My dad got charged with assaulting an unidentified officer one time.
We were getting work done in our front yard and had a trench dug. Some of the dirt slid off and broke the gas line and the electrical line which lit the gas on fire and there was about a 20 foot flamethrower shooting the outside of our house. So my dad was running around shutting the gas off inside so the flames would just stay outside, he shut the power off, and all that stuff while the fire dept was coming. The fire department showed up as well as an off duty cop. The off duty cop comes up to my dad and tells him to get off of the property in a mean tone. My dads like, "I just want to talk to the fire department and tell them what i've done. Then I'll leave." The cop tells him no and tells him to leave the property now. Which he isn't even allowed to do because my dad hasn't broken any laws and were teh ones that called 911 in the first place.
So my dad tells him the same thing again and then the cop grabs my dads arm and says, "Come with me, I demand that you leave your property." My dad tells him no and he tells him to let go of him and that he has no right to lay a hand on him when he hadn't broken any laws. Then my dad breaks his hold and begins to walk around him to talk to the fire dept who was only 10 feet away. The cop grabs him again and tells him the same thing and my dad says, "Let me go right now." The cop grabs his other arm and yells at him, "SIR YOU ARE DISOBEYING A DIRECT ORDER FROM AN OFFICER!" then shit got wild.
Let me just say that my dad was the high school wrestling champ in his district as a kid and hes just a tank. Even for an old man he knows how to use people's momentum against them and even me and my 2 brothers couldn't even get him pinned while we were growing up.
So anyways, so as the cop reaches to grab my dads other arm, he spins him around and dumps him right on his ass and pins his back and face against the front lawn with his knee and has both of his arms behind his back. He then yells at the cop, "YOU HAD NO RIGHT TO GRAB ME!" the cop was yelling and cussing up a storm back at him while in the meantime 2 other cops show up and tackle my dad off of him and handcuff him. So they put him in the back of the car for about 5 minutes and then the chief of police shows up and after about 10 minutes of talking with the fire dept, neighbors, my dad, and others he decides to let my dad go.
Later they tried to take my dad to court but after some research by our lawyer, it turns out this cop is a very dirty cop and then all charges were dropped and we received a personal apology letter from the cop saying he had no right to act the way he did. The chief of police and the governor of our town also sent letters apologizing.
So ya, my dad is a BAMF
