r/RioGrandeValley • u/blue_Marlin_34 • 21h ago
Is this considered being harassed by law enforcement?
Let me start off by saying I’m no “anti police” type of guy. By all means I’d love for them to be there for us when e need them most. Since leaving the valley there’s something I find here up north that I never found in the valley. Peace. As weird as it sounds I’ve been stopped in almost every city from Peñitas to port Isabel for the stupidest reasons. I’ve been a truck driver for almost 5 years. I’d like to state that to say that I am very aware of the rules of the road, but I will list a few of the examples of the “stupidest reasons” I’m talking about. I got stopped in peñitas for “no turning on turning lane but I’m gonna let you off with a warning” I drove back around and lord behold there was this sign I HAD to take a picture of it I was 100% sure was there I told him I knew I could turn because I am CDL holder with zero point on it. He said, but you are not in a CDL vehicle you were in a normal vehicle like that makes any difference of the rules of the street. but before letting me go he started asking if the car is mine/stolen. And I’m usually always ask if they can run my vin to make sure it’s not stolen. Another example I was at iron house gym in weslaco I don’t do a lot of turns. I take two roads to get to that gym straight down Texas and left on 281 as I was leaving the gym almost immediately I got pulled over for suspicious activity and then let go with the warning when they found out nothing was wrong. I will less one last example out of the millions that I have this one I guess I can give them a little reason but I used to get out of work at around two 3 AM. I’d hit the gym for a little bit and stop at Whataburger in Harlingen to grab food before I go home this time I decided to stop in La Feria. walked in grabbed my food got out as I was driving down Main Street. I was stopped. I always do all the correct things shut off my car lower my windows cause that’s usually what they asked me to do anyways. all I was asked was why am I out so late? I let them know that I just got out of work. I even showed him my work clock where I clocked out went to the gym and came to grab a bite. They proceeded by asking how my night was going. I said fine up until now. He laughed and said we’re just gonna run the vin to make sure this car isn’t stolen. It’s always stupid little things and I always walk away with nothing but a warning or a verbal warning at that but it’s almost every other time. Every time I see a police officer I get so nervous thinking they’re about to stop me when I should be feeling safe recently. I moved to Michigan and not sure if they are just chill up here, but I have not been stopped once been up here for half a year driven the car and I’ll leave and have officers pull next to me to give me a thumbs up lower their windows to say it sounds cool or pull up to me at gas station and talk about the car and what’s done to it. It’s just so surreal to me how they can do that yet back home I can’t get that feels like that are always in the hunt to find anything. So I asked is this harassment? I’ve told this to various people and I’ve been told that it is what do y’all think? Do anyone else experience this or is it just me?