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In what is perhaps one of the more mild examples of police harassment to make headlines recently, cops arrested 64-year-old retiree Daniel Rushing when they mistook glaze from his donut for crystal meth, the Orlando Sentinel reports.Rushing was pulled over for a minor traffic violation, and Orlando corporal Shelby Riggs-Hopkins asked to search his vehicle after noticing he had a concealed weapons permit in his wallet. Riggs-Hopkins's attention quickly shifted from the firearm to what she described in her report as "a rock-like substance" on the floor of his car, which she identified initially as crack cocaine. Later, she decided the substance was actually crystal meth."I recognized through my eleven years of training and experience as a law enforcement officer the substance to be some sort of narcotic," Riggs-Hopkins wrote in her police report.Rushing assured the officers the flakes were simply glaze that had fallen from a recently eaten Krispy Kreme donut, a snack he liked to treat himself to on Wednesdays. Unconvinced, officers took Rushing to jail, where he was strip-searched, denied the medication he takes for back pain, and locked up for ten hours before being released on a $2,500 bond for possession of a firearm and methamphetamine.Later, a lab tested the flakes of Rushing's breakfast and learned it actually wasn't an illegal drug, and the Florida State Attorney's office dropped the case. Rushing has decided to hire a lawyer and plans to sue the city for the embarrassing affair."I'll never let anyone search my car again," Rushing said. He probably won't forget napkins next time, either.Read: This Guy Started a Meth Ring with His $3 Million Lottery Winnings
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