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Bad:
In the middle of the night a homeless man ran up some stairs and on to the balcony of my apartment. The cops called me to ask if I would testify in court about the case. When I got to court it turned out they expected me to press charges against this guy (whom I had not even seen), and go along with this trumped up case against him. When I questioned the cop trying to sell this plan to me as to what evidence they had against the homeless man, it turned out to be nothing. He had been wandering around in the middle of the night, and started running when they approached him. When I said that didn't sound like much of an offense, the cop said something about finding a gun around where the man had been. I asked it the man's fingerprints where on the gun, and the cop said well, no. Then the cop tried to imply the man was a rapist. Again, I ask if the man had any history of sexual assault, and the cop again said, well no.
The Prosecutor, who was listening to the exchange between me and the cop, finally decided to drop the whole thing. What amazed me was that she let this cop talk her in to pursuing it in the first place. The manipulativeness of the cop stunned and disgusted me. He seemed to think I was some young, dumb thing who would do whatever he told me to. It seemed to me he had a personal vendetta against this homeless man. I think the gun story was a flat out lie, as was the whole "rapist" angle.
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