I was driving home after work at 11pm as an armed security guard when i was shot at by someone on my street. i drove a bit ahead the street, then i got out of the vehicle to retrieve my weapon to defend myself just incase more shots came towards my car. I was right on the street i live on. I see one of my neighbors is outside i tell her and her husband to call the police i am an armed guard and a US ARMY veteran and they shot at me. a few minutes go by and her husband instructs me to put down my weapon in his driveway because the police are on their way. i put the weapon down in his driveway and step away from my fire arm (at least 60 ft) before the police arrived. Immediately i told the police i was the victim of a shooting and without comforting me or giving any reassurances to me they cuffed me and put me in the backseat of a squad car. I was detained for 2 hrs asking if i could go to the bathroom and they finally let me go in a water bottle but never allowed me to leave the car. I asked why I was being detained and they kept telling me it was policy. Close to 6hrs went by before they let me go. And they ceased my firearm after. I work as an armed guard and they stopped my source of income by taking my firearm. I didnt even fire the weapon, a close inspection of the weapon you could easily tell it hadnt been fired. i had all bullets accounted for. They questioned me while i was in the car a few times and asked me if i had ever talked to them or bought drugs from them. I told them no. they closed the door and put me back in the car uncuffed. Around 430am CSI finally arrived and did gunshot residue on my hands even though i told them earlier i didnt shoot i was shot at. I asked the officer why i was being detained and i remember her saying detectives wanted to talk to me. i never talked to those detectives. I haven’t been able to work all month and only after filing a lawsuit did they start to send undercovers to investigate and call me clearing my firearm. I don’t feel safe calling the police and I don’t have my firearm to defend myself or provide for my family. They humiliated me after I was the victim of a shooting by forcing me to urinate in a waterbottle less than 200 ft from my apartment where I told them they could even escort me to my home to use the restroom. They left out a lot of violations of my civil rights on the police report including how they made me use the water bottle.
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I’m sorry that you had to go through this. I’m glad you were able to file a lawsuit and hope it goes well. It sucks that the current remedy is after the fact and a giant pain for the victim. Sending good thoughts your way.