Hello, i am not posting this to get sympathy because i don't deserve any. It is my fault i am in the shape i am in now. This happened to me about eight years ago . I have never been in any trouble with the law, and at the time was in my early sixties, disabled and with many health problems. One night my sweet elderly wife and i got into an argument and i insulted her. She slapped me for it and honestly i deserved it. Next morning she decided to call the police to get me to leave for a day until we calmed down. During the call, she was asked if i had assaulted her and she rightly said no, but that she had slapped me. So, i didn't know she had called and when i saw the two cop cars flying into my driveway and two big cops get out and walk to her and start putting cuffs on her hands, i was truly shocked and confused. I went outside and asked them why they were doing that. One cop asked me to go stand about thirty feet away and he would come explain it to me after she was in the back of the cop car. Now you have to understand my wife is the sweetest and most caring woman in the world. She was simply being honest when she said she slapped me the night before. Anyhow, they put her in the police car and then started laughing and joking with each other while i stood under my carport waiting. After at least twenty minutes and seeing my wife crying in the car, i walked over to ask them what was going on. I asked nicely and respectfully, but as soon as i asked , the big black cop just jumped me and started cussing me out. Then the other big white cop joined in and began hitting me in the back of my head and they threw me to the ground and took turns kicking me from head to toe. After what seemed like forever getting kicked and punched, they arrested me for assaulting a police officer. I never resisted and definitely never tried to fight. Long story short, the cops and county appointed attorney (i couldn't afford my own attorney due to being on a fixed income) threatened me with five years in prison if i didn't plea to a misdemeanor. The judge was in on it too. To think he had been a childhood friend of mine, and i had even helped him study for the bar forty years ago. So, i took the plea, was forced into a year of AA meetings,(i have never been a drinker) a year of something called vasap, (i have never done illegal drugs)... and finally the real insult, a year of anger management. I had to pay for all of it by payments. For all my life i had supported the law enforcement, but that incident changed me into a man who thinks most, if not all are corrupt. I know my old pal the judge is too. I wish i had not trusted cops before and had filed a brutality case, but i am just writing this to warn other's and hopefully their lives won't be ruined like mine and to some extent my wife's. I am glad i finally found somewhere to post my experience. I still suffer from Slipped discs, brain injury and ptsd and probably will until i die.