I cannot remember if I ever told CAG this story before.
Anyway, I was heading to Los Angeles, CA in two days (this back in H.S., when I was 18 years old). My Mom was too sick to drive me to a place to get my haircut, so my sister had to do it. After I get my haircut, my sister decides to go to Wal-Mart to get her oil changed. The wait was an hour and a half, so she said we should look around various stores in the area. I looked around Wal-Mart, Dick’s Sporting Goods, and Kohl’s. At one point, I got separated from my sister (this was before I had a cell phone). I looked at Kohl’s and noticed there were police cars surround an entrance along with an ambulance. Despite the craziness, I still went in the store looking for my sister. I looked all around and did not see her, so I left.
As I was walking down the sidewalk (some who lives in my city who went to Jefferson Pointe may know the sidewalk I’m talking about) back to Wal-Mart. I notice a cop car following me. I stop, and as soon as I do, the cop car stop, they got out of the car shouting “put your hands on the car”. The cops started searching all my pockets, took apart everything in my wallet going through everything I had in it (and reading it). One cop smoked a cigarette near me. They kept asking me several questions figuring I was with the guy who stabbed an employee while trying to steal shoes at Kohl’s (since we were the same race). I had no idea what was going on and the cops refused to believe me. They asked me questions about my sister, family, school, and just about everything. I kept telling the cops I have nothing and would never hurt anyone, they refused to believe it. An old friend of mine use to work at Wal-Mart and saw everything that happened. The cops were calling my name in to get information. I was also raining that day too. I was afraid I was going to be arrested and never come home that day. I tried very hard being a good person over the years, yet I felt like I was going to be arrested. The cops took me in the store to meet the criminal, employee, and the criminal’s friend, asking if they knew me. Because they didn’t, they handed me my wallet back and I was free to go. Worst experience in my life and it’s why I always cringe when seeing police officers.
I never told my parents what happened, and don't think I ever will. Only told my sister and some friends.
A few other things that happened to me were:
My area was under a Tornado Warning that same year, and I didn’t believe it was coming my way (because it always goes around). So when I take a look outside, the Tornado was about to hit my house, but thankfully did not touch down low enough to do any damage. It ended up doing damage around Best Buy that day.
Also that same year, I was in an accident and was close to being severely injured (thankfully I was not).
Freshman year on H.S., one guy got made at me, pulled out a knife out of his pocket and was about to stab me. Thankfully a teacher was coming so he put it down.