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seamusTX wrote:Police officers don't like it when someone shows interest in a stop. It is possible that someone scoping out an incident is an accomplice of the person that they are arresting.

You know the famous saying, "Move along, nothing to see here."

Yeah, I was moving until they told me to come to them. I was on the oposite side of the street from them just walking along.
But they didn't know that. I don't believe they were aware of my presence until I was directly across the street from them. I saw them from a block or two away and considered changing directions to avoid them. But I was afraid that if they had seen me and saw me change directions that might look more suspicious.

But yeah, I wasn't really offended or anything. Just sort of curious about why they stopped me.

I lived in Irving on Beltline and Northgate. Late nineties and I had my CHL and my pistola with me on a late night walk. It was probably 1:00 am or so.

I'm headed back toward my apartment and see two police cars and a pickup truck at a little park. I guess the officers were just finishing up their discussion with the pickup driver and letting him go. I've been watching this and trying to figure out what they were up to for the past couple blocks and trying to decide if I should turn off on a different street just to avoide whatever it was. I about directly across the street from them before they notice me. They look at me and I waved and kept walking. One officer says "Hey!" I say "Hi," and keep walking. The guy says "Come over here," so I do. They asked me what I was doing and I told them I was just out for a walk. Asked me for my ID and I handed over the DL and the CHL together. I was asked if I was carrying and where and I told them. One officer reached under my shirt and removed my pistol from the holster and unloads it. I'm wondering what they think I've done. I had long hair at the time and figured that just based on that I was probably presumed to be guilty of something. They asked why I was out walking so late. I told them I worked until about 10 and when I couldn't get to sleep, I decided to take a walk.
But the conversation soon turned to my Smith & Wesson Performance Center Shorty Forty. At least one of the officers was into guns and was fascinated by mine. We had a friendly discussion of guns and then they returned my pistol and let me go.

It could have been bad. They could have asked what I was doing and I could have said, "I'm minding my own business. What are you doing?" (I'm usually respectful to LEOs. But I sometimes have a tendency to say things I shouldn't and I was already in a foul mood about something at work, which was why I couldn't sleep and was out walking it off.)
Turned out fine though except that I always wondered why they stopped me in the first place. I guess some long-haired guy walking down the street at one in the morning is suspicious.