The Most Horrifying Experience In My Life

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The most horrifying thing I have witnessed in my life was when four of my friends were being ill-treated by four North Miami City police officers. I had watched the news many time before hand and saw how blacks were being treated. However, never did I thought about seeing it first-hand. After witnessing such act against my friends by those four police officers, it changed the way I see them now.
The whole situation started after leaving NMB high school where Kevin the driver and I and Watson another passenger decided to race another. Inside the other car was Rockley the driver, Desman and nick. We were trying to see who would get to the AZ store first. And the car I was in ended up getting there first. So after we picked up the shoes that each …show more content…

After two or three minutes two other cars showed up. One had a pair of African American officers, and the other was a white male officer. They ask what’s going on and the Cuban officer explain to them what had happened. The African American cops went to the car to go check for drugs. The man went to the front and start to look in the passenger cabinet throwing everything out looking into papers to see if there were drugs. Then he went to the shoes to see if there was anything inside them.
The lady went to the trunk of the car and that’s where the shoes were, she look in every corner and saw nothing except for an empty gallon and a black towel. After finishing their mini investigation they went to went to the grass and tell the other two police officer that there was nothing of interest.
Desman decided to ask them if this was all necessary .And nick decided to join him in complaining but the white cop wasn’t having it. So he took out he’s hand cuff and told nick to put his hand behind his back and but nick was resisting it. He pushed him with his foot and had his face on the grass and the put his black boot on his head while putting the handcuff in his hand. And then he walked him to the back of his

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