Friends of mine were driving from a carnival to a McDonald's. They are on the highway, get off the highway to go into a McDonald's. They enter through the driveway marked exit by mistake. As soon as they pull up to the drive through order line a car blocks them from the front. Not a marked police car, no take down lights, not even a crown vic or caprice or some kind of police car that would be normally used as an unmarked.
A woman in standard street clothes jumps out tell the occupants of the car to turn off the car and hand over license and registration. She doesn't identify herself as a cop, doesn't have a visible gun on her, doesn't have a badge on, or police identifying stuff on her. Occupants of the car comply. Driver of the car doesn't have a license. Woman says that the driver didn't yield for an ambulance on the highway a mile back.
She picks up her phone, screams at them wait till the cops come and dials the police. Minute later a marked police car shows up, sergeant gets out of his car visibly upset, slams his door. Tells the occupants of the car to "have a good night" (and signals for them to get lost). While the occupants are getting their stuff together sergeant is screaming at the female telling her that he has told her numerous times before shes not allowed to do this stuff, she can't stop cars.
The occupants of the car were under 18 and nervous with police interactions. I told them they should probably talk to their parents and go back to the police station and get a formal investigation into what happened if the woman who stopped them was a cop (marked patrol car is required to do traffic stops in my 20) or press charges if the woman wasn't a cop (unlawful imprisonment and impersonation of an officer).
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