Friday, January 13, 2012

‘We will write down whatever is necessary to get you in handcuffs.’”

Via The Dorkfish Express

After receiving a neighbor’s complaint about a disturbance, Haverhill police officers knocked on Hector Nunez’s door Saturday morning to investigate.

Nunez, who had just gotten home with his wife, asked who was knocking.

“They said, ‘police,’ and I thought it was my friend joking around,” he said in a phone interview with Photography is Not a Crime Wednesday night – 12 hours after I had posted the video of his encounter with police that left some questions unanswered.

Nunez, 23, opened the door and discovered it was, in fact, three police officers who began asking questions.

The cops were called by his downstairs neighbor, who is the building’s maintenance man and has had a long-running dispute with Nunez and his wife over repairs that were never done, he said.

The Nunez’s have already told them they’re moving out this month, so the landlord and maintenance man are not too happy about it.

So they call the cops at the slightest provocation. And in this instance, perhaps Nunez and his wife were a bit noisy as they walked up the stairs to their third-floor unit early Saturday morning.

“I hadn’t even taken off my jacket yet. We had just stepped inside.

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