The officer by his window had a gun pointed at his chest, says Hampton, who provided a copy of his arrest report to the Washington Post. He wanted to make sure the police could see his hands at all times, and he was afraid to reach down for the door lock. Finally, the officer reached in through the open window and opened the door himself.
...the police ordered all three of them into the police truck, taking them first to a nearby command post.
“I just kept asking, ‘Why am I being arrested for sitting in my aunt’s driveway?’ ” Hampton says. “They said, ‘Curfew’ — and I said, ‘But I’m sitting at my aunt’s house.’ ”
The police transferred them to another vehicle, Hampton says, and drove them to the county jail, where they were photographed. Ultimately, he says, police told him that he would be released with a pending charge of “failure to disperse,” which confused Hampton. He didn’t know where he was supposed to disperse to, given that he was already on a relative’s private property.