This article reminds me of an experience I had 3 years ago in Dublin, CA. I was driving home to San Jose at about 3am, after spending the evening playing live

This article reminds me of an experience I had 3 years ago in Dublin, CA. I was driving home to San Jose at about 3am, after spending the evening playing live music at a bar in Dublin. I was pulled over as I was driving from the bar to I-680. The cops made me get out of my car. They took my pulse and examined my eyelids with their flashlights repeatedly. I was shivering a bit as it was cold and I was wearing a t-shirt. They accused me of being under the influence of drugs based on my quickened pulse and eyelids. They searched my car, of course finding nothing. I was handcuffed and taken to jail, where I had to spend ~12 hours until the next day when my wife picked me up. My car was towed (which I had to pay to get out of the impound yard). I was completely sober that night. In fact, I've been straight edge my whole life. It was a humiliating experience -- I had to give urine test in front of the cops once I was taken to jail. I had to get mugshots (which I assume are searchable online somewhere). That said, it's nothing compared to the humiliation the guy in the article experienced. I definitely lost all faith in police that night. As a fairly well-off software engineer, I could deal with the costs of getting my car out of the impound yard and missing work to show up in court (no charges were pressed). For someone less fortunate, it could have really screwed up their life. The fact that police can mess with people like this is unfair and unjust.