Replying to Another reason I hate the police

This will get long. I just need to get this off my chest and shit.

For thanksgiving I decided to go to a friend's house for the break and hang out in St. Louis. I was super excited for months. I've never been to St. Louis and I was just stoked to not be bored at my house for a week.

The months prior to break, we had been making a list of everything that we wanted to do. My friend lives right in the city so he knew everything that was fun to do.

One thing on the list was to go a school and chill on the roof and just look off at an amazing view. The night before Thanksgiving we decide to check that off the list. So we pull into the school late at night, probably around 12:30 or 1. Mind you this is a school a little out of the city, a bit more suburbia if you will.

Well immediately things go wrong. Two cops pull in blocking us in. We were out of the car already (4 people all together) and the cops ask us why we're here. We told him we were just waiting for someone. Well I guess he must have thought that the one black kid with us was selling us drugs or something (must have been my friend's dreads) so we get curb checked, searched, and harassed for the next 30 minutes.

So instead of just telling us to get out of the county and go home the cop gives us a ticket of some sort. There's a little box that says trespassing that is checked off. We're confused by it because it says to show up to some court on the 20th of January. What the hell?

We ask him what this all is there's no phone number on the ticket or address, it just says St. Louis Court Systems. We asked him if this was a ticket or what we should even do. It says show up to court yet we live 300 miles away and we're just there for break, which he knew.

He then tells us it's just a fine and we can pay it through the mail...cool how much is it...."oh you have to call"...call who? There isn't a number..."look it up" *proceeds to get in car and drive away.

So it turns out the cop just straight up lied. Me and my two friends who all go to school in Indiana mind you now have to drive the 300 miles to St. Louis on a school day remember, missing at least two classes, probably five just because a dick county cop decides he wants to fuck over three kids because he's bored.

This to me is just a clear case that the police don't have your best interest nor give a shit about you. They don't care that 3 college kids have to drive and miss classes.

Sparknotes: got a "ticket" for trespassing in St. Louis while on Thanksgiving break. Ends up it isn't a ticket and I have a court date next Tuesday.