Not to
but I was there and it did happen to me. I left my office just after dark, headed south on the highway towards my home. About 2 miles down the road, I was pulled over by an officer who said he had clocked me at 70 in a 50mph zone about 1 mile NORTH of my office.....the opposite direction. When I attempted to explain that he must have the wrong vehicle (driving a maroon LTD.....must be a billion of them on the road) he told me to shut up. He was rude to my wife, who said nothing to him. He gave me the spiel about searching my car, was told no, and then gave me the line about "if you have nothing to hide...." He chose not to pursue the search.He was new on the job in our community and I hadn't met him yet, so I asked him --trying to be polite -- how he was liking his new community. He told me to shut the *&^% up and informed me that he asked the questions, not me. After he gave me the ticket, I did ask him if he still felt the same way about answering my question. He informed me he was the police officer and he didn't have to answer to me. As I left, I couldn't resist saying to him, "Maybe your boss will feel differently about it when I talk to her." She did, and apparently I wasn't the only person he talked to in that manner. He was painting cars in a body shop soon afterward.
At the time, I was pastor of the largest church in the town. I had credibility that some of his "victims" didn't have, I'm sure.
In my 35 years as a pastor/retired pastor I've had three other equally distasteful encounters with LEOs who were out of line. This experience and one other involved a request to search, both of which were denied without further action. Thats not many, but its too many to dismiss as an aberation. Just my 2cents worth
