When some things happen in your life that are shocking and heartbreaking, you sometimes have no choice but to share them with the world–to promote change, awareness, and tell the truth.
Twitter user @Kelseybew_ shared a story on Twitter about her boyfriend getting pulled over by police for giving a beggar at 7-11 change. She shard the story on Twitter and–people were absolutely floored.
How my boyfriend got pulled over by the police for giving a beggar at 7-11 change: A Thread.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
My hands are still shaking and im sorta chain smoking so there may be typos. Y’all gon deal with it.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So my boyfriend went to drop off his friend at the airport last night. He went to the Newport News one which is like 45 minutes from our place in Norfolk. He left like 10:30pm. He dropped him off, text me he was on his way home, and stopped at a 7-11 in VA Beach.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
When he went back outside, apparently there was a man out there begging for change, which is typical 7-1- behavior. My boo gave him 50 cents before getting back in his car and getting on the interstate. Soon as he gets on he sees those blue lights behind him and pulls over.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
Cop comes up to his car; boo had put his wallet on his dashboard and got out his license, but his phone was in his pocket. So the cop comes up to his window and says “I saw you at 7-11 give that man something. They’ve been complaining about that man saying he has drugs” blah blah
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So the cop goes to run his license and comes back. He’s all “where’s your insurance information?”
…We literally JUST got new car insurance Friday. They haven’t even issued our cards yet. We don’t have a printer and he didn’t think to print them at work…
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
The only way to get him the insurance info would be to go on his phone. So he tells the cop this.
Then, the cop tells him his car smells like weed.
Y’all…there wasn’t a gawtdamn thing in that car.
Anyway.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So now the cop wants him to get out the car and put his hands on his head, which he does, with his back turned to the officer (per officer). So then the cop tells him to pull his phone out his pocket.
He tells him to do this while pointing his gun at his back.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So by now my man is FREAKING OUT. He is SHOOK. He says “Officer I don’t feel comfortable reaching in my pocket with you pointing your gun at me. My phone is black. You can get my *wallet* out my pocket”
*he was so scared he accidentally said wallet instead of phone.*
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So Officer Spaz A Lot starts screaming at him because of his tongue twist. He’s all “You said phone now you’re saying wallet WHICH ONE IS IT?!” like he didn’t see that bot’s whole wallet on his dashboard when he went to get his license in the first place.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018
So my baby starts crying, y’all. A 31 year old man straight BAWLING cause he’s terrified that if he reaches for his pocket he’s going to get shot. And the cop keeps yelling at him to just do it, never lowering his damn gun.
— Hermione Danger (@kelseybew_) April 25, 2018