this is one is kinda long but def a story that i'll never forget,
Hartford Ct, 2000 (2001?)
i was at a venue called the meadows trying to see a show, and the cops had blocked off this gravel path that goes to the venue making it impossible to get to the entrance and see the show. So they are all sitting there in fucking riot gear with the big ass shields and batons and shit and a group of people have gathered at the top of this little hill now stuck blocked by cops on either side, fucking trapped. I should mention i had been drinking all day and eaten a quantity of mushrooms maybe an hour or so before so i was like fuckkkkkk. Anyway people are getting pissed off that they can't see this show and these fucking cops are looking like they are gonna fuck us all up, maybe something happened i wasnt aware of but idk, so bottles and shit start flying down the hill at the cops, and i throw a few beer bottles and a few rocks, and few more things at them. fuck em. next thing i know i get smashed in the back of my head rodney kinged by some cop who runs up behind me. Idk if i hit the ground but the next thing i remeber is being dragged to some van in cuffs and talking shit. So i get placed in this van with 3 kids whom i don't know that are from connecticut and we are sitting there when the cop in the passangers seat decides it will be a good idea to start punching all of us in the face over and over again and talk shit to us.
it's about a 3 minute drive to the police station from where we got arrested, but it took us an hour to get there as they wanted to drive around in circles and repeatedly punch us in the face over and over again. Def not fun while tripping. So these fucking kids in the van keep screaming everytime he hits them but i really don't say shit bc what the fuck are you gonna do your handcuffed and this dude is in controll of your situation, just take the beating like a man, don't give the cop the satisfaction of crying out like a little bitch.
So we roll up to the police station finally and i got this fuckers wedding ring indented in my head, and i get placed in this big ass holding celll with a bunch of kids idk. Some how i have a lighter on me and one of the kids in the holding area/cell/whatever has smokes so i'm like fuck it i just got my ass kicked and i'm smoking a cigarette right now right here and i don't give a fuck. So i smoke it and then a cop comes in after and was like who's smoking in here, i'm gonna make sure none of you get PTAd if you don't tell me and he leaves. SO the kid that gave me the cig basically said, in not so many words "i'm a rat and i'm telling on you bc i don't know you and i'm scared to go to jail" and tells on me. Fucking hate snitches, it's not like they could just dumped 40-50 people on the booking at jail at once anyway plus they would have to transport them all. People should fucking think man.
SO cop comes back i get rated on, i get moved to another holding area, then another, then another facility, then another facility, then at like 3am another facilty. It's my firm belief that this dude tried getting me lost in the system. Then at like 6am some dude comes down in a suit and lets me out of the cell i have to myself, and is all "where have you been, i've been looking for you all night to PTA you and it took me like 10 hours to find out where you even where". I guess i was at some federal place on lafayette street above the court. fuck that cop and that snitch. So i get out and pass out on the grass outside some strip club and some box truck driver gives me a ride north.
This is when i finally see what my charges are, no had told me at the time of my arrest of booking or anything
they where all federal felony charges:
INCITING A RIOT
ITERFEREING WITH POLICE
BREACH OF PEACE/MAYHEM
I end up having to go back to court like 18 fucking times, bc they kept continuing my case over and over again. Turns out the kids i didn't know from the van all had rich ass parents that got them lawyers and shit and no one would believe me that i wasn't with them or didn't know them, so me representing my self had to come back to court while they worked out deals betweens lawyers and shit, and i ended up getting my charges dropped down to a misdemenor of disturbing the peace and they were like do you want probation and i was like fuck the set up. and they were ok pay a fine instead. sweat ass deal.
Another thing worth mentioning, when i went for sentencing i really had no fucking idea what was going to happen although someone must have told me first, maybe they were just really vague about it everyone their seemed to be on some push you through the system see ya later type of shit. So i go to sentencing thinking it's really not a big deal until the 2 people before me get sentence.
First kid is about 16 years old reaks of malt liquor gets up hugs his friend goes up gets 6 years.
Second dude is some puerto rican dude, gets up goes in they ask him is there anything you would like to say before we sentence you?
he's all "yA, DA FUCK YOU I AIN"T SNITCH, JUDGE FUCK YOU,....." continues to talk shit to everyone , gangster as FUCK and then some guys cuts him off, ... HE gets like 12 years of some shit...
remeber this is a federal court house so this all fed time which is 80% everyone was getting smoked,
ya i was pretty lucky in the end and got a call from some lawyer saying that he was suing the cops on behalf of those kids that got beat up with me and wanted to represent me liek 5 years later, i called him back but he never returned my call. I was on the west coast anyway by taht time.
Another note worth mentioning, i also almost had a real bad acid trip because of this incident like 7 years later, i was at blacks beach when they used to have those full moon parties, before that kid got stapped and killed, and i had taken some liquid it was bomb shit, the coast guard kept flying over and i kept thinking that dinghy boats where rolling up on the beach wwII style in the night full of cops trying to beat the shit out of me and tried running up the 500 ft cliff at the bottom of blacks, pulled my shit back together tho some how and had a real good night........