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I’m no fan of OBJ but he’s in legal trouble for a pat on the ass? Seriously?
Cops always go over the top when it comes to their own. I knew someone back in college that was arrested for "assaulting a police officer" on Halloween because he and another guy were dressed as the top and bottom half of a hamburger bun. They apparently had a scavenger hunt list of things on Halloween night to make a "sandwhich" out of, one of which was a cop sandwhich. They took a picture where both of them were on opposite sides of a cop, but barely even in arms reach of the cop and never made physical contact with them at all (several people witnessed it, including myself, along with cell phone video)
The cop realized they took the picture and got really angry, so he took his license on the spot and said "I own you now, punk!" (no joke or exaggeration). Later that night the cops came to his house and arrested him at like 2AM for "Assaulting a Police Officer", walked him out handcuffs and all reading him miranda rights.
He owned a business and had good money so he was able to fight it in court, but it was total bull**** and just an embarrassed cop that was basically trying to ruin someones life because their fragile ego was hurt. There are plenty of good cops out there, but there are also plenty of douchebag A-holes that join the force to have power/authority over others and abuse it frequently. When he beat the ridiculous charges, several of the local cops continuously harassed him for months. He couldn't run out to get a gallon of milk without getting pulled over and cited for the most minor of things. Were they being immature college kids? Sure. Were they being criminals? No they weren't, but it didn't stop the cop from trying to ruin his life. If he didn't have the money to fight it, he may have ended up in jail.
Now in OBJ's case, its pretty damn stupid to physically make contact with a cop in really any manner whatsoever unless its like a handshake or something ha! In his defense, given that the environment was in a locker room minutes after they just won a Championship, this cop should have chilled the **** out and got over it. It takes a special kind of personality to be an antagonist in that kind of situation, minutes after the game. I've interacted with a lot of cool cops that would have handled that in such a better way, and tried to be respectful of the situation with the team celebrating, and just being there to make sure nothing gets crazy out of control. They certainly wouldn't have tried to nail someone with a serious misdemeanor over something so stupid, nor would they have allowed it to even get to that point in the first place.