At that "Catastrophe" thing in NYC a few years ago. I had just gotten out of booking for the New School occupation that same day with 18 other people, and so a few friends of mine and I thought we'd check it out. I didn't really want to be an active participant (I was exhausted), so I just kind of drank on a bottle of jameson with a few friends walking around and just observing the cat-masked kids trash Brooklyn. Our bottle was well-hidden, and there were hundreds of kids breaking shit around us, so we knew no one would really care.
Then all of a sudden, I felt a blow on the back of my head. This asshole cop decide to beat the shit out of me with his baton for no reason. A kid nearby was taking pictures of it, so after the cop got about a dozen shots on me, he cuffed me and immediately tackled the kid with the camera. Cuffed him as well. The cop then dragged me over to the guy, and laid me on top of him. I started throwing up wine and jameson next to this poor fucker.
They ended up trying to charge me with "throwing a park bench through a police vehicle window". I did no such thing. I was chillaxin, reveling in the destruction next to us. We weren't even in the crowd, really. I don't see how this asshole thought some random dude was a part of this police car bullshit.
Welp, I was at Central, finally got to the cell to talk to a lawyer. Lo and behold, it was the National Lawyer's Guild lawyer that had helped all of us earlier that same day. Giddeon was his name, I think. He looked at me with a very solemn face and said, "I don't know what I can do for you, man. They're trying to set a bail of $50,000. Possibly up to 5 years on the island...". I was amazed, and explained to him that they had no evidence and blahblahblah. All he could say was, "We'll just have to see what happens".
Get into court, they let me go, no strings attached. Motherfuckers scared the shit out of me.
TL;DR NYPD asshole tried to send me to Ryker's for something I obviously did not do on the same day I was released for a prior crime.