He was fully in his right to ask why his car was being searched. He did not have to consent to having his car searched to begin with officers need a warrant to do this. Anytime an officer asked to search my car I politely refuse. I have nothing to hide but I do not enjoy all the contents of my car being strewn about and torn apart so that I later have to put everything back where it belongs. Often police searching your vehicle have no respect whatsoever for your personal property and will toss it everywhere.
I am always very polite when I interact with officers of the law and I would say probably 80% of the time I am met with rudeness and an overall dickhead attitude that is undeserved. I do not care if your job sucks, if it is so bad you act like a dickhead to everyone you interact with then quit. I think one of the major problems is the overall intellect of most officers is not very high. Most local police officers did poorly in high school and never sought education past that. It scares me so much to know that someone who is less intelligent than me and often bullishly ignorant has so much power over my life. One of the posters mentioned...'so fight it in court'. Well I for one never want it to end up in court. The fact that it resulted in a court case means I probably spent time in the county jail and had to pay bail or either sit there for 4 months waiting for my trial thereby interrupting my life and probably resulting in a loss of my job and hurting my credit score all because of some bullshit charge that should have never been made to start with.
My house caught on fire recently and I called the local fire department and as always the police came with them to the scene. I had a friend staying with me that night, he had been going through some hard times with his fiance and needed someone to talk with, since it was late and an hour drive back to his house I told him to just stay with me. While the fire department were putting out the fire one of the officers start circling his vehicle and shining his flashlight in the windows. My friend who was upset about the situation asked the officer, 'Hey man, since you are looking all in my truck did you want to search it or something?' . The officer responded that yes he would like to search the vehicle. Having nothing to hide my friend unlocked his doors and let the officer search his car. My question here is.....why the hell did the officer even look in there in the first place?!? I called the fire department because my house had caught on fire not because I suspected my friend had drugs on him or something. It was total bullshit. Just one more of the interactions I've had with law enforcement that has soured my opinion of them.
I also had some 10-13 year old kids vandalize my car ( at 11:30PM on a saturday night at a gas station......why the hell the attendant had not called the police to report a gang of 10 very young kids hanging out in front of the station for that late is beyond me, they were standing out there harassing everyone who came in and out of the store and being a bunch of little punk asses). When I called the police to do a report the guy showed up and was being a HUGE dickhead. Hey buddy, I'm the victim here, don't come over and act like an asshole to me because I need a police report done.
When confronted with an officer of the law the best thing you can do is assume they are going to be incredibly rude and act like the biggest dickhead you have ever met, just be as polite and respectful as you possibly can and hope they don't want to start some shit with you if they do you are pretty much screwed since they can make up shit all the want and generally be believed. Whether you win in court or not is not the question, if they want you to you will spend time in the county and face charges from which you will have to be bailed out on which whether you were innocent or guilty will hurt your reputation and have other unwanted effects on your life.
