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Originally Posted by brantley847
That is a story that unless I was on scene and could of interviewed both parties is very difficult to give you an opinion, but here is mine....
If you get a decent judge he should dismiss, but the cops were right in the fact that you met the statutory requirements for impersonating a police officer. No matter the level of fear you are in it won't justify identifying yourself as a cop. Funny thing, it probably would have justified you using force to defend yourself...even possibly deadly force if they were in the act of inflicting bodily harm...but still would not warrant you to ID as a cop. My guess is they were not 'gang members'. They were probably sh-- biscuits trying to act 'hard'. If they were really gang bangers and saw you were unarmed and out of uniform saying you were a cop may have actually made it much worse...
Basically in our state (i know it may be different in yours) reads something along the lines of identifying yourself as a police officer towards a civilian and the civilian's actions being altered by your statement or exhibition of badge/lights/siren so on....
Yours is a very weak case...from what it sounds like to me the officer wrote a report, but you were not arrested? If you were not charged you have nothing to worry about....if they refused to give you a crash report for the damage (if any) to your car ask for a supervisor...if the supervisor fails to provide you with one...you will either have to just pay the damages yourself or get a lawyer to press the police department or guy who caused the accident.
...and yes it is a felony. Generally I do not charge people with this offense unless they have blue lights in their vehicle pulling people over or in full apparel....while yours meets the requirements, it is very weak....if you aren't being charged just relax
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my bf was a cop in Tampa and agrees w the above. But OP, dont get outta ur car. They couldve had a gun and ur life is not worth ur car. At the end of the dat, its just a car and can b fixed.