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As my uninvited guest was being dealt with and dragged out of my driveway by other officers who had shown up (totaling 4 or 5), a Sgt. by the name of Calloway approached me and asked for I.D. I told him it was in my house, and he asked me to leave my firearm outside. I told him I was not comfortable doing so, and he said "Ok, I will have an officer escort you inside to grab it". I told him that I did not give permission for any of them to enter my household. This seemed to aggravate him, and he told me I was violating a city ordnance by open carrying after dark. I asked him which one, and he replied that he didn't know it off the top of his head, but if I let an officer hold onto my gun he would take me into his squad car to show me. I told him no thank you, and that I would just Google it later. He said that if I don't comply with one of the orders gave me, I would be issued a citation. I told him that if he felt it was necessary to write one that he should, and that as soon as the man in my driveway was removed from my property (who was being restrained and cuffed) I would be more than glad to go inside with my firearm, but that I would keep it on me while I was outside for my protection. He continued to lecture me on not cooperating with him and the other officers (5 of which were standing around me by now, blocking me from entering my driveway and forcing me to stand on public property), jeopardizing their safety, how this was his first "open carry advocate call", how he was trying to "Educate me" and didn't understand why I didn't want to learn the laws, why was I being difficult, how I was making people around me unsafe and uncomfortable, yada yada yada. Also told me how bad of an idea it was to have a gun when I knew cops would be coming, and I told him that I had no idea long it would take for them to arrive. I told him that it took 3 or 4 minutes for them to arrive, and a lot could have happened in that time. He made a remark about how hurt he was that I didn't have faith in the police (with much sarcasm) and I asked him where they were when I got stabbed. (sarcasm on my part). I nodded my head and stayed silent through most of this, though. He said since i was being issued a citation that I would need to give him ID, so I provided him with my name, DOB, and license number.
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EDIT: While he was filling out the citation, Officer Callway asked me if I was still recording with my phone. I remained silent, and he said "you're not recording? this is one of my finer moments! Maybe I wanted to end up on YouTube." To me, this suggests that after the video one of our members took in Portland of his illegal search that the officers were made aware of it. Which is good if you ask me. But clearly not enough.
I now have a court date set in November for violating a city ordnance. What started as getting a drunk man removed from my driveway turned into an whole ordeal that lasted an hour.
Do I need a lawyer? Should I delete this immediately and call one? As a full time student, I definitely do NOT have the funds for one, so hopefully I won't. I don't want this on my record, though. It's already going to be in public record which sucks enough. Any advice is greatly appreciated.