Off-duty officer deliberately rammed us, police report is full of lies — what do we do?
I'm still shaking writing this out, honestly. I was riding shotgun with my cousin a few weeks ago. We merged onto a surface road from a parking lot, totally normal, no issue. Out of nowhere this big pickup starts tailgating us so aggressively I could barely see his headlights in the side mirror — that's how close he was.
My cousin changed lanes to let him pass. Instead of passing, the truck matched us, lane for lane, every single time. We genuinely got scared and sped up to create distance. The truck then drifted into oncoming traffic and sideswiped us hard enough to deploy the curtain airbag on my side. We pulled into a gas station lot, completely shaken.
The driver gets out and immediately flashes some kind of badge. Police arrive and the whole vibe shifted — officers were chatting with this guy like old friends while we sat on the curb asking for medical help.
The crash report we finally got says we were the aggressors. It says my cousin made an unsafe lane change and that the contact was minor and mutual. There's zero mention of the truck being in oncoming traffic at all.
Here's the thing though: a gas station on the corner had an exterior camera pointed right at the road. We got the footage. It clearly shows the truck crossing the center line and hitting us. We brought it to the attorney we'd been talking to and he said the angle was "inconclusive" and passed on the case.
We have the footage. We have a witness who stopped and gave us their number. We have ER records. And we're being told it's not enough?
Has anyone dealt with a situation where the police report was just… wrong? Like intentionally wrong? What are our actual options here?