Please help. did the cops do anything wrong or break the law?

Did the cops do anything wrong????

You terrified your old lady to the point that she had good enough sense to leave you and take the kid, and she was so scared of you that she called the cops to "cover her retreat". She get relatives to help her get her stuff out. And the cops made you wait outside....The made you wait outside.... Why? because they didn't want you to snap out and beat the snot out of her, that's why.

Congratulations to your wife for having enough sense and self respect to leave you, you bum.

And for all the morons who said the cops need warrants, they need a check up from the neck up. It is just as much her house as it is yours. the cops were just there to protect a probably abused wife.

All the people who said the cops did something wrong are probably asshole wife beaters themselves.

I have no idea why these folks seem to think the police needed a warrant in that situation. There is absolutely NO reason why a warrant would be needed for your wife to remove HER property from HER marital residence.

I don't want to take sides, but you and your wife are obviously in the middle of marital strife. That leads to violence in many situations. Sh wanted to get her stuff out of the marital home (which she is allowed to do) and she had relatives come help her (which she is allowed to do).

She called the Police because she was obviously afraid of what you would do. There had to be something in you past behavior or demeanor that caused her to call the police. I don't need to know specifics, but it is more than obvious.

The police asked you to stay outside, because they did not want to have to get into the middle of a confrontation between you and your wife or her family. That is something that happens often in these situations. Have you ever heard the expression,"An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" ?

Becuase your wife feels that she needs p[olice protection to get her belongings away from you speaks volumes about yoru relationship. The police had to be there, becuase once they had been told of a p[otential problem, they would be liable for any harm that you caused her or her familiy of they just left. I am quite sure it was a pain in the 2ss for them, too. I am sure they dio not want to hang out with you while your wife moved out. But, that is part of their job, to keep wives safe.

She is a allowed to let her family enter the marital residence, whether you like it or not. And the polcie continued to keep you outside to keep you apart from everyone else, whether you were cold or not. It was more important that they avoid a confrontation than worry about you being chilly.

They did nothing wrong, perhaps other than refering to you as an asshole. But that was more of a rhetorical question than actually sayin that you are one, so, i think they need a pass on that one.

I know this is NOT what you want to hear. You want the police to be the bad guys, and your wife and your in-laws also bad guys. I have been a police officer for over 40 years. I have no doubt that she would not have called the police to stand by while she moved out, unoless she anticiipated that you were going to act up.

It was very unprofessional behavior on their part. If they were enforcing a court order allowing her to retrieve her possessions, they had a right to ask you to leave your home while she got her stuff. But ordering you outside half dressed in cold weather was not appropriate. As to precisely which law they might have broken, that varies from place to place. It may be that there was only a civil violation of some sort, and no criminal violation.

As for allowing others inside the home, if she had large items that she could not carry by herself, she is entitled to have assistance, but no more assistance than she really needs. (She can have her two brothers carry her chest of drawers outside, for example, but she can't have them and her 3 sisters and her father in law and her mother "help" her carry a few photographs.)

The cop's rudeness was also unprofessional and should be the subject of a complaint.

If she was moving out, she has no right to the keys to your place, and the police should have confiscated them on the spot at your request. That should also be the subject of a complaint. If she does not return the keys, you should request the police obtain them (or escort you to her current abode so that you can retrieve them). If they refuse or claim that it is a civil, not criminal, matter, get a lawyer and go to court to get them.

I suspect there will be divorce proceedings in all of this soon, so you'll need an attorney for that, anyway.

They violated no law. This is how they operate. They make it seem as though you MUST do something, when in fact, you consented.

And they wonder why people hate cops. I guess they believe it is easier to make people fear them then respect them.

Did they have a search warrant? If not, it's a violation of your Right to Privacy (Article 12 if the UDHR).

the cop should did a search warrant

Cops are assholes, in case you didn't know.