothes cop who probably just got out of bed suppose to know why an intoxicated loud person grabbed his hand? What ever possessed your son to grab a cop? Under these circumstances I may have reacted in the same way.
I deal with college kids on a daily basis being we have a campus of 30,000+ in the city I work. Students, who have been drinking and are arrested will generally:
1. Minimize their involvement in any situation
2. Under-estimate the amout of alcohol they drank
3. Don't tell their parents the truth or at bare minimum ommit most of the detail that can incriminate them.
4. Over-exaggerate the involvement of the other party or whom they consider the main actor or "guilty" party.
5. Fail to take responsibility for their actions.
6. Frequently blame the police claiming the officer was in the wrong.
Bullrider, I am not saying this is exactly what has taken place, I am just offering a different side to the story. You may be right on in your analysis of what happened. I strongly urge you to get a complete copy of the police report to see the other side of the story, or talk to the police supervisor.
The PUBLIC SAFETY FORUM http://www.investorshub.com/boards/board.asp?board_id=938
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