Abuse of Power

Friday night I was being the sober driver and ended up driving a bunch of my friends around all night. I was driving down Chesnut and noticed a cop was riding my bumper, but knew I wasn't speeding so I thought I was ok. He continued to follow me all the way to Meredith and finally put his lights on. From the minute he came up to my window he was a complete jerk. He told me he pulled me over because my license plate wasn't lit up.. I didnt even know that was a feature on my car! I told him I was being the sober driver and thats why my car smelt like alcohol, he didnt believe me. He made me get out and proceeded to ask me if I had a weapon on me. Once again he didnt believe me and patted me down! I was very shocked by this. Then he gave me a sobriety test, like I would lie to a cop about drinking and driving. Throughout all this he asked me a bunch of random questions that were none of his buisness, like how I knew the guy in my car and other stuff. I always heard of people getting gift cards for being the sober driver, never being harrassed and questioned so much like I was. It may not sound so bad, but being there it was awful. It was like the cop was on a soap box and was taking advatage of his powers. This was a perfect example of a guy who thought he was better than a young girl and was on a power trip. Seems to be typical for a lot of guys these days. If they think they are better than you or of higher power than you they sure do have to show it. It seems like the police officer would appreciate what I was doing, not treat me like crap.